SAP 1: ‘Thou Didst Mistake’ & ‘Because Thy Flame is Spent’

Episode 1 September 17, 2021 00:19:53
SAP 1: ‘Thou Didst Mistake’ & ‘Because Thy Flame is Spent’
Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry
SAP 1: ‘Thou Didst Mistake’ & ‘Because Thy Flame is Spent’

Sep 17 2021 | 00:19:53

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Show Notes

The first video from a new series “Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry”. Today we read two sonnets of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo wrote them in Baroda in 1901-1902 in a notebook, which was seized by the British police when Sri Aurobindo was arrested in 1908. This made it impossible for him to revise or publish these poems later, and they were not given titles. Their text is given below.

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