Life and death by Sri Aurobindo | summary | analysis |rhyme scheme | paraphrasing| Meg 07 | in hindi

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LIFE & DEATH
Life, death, - death, life; the words have led for ages
Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed
Two opposites; but now long-hidden pages
Are opened, liberating truths undreamed.
Life only is, or death is life disguised, -
Life a short death until by Life we are surprised.
Description
This is another short poem with a structure that is similar to A Tree. You have a
ciuatrain and a couplet, but the latter is not separated or set off from the former. The
rhyme scheme is also similar: ababcc. And similar is the attempt to reconcile two
opposites, in this case, life and death. Sri Aurobindo says that the two have been
regarded 3s antinomies for ages, thus shaping our thought; but now he has access to
new wisdom, as it were, "long-hidden pages1 Are opened, liberating truths
undrearned."
What is this long hidden-truth that Sri Aurobirido has discovered? !t is this: "Life
oniy is, or death is life disguised,--". I think we should pause a bit at the first part of
the statement, "Life only is," because this idea is somewhat easier to understand. In
this part of the line, Sri Aurobindo asserts that there is no death at all; everything is
only life. Then he qualifies llimself a litlle by admitting that if there is death at all, it
is merely life disguised, life itself masquerading as death.
This is a profound utteranceBecause it will, if taken seriously, altogether change our
attitude to life. If there is no death at all, then all of us are immortal. CIearly, this
would seem to go against our normal experience. We do see people dying; they are,
o all appearances, taken away from our midst for ever. But is this really true? How
do we know that they are really dead? Perhaps, they have passed from one kind of
life to another. That is what the second half of the line implies. Death is. life
disguised; that what appears to be death is another kind of life. In Savitri too at the
climactic moment in the epic, it is Death itself which reveals its true face as the
Supreme Lord of Life and Delight.
But in this brief poem, it is really the last line that packs the punch. It contains a
radical reversal of the relationship between life and death. Earlier, it was death which
was sought to be banished or, rather, redefined in terms of life. Now the life that we
consider to be the ultimate reality is itself seen as a sort of death, a short one, until we
are surprised by another kind of life. That is, what we might consider the after-life
(and the before-life) is much vaster and greater than this short duration on earth that
we know as life. If our visiony were so to expand, surely we might discover that
eternity which nestles in the bosom of time-this, at any rate, is what the poem says
to me.

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