Selected poems give a glimpse of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga as it was developing along unique lines after reaching Pondicherry. The poems include the following:
– Ascent (‘The Silence’ and ‘Beyond the Silence’), pp. 581-582
– Descent, p. 578
– O Will of God, p. 520
– Ahana, pp. 477-491
– Light, p. 618
– Bride of the Fire, p. 532
[pages for CWSA 2: Collected Poems]
Today’s talk touches upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s personal experience of transformation in the body and its impact upon the earth.
This poem is about vital love and desire, whose god as per Indian mythology is Kamadeva. The poem is written in Pondicherry around 1913.
This talk is centred around Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet, written in October, 1939 (CWSA 2: 618). The text of the sonnet is given below.