Dear Friends,
In August 1952, on the occasion of Sri Aurobindo’s eightieth Birthday, a special anthology of Sri Aurobindo’s “Last Poems” was published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
In this anthology, forty-eight poems, consisting mainly of sonnets, were included and these were among the last written poems of Sri Aurobindo. The publisher’s note declared:
‘…He [Sri Aurobindo] intended to give them all a final revision, but only a few were actually so done. One or two irregularities of rhyming may be noticed, but whether they were purposely meant to be like that or kept only provisionally, it is not possible to say. In several cases, where it seemed necessary, earlier versions have been drawn upon for textual collation and the fixing of dates. Where two dates are given for the same poem, the earlier refers to the date of composition and the other to that of revision.
‘The poems are arranged in chronological order and their facsimile reproductions given on parallel pages. There are, at places, discrepancies between the facsimile and the printed text. That is because there exist, in view of changes and corrections made from time to time, several versions of most of these poems and for the printed text the choice was determined by the one which was the most complete and seemed to be the last or final, whereas for the facsimile the needs of photography had to be taken into account, the need of selecting the most suitable one for representation.
‘Except for a few poems which appeared in the quarterly Advent, they are now published for the first time.’
The facsimile of Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Last Poems’ have been published in the website of Overman Foundation.
With warm regards,
Anurag Banerjee
Founder,
Overman Foundation.
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The Divine Hearing 
The Indwelling Individual
Electron
The Hidden Plan
The Pilgrim of the Night
Liberation
The Witness Spirit
The Inconscient
Cosmic Consciousness
Life-Unity
The Golden Light
The Infinite Adventure
The Greater Plan
The Universal Incarnation
The Godhead
The Stone Goddess
Krishna
Shiva
The Word of the Silence
The Self’s Infinity
The Dual Being
Lila
Surrender
The Divine Worker
The Guest
The Inner Sovereign
A Dream of Surreal Science
Bliss of Identity
The Miracle of Birth
The Body
Liberation
Light
The Island Sun
Self
Omnipresence
Adwaita
The Hill-top Temple
Because Thou art
Divine Sight
The Unseen Infinite
Despair on the Staircase
Divine Sense
Man, the Despot of Contraries
The Children of Wotan (1940)
The Silver Call
Contrasts
Man the Thinking Animal
Evolution
It was such a revelation – these 48 poems, published in 1952 – that at once it came very close to our heart. Teacher after teacher chose to enhance this subtle humour of Sri Aurobindo by reading out poems of their own liking. We had grown with that RASA contained in this collection!
Thanks Anurag, for bringing out this wonderful material – the poems written in His own hand.
Regards