
Show Notes
This is the first of a series of talks as an offering for the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. In this series we glimpse his life through his poems. The first talk sets the note through the revelation of Sri Aurobindo and His Work as the work of the Avatar, which is primarily to open a new collective possibility for earth and embodied earthly life.
More from Reflections on Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry
Today we take up the following poem of Sri Aurobindo, written in Baroda around 1900.
On the day of Mahashivratri celebrated across India this talk provides a glimpse of Shiva along with two of Sri Aurobindo’s Poems, – Shiva and Epiphany.
Dr Alok Pandey shares selected Sri Aurobindo’s poems and his understanding of their poetic beauty and spiritual message.
The blue bird is a symbolic poem that describes the state of the liberated divine soul that connects the earthly life with the Beyond.