“…the poet-seer and seer-creator, the poet who is also a Rishi, master singers of Truth, hierophants and magicians of a diviner and more universal beauty.”
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry
As part of their ongoing exploration of the Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, BhāratShakti department is organizing a webinar on December 7, 2024 on the theme “Sri Aurobindo, the Seer-poet”.
In India ever since the Veda, we have had an ideal of “the sacred poet, a mind visited by some highest light and its forms of idea and word, a seer and hearer of the Truth, kavayaḥ satyaśrutaḥ.” (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 20: 320). A poet-seer not only reveals to humankind its present or reinterprets its past, but can also point it to its future and in all three reveals the face of the Eternal.
The webinar will explore Sri Aurobindo as such a Seer-poet through reflections on his poetic works and his work as a Rishi. The programme shall include brief talks by two scholars who have spent years studying and contemplating on Sri Aurobindo’s poetry, followed by a discussion.
DATE: Saturday, December 7, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM
Join us on Zoom
Meeting ID: 811 4223 3029
Passcode: 488815
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Dr. Larry Seidlitz, formerly a research psychologist in the USA, is a devotee and scholar of Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s Integral Yoga living near Pondicherry. He has authored three books and numerous articles on the Yoga, edits books and articles for other scholars on the Yoga. He was the editor of the American journal Collaboration from 2004 to 2020, and since 2022 edits the journal Invocation, published by Savitri Bhavan in Auroville.
Dr. Seidlitz currently leads the Sunday Savitri Study Circle at Savitri Bhavan and gives talks on related topics. From 2004 until June 2024 he was a scholar and instructor at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research in Pondicherry. He occasionally guides students from other universities and participates in seminars and conferences on the Integral Yoga.
Dr. Shaurya Brahmbhatt is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He has the privilege and blessing to be part of the same Faculty of Arts which was the erstwhile Baroda College where Sri Aurobindo taught English and French for many years.
Dr. Brahmbhatt also serves as the Coordinator for the university’s Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies and Centre for Theological Studies. With deep interest in Sri Aurobindo’s poetry, poetics and especially Savitri, Dr. Brahmbhatt is currently researching on the topic – ‘Poets of Sri Aurobindonian School of thought: Evaluating the construct and relevance of future poetry with special reference to the works of K D Sethna, Pujalal and Sundaram.’
All are welcome!
For more information, contact: Dr. Beloo Mehra "[email protected]".
