SAVITRI A Legend and a Symbol
SRI AUROBINDO
Englisch
Contents
PART ONE
Books I – III
BOOK ONE
The Book of Beginnings
- Canto One
- The Symbol Dawn
- Canto Two
- The Issue
- Canto Three
- The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release
- Canto Four
- The Secret Knowledge
- Canto Five
- The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness
BOOK TWO
The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
- Canto One
- The World-Stair
- Canto Two
- The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
- Canto Three
- The Glory and the Fall of Life
- Canto Four
- The Kingdoms of the Little Life
- Canto Five
- The Godheads of the Little Life
- Canto Six
- The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
- Canto Seven
- The Descent into Night
- Canto Eight
- The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness
- Canto Nine
- The Paradise of the Life-Gods
- Canto Ten
- The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
- Canto Eleven
- The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
- Canto Twelve
- The Heavens of the Ideal
- Canto Thirteen
- In the Self of Mind
- Canto Fourteen
- The World-Soul
- Canto Fifteen
- The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
BOOK THREE
The Book of the Divine Mother
- Canto One
- The Pursuit of the Unknowable
- Canto Two
- The Adoration of the Divine Mother
- Canto Three
- The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
- Canto Four
- The Vision and the Boon
PART TWO
Books IV – VIII
BOOK FOUR
The Book of Birth and Quest
- Canto One
- The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
- Canto Two
- The Growth of the Flame
- Canto Three
- The Call to the Quest
- Canto Four
- The Quest
BOOK FIVE
The Book of Love
- Canto One
- The Destined Meeting-Place
- Canto Two
- Satyavan
- Canto Three
- Satyavan and Savitri
BOOK SIX
The Book of Fate
- Canto One
- The Word of Fate
- Canto Two
- The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
BOOK SEVEN
The Book of Yoga
- Canto One
- The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain
- Canto Two
- The Parable of the Search for the Soul
- Canto Three
- The Entry into the Inner Countries
- Canto Four
- The Triple Soul-Forces
- Canto Five
- The Finding of the Soul
- Canto Six
- Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
- Canto Seven
- The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness
BOOK EIGHT
The Book of Death
- Canto Three
- Death in the Forest
PART THREE
Books IX – XII
BOOK NINE
The Book of Eternal Night
- Canto One
- Towards the Black Void
- Canto Two
- The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness
BOOK TEN
The Book of the Double Twilight
- Canto One
- The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
- Canto Two
- The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
- Canto Three
- The Debate of Love and Death
- Canto Four
- The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
BOOK ELEVEN
The Book of Everlasting Day
BOOK TWELVE
Epilogue
- Epilogue
- The Return to Earth
Author`s Note
The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness and immortal life.
Sri Aurobindo