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The Mother about Paul Richard — Two

The Mother about Paul Richard — Two The Arya began in June 1914, and the first issue was scheduled to come out on August 15, Sri Aurobindo’s birthday; and the war broke…
The Mother about Paul Richard — One

The Mother about Paul Richard — One …I have done my best, all these years, to try to keep him at a distance. He has a power—a terrible asuric power.…
Max Planck and the Energy Quantum

Max Planck and the Energy Quantum How did Max Planck come up with the quantum theory? Back in 1900, Max Planck just wanted to find the right formula – which…
The Disheartened God — A Poem in Marathi and English

हिरमुसलेला देव कोरड्या नदीकाठी उदासीन देऊळ, बघे हिरमुसलेला देव खिन्न काळ हा; नाही गुरेढोरे ओसाड गावठाणात, त्या भल्या आकाशात नसे पक्षी एकही; पण जुने घड्याळ जरी रुष्टावलेले आहे बघत वाट…
Savitri presents Jesus Christ

Savitri presents Jesus Christ Justyn Jędraszewski sends the following: Sri Aurobindo in his great poem Savitri presents Jesus Christ in many separate parts of it, but one Idea presides over…
Paul Richard about the Mother

Paul Richard about the Mother It is to Mira that I owe, among other things, my modest success as a writer. My daily columns in the newspaper were only crumbs as…
Paul Richard about Rabindranath Tagore

Paul Richard about Rabindranath Tagore It came about in a curious way. Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet who had been knighted by the British crown, came to Japan for a visit…
I would go to Innisfree …

I would go to Innisfree … [Inspired by WB Yeats’s The Lake Isle of Innisfree. It raises a haunting question: Pourquoi des mondes — Why worlds?] I would go to…
The Sovereign in our Skies

The Sovereign in our Skies A flame has emerged from the opaque of night, A sudden fulgence blazing towards the sun, A newborn splendour vast and wise in calm spaces;…
Red Wolf — The downside of the Creation

Red Wolf There are 2 occurrences of “red Wolf” in Savitri: In menacing tracts, in tortured solitudes Companionless he roamed through desolate ways Where the red Wolf waits by the…
Centenary of Sri Aurobindo’s Arrival — Presented by Sudesh Chogle

A voyager upon uncharted routes Late will he know, opening the mystic script, Whether to a blank port in the Unseen He goes, or armed with her fiat, to discover…
The Significance of Sri Aurobindo Ashram by Krishnendu

The Significance of Sri Aurobindo Ashram by Krishnendu The Significance of Sri Aurobindo Ashram – In the Evolution of Humanity (part-1) Krishnendu Sekhar Daspatnaik First Edition November 2025 Published on…
God of Light

God of Light God of light sleeping in a mystery-flame, Gold of love drawn into an inward rapture, All heaven folded in a sapphire repose, Trance ineffable of a splendoured…
A Hymn to Becoming — A Dedication

A Hymn to Becoming — A Dedication [Metrical scheme: dactyl-dactyl-cretic-iamb-anapæst] Cusecs of music from mountain cliff, they tumble to earth, Splendorous time like a morning sky in hurry of birth;…
Two Himalaya Paintings by Marc D

Two Himalaya Paintings by Marc D Immense retreats of silence and of gloom, Hills of a sterile grandeur, rocks that sublime In bareness seek the blue sky’s infinite room With their…
When Grandpa Was a Boy

When Grandpa Was a Boy By Dorothy Walters So many things were different When Grandpa was a boy. He never saw a movie And he seldom had a toy. He…
The inspired and inevitable Word

The inspired and inevitable Word Winging through new heavens of beauty and truth To the spirit hastening in dazzles of life Cruises great word bearing in its rush every sense,…
5 December 2025 at Auroville

“Sri Aurobindo has not left us. Sri Aurobindo is here,as living and as present as ever and it is leftto us to realise his work with all the sincerity,eagerness and…