Savitri
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAK751 |
| Author: | Sri Aurobindo |
| Publisher: | Sri Aurobindo Ashram |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2008 |
| ISBN: | 9788170580188 |
| Pages: | 739 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 5.5 inch X 4.0 inch |
| Weight | 300 gm |
Book Description
The writing of Savitri extended over much of the later part of Sri Aurobindo’s life. The earliest known manuscript is dated 1916. The original narrative poem was recast several times in the first phase of composition. By around 1930, Sri Aurobindo has begun to turn it into an epic with a larger scope and deeper significance.
Transformed into “A Legend and a Symbol”, Savitri became his major literary work which he continued to expand and perfect until his last days. In the late 1940s, when his eyesight was failing, he took the help of a scribe and dictated the extensive final stage of revision.
Separate cantos started to appear in print in 1946. Part One of the first edition was published in 1950. The next year, after Sri Aurobindo’s passing, the rest of the poem was brought out in a second volume.
For the present edition, the text has been thoroughly checked for agreement with the final manuscript and dictated revision.
| Book One | The Book of Beginnings | |
| Canto I | The Symbol Dawn | 1 |
| Canto II | The Issue | 11 |
| Canto III | The Yoga of the King: The Yoga The Soul's Release | 22 |
| Canto IV | The Secret Knowledge | 46 |
| Canto V | The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness | 74 |
| Book Two | The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds | |
| Canto I | The world-Star | 95 |
| Canto II | the Kingdom of Subtle Matter | 103 |
| Canto III | The Glory and the Falt of Life | 116 |
| Canto IV | The Kingdoms of the Little Life | 132 |
| Canto V | The Godheads of the Little Life | 151 |
| Canto VI | The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life | 173 |
| Canto VII | The Descent Into Night | 202 |
| Canto VIII | The World of Falsehood, The Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness | 220 |
| Canto IX | The Paradies of the Life-Gods | 233 |
| Canto X | The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind | 238 |
| Canto XI | The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind | 260 |
| Canto XII | The Heavens of the Ideal | 277 |
| Canto XIII | In the Self of Mind | 283 |
| Canto XIV | The World Soul | 289 |
| Canto XV | The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge | 297 |
| Book Three | The Book of the Divine Mother | |
| Canto I | The Pursuit of the Unknowable | 305 |
| Canto II | The Adoration of the Divine Mother | 310 |
| Canto III | The House of the Spirit and the New Creation | 317 |
| Canto IV | The Vision and the Boon | 334 |
| Book Four | The Book of Birth and Quest | |
| Canto I | The Birth and Childhood of the Flame | 349 |
| Canto II | The Growth of the Flame | 359 |
| Canto III | The Call to the Quest | 369 |
| Canto IV | The Quest | 377 |
| Book Five | The Book of Love | |
| Canto I | The Distined Meeting-Place | 389 |
| Canto II | Satyavan | 392 |
| Canto III | Satyavan and Savitri | 400 |
| Book Six | The Book of Fate | |
| Canto I | The Word of Fate | 415 |
| Canto II | The way of Fate and the Problem of Pain | 437 |
| Book Seven | The Book of Yoga | |
| Canto I | The Joy of Union; The Ordeal of the Fore-knowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain | 465 |
| Canto II | The Parable of the Search for the Soul | 474 |
| Canto III | The Entery Into the Inner Countries | 488 |
| Canto IV | The Triple Sou-Forces | 503 |
| Canto V | The Finding of the Soul | 522 |
| Canto VI | Nirvana and the Discovery of the all Negating Absolute | 532 |
| Canto VII | The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness | 551 |
| Book Eight | The Book of Death | |
| Canto III | Death In the Forest | 561 |
| Book Nine | The Book of Ternal Night | |
| Canto I | Towards The Black Void | 571 |
| Canto II | The Journey In Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness | 582 |
| Book Ten | The Book of the Double Twilight | |
| Canto I | The Dream Twilight of the Ideal | 599 |
| Canto II | The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal | 607 |
| Canto III | The Debate of Love and Death | 621 |
| Canto IV | The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real | 641 |
| Book Eleven | The Book of Everlasting Day | |
| Canto I | The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation | 671 |
| Book Twelve | Epilogue | |
| The Return to Earth | 715 |
