A reflection on an early poem of Sri Aurobindo.
It was written in Baroda in 1898-1902 in a notebook, which was subsequently seized by the British police when Sri Aurobindo was arrested in 1908. This made it impossible for him to revise or publish this poem after his release from jail in 1909.
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 poem is a beautiful image of evening connecting us to the eve of life as well.
This sonnet reveals to us the two beings within us, one surface and the inner.