SECTION  THREE SECTION  THREE   OPENING AND SURRENDER TO THE MOTHER   Page-24 The Principal Thing in Yoga   To practice Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother's force can be felt working in the Adhara.     Openness to the Mother   (1)   To be open is simply to be so turned to the Mother that her Force can work in you without anything refusing or obstructing her action. If the mind

Unused Versions and Omitted Passages A. BOOK TWO, CANTO SIX The passages below have been transcribed from Sri Aurobindo's last handwritten version of the end of Book Two, Canto Six. An earlier manuscript was revised by dictation and used as the basis for the published text. Sri Aurobindo worked extensively on the first section of the version reproduced below, up to "A Sphinx whose eyes looked up to an unseen Sun."1 The manuscript continues to the middle of Canto Seven, but since the remainder of it contains only minor verbal alterations and few lines not found in the text of the poem, only selected passages are presented here. Some punctuation missing in th

Table of Line Numbers by Canto   Page numbers are printed in bold type. Each page number is followed by the line number of the first line on that page, counting from the beginning of the canto.   PART ONE BOOK ONE   Canto One 1 1 2 32 3 68 4 104 5 140 6 176 7 211 8 247 9 283 10 319                 Lines in Book One, Canto One : 342   Canto Two 11 1 12 32 13 68 14 104 15

Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri           Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry First edition 1994 (Typeset in 11/13 New Times)         ISBN 81-7058-363-2 © Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1994 Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Publication Department Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry PRINTED IN INDIA

Table of Emendations   This table lists the differences between the Revised Edition of Savitri and the three previous complete editions (1950-51, 1954 and 1970). Readings in the Present reading column are those of the Revised Edition. A date in this column indicates that the previous reading was altered to the present reading in the edition of that date. Undated readings in the Previous reading column are those of the first edition (1950-51) and of any other editions prior to the present one or to the date in the Present reading column. A date in the last column shows that the reading first appeared in the edition of that date; earlier editions may be assumed to have had

Table of Alternative Readings   The nature of these alternative readings is explained in the Introduction. Notes on the individual items are provided at the end of the table. An asterisk (*) in the Text column indicates that the reading printed in the Revised Edition has not appeared in earlier editions. (In this case, the alternative reading given here is usually the same as the previous reading listed in the Table of Emendations.)   No. Page Line Text Alternative reading           1. 18 21 sit sits 2. 20 8 stark huge

EDITORS' NOTE   The Revised Edition of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is the result of a systematic comparison of the previously printed text with the manuscripts. The checking has included a detailed study of the various stages of copying, typing and printing — processes involving persons other than the author—through which the poem reached its published form. A substantial number of discrepancies due to accidents in the process of transmission have been discovered. The editors have critically examined these variations and have restored the original readings in most cases. The authenticity of the text, rather than subjective preference, has been the guiding

  VII      LOVE       Q: Can psychic love reach the Highest Truth by its own power?       A: Yes, certainly.         Q: How can one know that he has full psychic love for the Divine?       A: By the absence of ego, by pure devotion, by submission and surrender to the Divine.         Q: Is psychic love always turned towards the Divine?       A: It is sometimes turned to the human person, but it never gets its true satisfaction till it turns to the Divine.         Q: Is not psychic love the same as divine Love?       A: No. There is a human psychic love also marked by selflessness, fidelity and self-giving to a h

      VIII         THE PSYCHIC OPENING       Q: In "Conversations", the Mother speaks of a fire burning in the deep quietude of the heart. Is this fire the psychic being?       A: A fire is not a being—it is the psychic fire, an intense condition of aspiration.         Q: Where is the psychic being located?       A: It is behind the heart centre, deep in.         Q: The Mother sometimes says that the psychic being of this or that person is good. But is it not a fact that the psychic being in all is a portion of the Divine and therefore always good? Why then does Mother make a distinction in particular cases?       A: The psychic being

  XII         DIFFICULTIES AND PROGRESS       Q: How long the difficulties and obstacles remain in sadhana?       A: It depends on the sadhaks.         Q: In what sense does it depend on them? Does it mean that the difficulty remains so long as they wish to keep it?       A: Yes, or so long as something in them gives cause for the difficulties.         Q: How is it that the more sincerely we try to face and overcome the difficulties of our nature- the more they tend to increase?       A: It is the opposing or adverse forces that attack because they are afraid of their control over men being taken from them by the success of the sadhana