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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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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Video: “Silence is All” – Sri Aurobindo’s Poem
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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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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In the Playhouse of Infinite Forms
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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Sri Aurobindo and the Modern Academic World
The author underlines some of the key ideas of Sri Aurobindo that could be taken forward for further treatment in academia, both present and future.
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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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Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry in Video: ‘The Hill-top Temple’
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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Mata Durga as Muse: ‘Waves and frequencies’ – a poem
The poet offers this poem to her muse, Maa Durga, who arrives on the earth riding upon a lion and destroys all the hostile forces.
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Concentration and Intellectual Development
The Mother explains that whether it is finding solutions to mathematical problems, doing scientific work or artistic work, it all depends on the degree of concentration and the orientation of concentration.
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On Life, Literature and Yoga
What is the right place and significance of reading spiritual literature in the path of sadhana? Can reading help prepare the sadhak, can it become a hindrance? Should a sadhak read only spiritual or religious literature? What about the literary classics that are often considered ‘secular’ literature? What does it mean to study literature or write only for the Divine? These and a few more questions are explored in the current issue.
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What Basically is Savitri? – A Brief Commentary
The author emphasises that we should so train ourselves in heart and mind that Savitri becomes an experience of a miraculous communion.
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“To read Savitri is indeed to practise Yoga.”
After all that Sri Aurobindo had set forth in his major works, why he undertook another massive effort of literary creation, namely, Savitri?
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‘A Great Illuminative Power’ – Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry – Part 1
The author presents a few key facets of Sri Aurobindo’s poetry and poetics that she, a poet herself, finds most fascinating.
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‘A Great Illuminative Power’ – Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry – Part 2
In this part, with the help of a few examples, the author speaks of poetic vision of Sri Aurobindo and also discusses Overhead aesthesis.
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