Here are four poems written by Sri Aurobindo during the mid-1940s. The third one—Is this the end—we have already seen in the last week, but let us pick it up again along with the other three written about the same time. This we are doing in the context of the observation in The Lives of Sri Aurobindo published in May 2008 by the Columbia University Press. The comment on p. 398 is as follows: “…he [Sri Aurobindo] wrote only a few [poems] after 1943. Those he did write are uncharacteristically dark.” The author is linking this aspect with the sadhana of Sri Aurobindo after 1941. It will be much appreciated if these poems are read carefully and their literary as well as biographical aspects critically examined and presented. We should also remember that the author of the Lives who seems to be in a tremendous hurry has dismissed Savitri as a possible source for looking into his sadhana. The entry is open for discussion to everyone serious about the matter.

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