Today in the series "Sri Aurobindo's Life through His Poems" we read some of the poems that reveal to us a beautiful divinely human side of Sri Aurobindo as the Lover of Humanity.
Today we read some lines from early poems written by Sri Aurobindo in England, published in 1898 as a part of the book of poems "Songs to Myrtilla" [CWSA 2: 9-37]
We take up today the first published poem of Sri Aurobindo, which was printed in 1883 when the author was 10 years old. This poem in retrospect appears at once prophetic and autobiographical.
This poem reveals to us the coming of the Divine in a human frame. It is a Vedic imagery of the birth of Agni which upholds the Divine Will of the future.
This is the first of a series of talks as an offering for the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. In this series we glimpse his life through his poems.