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At the Feet of The Mother
Text in English
We should be careful in resurrecting the past to keep its spirit intact lest it is stifled once more in the forms that the Time Spirit has broken.
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]
The Sunlit Path
Men have a feeling that if they are not all the time running about and bursting into fits of feverish activity, they are doing nothing. It is an illusion to think that all these so-called movements change things.
... very often we bind ourselves to the letter and not the spirit, the outer sense rather than the deeper inner meaning, the mental understanding rather than the truth being revealed to us.
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.
The Supramental Truth is the truth of the Infinite. It cannot be bound or limited by any one-sided formula or understanding of things, or any process or technique for which we may be eagerly looking for.
The New Creation begins with the Supermind.  All below it including the splendour of the Overmind belongs to the old Creation as the perfect perfection is missing there.