The World Redeemer

Here is the video of the Dawn Bonfire at the Matrimandir Amphitheatre celebrating Sri Aurobindo's 152nd Birth Anniversary on 15th August 2024:

You can listen to or download HERE the high quality music soundtrack. The transcript of the poetry readings are as follows:

From : A SONNET

THE ONE SELF

All are deceived, do what the One Power dictates,

Yet each thinks his own will his nature moves;

The hater knows not ‘tis himself he hates,

The lover knows not ‘tis himself he loves.

In all is one being many bodies bear;

Here Krishna flutes upon the forest road,

Here Shiva sits ash-smeared, with matted hair.

But Shiva and Krishna are the single God.

In us too Krishna seeks for love and joy,

In us too Shiva struggles with the world’s grief.

One Self in all of us endures annoy,

Cries in his pain and asks his fate’s relief.

My rival’s downfall is my own disgrace:

I look on my enemy and see Krishna’s face.

SRI AUROBINDO

. . .

From: A SONNET - 1934-1947

KRISHNA

At last I find a meaning of soul’s birth

Into this universe terrible and sweet,

I who have felt the hungry heart of earth

Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna’s feet.

I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,

And heard the passion of the Lover’s flute,

And known a deathless ecstasy’s surprise

And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.

Nearer and nearer now the music draws,

Life shudders with a strange felicity;

All Nature is a wide enamoured pause

Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.

For this one moment lived the ages past;

The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last.

SRI AUROBINDO

. . .

Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, reading by the Mother with Sunil's Music as follows and accessible through the provided link:

• Book II Canto VI, Track 8 - A Sphinx whose eyes look up to a hidden Sun

• Book VI Canto II, Track 3 - Hard is the world-redeemer's heavy task

https://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/media/music/sunil.php?id=49#49

And the translation of the Sanskrit Shloka as sung in Sunil's music:















ॐ Zech . 2024.08.15

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