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05: A Many-hued inner Dawn

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Book I Canto I 13 At the summons of her body's voiceless call.mp3

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04: Now her Life Shared the Cosmic Load

But now she stirred, her life shared the cosmic load. ...   more »

On the 18th January 1960; when a young sadhak met the Mother for a personal interview, She said to him: "I shall give you something special; be prepared." The next day, when he again met Her, She spoke in French first about how to kindle the psychic Flame and then in this connection started speaking about Sri Aurobindo`s great epic Savitri and continued to speak at length. The sadhak, after returning from the Mother, wanted to note down immediately what She had said, but he could not do so because he felt a great hesitation due to his sense of incapacity to transcribe exactly the Mother`s own words. After nearly seven years, however, he felt a strong urge to note down what the Mother had spoken; so in 1967 he wrote down from memory a report in French. The report was seen by the Mother and a few corrections were made by her. To another sadhak who asked Her permission to read this report She wrote: "Years ago I have spoken at length about it [Savitri] to Mona Sarkar and he has noted in French what I said. Some time back I have seen what he has written and found it correct on the whole." (4.12.1967)   more »

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03: The Foreknown and Fatal Morn
 
The long-foreknown and fatal morn was here
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Book I Canto I 11 Thus trapped in the gin of earthly destinies.mp3

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02: Hard is it to Persuade Earth-Nature's Change

Hard is it to persuade earth-nature's change;
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Book I Canto I 10 And Savitri too awoke among these tribes.mp3

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01: Savitri Awakes among the Human Tribes
 
And Savitri too awoke among these tribes
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“Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother,” said Sri Aurobindo in a letter written in 1936 about his epic 'Savitri.' “This incarnation is supposed to have taken place in far past times when the whole thing had to be opened out, so as to hew the ways of Immortality.”

In one of the evening talks he used to have with his attendant disciples, after the accident to his right thigh bone on 24 November 1938, Sri Aurobindo explained the symbolism in 'Savitri' as follows: “Satyavan whom Savitri marries is the symbol of the Soul descended into the Kingdom of Death; and Savitri, who is, as you know, the Goddess of Divine Light and Knowledge, comes down to redeem Satyavan from Death’s grasp. Aswapati, the father of Savitri, is the Lord of Energy. Dyumatsena is ‘one who has the shining hosts’. It is all inner movement, nothing much as regards outer action.

The poem opens with the Dawn. Savitri awakes on the day of destiny, the day when Satyavan has to die. The birth of Savitri is a boon of the Supreme Goddess given to Aswapati. Aswapati is the Yogi who seeks the means to deliver the world out of Ignorance.” ...   more »