This is the first of a series of talks as an offering for the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. In this series we glimpse his life through his poems. The first talk sets the note through the revelation of Sri Aurobindo and His Work as the work of the Avatar, which is primarily to open a new collective possibility for earth and embodied earthly life.

This poem is a beautiful image of evening connecting us to the eve of life as well.

This poem reveals to us the worth and value of wisdom.

This poem reveals the response we should make to the call of the Divine.

This poem reveals the secret of the Sun-temple Konarak.

This sonnet reveals to us the two beings within us, one surface and the inner.

This sonnet reveals to us the truth of the secret immortal soul in man.

This talk is woven around Sri Aurobindo’s poem which describes the ideal of the Jivanmukta, taking examples from his own life.

This poem reveals to us the real meaning and sense of Surrender.

This sonnet gives the state in which the one who works for the Divine dwells.