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The first list of words and terms to be defined in this lexicon was compiled in 1998 and further revisions and additions continued throughout the next decades. The compilers aspired to be as inclusive as possible to assist all readers of Savitri, especially those who were not native English speakers. Their criteria were to first select the terms which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother clearly explain in their writings and then to use free-source internet dictionaries as well as public domain dictionaries as references for defining standard and unique words. In some cases, they used their own definitions. Where appropriate, the compilers have included substantial quotations from the works of Sri Aurobindo to provide as much clarity as possible for words having discrete meanings in the Integral Yoga.

The study of Sri Aurobindo’s The Future Poetry and his theory of poetics is the subject of this scholarly work, which grew out of a series of talks on the book, streamed on YouTube. The author reflects on Sri Aurobindo as both critic and philosopher and focuses on the book’s exploration of what would be the ideal spirit of poetry. Part One considers how Sri Aurobindo defines and comments on the essential aspects of poetry and his theory of mantric poetry. Part Two is a lengthy analysis of the character and the evolution of English poetry. In Part Three we find the high philosophy that grounds the poetry of the future, the philosophy of Poetic Truth, which Sri Aurobindo describes in discourses on “The Five Suns of Poetry”. The future poetry will demand a new manner of speech capable of holding and expressing the direct self-experience of the soul.

The Sublime Guides is a collection of writings by Manoj Das on the life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. This anthology includes articles originally serialised in The Sunday Standard in 1972, alongside other essays and articles that appeared in newspapers and periodicals such as The Hindu, The Heritage, and a few others. The initial articles highlight the impact of Sri Aurobindo's remarkable contribution to and early leadership of India’s freedom struggle. Given their publication history across several decades there is naturally a repetition of many of the themes and facts in the accounts of Sri Aurobindo’s political life, his sadhana in Pondicherry, the arrival of the Mother, and the formation and purpose of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. The book ends with a summary of Sri Aurobindo’s life and work and his vision for the future taken from the preface of the booklet published by NCERT containing the first Sri Aurobindo Memorial Lecture, given by Manoj Das in 2008.