Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

722 Collected Poems
to “Cosmic Self”.
Self. 15 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts, the first entitled
“Liberty”.
Omnipresence. 17 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts, the
first two entitled “The Omnipresent”.
The Inconscient Foundation. 18 October 1939, revised 7 February
1940. Two handwritten manuscripts.
Adwaita. 19 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts. This sonnet
was written about an experience Sri Aurobindo had while walking
on the Takht-i-Sulaiman (“Seat of Solomon”), near Srinagar, Kashmir,
in 1903.
The Hill-top Temple. 21 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts,
the first two entitled “The Temple on the Hill-Top”. This
sonnet is about an experience Sri Aurobindo had at a shrine in the
temple-complex on Parvati Hill, near Poona, probably in 1902.
The Divine Hearing. 24 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts,
one of which is entitled “Sounds”.
Because Thou art. 25 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts,
all untitled.
Divine Sight. 26 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts.
Divine Sense. 1 November 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts.
The Iron Dictators. 14 November 1939. Two handwritten manuscripts.
Form. 16 November 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the next two sonnets in 1940.
Immortality. 8 February 1940. One handwritten manuscript.
Man, the Despot of Contraries. 29 July 1940. Two handwritten manuscripts,
the first entitled “The Spirit of Man”.
Sri Aurobindo wrote the next two sonnets during the middle to late
1940s.
The One Self. Circa 1945 – 47. One handwritten manuscript, undated,
but in the almost illegible handwriting of the late 1940s.
The Inner Fields. 14 March 1947. One handwritten manuscript, legible
only with difficulty, and another in the handwriting of Nirodbaran, Sri
Aurobindo’s scribe.