A Vedic Hymn to Agni – A Poem in Hindi
For decades Dr. Murildhar Chandniwala has been translating and re-expressing Vedic mantras in Hindi poetry. His poem inspired by RV 2.1 is presented here.
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I Dream of a Better World (Poem)
The poet while expressing his aspiration for a divine life on earth, his dream of a new world based on a new consciousness of unity, harmony, bliss, and progress, invites all who wish to walk the path of self-perfection for perfecting the world outside.
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Only Thou Art (A Poem in Urdu)
The poet’s aspiration to feel and see and experience the Divine Presence in all and everything around and within her is expressed in a few simple lines.
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Bhārat-Bhārati – Excerpts from Rashtrakavi’s Famous Kāvya
Selected excerpts from Maithilisharan Gupt’s most famous work, Bharat Bharati, which stirred deep nationalist emotions among Indians when it was first published in 1912.
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A Humble Offering (Poem)
These few lines on Humility and Grace came in a moment of gratitude when the author was reading the Sunlit Path, a compilation of some of the Mother’s writings and talks on Integral Yoga.
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To Be Humble (A Reflection and a Poem)
When a few moments of sincere introspection lead the heart to express humbly what it is feeling, a poem like this is born.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Love for Man and Earth – 2
Sri Aurobindo’s love of man and earth is a love of God in man and earth, or rather of God as man and earth. That he did not develop it but was born with it, will be amply illustrated and confirmed by his writings, prose and poetical. No greater lover of man has ever been born, – of the entire being of man, and not only of his soul; and no greater prophet of man’s divine destiny.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and True Women Empowerment
The author highlights a few verses to suggest how Savitri, Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem seems like a proclamation of the inexhaustible female powers and gives magical formulae of true women empowerment.
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“A stillness of God building his earthly abode”
In this month’s Guiding Light section we highlight three poems of Sri Aurobindo which speak of Silence, Space and Spirit.
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