Bande Mataram
Early political writings, most of them editorials and articles
from Bande Mataram, a Calcutta daily edited by Sri Aurobindo
from 1906 to 1908.
Essays on the Gita
An exposition of the spiritual philosophy and method of self-discipline
in the Bhagavad Gita.
Hymns to the Mystic Fire
Hymns to Agni from the Rig-veda, translated in their esoteric
sense, with original Sanskrit text, a foreword, and an essay
"The Doctrine of the Mystics".
The Secret of the Veda
A Study of the way of writing of the Vedic mystics, their
philosophic system, their system of symbols, and the truths
they figure. Also contains translation of selected hymns of
the Rig-veda.
The Upanishads
Sri Aurobindo's translations of and commentaries on every
Upanishad or other Vedantic texts he worked on, with an introduction.
The Foundations of Indian
Culture
An exposition of Indian civilisation and culture with essays
on Indian spirituality, religion, art, literature and polity.
The Human Cycle - The Ideal
of Human Unity - War and Self-Determination
Social and political writings: the psychological evolution
of human society; the possibility of the unification of the
human race; the problem of war and the self-determination
of nations.
The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo's principal philosophic work, a theory of spiritual
evolution culminating in the transformation of man from a
mental into a supramental being and the advent of a divine
life upon earth.
The Supramental Manifestation
and Other Writings
All of Sri Aurobindo's shorter prose writings on philosophy
and yoga written after 1910 and published during his lifetime.
Essays Divine and Human
Short prose pieces mostly on philosophy and yoga written after
coming to Pondicherry and not published during his lifetime.
The Mother
Sri Aurobindo's most famous short work on the Divine Mother,
with the letters on his spiritual collaborator, the Mother.
The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo's principal work on Yoga; an examination of
the traditional systems of Yoga and an explanation of his
own method of Integral Yoga.
Letters on Yoga
Three volumes of letters to disciples in which Sri Aurobindo
explains his teaching and method of spiritual practice and
deals with problems that confront the seeker.
Record of Yoga
A diary of Sri Aurobindo's yoga written by him between 1909
and 1927, wherein he recorded his explorations into the uncharted
path of Integral yoga - once remarked by him as a brand new
yoga, "…new not in all its elements, but in its
aim, standpoint and the totality of its method."
On Himself
Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters to disciples about his own
life, his inner development through Yoga, his spiritual work
etc.
Collected Poems
Collection of over two hundred poems, lyrics, sonnets, narrative
poems, poems in new metres and an essay "On Quantitative
Metre".
Collected Plays and Short
Stories (Two Volumes)
Dramas of heroism and romance set in India, Persia, Norway
and elsewhere.
The Future Poetry
A survey of the evolution of poetry and its future potential
for inspiring men through the rhythmic word.
Letters on Poetry, Literature
and Art
A collection of several hundred letters on the form and substance
of poetry, sources of poetic inspiration, rhythm and technique,
appreciation of art etc.
Savitri: A Legend and A
Symbol (Revised Edition)
Sri Aurobindo's major poetic work, an epic in blank-verse
of about 24,000 lines in which a tale of the Mahabharata is
made a symbol of the human soul's spiritual quest and destiny.
