Select Bibliography Savitri: Sri Aurobindo (Part One consisting of the first three Books was published in September 1950, a few weeks before Sri Aurobindo's passing away in December of that year. Part Two and Part Three appeared in a single volume in May 1951. The Sri Aurobindo International University Centre brought out the first complete edition in a single volume in 1954; it also included the author's letters on Savitri. In 1972, on the occasion of Sri Aurobindo's birth centenary, Savitri with letters was issued in two volumes as a part of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library Publication; it came as SABCL Vol. 28 and Vol. 29. In 1986 Sri Aurobindo Archives and Res

The Symbol Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitr,̣ the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. This is Sri Aurobindo's Gayatri Mantra. The meditation is on the auspicious form of the Sun, the Sun of Divine Light. The Mantra affirms that the Light shall illumine us with the Truth. It shall illumine all the parts of our being, even the very physical. In it shall be our true progress. The threefold reality of Sat-Chit-Ananda shall express itself in this creation. The purport is that even the physical shall express the dynamic Truth. In it we shall be immune from contingencies of Time, from the workings of Fate.

Canto One At the river's bend hope took a northward turn— As if stumbling on a strange post of the night Stars found a sudden way through emptiness; Something glimmered to awaken a newer urge, The spirit of things timeless and alone. Gods were yet to be and the enormous hush Held in its still incumbent mood of trance Another surprise getting shaped by death. Colours of wonder flew on rhythmic wings,— And also came repeated pain in the heart. But in rich green silence of the wood at noon Stood Savitri to meet the blemished might. 9 April 2002 Page – 3 Canto Two Music streamed down from blue of the uppe

The Birth of Savitr A Poetic Composition based on Sri Aurobindo's Savitri Author's Note If we are looking for the Word that brings to us the dynamic Divine, our rush is towards Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. It gives us the Truth and the things of the Truth andin it is our soul's completest fulfilment. Therefore all that we achieve we truly owe to Savitri. A year ago I would have least imagined that I would be writing short compositions based on each canto of Savitri. But on 22 March 2002 I received from William Netter a copy of his work entitled Savitrima. This is basically an endeavour to present the metaphysical core of Savitri. The boo

Two Poems by Nagin-bhai The Supreme Sun A decimal point in the vastness of Eternity, So it seemed to my first human sight, But here the finite was measuring the Infinite. Even my cosmic gaze failed to contain that orb! The golden Sun was bigger than all our sky, It shadowed the luminous stars of the Way. Calm, serene and joyous were the beams Of the mighty Sun which stood alone, Menacing the very existence of the Inconscient. Lotus Dawn O Light Immaculate! long desired One! With ruthful love Thou comest To capture the worl

Two Recollections Kailash-bhai Tells Me Nagin never spoke to me about his experiences. We were quite close to each other and would speak about every kind of thing. But he never mentioned to me anything about his inner life. Just one or two small incidents I know, as narrated to me by him. But these are of a general nature. It was a Christmas day. In those early days, it used to be celebrated in the Playground. The Mother used to come there. Nagin was young. The problem of sex was still troubling him. There was a lot of correspondence with Sri Aurobindo regarding this. But he had not yet overcome it. In the Playground he was constantly looking at one girl. Th

Introduction It was about six years ago, in 1994, that something unusual happened. I got a message through three or four friends telling me that Nagin-bhai wanted to see me as early as possible. I didn't get time and then followed another spate of errands. I was told that I should see him immediately, in the Ashram the next day during the 9:30 School recess. He also told me later that he wished to confide in me something very important and consult me about certain things which were to some extent crucial for him at that time. But my own feeling, in retrospect, is that it was perhaps more in the nature of opening himself out rather than seeking my views in connection wit

NAGIN-BHAI TELLS ME Nagin-bhai Tells Me R Y Deshpande Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry 1st Edition, 9 May 2001 ISBN: 81-7060-122-3 © R. Y. Deshpande Published by M/S Aurosoorya Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry - 605 002 PRINTED IN INDIA J186/19.7.2000/1000

PART II Apropos of My Poem Prelude I shall give here one instance when Amal Kiran, my elderly friend in the Ashram, was so helpful to me in several respects. I shall particularly narrate the literary help I received from him, how he prompted me to compose a poem. That poem in a mysterious way, and as if prophetically, gets connected with the great Event which took place one year after its composition, the event of 29 February 1956. For a time Amal was in the Centre of Education, our Professor of English Poetry. Once he asked all the students to write a poem as homework. Nobody wrote. He was still very patient and said: "Do you think it is so d

-09_The Mother^s Force and Its Action.htm The Mother's Force and Its Action From the very day of my arrival in the Ashram I was hearing a great deal about the Mother's Force. Everybody was talking about this Force as if it had been synonymous with the Mother herself! When someone was sick, met with some difficulty in work, faced a problem in study or an obstruction in the inner sadhana, he invoked the Mother's Force and it usually worked. This calling and the intervention of the Force seemed so spontaneous that nobody took it as anything but natural. It assumed the form of a miracle in some rare cases. That was when the problem had already become so complicated that it did not get solved by a mere