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.
This sonnet reveals to us the truth of the secret immortal soul in man.
In this poem Sri Aurobindo reveals to us the journey of soul beyond death.
To touch upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s experiences in the Alipore jail, we take up the following poems:– Epiphany– The One Self– Because Thou...