Today’s talk is based on Sri Aurobindo’s poem “Invitation”, which was published in Sri Aurobindo’s weekly newspaper Karmayogin on 6 November 1909, under the inscription: “Composed in the Alipur Jail”
This poem is about vital love and desire, whose god as per Indian mythology is Kamadeva. The poem is written in Pondicherry around 1913.
The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.
This poem by Sri Aurobindo in quantitative hexameter is a marvel of mystical poetry.