Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo was a revolutionary, poet, philosopher, writer, and Spiritual Master. One of India 's great modern philosophers, Aurobindo was a prolific author who expressed his views on humankind, nature, God, and the cosmos in numerous works of poetry and prose. He believed in the unity of all things material, intellectual, and spiritual, and a central theme that runs throughout all his writings is the divinization of life on earth. Sri Aurobindo, not only expressed his spiritual thought and vision in intricate metaphysical reasoning and in phenomenological terms, but also in poetry. He started writing poetry as a young student, and continued until late in his life. The theme of his poetry changed with the projects that he undertook. It ranged from revolutionary homages to mystic philosophy. Sri Aurobindo wrote in classical style.

Aurobindo 's philosophical beliefs derived from and promoted spiritual experience. The central theme of all his writings-the spiritualization of earthly life-rests on his belief that God exists in all of Nature and that spiritual intuition makes it possible for every individual to become conscious of his own divinity.

Sri Aurobindo says ills of the present world cannot be remedied by new political or economical arrangements. Sri Aurobindo believes that a higher faculty is lying dormant in us which has to be developed and perfected, so as to result in the life divine not in any heaven , but in this life and in this point. one of poems "I have a hundred lives" describes the spiritual quest for the god. Says how he has to pass through the hundred life 's before he could grasp Spirit ethereal(the god).

I have a hundred lives before me yet
To grasp thee in, O Spirit ethereal,

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Pursue thee like a hunter through them all.

The central theme of Sri Aurobindo poem "I have a hundred life’s" is evolution of life into a "life divine. Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The