TRANSLATIONS

 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Contents 

 

 

I. FROM SANSKRIT

   

 

 

 

BHAGAVAD GITA

 
 

Chapter One

 
 

Chapter Two

 
 

Chapter Three

 
 

Chapter Four

 
 

Chapter Five

 
 

Chapter Six

 

 

 

KALIDASA

 
 

The Birth of the War-God

 Canto One:

 
 

The Birth of the War-God, Canto Two

 
 

Malavica and the King

 
 

The Line of Raghu

 

 

 

 

Sankaracharya

 
 

Bhavani

 

 

 

 

III FROM TAMIL

 

 IV. FROM GREEK AND LATIN

 
 

The Kural

 

Odyssey

 
 

Nammalwar’s Hymn of the Golden Age

 

On A Satyr and Seeping Love

 
 

Love-Mad

 

A Rose of Women

 
 

Refuge

 

To Lesbia

 
 

To the Cuckoo

     
 

I Dreamed a Dream

     
 

Ye Others

     

 

 

 

The New Creator*

 

You rose in India, 0 glorious in contemplation, 0 Sun;

                Illuminator of the vast ocean of life.

Clarioning the new Path of an unstumbling progression.

You have dug up the immense, sombre bedrock of the earth's ignorance,

And sought to unite in eternal marriage the devotion of the heart

                 and the Force of life.

 

We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, 0 Sun of the New Age,

                  Bringer of the New Light!

May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!

 

To the country which, by losing its soul-mission, had lost the rhythm

                   of its life's advance,

And was darkened and blinded by the gloom of the ages,

 To point the inward way and reduce all obstacles to subservient aids,

You have brought the message of the night's end,

                    0 divine Ambidexter, wisdom-bright!

 

We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, 0 Sun of the New Age,

                    Bringer of the New Light!

May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!

 

The dust of your feet turned the prison info a temple,

Your lofty ideal has lifted the nation's life to a sublime aim,

Your accomplishment has brought to our door

                      the supreme treasure of Supermanhood,

Your feet faltered not even when the heart of the world trembled.
 

We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, 0 Sun of the New Age,

                       Bringer of the New Light! "

May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!
 

You have made humanity hear the message, the great Truth

                        which none has ever uttered:

That man's birth-right is not only to freedom from slavery

                        but to eternal divinity.

 

* Aruna

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You have proclaimed: The whole earth shall march forward

                       with India in the van;

India will set the example and the earth will follow her ideal.

 

We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, 0 Sun of the New Age,

                        Bringer of the New Light!

May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world! 

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