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Mahesh CR in Inevitable Word

Sep 9, 2017

The Herald for Shivāji Maharaj

Line by line translation of a herald announcing arrival of Shivāji Maharaj. Listen to the herald first in…

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Mahesh CR in Inevitable Word

Jan 6, 2018

The Stranger and Aja

A Play.

Somewhere in the tracts of muddled time, where the seemingly abandoned sons of God…

Murli R in Inevitable Word

Jun 2, 2017

A Note on “I, Garuda”, originally published in Kali’s Brood

A narrative of the Puranic symbolism — which I had the opportunity to read and relish recently, and which was written by a practitioner of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga — includes in its newer expression and extraordinary tongue the…

Murli R in Inevitable Word

May 6, 2017

Krishna — a Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo

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.

Murli R in Inevitable Word

May 14, 2017

Krishna and The Mother of Light — A Poem

Krishna meets the Mother of light in earth’s woodland of meek joys, and in the oneness of love they recognise each other. The Mother is awed by the presence of Krishna’s light in the evolution of consciousness and she demands an explanation. It is to which…

Murli R in Inevitable Word

Jun 30, 2017

A Note on “I, Garuda”, originally published in Kali’s Brood — Part 2

Literature always views theology with a sense of secret disdain or engages with it passionlessly, when it has to deal with it. Spiritual poetry or prose of the West is mostly a dry philosophical narrative at the…

Mahesh CR in Inevitable Word

Dec 12, 2020

Sombre Moon

Poem

In a mystic terrain of twilight I wandered
Possessed by a muse’s pondering impulse
Into a magic wood of…

Murli R in Inevitable Word

Oct 9, 2017

Purusha and Prakriti

Sonnet

My higher Nature wed my lower heart
In a secret wedlock with gods as witness.
The…

Mahesh CR in Inevitable Word

Oct 6, 2019

The Divine Alchemist

A Poem

Sages and Rishis there have been, minds to the Sun attuned,
They who ferried god-light to…

Murli R in Inevitable Word

Apr 4, 2018

Kshatriya

Sonnet

A warrior of the heavens in a brood of Night
Seeks by his sword the rule of the Spirit in Matter.
Thru…

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Inevitable Word is a pedestal for the newer forms of Poetry, Prose and literary Criticism. It is an attempt to bring into every manuscript the inevitable word and expression of the Spirit, as may be found in the Vedas, and more prominently, in the works of Sri Aurobindo.

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