DescriptionThe first chapter of this book, which is based on the author’s series of thirty-one talks introducing the poem, lays down a few key principles in his approach to the subject.First, that in writing Savitri, Sri Aurobindo was leaving for posterity a verbal embodiment of his own consciousness.Then, through the poetry he was flooding the earth atmosphere with the vibrations of hope and love in an age already wallowing in nihilism, building a bridge between this world of human limitations and the future world that he was opening up.And that is why the writing of Savitri is a very significant event in human history.The transcribed talks cover the entire epic as well as chapters on how to read Savitri and comparisons with the original legend.The book concludes with a glossary of Sanskrit terms used in the poem and references for the many quotations from Savitri and from other texts by Sri Aurobindo cited by the author.
