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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