Complete Absorption in God in ‘The Meditations of Mandavya’

All is God in ‘The Meditations of Mandavya'

Surrender to the Will of God in ‘The Meditations of Mandavya’

It is a prayer of the conversion of the Asura.

Sri Aurobindo’s poem gives us a new and unique perspective on Death.

Sri Aurobindo’s poem ‘Life and Death’ opens for us a perspective on life and death not as two opposites but as two different modes of existence.

This Sri Aurobindo’s poem is addressed to the Sea and uses the image to bring out our innate soul strength against the opposition of world forces.

This talk is centred around Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet, written in October, 1939 (CWSA 2: 618). The text of the sonnet is given below.

The second video from the new series “Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry”
This early (1900-1906) poem reveals to us about what true love is. A full text is given below.

The first video from a new series “Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry”. Today we read two sonnets of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo wrote them in Baroda in 1901-1902 in a notebook, which was seized by the British police when Sri Aurobindo was arrested in 1908. This made it impossible for him to revise or publish these poems later, and they were not given titles. Their text is given below.