On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
Part One : Essays


- Compiler's Note
- Sri Aurobindo- A New Age of Mystical Poetry
- Some Points about Poetry
- Sri Aurobindo- Letters on Savitri Editor's note to the 1951 Edition
- Saviti Some Glimpses and Reflections
- The Opening of Savitri
- Some Notes on Sri Aurobindo's Poems
- The Longest Sentence in English Poetry
- Two Critics Criticised
- Poetry in Sri Aurobindo's Vision Lights from Passages in Savitri
- Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, the Nature of Epic and the Expression of Mysticism in English Poetry
- A Suggestion about a Word in Savitri
- Sri Aurobindo's Savitri and Dante's Divina Commedia
- Sri Aurobindo's Savitri and Tennysonian Blank Verse
- Poetry of the Thought-Mind and Overhead Poetry
- Some Comments on Savitri
- Opening Speech for the Sri Aurobindo Research Academy
- What Basically is Savitri
- Apropos of Savitri
- Sri Aurobindo's First Fair Copy of His Earliest Version of Savitri
- Agni in the Rig-veda and Aswapathy in Savitri
- The Opening Sections of the 1936-37 Version of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
- Dr. V. K. Gokak and Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
- Questions and Answers on Savitri
- The Biggest Puzzle in the Text of Savitri
- Sri Aurobindo the Poet
- Bibliography
- Index of lines in Savitri
- Index

Index
A absolute Self 99 adesh 212 A.E., AE 33,197,367 Aeschylus 205 Agni 298 ahan 303 Akash 174 Amal Kiran first article about Savitri 1 first contact with Savitri 50,316 lines of poetry 262 Sri Aurobindo - the Poet 316 The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo 1,55,321 Ananda 176,209,247 Anne, Countess of Winchelsea 119 Aquinas, Thomas 207 Arberry,A.G. 70 Ariosto 187 Aristotle 207 Arnold/Edwin 217 aśva 302 Aurobindonian Age 39,48 art 216 blank verse 219 consciousness 208 effect 68 God-glimpse 209 integration of secular and esoteric 353 message 8 poetry 158,174,201,223,226 sensitivity 124 spirit 269 Yogi 6 Avatar's work 63,273 Avidya 259,302 avyakta 302 |
B Beddoes 197 Benson, Robert Hugh 23 Binyon, Laurence 210,223 Blake 153,197 blank-verse 102,215 Brahma-muhurta 253 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 302 brhat 302 Browning, Elizabeth 60,161 C Celtic fire and ether 197 ChadwickJohnA. 266 Chandidas 126 Chapman 189 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath 36,42 Chit-Tapas 247 Coleridge 42,197,234 consciousness depths of 99 developing through Savitri 286 Divine 167,174 Divine Presence and 303 higher 67,176 human's 95 in-drawn 28 Mantra in 271 mental 306,325 outer 160 Overhead 73 Overmind 200 poet s 160,162 quiet 200 ranges of 51,58 transformation of 77,248 word of supreme 177 creative intelligence 347 C.R.M. 122,140 |
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Dadhikravan (the white horse) 305,310 Dante 22,57,126,188,223,258 186, 205 Dawn-Goddess. See Savitri (2) De Quincey's division of literature 162 death 5 desire 29,160 dharma 145,174 Diekhoff,John 244 Divine Presence 303 divinisation 6 Donne 46,230 Durga'sLion 307 Dutt,Toru 144 dvārapālaka 299 E ego 298,310,313 Eliot, T.S. 126,335 emotional being 29 English poetry creative intelligence in 229 epic and mysticism in 185 Latinisation and inversion 283 Life-Force and Mind-Force 216,367 lines of 223,282,322 longest sentence 118 peaks of grandeur in 336 Savitri and 367 epic 39,60,182,185,258 evolution 65, 247 G Gita 207 Gnosis 51 Goddess of Inspiration 345 God, Europe vs. Asia 30 God of Love 24 God-realisation 5,315 Gods 253 Goethe 1,22,57,205 Gokak, Dr. V.K. 333 golden lid 307 Gray 234 H Hartz, Richard 356,360,362 higher and lower hemispheres 306 Hiranyagarbha 99 Homer 132,186,205,213,258 horse 310 hostile forces 303 |
Housman,A.E. 26,265 hrdaye guhāyām 165 Huta 281,298,330 hymns to Agni 299 I Ignorance 248 immortality 61,83,90,303 Inconscience 80,95,247,260,321,328 Inconscient 252 Indian spirituality 99 Ingelow,Jean 155 inner being 173 inspiration Illumined Mind 237 Overhead 37,211 source of 200,215 Integral Yoga. See yoga intellect bright and dark 307 intelligence 82,215 intuition 235 Overmind 323,347 Iqbal 70 K Kabir 126 Kalidasa 182,205,216,218 Katha Upanishad 115 kavayah satyaśhrutah 184 Kavi 163 Kazantzakis, Nicos 60,213 Keats 18,197,336 knowledge Agni and 306 lustrous lid and 36,37,311 Savitri full of 208 Transcendent 248 Kundalirti 116 Kyd 216 L Lal, P. 125 Landor 166 laya 254 Lewis, C. Day 258 life force. See also vital all-effecting 273 horses 114,302 in Savitri 285 |
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inspiration of 2 Shakespearian 367 soul and 134,160 transformation 83 Longinus 161 Lucas, F.L. 192 "lustrous lid" 36,37,307 M Mahabharata 60,61,141,182,183, 211,214 mahimā89 Mallarmé 201 Mandukya Upanishad 99 Mantra 51,177,270,341 Sri Aurobindo's letter on 200 Marlowe 216 Milton52,102,132,186,205,219,229, 258,326,336 mind and overhead poetry 229 Higher 235 Illumined 235 in-drawn illuminated 272 insufficiency of 67 Knowledge in 310 labouring or receiving 102 lid formed by 307 luminous thinking 354 poetry and 160 research and 268 silence of 103,344 Sri Aurobindo's 211 super-knowledge and 346 thinking 234 transformation of 69 Mother birthday 272 experiences, described in Savitri 330 recording Savitri 282 N Naidu, Sarojini 147 Napoleon 150,152 Nature achievement of 273 and Supernature 12,208,315 divine manifestation 95 doings of secret 285 domain of 88 field of scientists 163 Goddess of Light 94 |
Gods 85 in bliss 3 laws of 177 Light submerged in 5 moods of 65 multiplicities of 6 Satyavan and 159 soul and 79,116,255,257 subtle dimensions of 182 Night and Dawn 94,302 Nirodbaran 204,266,279,287,321, 330,352,357 Nirvana 51,265 Nolini 277,298,331,351,352 O Oneness 3 One Self 235 overhead planes 51,58,317,338 rhythm in mystical poets 33 writing 103,215 Overmind 51 inspiration 200 Intuition 323 P pain 75,82 parame vyoman 271 Phillips, Stephen 284 poet Creator 164 poetic intelligence 69,103,201,231, 330,341 poetry. See also inspiration creative genius 213 criteria for highest 205 function of inspired 343 giants of 205 imagery 46 overhead 201,235,367 overmind rhythm 109 philosophy versus 163 power of expression 213 psychology and metaphysics of 159 repetition of words 41 Soul as the source of 180 Vedantic influence in 197 vision and 162 yoga and 342,347 Prajna 99 pralaya 81 |
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prānāyāma 116 prayer 76 progress 312 psychic being 28 opening through Savitri 286 R Racine 206 Ramayana 60,140,182, 327 Reynolds, Barbara 210 Rig-veda 97,141,207,298 Rilke 154 Rishis 1,4,344 Ritam 43 Roman Lucretius 161 S S samadhi 29 samskāras 321 Sat 247 Savitri inRigveda 4-5 who is Savitri 6 Savitri (1) General appreciation of 64 approach to 270 editions 57,275,351 evolution and 71 full of knowledge 208 function of 349 growth of consciousness 286 how to read 286 human element 18 last dictated lines 266 length of 60 Mahabharata story 4 Mother on 281,286 Mother's experiences in 330 new dimension of poetic expression 367 original form 287, 328 parallels with poems 98 philosophy and 220,321,342 revision of 320 spiritual philosophy and vision 130 spiritual revelatory literature 286 Sri Aurobindo on 58,147,200, 255, 283,288,289,320,323,327 style of 242 support in sadhana 342,345 technique of 61 understanding of 281 |
Vedas, Upanishads, Gita and 51, 61,177,340,367 what is Savitri 60,270 Savitri (2) descriptions in abysm of Hell 112 advent of the Age of Gold 98 Agni at work 308 Aswapati's boon granted 74 awakening of Kundalini 115 Bird of Fire 100 dawn 247 Dawn 88 Dawn-Goddess 86,88,252,262 democracy of the Divine 77,366 descent of Supramental Godhead 248 different phases of night 249 divine and human simultaneously 314 Divine Mother 96 Divine Power 312 divine vision 249 divinised consciousness 129 earth-born heart of man 77 earth-life as the field of the Spirit 76 earth's aspiration 130 fate and pain 75 fourfold scheme of experience from Mandukya Upanishad 99 fullness of the spiritual state 227 glimpses of Supernature 128 Goddess of Inspiration 345 hierarchy of planes 110,209 higher harmonies of consciousness 67 human aspirant's progress 312 in-drawn consciousness 28 inmost soul of man 115 inner strength 66 insufficiency of reason 67 inward and upward movements 314 Life-Force 285 Love 75 masked cosmic Worker 309 mind 346 mind's mode of working 284 modern physics 71 modem totalitarianism 71 Nature's moods 65 Night's mind 253,263 opening passage 8,47,79 opening passage (early version) 54,316 |
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poetic process 159 receptive to the beyond 351 Rishis 343 Savitri's avatarhood 64 Savitri's girlhood 181 Savitri, the heroine 322 Savitri wakes up to her mission 119 silence 344 silent Brahman 50,317 soul awareness 160 spiritual progress 304 superhuman state of consciousness 24 true freedom 75 Vision 89 world-history 129 Yogic development 298 Yogic self-release of Aswapari 36 Savitri (3) Words in abode 107 absolve 283 ambitioned 113 Arcturus and Belphegor 101 awake 251 ceased 313 crowded light 111 dragon-bird 101 eternity 264 fire 78 flasque 113 foreboding 260 Glory 315 greatness 89 griffin 298,325 immensitude 285 immensitudes 113 immensity 264 ineffable 357 opalescent 190 prevision 263 relapse 80,257 simplessed 113 solicited 106 stretched 263 symbol 250 temple 253 twixt 351 Savitri (4) as Poetry alliteration 110,112,169 blank-verse 215,338 enjambment 62, 166,215,219 grammatical inversion 106 imagery 47 |
Latin influence 103,145,153,283 Latinised construction 245 linguistic adventurousness of 284 metrical and rhythmical effects 53, 109,169,215 monosyllables 111,188,349 technique of 6,244 Shāh-Nāmāh 60 Shakespeare, William 42,164,166, 188,205,230,237 Shelley 23,42,67,70,197,334,367 siddha 303,304 silence 87,228,265 of mind 344 Sophocles 205 soul description 115 evolving 81 in ancient scriptures 3,5 liberating 182 life force and 134 poetry and 165 progress and 312 Spenser 46,187 spiritual growth 312 Light 177 Vita Nuova 208 Sri Aurobindo cultural consciousness of 208 Descent on 24 Nov 1926 273 letters on Savitri 13,50,58,275 message of 355 mind of 211 on Agni 310 on Mantra 200 personal realisation 51 poetically influenced by 207 Sri Aurobindo's writings composition of 102 BajiPrabhou 74,289 Hymns to the Mystic Fire 299 Ilion 8 In the Moonlight 98 Love and Death 2,60,74,218,220, 283,289,338 Rose of God 191,310 Songs to Myrtilla 338 Sonnets 101 The Future Poetry 162,200 The Hero and the Nymph 218 The Life Divine 38,59,166,320 |
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The Riddle of This World 254 TheRishi 99 The Secret of the Veda 302 Urvasie 2,60,74,218,289 St. John of the Cross 126 subtle-physical body 116 plane 209 Sufi 70 sukshma sharira 116 Sun of Truth 38,86 Supermind 51,58 Supernature 12,128,208,273,315 Swinburne 42,127 T Tagore, Rabindranath 34, 70 Tantra 273 Tennyson 66,216,259 Thibaudet 62 Thompson, Francis 20,22,27,108 transformation power of true 273 translation 210 true soul 28,160 Truth-Consciousness 51 Turiya 99 U Upanishads 3,37,61,141,200,207 Usha 88 |
V Vaishnavism 273 vāji 302 Valery 62 Valmiki 60,182,205,213 Vaughan 232 Veda 3,61 Vedantic influence in poetry 197 Vidya 302 Vijnana 247 Virat 99 Virgil 57,186,205,258 Vishnu's Garuda 307 Vision, power of poet 162 vital 189 plane 209 vyakta 302 Vyasa 60,66,182,205,213 W Wordsworth 52,197,266,367 World Religion 272 Y Yeats, W.B. 30,33,34,125,197,367 yoga aesthetic 200 aim of 6 Integral 6,58 Kundalini 115 poetry and 77,342,347 Savitri holds the secrets of 60 siddhi in 303 through Savitri 349 |
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AMAL KIRAN'S BOOKS
AVAILABLE WITH THE CLEAR RAY TRUST
1.A Follower of Christ & a Disciple of Sri Aurobindo: Correspondence between Bede Griffiths and KD. Sethna (Amal Kiran)
2."A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal": An Interpretation from India
3.Adventures in Criticism
4.Amal Kiran - Poet and Critic
5.Aspects of Sri Aurobindo
6.Blake's Tyger: A Christological Interpretation
7.Classical and Romantic : An Approach through Sri Aurobindo
8.. Indian Poets and English Poetry: Correspondence between Kathleen Raine and KD. Sethna
9.Inspiration and Effort: Studies in Literary Attitude and Expression
10.Is Velikovsky's Revised Chronology Tenable? A Scrutiny of Four Fundamental Themes
11.K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran): A Centenary Tribute
12.Life-Poetry-Yoga, Personal Letters, Vol. I
13.Life-Poetry-Yoga, Personal Letters, Vol. II
14.Life-Poetry-Yoga, Personal Letters, Vol. III
15.Light and Laughter: Some Talks at Pondicherry by Amal Kiran - and Nirodbaran
16.Mandukya Upanishad: English Version, Notes and Commentary
17.On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
18.Our Light and Delight: Recollections of Life with the Mother
19.Problems of Early Christianity
20.Science, Materialism, Mysticism
21.Sri Aurobindo and Greece
22.Teilhard De Chardin and our Time
23.The Beginning of History for Israel
24.The Development of Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual System and the Mother's Contribution to it
25.The Inspiration of Paradise Lost
26.The Mother: Past, Present, Future
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27.The Obscure and the Mysterious: A Research in Mallarme's Symbolist Poetry
28.The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo
29.The Problems of Early Christianity
30.The Secret Splendour: Collected Poems
31.The Sun and the Rainbow : Approaches to Life through Sri Aurobindo's Light
32.The Thinking Corner: Causeries on Life and Literature
33.The Virgin Birth and the Earliest Christian Tradition
34.The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo
35.The Wonder That is K. D.Sethna alias Amal Kiran
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1.Altar and Flame (Poems)
2.Ancient India in a New Light
3.Evolving India : Essays on Cultural Issues
4.India and the World Scene
5.Karpasa in Prehistoric India : A Chronological and Cultural Clue
6.Life-Literature-Yoga: Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo
7.'Overhead Poetr': Poems with Sri Aurobindo's Comments
8.Parnassians
9.Poems by Amal Kiran and Nirodbaran with Sri Aurobindo's Comments
10.Problems of Ancient India
11.Some Talks at Pondicherry : Amal Kiran and Nirodbaran
12.Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare
13.Sri Aurobindo : The Poet
14.Talks on Poetry
15.The Adventure of the Apocalypse (Poems)
16.The Indian Spirit and the World's Future
17.The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance and Consequence
18.The Problem of Aryan Origins: From an Indian Point of View
19.The Spirituality of the Future: A Search apropos of R.C Zaehner's Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin
20."Two Loves" and "A Worthier Pen" The Enigmas of Shakespeare's Sonnets
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