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 poem of Sri Aurobindo reveals the contradicting tendencies in man.
This talk is woven around Sri Aurobindo’s poem which describes the ideal of the Jivanmukta, taking examples from his own life.
The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.