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 sonnet reveals to us the two beings within us, one surface and the inner.
This poem is written during the pre-Pondicherry days in the form of a dialogue between the Rishi and Manu the king.
Perseverance of Aspiration in ‘The Meditations of Mandavya’