Spiritual and Mystic Elements in The Works of Aurobindo

Aurobindo Ghose is essentially a Spiritual and Mystic poet. Spiritualism and Mysticism are the inseparable parts of his poetry which have full expression in his poetry. His poetry has his deep mystic vision and spiritual awakening which has come out from his deep spiritual experience of self realization. A craving for the attainment of spiritual harmony with the universe has clearly been observed in his poetry. What he has written has the touch of spiritualism and mysticism. Spiritualism is not a momentary part of his poetry but it is deeply infused in his personality which finds its glimpse in almost every line of his poetry. Whether it is ‘Savitri’,‘Revelation’, ‘Transformation’, ‘Life Divine’, ‘Who’, ‘A Child’s Imagination’, ‘In the Moonlight’, ‘God’,‘Jivanmukta’, ‘Ahna’, ‘Thought the Paraclete’, ‘Trance’, ‘In the Silence of Midnight’, ‘Shiva – The Inconscient Creator’, ‘The Life Heavens’, ‘In HorisAeternum’, ‘Nirvana’, ‘The Other Earth’ almost in every work one can observe his inner reverence towards God which in his poetry is reflected in the form of Spiritualism and Mysticism. His works have the deep rotten impact of the knowledge of great religious Epics like ‘Vedas’, ‘Upnishads’ and ‘Gita’. The gist of these great Epics can be learnt from Sri Aurobindo’s works which have lessons of these epics. His knowledge of ‘Vedas’, ‘Upnishads’ and ‘Gita’ and Yoga as well keeps him spiritual and religious throughout his life and his works also could not be remained deviated from this spiritualism and became mystic. This spiritualism and mysticism got full description in his works. His spiritualism reflects the transformation of human beings from ignorance to knowledge, from sensuous to spiritual and from flesh to infinity. His works also reveal the internal mystery of the universe. He gives stress at the use of Yoga as it is only through Yoga to transform the inner conscience of human being to Super Human conscience as it can be achieved by total surrender of our conscious or soul to Life Divine, God. In his poetry he not only wishes to make human being learn from his deep spiritual and mystic vision but also he gives solution too to attain it.

• Spiritual
• Mystic
• Transformation

Awasthi, Sunil, Dutt (2019). Spiritual and Mystic Elements in The Works of Aurobindo. IPEM JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN TEACHER EDUCATION, 4(1), 36-40.