-004_The Mother on Savitri — A Talk to a Young Disciple.htm The Mother on Savitri — A Talk to a Young Disciple Do you read Savitri? Yes, Mother, yes You have read the whole poem? Yes, Mother, I have read it twice. Have you understood all that you have read? Not much, but I like poetry, that is why I read it. It does not matter if you do not understand it— Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the

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PART V Savitri in World Literature Let us try to put Savitri in the perspective of some of the world's great poems, if only for its own fuller grasp. Valmiki, the first bom of poets, author of the Sanskrit epic the Ramayana, is the supreme singer; Veda-Vyasa coming after him, the author of the Mahabharata, is the supreme poet-thinker. Anyone versed in Sanskrit would sing the Ramayana in poetic transport and ease, carrying the listeners along with him, but when one turns to the Mahabharata one is simply awed at its immensitude (twenty-five thousand couplets without accretions and one hundred-thousand with accretions) and its cosmi

Poetic Imagery in Savitri Even a casual reader of Sri Aurobindo's poem Savitri will be struck by its profuse wealth of poetic images. Not a single page passes under his eyes without unloading its rich and varied cargo of imagery before him and it is a cargo from many countries, from many worlds; it is a cargo of dreams, nay, of dreamlike realities and of eternal verities lying beyond our poor limited human vision. Or, perhaps, those images are not a cargo at all, but are themselves the boats, the freighters in which is loaded the divine cargo; for the boats, the freighters are familiar to us since they are our own boats, freighters of our own world that h

-003_Sri Aurobindo^s Three Letters on Savitri.htm PART I Sri Aurobindo's Three Letters on Savitri 1: Between Ourselves [In a long letter dated 4 May 1947 Sri Aurobindo gave his comments on certain criticisms made against his poetry by a friend of Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) apropos of a book* by him on Sri Aurobindo's poetry. He had asked Sri Aurobindo's permission to show this letter to his friend Frederick Mendonca, professor of English at St Xavier's College in Bombay; but in a second letter dated 7 July 1947 Sri Aurobindo had explained the reasons why he did not favour the idea of making it public. Since, however, any possibility of the first long letter being mis

The Symbol Dawn Before we commence our study of Savitri, let us be clear to ourselves that we are not reading it as a poem, even as a literary masterpiece, noting the diction, the similies and metaphors and other details. Our purpose in studying it is to enter into the spirit behind it, and in the measure in which we identify ourselves with that inspiration, we shall grow in our understanding. And this understanding is not an understanding of the mind, though that also is possible, but as the Mother puts it, it is more an understanding of the heart. With these preliminary observations, we take the first canto, The Symbol Dawn. In this canto there is a certai

Perspectives of Savitri The New Millennium Series Sri Aurobindo and the New Millennium R Y DESHPANDE Perspectives of Savitri in 2 Volumes Ed: R Y DESHPANDE All Life in Yoga A Brief Biography of Sri Aurobindo R Y DESHPANDE Further volumes planned on Savitri, Vedic Studies, Spiritual, Literary, Cultural reviews and prospects. Sponsored and published by Aurobharati Trust, Pondicherry. Perspectives of Savitri Volume One Editor R Y Deshpande Aurobharati Trust Pondicherry R Y Deshpande Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondic

The Message of Savitri There is an idea abroad that a Yogi or mystic is of a piece with the anchorite and as such has no message to deliver to humanity at large. What is contended in this view is something interesting because there is a modicum of truth, as Sri Aurobindo wrote to me once, in every intellectual conviction seriously cherished. What is true in this indictment against the mystic is that his contribution to human culture its not conterminous with that of the social man in his various, more or less, social moods, Art, poetry, music, the crafts, philosophy, — in fact every walk of life hitherto trod by men the world over — all fall more or less under

A Short Bibliographical Note Sri Aurobindo: On the occasion of the birth centenary in 1972 Sri Aurobindo's works were brought out in 30 volumes under the title Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL). Since then, however, a number of unpublished writings had been discovered amongst his papers. All these have now been thoroughly scrutinised and reorganised for publication in 35 volumes as Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Most of the references to his writings are with resped to the SABCL volumes. The three letters reproduced here (pages 1-43) are from SABCL, Vol. 26, pp. 237-65 and Vol. 29, pp.802-16. THE MOTHER: The birth centenary edit

The Eternal Bridegroom The Bhagavad-Gita says that not even for one moment can man remain without performing action; for, to live is to act. Life is relationship and to be related is to act. But if we examine the nature of our actions, we will find that they are not actions at all; they are only reactions. Such reactions may be in terms of physical movements or of words or of thoughts. There is a fundamental difference between an action and a reaction. A reaction emanates from a fixed centre in one's consciousness. It may be called a centre of habit or of memory. Action, however, arises from no centre at all, and that is why it is always spontaneous and natura