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Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 10

Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 10 The Body of the Growing God Savitri Book Eleven Savitri’s feeling of the spirit’s stir in things is the assertion of great validity…
My Shadow

My Shadow माझी सावली टक लाऊन पाहत आहे मी माझ्या सावलीकडे, तल्लख आहे ती, जादूचा पोशाख लेऊन आलेली; भल्या प्रकाशात, पायाजवळच, मी आहे म्हणून, साथ देई पदोपदी, खरी दिशा कुठेही…
Joy … of feeling we are You

The Essential Agenda 28 August 1971 It’s as if all the ways of seeing the world were passing by one after the other: the most detestable and the most marvellous…
“Sing, and the hills will answer”

“Sing, and the hills will answer” गा, आणि देतील टेकड्या उत्तर गा, आणि देतील टेकड्या उत्तर, गडगडाट उल्हासी आभाळात; छंद नाचे घेऊनि मयूरपंख, कल्पनांची बरसात अंतर्मनी; जे पाहिले नव्हते कधी…
Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 9

Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 9 Dissuasion by the Radiant God Savitri Book Eleven Transfigured Death as radiant God dissuades Savitri, telling her she should not imagine that the…
Sight meets Sight — Marathi

टक भिडे टकेला मिळविले सुरेख पंख सुरंगीत स्वप्नाने, हर्षाची ही झेप दाट हिरव्या डहाळीवर; शब्दार्थांची उडी सर्जनशील शांततेत ह्रदयाचे स्पंदन आश्चर्याच्या वेगाने; वाजे भलामोठा गॉंग डोंगरमाथ्यावर आणि झाला वैभवी सौंदर्याचा…
Sight meets Sight

Sight meets Sight A flushing dream of surprise got colourful wings, And zoomed down on the bough emerald rapture; And the word seized the sense of creative silence, And the…
03: Notes — A task woman’s strength might do

03: Notes — A task woman’s strength might do The marriage of Savitri with Satyavan is solemnised in the Shalwa hermitage and she is now living there, doing all the…
02: Notes — A Blue-throated Ascetic

02: A Blue-throated Ascetic A matted forest-head invaded heaven As if a blue-throated ascetic peered From the stone fastness of his mountain cell Regarding the brief gladness of the days;…
01: Notes — Fate a transaction between Nature and Soul

01: Fate a transaction between Nature and Soul O King, thy fate is a transaction done At every hour between Nature and thy soul With God for its foreseeing arbiter.…
An unceasing stream

An unceasing stream सतत वाहणारा झरा पहिल्या दिवसापासून वाहतो झरा, सतत, कधीपण न आटणारा हर्ष; हौशी थवेच्या थवे मोठ्या अस्मानात मुक्त विहंगन कल्पनेच्या दाही दिशा; धावे आनंद अरुंद गल्लीबोळात, वेगाने,…
What does death really mean?

The Essential Agenda 25 August 1971 All the time, all the time, there is the “thought” of the Divine, but a kind of — thirst to be and to understand.…
The fountain of poetic delight and beauty

The fountain of poetic delight and beauty Sri Aurobindo There is a profound intrinsic delight and beauty in all things and behind all experience whatever face it wears to the surface mind,…
A Poem sitting in a Huff

रुसूनी बसली कवीता A Poem sitting in a Huff काय झाले असावे ह्या कवितेस रुसूनी बसली ती माजघरात? नव्हता तरी कोमजलेला मोगरा, नव्हते ही हरवले कल्पनेचे धन; उत्सुकतेची वीणा उभी…
Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 8

Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 8 Savitri Book Seven Canto Four Dream of God and know Him “O Savitri, I am thy secret soul. ||124.6|| I have come down…
Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 7

Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 7 Savitri Book Ten Canto Four Death’s Denial Look on these forms that stay awhile and pass, These lives that long and strive, then…
Savitri Editing — A Note by Nirodbaran

Savitri Editing — A Note by Nirodbaran [Following note records what Nirod had said in one of the meetings in Amal’s place when, on 6 July 1988, the Table of…
Sunrise at Pondicherry — at the Sea by the Ashram

To find variety Wilson—Then where do you find your variety? Keshav—If you will compare the elements of those types in which the harmony is perfect, your ignorance will vanish like…