These selections from Rabindranath Tagore’s writings were published in the May 1961 issue of Mother India — 1961 being the centenary year of the Kobiguru. These were translated by Sanat K. Banerji and Nolini Kanta Gupta.
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A visualization of Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet titled Divine Sight. The seer-poet expresses here all that is seen by the seeing of the Soul.
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Silence is all, say the sages. But has the Cosmic Scribe not also written of the Word, Thought, & Light? Watch a video inspired by this delightful poem.
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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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From Guru Nanak to William Blake and Kahlil Gibran, from Tagore to Sri Aurobindo — immerse yourself in the beautiful poetic expressions the author shares of the Immanent Divine, the Divine present in myriad forms in Nature.
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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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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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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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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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A video inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet ‘The Hill-top Temple’ which describes his experience at a Devi temple near Pune, in 1902.
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