Savitri First Edition

Savitri è un poema magnifico, che sono felice di poter leggere in lingua originale (inglese).

Xiting, inspiring reading. Lifts the spirit. A good compliment to ones practical inner work. Beware though of the small sized version of the book, if you don't have very good eyesight. Impossible for me to get into.

Sri Aurobindo's 'Savitri' is a 23,000-line spiritual epic poem. Although it can be obscure in places, the more you read it the more it grows on you.Its author was a towering genius and one of modern India's greatest yogis whose collected works run to 30 large volumes.In them you will find, not mere theorizing, but the deepest and most penetrating analysis of the nature of reality and the world, of mind and spirit and the individual, an analysis that has never been surpassed since it was based upon what Aurobindo himself had actually seen and experienced in yogic vision. As he himself said:"Savitri is a record of a seeing, of an experience, which is not of the common kind, and it is often very far from what the general human mind sees or experiences," or, he might have added, has the slightest conception of.We learn from him that, as individuals, we are not nearly as simple as we think; both we and our world are complex phenomena in which innumerable spiritual powers and energies and agents, both divine and demonic, beneficent and malignant, battle for supremacy with the success of the former by no means being assured without our active cooperation.Here are two passages from 'Savitri' to give you a taste of Aurobindo's style. The first describes the outbreak of life force on earth in innumerable forms:"Alive and clad with trees and herbs and flowersEarth's great brown body smiled towards the skies,Azure replied to azure in the sea's laugh;New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths,Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts,Man dared and thought and met with his soul the world."The second passage seem to be describing a later world into which there has been a massive eruption of evil energies from a lower dimension, energies intent on our destruction, a world in fact very much like our own of today:"He saw a city of ancient IgnoranceFounded upon a soil that knew not Light.There each in his own darkness walked alone:Only they agreed to differ in Evil's paths,To live in their own way for their own selvesOr to enforce a common lie and wrong....In high professions wrapped self-will walked wideAnd licence stalked prating of order and right:There was no altar raised to Liberty;True freedom was abhorred and hunted down...."This dark vision, however, represents merely one facet of the poem. Its larger aim has been accurately summarized as "a vision of mankind's destiny within the universal evolution. [Aurobindo] sets forth the optimistic view that life on earth has a purpose, and he places our travail within the context of this purpose: to participate in the evolution of consciousness that represents the secret thread behind life on Earth."Alternatives to the present CreateSpace 'Savitri First Edition' are  Savitri: A Legend & A Symbol - New U.S.Edition  and  Savitri (pocket edition) . Personally, however, I prefer the present edition because its bolder typeface and superior layout make for a more enjoyable reading experience.Savitri is by no means a simple poem and for anyone wishing to tackle it I can strongly recommend A. B. Purani's indispensable companion  Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: An Approach and a Study , a really excellent work that provides a general introduction, an explanation of the legend and the symbols behind the poem, canto-by-canto summaries and much else besides. Savitri: A Legend & A Symbol - New U.S.EditionSavitri (pocket edition)Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: An Approach and a Study

Aurabindo is one with a deep thinking, words intertwine with the unkown

same as titlebut give it a no stars in delivery. I gave you the ISBN # book size since I couldn't directly contact the seller. I wanted pocket book in larger type/size because I have both. I wanted it for a 70 year old. You assured me I'd get the same as beforethe last one I got was the larger so... well I got two little ones with the tiny print.I suspect that's why you're asking for review of product, not seller. ???