The English of Savitri Volume 3

Savitri Bhavan has published the third volume of The English of Savitri, based on the transcripts of classes given by the author, Shraddhavan, from July 2014 to July 2015. The volume contains summaries of Part Two, Books Four, Five, Six and Eight of Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol and provides detailed explanations of all the seven cantos in Book Seven, The Book of Yoga. In this way the whole of Part Two of the poem has been covered.

This publication follows the first and second volume of The English of Savitri, published in 2015 and 2016 respectively. Shraddhavan’s explanation of the first five cantos of Part One, Book One, The Book of Beginnings, was published in the first volume, while in the second volume she dealt with Book Three of Part One, The Book of the Divine Mother. The aim, writes Shraddhavan, is to assist a deeper understanding of the poem which The Mother has characterised as ‘the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision.’

As we came to appreciate in the first two volumes, the third volume too gives many insights in texts whose understanding was unclear; or perhaps better said, provides the help for the mind to fall silent and receive the revelation of the mantric lines just read and, as Shraddhavan had explained before, “wake up an inner knowledge or experience”.

These volumes are a treasure for all those who wish to better understand Savitri. We hope that Savitri Bhavan will publish the edited transcripts of all of Shraddhavan’s classes on Savitri, such as Part 1 Book Two, The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, which takes such a large place in the poem, and of its concluding Part Three, Books Nine to Twelve.

The English of Savitri – Volume 3, Book Seven: The Book of Yoga. 

Available from Savitri Bhavan and SABDA. Price in India Rs 550.