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... Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1912-1913) Collected Poems The Meditations of Mandavya The Meditations of Mandavya - I O joy of gaining all the soul's desire! O stranger joy of the defeat and loss! O heart that yearnest to uplift the world! O fiercer heart that bendest over its pain And drinkst the savour! I will love thee, O Love, Naked or... utter price To one wild moment of thy hidden God. Let the whole world end now, since all for which It was created is fulfilled at last And I am swallowed up in Thee, O God. The Meditations of Mandavya - II Who made of Nature here a tyrant? Who Condemned us to be slaves? It was not God. Nay, we ourselves chose our own servitude And we ourselves have forged and heaped our chains On our own... ever find; Old nature sits a phantom by the way, Old passions may forbid, old doubts return. Then are there other lives here or beyond To satisfy us. I will persist, O Lord. The Meditations of Mandavya - III What is this Love that I have never found? I have imagined in the skies a God, And seen Him in the stirring of the leaves, And heard Him in the purling of the brooks, And feared Him in ...

... fair copy was subsequently revised and published under the title "Ahana" in Ahana and Other Poems (1915). See the note to "Ahana" in the previous section. The Meditations of Mandavya . 1913. Sri Aurobindo wrote the date "April 12, 1913" at the end of a draft of the first part of this poem. The incident of the scorpion-sting happened before 14 February 1911, when Sri... mentioned it in Record of Yoga as something that had happened in the past. In the mid 1930s, when the book entitled Poems Past and Present was being prepared, a copy of "The Meditations of Mandavya" was typed for Sri Aurobindo, who revised it lightly. He chose however not to include the poem in that collection. The revisions done at that time are incorporated in the text for the... handwritten and two typed manuscripts. Kamadeva . Circa 1913. The earliest surviving drafts of this poem and the next one are found in the notebook that contains "The Meditations of Mandavya" (see above, Part Five), the opening of which is dated1913. In 1932 they were typed out and fourteen years later included in Poems Past and Present . There is one handwritten and one ...

... the steps of the ghauts with the silver tips of their fingers Lightly the waters ran and talked to each other of sunshine, Lightly they laughed. But high on his stake impaled by the roadway Hung Mandavya the mighty in marble deep meditation, Sepulchred, dumb; on his either side were the thieves, immobile. They were dead, made free from cruelty, ceasing from anguish, And forgetting the thirst. But ...

... Madhusudan Dutt 35 The Mahatmas 325 Man, the Despot of Contraries 626 Man the Enigma 589 Man the Mediator 596 Man the Thinking Animal 593 The Meditations of Mandavya 509 The Miracle of Birth 615 Miracles 203 Moments 616 Moon of Two Hemispheres 563 The Mother of Dreams 273 The Mother of God 642 Musa Spiritus 531 ...