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The inspiration for this detailed study came from Sri Aurobindo’s correspondence with a disciple that concentrated on his composition of Savitri. He wrote that among the aspects he lays most stress on is “the right distribution of sentence lengths (an immensely important thing in this kind of blank verse)”. The author has done an extensive analysis of the length of sentences in Savitri, inspecting the unique qualities of the various sentence lengths and their relation to the ideas they express and how they are expressed. He illustrates these considerations with selected examples from each category of sentence length (one-and-two line, three-and-four line, five to seven line, eight-and-nine line, and ten to thirty-five line sentences), examining how these variations create a rhythm that is integral to the meaning of the poetry. The author concludes that listening to the poem’s rhythms, feeling how form and content, sound and sense, converge in mantric verse are central to fully understanding the poem’s vision and its call to a higher consciousness.

In these transcribed talks from 2012, the author examines Chapters 19 to 22 of Essays on the Gita. The subjects are equality, equality and knowledge, the determinism of Nature, and what lies beyond the modes of Nature. Explaining Sri Aurobindo’s vision of equality and liberation in Essays on the Gita, he notes that equality is not a state of indifference or withdrawal but the soul’s calm poise, an equality of spirit, when faced with life’s complexities and difficulties. Works done without desire, with equality, as an offering to the Divine, bring self-knowledge, drawing one closer to the Divine. Although it appears that man is bound by the determinism of Nature and the three gunas, he can rise to a higher consciousness, free from ego and desire, where it is the Divine Will that acts through him. The final chapter deals with sorting out the thorny issue of fate and free will. Although our free will is an illusion, we must, as Krishna insists to Arjuna, still choose to act. The message of the Gita is to act while remembering the Divine, offering all our actions to the Divine.

A pocket planner with quotations on the subject "Grace" from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

In this book the author has presented an overview of some of the major experiences and realisations of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, quoting liberally from their writings and conversations. Initial chapters recount their individual experiences prior to their meeting in 1914. Over the years, they collaborated on a system of integral yoga, or supramental yoga, aimed at achieving and manifesting a new type of being and a new, divine life on earth. The Mother continued Sri Aurobindo’s work after he left his body in 1950, concentrating on bringing down the supramental light, force, and consciousness upon earth and later working on the details of the physical transformation in the cells of her body. The book, which is a reprint of its 1989 publication, concludes with forty-eight pages of appendices that add perspectives on the main text.

Sri Aurobindo wrote this play during the period of his political activity. Published serially across several months in Bande Mataram during 1907, Sri Aurobindo would later revise the text, adding a new ending. It was the only play of his published during his lifetime.

The plot of Perseus the Deliverer derives from the ancient Greek legend of Perseus and Andromeda. Sri Aurobindo transformed the original heroic myth into a story of human nature ruled by its attendant unthinking urges, much on the Elizabethan model, and set in a romanticised Syria. Sri Aurobindo acknowledged in a foreword that “myth, romance and realism” are rolled into an imaginative recreation of the legend, whose “stage is the human mind of all times”. The story is one of growth from a relatively primitive consciousness to the intellectual and humanistic state of a more civilised man.  Constantly faced with the threat of the lower life-forces usurping that new poise, he experiences the initial stirrings of a higher consciousness, psychic and spiritual in essence. Perseus embodies the evolutionary man.

A hardbound diary with a ruled page for every day with selections from Sri Aurobindo's letters.