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).
We take up today the first published poem of Sri Aurobindo, which was printed in 1883 when the author was 10 years old. This...
This poem touches upon the relation between life and death and the mystic truth it hides.
The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.