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).
This talk is centred around Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet, written in October, 1939 (CWSA 2: 618). The text of the sonnet is given below.
Dr Alok Pandey shares selected Sri Aurobindo’s poems and his understanding of their poetic beauty and spiritual message.
This poem of Sri Aurobindo reveals the contradicting tendencies in man.