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Volume 1

BANDE MATARAM

 
  THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONGRESS  
  RECONSTITUTION OF THE CONGRESS  
  THE NEW SITUATION  
  LOYALTY AND DISLOYALTY IN EAST BENGAL  
  PARTITION AND THE GOVERNMENT  
  PARTITION OF BENGAL  
  PARTITION AND PETITION  
  THE PRO - PETITION PLOT  
  A POINT OF HONOUR  
  CONGRESS AND DEMOCRACY  
  THE CONSPIRATORS AT WORK  
  LAST FRIDAY'S FOLLY  
  MORE LESSONS FROM COMILLA  
  LALA LAJPATRAJ DEPORTED  
  LALA LAJPATRAI  
  GOVERNMENT BY PANIC  
  THE BAGBAZAR MEETING  
  A TREACHEROUS STAB  
  NOT TO THE ANDAMANS !  
  NO COMMON IDEAL  
  POONA SPEECH  
  NATIONAL EDUCATION (Speech)  

 

 

Volume - 2

KARMAYOGIN

 
  SWADESHI MEETING (Speech)  
  SWADESHI  IN CALCUTTA   (Speech)  

 

 

Volume - 3

THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE

 

THE PROBLEM OF THE MAHABHARATA

 
  THE POLITICAL STORY  
  UDYOGAPARVA  
  ON TRANSLATING KALIDASA  
  MEDICAL DEPARTMENT  

 

 

Volume - 4

WRITING IN BENGALI

 
  KAAROTOYAR BARNANA  
  AIKYA O SWADHNATA  
  ARUNKUMARIR HARAN  
  KOREA O JAPAN  

 

 

Volume - 5

COLLECTED POEMS

 
  FRAGMENTS  
  SONNETS  
  WORLD'S DELIGHT  

 

 

Volume - 7

COLLECTED PLAYS

 
  FRAGMENT OF A PLAY  

 

 

Volume - 8

TRANSLATIONS

 
  SAYINGS FROM THE MAHABHARATA  

 

 

Volume - 9

THE FUTURE POETRY

 

AND LETTERS ON POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART

 
  TO MY BROTHER ( MANMOHAN GHOSE)  

 

 

Volume - 10

THE SECRET OF THE VEDA

 
  THE ORIGINS OF ARYAN SPEECH ( First draft)  
  A SYSTEM OF VEDIC PSYCHOLOGY - PREFATORY  

 

 

Volume - 11

HYMNS TO THE MYSTIC FIRE

 
  A HYMN TO AGNI  ( Mandala 1, Sukta 74)  
  A HYMN TO AGNI  ( Mandala IV, Sukta 6)  

 

 

Volume - 12

THE UPANISHADS

 
  THE KARMAYOGIN - A COMMENTARY ON THE ISHA UPANISHAD  
  ISHA UPANISHAD: ALL THAT IS WORLD IN THE UNIVERSE  
  THE LIFE DIVINE - A COMMENTARY ON THE ISHA UPANISHAD  

 

 

Volume - 15

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT

 
  PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF "THE IDEAL OF HUMAN UNITY"  

 

 

Volume - 17

THE HOUR OF GOD

AND OTHER WRITINGS

 
  BANKIM CHANDRA  
  SAPTA - CHATUSHTAYA  
  THE WAY OF WORKS  

 

 

Volume - 18 - 19

THE LIFE DIVINE

 
  ARGUMENT IN BRIEF AND S7OPSIS CHAPTER -I, THE HUMAN ASPIRATION  
  ARGUMENT TO THE LIFE DIVINE FROM THE ARYA, CHS. XIX - XXXIII  

 

 

Volume - 22--24

LETTERS ON YOGA

 
  LETTER ON YOGA  

 

 

Volume - 26

ON HIMSELF

 
  LETTER TO HIS FATHER, ( DR. K. D. GHOSE )  
  LETTER TO HIS SISTER, ( SAROJINI GHOSE )  
  LETTER TO HIS FATHER - IN -LAW,  ( BHUPAL CHANDRA BASU )  
  LETTER TO ANANDARAO  
  LETTER TO "M" ( MOTILAL ROY )  
  LETTER TO "THE HINDU"  

 

  MESSAGES  
  FOR NATIONAL EDUCATION WEKK  
  YOGA AND ITS PART IN THE DIVINE PLAN  

 

 

Volume - 29

SAVITRI

 
 

THE TALE OF SATYAVAN AND SAVITRI

 

 

 

SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME -  5

COLLECTED   POEMS

The following poems have all been taken from Sri Aurobindo's manuscripts. The Fragments are culled from the earliest manuscript in our possession, dating from the later part (1890 -1892) of his student days in England; the sonnets and the lyric are from the author's Baroda Period.  

FRAGMENTS

Blue lotus of the sea, on her large eyes

Ocean the tincture of nocturnal seas

Bestowed, the sweetness of her summer voice,

The flow of her green-rippling noonday laugh:

Night envied her long tresses and her cheeks

Were wild autumnal olives lightly flushed

With the shadow of a dying rose.  
                       

 We are no wizened hermits. . . . . . . .

 ……………………..whose fumbling hands

 Turn pale religious leaves, forgetting earth  

And this sweet natural light, this common air

That yet is precious, who with idiot scorn

And lunatic austerity repulse

The emparadising virtue of the soft

And roseate circle of a girl's embrace.

Nor know they lofty pride, nor golden words

Of wisest poets, nor to wield a spear,

To loose the silent winged snake of war,

To wrestle knee to knee with grisly death.

By meditation and insipid sweets

Of piety and goodness, they aspire

To passionless perfection, death in life

Pale nothingness. But we the stormy brood;

 Whom Ocean to imperious incest bore,

Were in the waste and ruinous conflict rocked

Of warring seas, and with thy nurturing milk

We drank the joy of battle, high disdain

That spurns obedience and the thirst unslaked

Indulgence prompts from sin to fiery sin.

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He passed the unbridged seas whose waters lap
The utmost promontories and escarped

 Immobile cliffs; he passed the desolate drifts,

The solitary sands, the antres wild,
Memorials of a mute, unstoried age;
He passed the secret woodland, whence the palm

Aspired, albeit of origin obscure,
To kiss high heaven, and the banyan spread

 Land-hungering tyrant, o'er full many a rood

 His bannered pomp; the pestilent fens he passed,

The salt and unplumbed marshes, direful nest

Of unkempt fever and malarious plague,
And that swan-cradling pool, blue Kolar called

Set like a jewel in the earth's brown throat.
All these he passed...

The heady rout of Maruts rode amain

Ratri the Ethiope handmaid of the Moon.

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