Perseverance of Aspiration in ‘The Meditations of Mandavya’
This poem is written during the pre-Pondicherry days in the form of a dialogue between the Rishi and Manu the king.
This poem is about vital love and desire, whose god as per Indian mythology is Kamadeva. The poem is written in Pondicherry around 1913.
This talk is centred around Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet, written in October, 1939 (CWSA 2: 618). The text of the sonnet is given below.