Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Perseus The Deliverer
— Sri Aurobindo
Publisher: La Mere Books, Kolkata
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.
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Fundamentals of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy in Savitri
— Larry Seidlitz
Publisher: Savitri Bhavan, Auroville
The very title of this book, Fundamentals of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy in Savitri, promises a study of how the substance of its high thought is at the heart of its innovative poetic style, its revelatory mantric poetry. The first chapter introduces how these two aspects of the poem unite in some of its most visionary and incandescent passages. Subsequent chapters partner timely prose passages from his major works with selections from Savitri on such principles as the duality of Ishwara-Shakti, the Divine Mother, the psychic being, fate, karma and free will, the occult worlds, involution and evolution, the realisation of the spiritual Self, and the Supermind and its transformation of life on earth into a life divine. The author’s commentaries on the selected passages from Savitri and their corresponding grounding in excerpts from his prose works weld language and import in a nuanced understanding of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching.
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Flowers and Their Messages
—The Mother
"I give you flowers", the Mother once told a sadhak, "so that you may develop the Divine qualities they symbolise". In this book more than eight hundred flowers are listed with their botanical names and their spiritual names and significances as revealed by the Mother. 124 black-and-white sketches and 70 colour photographs help to identify the flowers and reveal their beauty. There are also numerous selections from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother which have been chosen to lead the reader to a deeper understanding of the spiritual significances behind the flowers.
"Flowers teach us the charm of silence and also the self-giving that demands nothing in return."
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The Sunlit Path
—Selections from Conversations of the Mother
In this book, which is a collection of brief passages mostly from conversations with disciples and students at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, the Mother invites her listeners and readers to answer the call of adventure by courageously taking the path of spiritual self-perfection and transformation. The excerpts are arranged thematically to present the Mother's guidance to the seeker, showing the way through shadows and stumbles to a sunlit path through such topics as how to control one's thoughts, breaking the hard shell of the ego, the absolute necessity of a perfect sincerity, the right attitude to take when faced with even the most mundane affairs of life, the nature of dynamic meditation, and the liberation of a complete surrender to the Divine.
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