Today we read several poems that mark a transition of Sri Aurobindo from a remarkable and brilliant person into a budding revolutionary and a yogi. The following poems have been read: (1) The Spring Child; (2) A Doubt; (3) Awake Mother (The Mother Awakes); (4) The Vedantin’s Prayer (a full text is given below).
Sri Aurobindo’s Life through his Poems. Today’s talk touches upon the coming of disciples around Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
This talk is woven around Sri Aurobindo’s poem Rebirth, written between 1900 and 1906.
In this poem we learn about the first major realisation of Sri Aurobindo, the experience of Nirvana. We read the poem and a letter...