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 by Sri Aurobindo in quantitative hexameter is a marvel of mystical poetry.
This beautiful poem is a promise and a way when all will be fulfilled for which creation has come into existence.
We read today some poems that reveal Sri Aurobindo’s love and growing identification with the soul of India. The poems include Envoi (p. 37),...