To touch upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s experiences in the Alipore jail, we take up the following poems:
– Epiphany
– The One Self
– Because Thou art
– Krishna

This talk is centred around one of the major experiences of Sri Aurobindo with Lele Maharaj in Baroda. Today’s poems include Adwaita,  Parabrahman, Nirvana and Surrender (their full text is given below).

We read today on the aspect of Sri Aurobindo of a revolutionary and worshipper of Kali from the following poems:

To weep because a glorious sun [CWSA 2:182]

What is this talk [CWSA 2:182]

Invitation [CWSA 2:201]

Baji Prabhou [CWSA 2:293-308]

In the moonlight [CWSA 2:237-244]

Bhavani Bharati [CWSA 9:687-693]

Today we read several poems that mark a transition of Sri Aurobindo from a remarkable and brilliant person into a budding revolutionary and a yogi. The following poems have been read: (1) The Spring Child; (2) A Doubt; (3) Awake Mother (The Mother Awakes); (4) The Vedantin’s Prayer (a full text is given below).

Today in the series “Sri Aurobindo’s Life through His Poems” we read some of the poems that reveal to us a beautiful divinely human side of Sri Aurobindo as the Lover of Humanity.

We read today some poems that reveal Sri Aurobindo’s love and growing identification with the soul of India. The poems include Envoi (p. 37), The Just Man (pp. 43-44), To the Ganges (pp. 256-259) and The Meditations of Mandavya (pp. 509-515), all pages given for Collected Poems, CWSA Vol 2).

Seeds of a Revolutionary Today we read some lines from early poems written by Sri Aurobindo in England, published in 1898 as a part of the book of poems “Songs to Myrtilla” [CWSA 2: 9-37]

We take up today the first published poem of Sri Aurobindo, which was printed in 1883 when the author was 10 years old. This poem in retrospect appears at once prophetic and autobiographical.

This poem reveals to us the coming of the Divine in a human frame. It contains Vedic imagery of the birth of Agni which upholds the Divine Will of the future.

Today we are looking at the poem “At the Hill-Tops of Silence”, which gives us a glimpse into the might and genius of Sri Aurobindo’s personality, and the state of the Divine Being before He is ready to take a human birth.