religious text · 1940
Savitri
Sri Aurobindo's major poetic work, an epic in blank verse, describing his vision of existence and explores the reason for ignorance, darkness, suffering and pain, the purpose of life on earth and the prospect of a glorious future for humanity.
- 1940
- religious text
- religious literature
- epic poem
- poetry
Summary
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in blank verse by Sri Aurobindo. Consisting of nearly 24,000 lines, it is based on the legend of Savitri and Satyavan in the Mahabharata, which Sri Aurobindo reinterpreted as a symbolic myth of the Vedic cycle.
Sri Aurobindo described the work as a "symbolic epic of the aim of supramental Yoga". It narrates the spiritual ascent of the king Aswapati to the highest planes of consciousness to bring down a divine power, and the subsequent birth and yoga of Savitri who must descend into the grip of death and ignorance to conquer them. The poem was written as an experiment in "mantric" poetry, intended to express a direct vision from the "Overhead" planes of consciousness.
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