Introducing Savitri
Introducing Savitri
M.P. Pandit‘s Introducing Savitri is the ideal gateway to Sri Aurobindo‘s epic poem. In five chapters Pandit takes the reader through the story and vision of the poem — Savitri old and new, the quest of Aswapathy, the birth and growth of Savitri, Savitri and the new age, and the encounter with the God of Death — revealing the symbolic depth and spiritual power of Sri Aurobindo’s masterpiece. An addendum, “Savitri: Veda of the New Age”, places the poem in the line of the ancient Vedic revelation. For readers approaching Savitri for the first time, or returning to it, this book is an indispensable companion.
- 1. Savitri: Old and New
- 2. The Quest of Aswapathy
- 3. Birth and Growth of Savitri
- 4. Savitri and the New Age
- 5. Savitri and the God of Death
- Addendum: Savitri, Veda of the New Age
Book Details
Author: M.P. Pandit
Publisher: Lotus Press
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Book format: Kindle + Paperback
Language: English
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Savitri: Old and New
I am honoured to be here as the guest of this young university run by very young functionaries, and I feel myself very much at home because I am one of those who recognise that the future, the new age, is with the young, and I have totally identified myself with their aspirations. And Savitri is the charter of the new age embodying the highest aspirations and the hope of a humanity that is emerging from a past that is crumbling and moving towards a future that is to be born. That is how Sri Aurobindo begins his epic Savitri, which he started writing when he was in Baroda and continued for nearly fifty years, working upon it from the different levels of consciousness which he scaled during his long, long career of the Spirit. I do not need to tell you that the original story as it appears in our epics is repeated in most of the Puranas. The story concerns King Aswapathy who has no issue. And in keeping with the traditions of those times, he goes to the forest and performs penance for eighteen years, at the end of which the Divine Mother Gayatri appears to him and gives him a boon that she would be born to him. He comes back to his kingdom and the daughter is duly born. As you know, Savitri and Gayatri are the same Deity.
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