Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

Today we take up the following poem of Sri Aurobindo, written in Baroda around 1900. 

This poem is about reconnecting the curves of Fate.

On the day of Mahashivratri celebrated across India this talk provides a glimpse of Shiva along with two of Sri Aurobindo’s Poems, – Shiva and Epiphany.

Dr Alok Pandey shares selected Sri Aurobindo’s poems and his understanding of their poetic beauty and spiritual message.

The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.

In this poem we read about a beautiful experience of Sri Aurobindo.

In this poem we learn about the first major realisation of Sri Aurobindo, the experience of Nirvana. We read the poem and a letter by Sri Aurobindo

This is the last talk of the series “Sri Aurobindo’s Life through His Poems”. We close with the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, and a few passages from Savitri. Text of the poems which were recited is below.

Today’s talk touches upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s personal experience of transformation in the body and its impact upon the earth. 

This talk is touching upon Sri Aurobindo’s sacrifice to redeem matter.