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A Few Aspects of Savitri: Talks at Sri Aurobindo Center?la: Talks at Sri Aurobindo Center?la

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The Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles, East-West Cultural Center, 12329 Marshall St, Culver City, CA 90230, www.sriaurobindocenter-la.org, had organised extended weekend sessions to explore a few aspects of Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri. This was on Friday evening, Saturday morning and afternoon, and Sunday morning, 6-7-8 October 2017, in all four sessions, each two-hour duration, followed by discussions, and of course followed by wonderful lunch/dinner. The four parts presented here, Parts A-B-C-D, were taken up for study in that sequence. The talks were essentially based on the draft-material that was prepared for the purpose, with some on-the-spot departures depending upon the exigencies of the situation. These have now been finalised and are being published, a work which, it is hoped, will be of relevance to a wider readership of Savitri. --- This will be a quick broad coverage of Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus Savitri, touching upon just a few aspects, of a poem running into about 24000 lines. First a general background in Part A is provided in the manner of a hurried introduction to it. It presents the story of Savitri by Vyasa included in his Mahabharata, and some of the early letters of Sri Aurobindo, how he started writing Savitri and how, though with long gaps in between, it developed in the course of more than three decades. The Mother calls Savitri as the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo, which he tells as his "main work." In Part B we pick up, at random, a few themes from Savitri and try to go rapidly into their depths. The opening Canto, The Symbol Dawn, is taken for a relatively more detailed discussion. In it we see Savitri waking up from the original somnolence, possibly at the time of the Avatarhood of Rama when the evolutionary transition from vital-submental to the mental proper was taking place. Man lifted up the burden of his fate and with him awoke Savitri. This Part finally touches upon the advent of Krishna and Kali on earth, as a divine Fruit of the yogic Savitri. Their entering into dynamics of this mortal world should mark another great transition, of the coming of a being superior to Man, more advanced than even the spiritual Man. With it Evolution, which is now in the domain of Ignorance, will enter into the domain of Knowledge, of Light and Love and Truth and Beauty and Joy and Perfection in wondrous possibilities of the manifesting Spirit. With Krishna and Kali in this mortal world will begin the timeless Age with interminable prospects of expression. Part C narrates in a swift manner the story of the composition of Savitri that had run in the longish course of time. One can say that this composition extended over a period of about 35 years, from 1916 to 1950, almost till the time of the physical withdrawal of the Yogi-Poet. There exist innumerable drafts, running into thousands of sheets of paper, and revisions upon revisions, at various stages, till including, at times, the reading of the press proofs. Understandably, this has led to quite a few complexities, some of them of a serious kind, calling a careful perceptive scrutiny of the available material. Preparing, therefore, at this stage, the text of Savitri based on these researches can become a blemished affair. Subjective elements in making choices from alternative drafts do enter into it and this can lead to a situation where the sense may not be what the author had meant. While this subjective trait can never be avoided, there could still be a way out by making the Savitri material available in some form to the serious students and researchers of the Poem. Coming to the poetic matters in the last Part, Part D, we see the aspects of inspiration and techniques as are in Savitri. Sri Aurobindo defines four sources from where inspiration can come; he names them as Overhead Planes, they termed as Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, and Overmind.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781981340583
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1981340580
  • Publisher Date: 03 Dec 2017
  • Binding: Paperback


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