03/03/2019

The Nature of Poetry

What then is the nature of poetry, its essential law? what is the highest power we can demand from it, what the supreme music that the […]
03/02/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Bhavani Bharati – Verse 4

सुखं मृदावास्तरणे शयानं सुखानि भोगान्वसु चिन्तयन्तम् । पस्पर्श भीमेन करेण वक्षः प्रत्यक्षमक्ष्णोश्च बभूव काली ॥ ४॥ sukhaM mR^idAvAstaraNe shayAnaM sukhAni bhogAnvasu chintayantam | pasparsha bhImena kareNa […]
03/02/2019

Gita’s way of Karmayoga

Equality, renunciation of all desire for the fruit of our works, action done as a sacrifice to the supreme Lord of our nature and of all […]
03/01/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Bhavani Bharati – Verse 3

चक्रन्द भूमिः परितो मदीया खलो हि पुत्रानसुरो ममर्द । स्वार्थेन नीतोऽहमनर्च पादे दुरात्मनो भ्रातृवधेन लिप्ते ॥ ३॥ chakranda bhUmiH parito madIyA khalo hi putrAnasuro mamarda | […]
03/01/2019

Faithfulness to the Light and the Call

When I spoke of being faithful to the light of the soul and the divine Call, I was not referring to anything in the past or […]
02/28/2019

Bhavani Bharati – Verse 2

कान्तैश्च शृङ्गारयुतैश्च हृष्टो गानैः स छन्दो ललितं बबन्ध । जगौ च कान्तावदनं सहास्यं पूज्ये च मातुश्चरणे गरिष्ठे ॥ २॥ kAntaishcha shR^i~NgArayutaishcha hR^iShTo gAnaiH sa Chando lalitaM […]
02/28/2019
Auroville

Reason for Auroville’s existence

Humanity is not the last rung of the terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It is for each individual to know whether he […]
02/27/2019

Bhavani Bharati – An Introduction

Bhavani Bharati is Sri Aurobindo’s only poem in Sanskrit, written between 1904 and 1908. It has 99 verses in the “Upajati” metre which is an apt choice […]
02/27/2019
Darshan Card 15 August 2018 (2/4)

Bhavani Bharati – Verse 1

सुखे निमग्नः शयने यदासं मधोश्च रथ्यासु मनस्चचार । स चिन्तयामास कुलानि काव्यं दारांश्च भोगांश्च सुखं धनानि ॥ १॥ sukhe nimagnaH shayane yadAsaM madhoshcha rathyAsu manaschachAra | […]