The Companion Speak – A Poetic Aspiration
A poem expressing the human being’s deepest aspiration to experience the liberation that is the soul’s essential nature.
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Power of Art – A Poet’s Call to Create Art of a New Kind
Here is a poet and a seeker of truth emphasising inviting artists to create art to help realise the earth’s destiny, a new world made of a new consciousness.
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Embracing Life in Its Many Colours and Hues
Sri Aurobindo writes in The Human Cycle, “The art, music and literature of the world, always a sure index of the vital tendencies of the age, have also undergone a profound revolution in the direction of an ever-deepening subjectivism. The great objective art and literature of the past no longer commands the mind of the new age.”
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The Realisation of Beauty
This essay is excerpted from Rabindranath Tagore’s book titled Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life. Don’t miss a beautiful poem by Tagore translated in English.
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Inner Bliss – Indescribable Beauty (A Poem with Flower Mandalas)
A contemplative composition which speaks of the process of cittasuddhi, the emotional purification, a journey of seeking harmony, beauty and joy.
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On Life, Love and Inner Solitude
In this second issue exploring Silence and Solitude, we begin with a reflection on the place of solitude in human relations.
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चल, आज कहीं चुपचाप जा बैठें – Come, Let’s Go to That Quiet Place (Poem)
This poem in Hindi speaks of the aspirant’s yearning for that Silence and Solitude in which she can constantly stay connected with the Divine.
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Sea of Stormy Passions, Sea of Serene Silences (a poem, a narration and more)
As we come to the close of our ‘Streams of Sadhana’ topic, we take up the theme Silence and Solitude. This is the first of the two issues on this theme.
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Two Poems – Soul’s Silence and One Moment
The poem titled ‘Soul’s Silence’ speaks of that deep yearning of a sādhaka for a profound and constant silence. And the other titled ‘One Moment’ reminds us how ephemeral that moment of deep Silence can be in which we connect with the Divine.
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Inner Awakening to Nature, featuring Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ (with narration)
Nature mysticism and Romanticism in English Poetry go hand in hand. An example is William Wordsworth’s famous poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’.
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The Mother’s Presence and Her Grace (Poem)
This poem reminds us powerfully of the truth that all is indeed possible with the Grace of the Mother.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and Vyasa’s Savitri – 3
In continuation of the first two parts of this essay published in the last issue, read here about some of the deep symbolism found in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and Vyasa’s Savitri – 4
Satyavan symbolizes the aspiring human spirit caught in the mesh of ignorance and death. Savitri is the Divine’s Grace, the Divine’s love which has come down.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and Vyasa’s Savitri – 1
Under the title of his epic poem, Savitri, Sri Aurobindo added “A Legend and a Symbol”. What is this legend? And what does the poem symbolize?
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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and Vyasa’s Savitri – 2
Aswapati’s quest is a symbolic quest: it is the quest of humanity as a whole. This is a first change that one finds that Sri Aurobindo has made in Savitri.
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Vaishnava Symbolism and the Future of Symbols
Read about a delightful and profound aphorism of Sri Aurobindo. The author also speaks of the future of spiritual symbolism in artistic expression.
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A Secret Self: Infinite O’ Delight (Poem)
Without the Grace descending from above, no amount of personal effort at rejecting the countless imperfections within can help one make lasting progress. This is true for the individual sadhana, and also for the national sadhana.
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Woman in Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry
The author presents a delightful reading of the portrayal of selected key women figures from several poems of Sri Aurobindo, from Ahana to Savitri.
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