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Monday, July 23, 2012

Savitri - 76



Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
Daily Savitri - 76


Poured a supernal beauty on men's lives. 
A wide self-giving was her native act; 
A magnanimity as of sea or sky 
Enveloped with its greatness all that came 
And gave a sense as of a greatened world: 
Her kindly care was a sweet temperate sun, 
Her high passion a blue heaven's equipoise.  

- Savitri by Sri Aurobindo, Book 1, Canto -II, The Issue, Page 15

Sri Aurobindo's epic poem, Savitri, is a symbolic myth that responds to a deeply felt need in the contemporary mind. Not only does it represent a world view that is in harmony with the most recent understanding of scientific reality; but, as a symbol, it penetrates to the essential truth of that reality. It concomitantly describes what is involved in the fulfillment of a spiritually individuated life. This is the goal of Jung's myth of consciousness for our time. Not only is Savitri a vision for individual and collective self-fulfillment, but, as a mantra, it has a directly transformative effect on the inner consciousness. Such a magnificent poem calls for intelligent reflection.


Thanks,
AuroMere Meditation Center,
Chennai.

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