Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

LP 6: Reconnecting with India

Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry

Show Notes

We read today some poems that reveal Sri Aurobindo’s love and growing identification with the soul of India. The poems include Envoi (p. 37), The Just Man (pp. 43-44), To the Ganges (pp. 256-259) and The Meditations of Mandavya (pp. 509-515), all pages given for Collected Poems, CWSA Vol 2).

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