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 written during the pre-Pondicherry days in the form of a dialogue between the Rishi and Manu the king.
Sri Aurobindo’s poem gives us a new and unique perspective on Death.
The subject of the talk is an event of Sri Aurobindo’s identification with Sri Krishna on the 24th November 1926. The texts of quoted...