{"id":10796,"date":"2014-07-15T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T07:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saa.santansoftwaresystems.com\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2014-12-06T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T06:00:36","slug":"pre-content-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/savitri-study\/book-savitri-study\/pre-content-study","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Content-Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nIntroduction<\/a>   Notes<\/a>   Book 1<\/a>   Book II<\/a>   Book III<\/a>   Book IV<\/a>   
\nBook V<\/a>   Book VI<\/a>   Book VII<\/a>   Book VIII<\/a>   
\nBook IX<\/a>   Book X<\/a>   Book XI<\/a>   Book XII<\/a><\/br><\/br><\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\tVOLUMES 33 and 34<\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTHE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1997<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPublished by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department<\/p>\n

Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPRINTED IN INDIA<\/p>\n

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Savitri<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\ta Legend and a Symbol<\/b><\/p>\n

\nThe Tale of Satyavan and Savitri<\/b>
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\nT<\/b>HE 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
\nitself 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,
\nLord 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
\nincarnations 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.
\u2013 Sri Aurobindo<\/B><\/font><\/font>
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\n\t\t\tThe writing of Savitri <\/i>extended over much of the
\nlater part of Sri Aurobindo’s life. The earliest known
\n\t\t\tmanuscript is dated 1916. The original narrative poem
\nwas recast several times in the first phase of composition.
\n\t\t\tBy around 1930, Sri Aurobindo had begun to turn it
\ninto an epic with a larger scope and deeper significance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTransformed into “A Legend and a Symbol”,
\nSavitri <\/i>became his major literary work which he continued to
\n\t\t\texpand and perfect until his last days. In the late 1940s,
\nwhen his eyesight was failing, he took the help of a scribe
\n\t\t\tand dictated the extensive final stages of revision.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSeparate cantos started to appear in print in 1946.
\n\t\t\tPart One of the first edition was published in 1950. The
\nnext year, after Sri Aurobindo’s passing, the rest of the
\n\t\t\tpoem was brought out in a second volume.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the second edition (1954), Sri Aurobindo’s letters
\n\t\t\ton Savitri <\/i>were added. They are omitted from the present
\nedition and included in Letters on Poetry and Art<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe present text is that of the fourth (“revised”) edition which came out in 1993. Each line has been checked
\n\t\t\tto eliminate any unintentional discrepancies between the
\nfinal manuscript or dictation and the printed form of the
\n\t\t\tpoem.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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