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In general I will post writings of poetry and philosophy, occasionally political commentary and analysis, sometimes audio and video lectures, with a special focus on mysticism and spirituality.
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The Odyssey Canto 1 (opens the original)
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A reading to augment the movie version.
SAVITRI - SYMBOL AND REALITY (6) (opens the original)
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The difficulty and importance of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri lies in what he has referred to as “style and substance” in his poetics. The style is “mantric” and therefore it is not a type of poetry that our ears are familiar with. The substance is the experience of a yogic transformation of consciousness which is unique to the philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. For example, we heard these lines from a canto of Savitri a few weeks ago which say: “A strength he sought that was not yet on earth, Hel
POEMS 2026 (opens the original)
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MOUNTAIN PEAKSMountain peaksreached toward the skyagain todaybeyond the tree line;Spider plantshanging on the wallsymbols of our mind’sexperience;Bucks on the meadowone seems to knowtwo seem to sensethe coming snow;Beyond the peaksBeyond the wallBeyond the sensed and known,The One in All<d
The Divine Shakti and the Savitri Mantra (5) (opens the original)
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In this session and the following one I hope to address the most difficult and important aspects of the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It has been my aim in this series of presentations to make explicit, in a brief but thorough way, those aspects which may be the least understood and therefore the least accessible in this Yoga, beginning with the clarification of the limitations of our human mind and the rejection of its attachments and illusions. The understanding and the practices that
Savitri, Sruti and Yoga (4) (opens the original)
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In the canto of Savitri titled ‘The Call to the Quest’ Sri Aurobindo has again vocalized his prayer to the Divine Mother that brought the goddess to birth at the end of Part I. And in this canto he has also revealed the power of the sruti, or inspired speech/hearing of which Savitri, the poem and the goddess, is the embodiment. It is therefore a canto about the poem itself, as well as a description of the nature of the consciousness that it is the mission of the goddess to awaken in humanity. Th
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