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 talk is woven around Sri Aurobindo’s poem Rebirth, written between 1900 and 1906.
We take up a few poems to touch upon some of Sri Aurobindo’s experiences around the time he left for Pondicherry. The poems include:–...
The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.