On Savitri
THEME/S
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
fullness of the spiritual state 227
glimpses of Supernature 128
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
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
AVAILABLE WITH OTHER PUBLISHERS
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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