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Description Author: Mangesh V. Nadkarni Print Length: 489 pages Publisher: Savitri Bhavan Book format: PDF, ePub, Kindle Language: English Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Compiler’s Note Foreword Introduction Part One 1: The Wonder that is Savitri – How to read Savitri 2: The Mahabharata Story – Savitri Book I, Canto 2 3: Aswapati’s Yoga – Book I Cantos 3-5, Book II, Book III Part Two 4: Book V – The Book of Love 5: Book VI, Canto 2 6: Book VII – The Book of Yoga 7: Book VII, Canto 2 8: Book VII, Canto 3 – The Psychic Being 9: Book VII, Canto 4 – Spiritual Evolution 10: Book VII, Canto 5 11: Book VII, Canto 6 (Lines 1–220) 12: Book VII, Canto 6 (Lines 221–378) 13: Book VII, Canto 6 (lines 379–645) 14: Book VII, Canto 7 15: Book VIII 16: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Death Part Three 17: Book IX, Canto 1 – Towards the Black Void 18: Book IX, Canto 2 – The Journey in Eternal Night (lines 1–251) 19: Book IX, Canto 2 (lines 252–482) 20: Book X, Canto 1 – The Dream Twilight of the Ideal 21: Book X, Canto 2 (lines 1–164) 22: Book X, Canto 2 (Lines 165–280) 23: Book X, Canto 2 (lines 281–471) 24: Materialism, the Gospel of Death 25: Book X, Canto 3 (lines 1–312) 26: Book X, Canto 3 (lines 313–415) 27: Book X, Canto 3 (lines 416–461) – Love 28: Book X, Canto 3 (lines 461–564) 29: Book X, Canto 3 (lines 565–687) 30: Book X Canto 4 – The Earthly Real 31: Book X, Canto 4 (lines 234–308) 32: Book X Canto 4 – Evolution 33: Book X Canto 4 – Evolution (2) 34: Book X, Canto 4 (lines 337–460) 35: Book X, Canto 4 – The Reality and Value of the World 36: Book X Canto 4 – The Higher Levels of Mind 37: Book X, Canto 4 – Supermind, the Truth-Consciousness 38: Book X, Canto 4 (lines 461–973) 39: The Victory over Death 40: Book XI – The Everlasting Day 41: Book XI – The Fourfold Being 42: Book XI – The Fourfold Being 2 43: Book XI (lines 392–516) 44: Book XI (lines 517–687) 45: Book XI (lines 607–755) 46: Book XI (lines 756–800) 47: Book XI (lines 801–958) 48: Book XI – The Soul’s Choice 49: Book XII – Epilogue, and an Overall Review Book Sample Savitri – The Golden Bridge, the Wonderful Fire The main purpose of this series is not to deal directly either with the spiritual vision of Sri Aurobindo, or to discuss the exquisite quality of its poetry which often reaches the grandeur of a mantra – a unique achievement in the English language. In other words, our aim is not to “explain” Savitri to you; that is beyond our capacity. Our purpose is to try to create in you enough confidence to start reading Savitri and enough interest in it to want to read it. There is a teacher present in every line of Savitri – the consciousness of Sri Aurobindo himself. And once you establish contact with it, you need no other teacher. Savitri will then directly begin to speak to you and open for you all the spiritual treasures it contains. With its help alone, as the Mother has assured us, you will be able to climb to the highest step of the ladder of yoga. Savitri cannot be understood by the mind alone, no matter how well-equipped it is. It is too refined and subtle for that. There must be a new extension of consciousness and aesthesis to appreciate the new kind of poetry which Savitri is. Savitri is essentially the poetry of tomorrow, what Sri Aurobindo called “future poetry”. It is in meditation that Savitri can be best received. We hope to achieve our objective in this series by inviting you to appreciate certain selected excerpts from the poem. Each excerpt will be presented together with some aids to appreciation, namely, an introduction and a brief exegesis. These passages will mark for you the important milestones in your progress through Savitri. The introductory material will include a reference to the context in which the excerpt occurs in the poem, and other material which you will find useful in understanding the excerpt. An attempt will also be made to sensitise you to the occult vision and to some of the spiritual experiences contained in these excerpts. The exegesis will take you through the passage step by step. The mantric quality of its poetry will certainly be felt by you when you read the passages repeatedly in the manner indicated above. If you are at all sensitive to such things, you cannot miss this magic. This is a matter of experience. …
Savitri Bhavan
