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A profound perception of Life by the Mother. Thank you for sharing her words. Perseus the Deliverer was for me also a discovery. It has all the elements of Integral Yoga in it, and Love for Life in its purity and oneness.

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Vlad, I too was astonished by the many elements that this pre-Yogic-career play shares with Sri Aurobindo's most recent and mature poetry, which of course is Savitri. I was particularly surprised of the transformation of Poseidon into "his new great self at an Olympian height." This foreshadows the transfiguration of Death in Savitri—the passage I quoted in https://aurocafe.substack.com/p/a-dream-by-the-mother. But if the play had all the elements of the Integral Yoga, as you say, then Sri Aurobindo's entire "Yogic career" didn't amount to much. You can't possibly mean that.

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Ulrich, of course, I don't mean that he did not learn anything new. What I meant was that he had all tendencies and concepts in place before he got his major realisations, and that is astonishing.

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You are getting there!

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