Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

And yet I know my footprints' track shall be A pathway towards Immortality.

In this poem Sri Aurobindo reveals to us the journey of soul beyond death.

This beautiful poem is a promise and a way when all will be fulfilled for which creation has come into existence.

This poem touches upon the relation between life and death and the mystic truth it hides.

This poem of Sri Aurobindo reveals the contradicting tendencies in man.

This poem is written during the pre-Pondicherry days in the form of a dialogue between the Rishi and Manu the king.

Today's talk is based on Sri Aurobindo's poem "Invitation", composed in Alipore jail in 1908-1909.

This long narrative poem by Sri Aurobindo is based on the story of King Pururavas and the heavenly nymph Urvasie. This tale has been earlier immortalised by Kalidasa in his poem "Vikramorvasie or The Hero and the Nymph", which has also been translated by Sri Aurobindo.

This poem is about vital love and desire, whose god as per Indian mythology is Kamadeva.

This poem gives us the results of the supramental transformation in a beautiful poetic vein.

Rejoice and fear not for the waves that swell, The storms that thunder, winds that sweep; Always our Captain holds the rudder well, He does not sleep.

A reflection on an early poem of Sri Aurobindo.

We dwell upon some of Sri Aurobindo's poems on Shiva.

This poem by Sri Aurobindo in quantitative hexameter is a marvel of mystical poetry.