Sri Aurobindo’s poem ‘Life and Death’ opens for us a perspective on life and death not as two opposites but as two different modes of existence.
A reflection by Dr Alok Pandey on the poem by Sri Aurobindo, written in 1940’s.
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 touches upon the relation between life and death and the mystic truth it hides.