Savitri - The Golden Bridge, the Wonderful Fire by M. Nadkarni

Savitri – The Golden Bridge, the Wonderful Fire

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Almost all of the essays collected in this volume were written for and first published as monthly instalments in Next Future, the e-journal of the Sri Aurobindo Society Pondicherry. The 47 instalments ended with the passing of Dr. Nadkarni in September 2007, and cover Savitri Book by Book, Canto by Canto, from the beginning up to the climactic point in the middle of Book Eleven, where Savitri is offered four boons of merger with the Supreme, and asks instead for the Supreme Peace, Oneness, Energy and Bliss ‘for Earth and Men’. Dr. Nadkarni has written other essays on Savitri as well as giving many other talks, but this collection represents a masterly ‘Introduction’ (as he modestly called it) to the revelatory poem which he loved so much and understood so well. It has been compiled and published at the request of his family, and we feel sure that it will be welcomed by Savitri readers and students all over the world, and to a certain extent make up for the great loss that his many admirers experienced when he passed away in September 2007 at the age of 74.

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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

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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.

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