The Mother: Savitri—the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision No matter where you open, no matter where you read, it's wonderful! Immediately it's wonderful ... Wonderful! —13 March 1963 I know that light. I am immediately plunged into it each time I read Savitri. It is a very, very beautiful light. —18 September 1962 Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate upon Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every quest

This whole Theory of Authentication and Approval Nirodbaran and Amal Kiran Approve the Corrections In the following is reproduced an official note written by Nirodbaran and Amal Kiran to Manoj Das Gupta, the trustee in-charge concerned with the Ashram copyright and publication matters. The note effectively tells the authorities to go ahead with the printing of the Revised Edition of Savitri. But this has no spiritual sanctity, as no one can derive powers from the author of Savitri to make changes in the work that came out during his time, nor did he delegate any to anyone. Apart from the lack of spiritual sanctity, it has neither any formalized

Johannes Hohlenberg's Painting A splendid painting I saw long ago And the soul in it seemed to say, That the heavenly gleam in those eyes Watches over us night and day. A soft breeze carried its perfume And calm the deep sense of its songs; A memory awoke of the past, And crumbled the embodied wrongs. From it an authentic voice surged, — Like a great wave on a shoreless sea; A new world is born, it proclaimed, A world of love which is death-free. Through the ages someone toiled, To claim the flames of the sky, There was the God's sacrifice Willing the Will of the High. He lit an

PASSING MOMENTS Passing Moments Once I went to the garden And found that there were no flowers; I looked into my watch But from it had vanished all the hours. From sky to deeper sky In search of a home the birds flew; Although twinkling in night Depth of the night the stars never knew. I read many a book Yet of meaning the words were devoid; I saw in the nothing Only strange reasons of nothing employed. But then I seized the arrow Whizzing through the vacuous air; And made it a rushing flame Who could life's swiftnesses bear. With a master-key in hand,

Respecting Savitri Sri Aurobindo considered Savitri as his "main work"1 and out of his precious time allotted every day two and a half hours for its composition. This was in the late forties when the tempo of work had speeded up considerably. In fact he was otherwise engaged with it almost for fifty years though with some long gaps in between. Today we have a poem written in pentametric blank verse form running almost to twenty-four thousand lines. Divided into twelve Books as is the tradition for an epic, it has forty-eight Cantos and an Epilogue. Part I consisting of the first twenty-four Cantos was published about twelve weeks before Sri Aurobindo's passing awa

PART IV The Rhythm of Savitri -l- The rhythms of Savitri are the footsteps heard in the corridors of the soul. The themes of Savitri are each one's deepest secret, one's most private dealings with the Universal and the Transcendent. One has no right to interfere, to come in between, to put words and thoughts where insights and visions are the transforming agents. One needs an excuse to write on Savitri, to break the silence which underlies every word and line. There may be no excuse, but there sure is the joy of working with, and on, Savitri and of sharing discoveries of beauty and rhythm. Sri Aurobindo explained an

Savitri and Paradise Lost A Comparative Study in Method and Style Milton marks an august and robust departure from the past in poeticcai form, expression and diction. He marks a new era in poetical style, method, the use of the language with a new synthetical approach. All this is due to his genius, his masterful personality and his extraordinary control over the languages both English and continental. Whatever did not agree with his views, his method, he rejected. Whatever advanced his concepts, ran along his egoistic lines, expressed his vital personality that he accepted freely. Thus his style is closely li

APPENDICES Page-551 Decended into earth's imperfect mould And wept not fallen to mortality, But looked on all with large and tranquil eyes. One had returned from the transcendent planes And bore anew the load of mortal breath, Who had striven of old with our darkness and our pain; She took again her divine unfinished task: Survivor of death and the aeonic years, Once more with her fathomless heart she fronted Time. Again there was renewed, again revealed The ancient closeness by earth-vision veiled, The secret contact broken off in Time, A consanguinity of earth and heaven, Between the human portion toiling he

The Drama of Integral Self-Realisation The Spiritual Message of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is an epic poem of high spiritual challenge in the Yoga or Divine Union or Goal of Self-Realization it presents. Its spiritual conception is so all-encompassing, so integral that it gives birth to a power which transforms life on earth to a life of divine activity rather than leading to an escape from life. The epic is the mantric expression of this great seer-sage's inner findings and conquests, leading to his vision of an age of truth-consciousness and immortality. It portrays in living drama the daring climb within of a k

PART VI Pativrata-Mahatmya (Woman's Love) True to their word the sons of Pandu went with Draupadi into exile, and passed twelve years in the wilderness; and many were the incidents which checkered their forest life. Krishna, who had stood by Yudhishthir in his prosperity, now came to visit him in his adversity: he consoled Draupati in her distress, and gave good advice to the brothers. Draupadi with a woman's pride and anger still thought of her wrongs and insults and urged Yudhishthir to disregard the conditions of exile and recover his kingdom. Bhima too was of the same mind, but Yudhishthir would not be moved from his plighted word.