Savitri
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Life-Sketch
- Yoga
- Politics
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Savitri
- 'The Symbol Dawn'
- 'The Issue'
- 'The Yoga of the King- The Yoga of the Soul's Release'
- 'The Secret Knowledge'
- 'The Yoga of the King- The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness'
- 'The World Stair'
- 'The Kingdom of Subtle Matter'
- 'The Glory and Fall of Life'
- 'The Kingdoms of the Little Life'
- 'The Godheads of the Little Life'
- 'The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life'
- 'The Descent into Night'
- 'The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil, and the Sons of Darkness'
- 'The Paradise of the Life-gods'
- 'The Kingdoms and the Godheads of the Little Mind'
- 'The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind'
- 'The Heavens of the Ideal'
- 'In the Self of Mind'
- 'The World-soul'
- 'The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge'
- 'The Pursuit of the Unknowable'
- 'The Adoration of the Divine Mother'
- 'The House of the Spirit and the New Creation'
- 'The Vision and the Boon'
- 'The Birth and Childhood of the Flame'
- 'The Growth of the Flame'
- 'The Call to the Quest'
- 'The Quest'
- 'The Destined Meeting Place'
- 'Satyavan'
- 'Satyavan and Savitri'
- 'The Word of Fate'
- 'The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain'
- 'The Joy of Union - the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief'
- 'The Parable of the Search for the Soul'
- 'The Entry into the Inner Countries'
- 'The Triple Soul- Forces'
- 'The Finding of the Sou'l
- 'Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-negating Absolute'
- 'Rose of God'
- The Two Missing Cantos
- 'Death in the Forest'
- 'Towards the Black Void'
- 'The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness'
- 'The Dream Twilight of the Ideal'
- 'The Gospel of Death and the Vanity of the Ideal'
- 'The Debate of Love and Death'
- 'The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real'
- 'The Eternal Day'
- 'The Soul's Choice'
- 'The Supreme Consummation'
- 'Epilogue- The Return to Earth'
- The Legend
- 'The Wonderful Poem'
- The Tale of the Epic- A Comparative Analysis
- New Dimensions
- Legends and Myths
- The Vedic Storehouse of Myth
- 'Symbols'
- 'Savitri' in the Veda
- Allegorical Interpretations of the Legend
- Symbolism in Savitri
- The Symbolism of the 'Sacrifice'
- The Problem
- The Overhead Planes of Conciousness
- Overhead Aesthesis
- Mystic Poetry and the Mantra
- 'Overhead' Poetry
- Overhead Influence in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga
- Savitri Five-Fold Aim Behind Its Composition
- The Basis of Savitri Sri Aurobindo's Yoga
- Planes of Consiousness Stair of Worlds
- Battles of the Soul
- 'Upanishadic and Kalidasian'
- Similes in Savitri
- 'Technique' and 'Inspiration' in Savitri
- 'Dawn' in Savitri
- Savitri Her Power and Personality
- Epics, Ancient and Modern
- Paradise Lost and Savitri
- Song of Myself and Savitri
- The Cantos
- The Odysseus Theme
- Kazantzakis' 'Modern Sequel'
- Sri Aurobindo and Kazantzakis
- 'A Triple Challenge'
- Dante and Sri Aurobindo
- Savitri and the Commedia
- Savitri and Aurobindo's Early Narrative Poems
- Savitri and Faust
- Savitri Its Architectural Design
- Savitri Its Symbolic Action in a Cosmic Background
- Savitri and the 'Sonnets'
- Advocatus Diaboli and Advocatus Dei
- Conclusion Towards a Greater Dawn
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index

Index
Abbé Bremond 316 Abercrombie, Lascelles 283,375,409,445 A.E. (George Russell) 266,306 Aeschylus 267 53,318,319,458 Aiyangar, Narayan 279 Alexander, Samuel 436 Anouilh, Jean 267 Ariosto31,383 Arnold, Sir Edwin 335 Arnold, Matthew 292,311,312,412 Arya 14, 15,31,328,359,416 Atkinson,WilliamC.382 Aurobindo, Sri Tagore on, 3-5; Paul Richard on, 5; life-sketch, 6-16; Sri Aurobindo's yoga, 19-26; his politics, 27-30; his philosophy, 30-39; his poetry, 39-55; the call of Savitri, 55-57; Sri Aurobindo on the recasting of Aswapati's travels, 84; Sri Aurobindo's views on 'Fixt Fate and free Will, 151-153; Sri Aurobindo's symbolism in the Savitri-Yama dialectic, 210-211; Sri Aurobindo's expansion and changes to the original legend,257-264; his ideas on the symbolic content of Savitri, 264-265; Sri Aurobindo on the Vedic myths, 269-271; on the symbol of'Savitri' in the Veda, 275-279; on the divinisation of human nature, 281-283; on the overhead planes of consciousness, 295-299; Sri Aurobindo's overhead aesthesis, 299-303; Sri |
Aurobindo on mantric poetry, 303-304; on overhead poetry, 309-310; overhead influence in Sri Aurobindo's poetry, 317-322; Sri Aurobindo's aims in writing Savitri, 323-325; his yogic experiences, 327-328; Sri Aurobindo on mystic poetry & his blank verse line, 339-349; Sri Aurobindo' similes in Savitri,349-355; his style in Savitri, 355-361; his preoccupation with the dawn idea, 361-368; his conception of Savitri's personality,368-371; Sri Aurobindo on epic poetry, 378-379; Sri Aurobindo's admiration for Whitman, 387; Sri Aurobindo compared to Kazantzakis, 404-405; Sri Aurobindo compared to Dante,414-415, 417-420; Sri Aurobindo's early narrative poems, 420-424; Sri Aurobindo on Goethe,425; Sri Aurobindo's views compared with Goethe's, 425-427; Sri Aurobindo's visionary certainty, 436; Sri Aurobindo's sonnets,440-443; discussion of Sri Aurobindo on the philosophy of Savitri, 451; discussion of Sri Aurobindo's poetic style & word combinations, 455-456; Sri Aurobindo's life-work culminating in Savitri reviewed, 457-465.
Bain, F.W. 403,451 Baji Prabhou 12,52,53,340,342,458 Bande mataram 3, 9,10,12,51 Bede,The Venerable 459 Berdyaev 34,35,270 Bergson 33,34,399,400,404 Bhagavad Gita 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33, 56, 224-225,257,294,309,413,460 Bbagavata 56,256 |
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Bharati, Subramania 376 Bhartrihari 45 Bhasa 48,376 Bhavabhuti 376 Bhave, Vinoba 25 Bhawani Mandir 27,28 Blake, William 310,311,333,424,462 Boehme.Jacob 20,333,361 Boodin, John Elof 435,439,448,457 Bowra,C.M.375,380,383 Bradley, A.C. 425 Breul, Karl 426 Bridges, Robert 92,377,408,460 Browning, Oscar 7 Browning, Robert 315,334,413,445 Buchanan, Scott 380 Bullett, Gerald 36 Bunyan, John 336
Camoens374,381,382 Camus, Albert 267,272 Canon Overton 305 Carpenter, Edward 438 Cassirer, Ernest 267 Chadwick,J.A.32 Chandidas 45 Chatterjec, Bankim Chandra 9 Chaucer, Geoffrey 9 Chetty, Shanker 14 Chitrangada 363,458 Clark, A.B. 9 Clemens, Prudentius 336 Clough, Arthur Hugh 53 Cocteaujean 268 Collected Poems and Plays 39 Collins, Douglas C. 455 Cotton, James S. 8 Coulton, G.G. 412 Cousins, James H. 17 Coxe, Louis O. 398,408 Crane, Hart 390
Dante 33,102, 111, 330,333,334,371,372, 380,381,383-385,394,410-415,417- 419, 422,426,432,448,450,461,462 Das, C.R. 12,17,45 De Chardin, Pierre Teilhard 35-37 De Ruggiero, Guido 450
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Dharma 11 Dickinson, Emily 314 Dowsett, Norman 18 Drewett, William H.6 Dryden, John 310,341 Dutt, Tom 253
Eliot, T.S. 44,198,267,272,314,389,391, 397,408,411,413,414,453 Emerson, R.W. 332 Erie 47,50,51 Essays on the Gita 25,294,359 Euripides 243
Fausset, Hugh I'Anson 434 Ferrar, Hugh Norman 53 Fischer, Kuno 425 Fitts, Dudley 394 Friar, Kimon 398,401 Future Poetry, The 42,293, 344,359,459
Gandhi, M.K. 17,19,25,28,30 Gayley, CM. 374 Ghose, Barindra Kumar 6 Ghose, Benoy Bhushan 6-7 Ghose, Krishnadhan 6 Ghose, Lotika 53 Ghose, Manomohan 6-7 Ghose, Swarnalata 6 Gide, Andre 267-268 Giradoux, Jean 268 Goethe 40,273,377,425-427 Gokhale,G.K.10 Gupta, Nolini Kanta 20 Gurdjieff34,35
Haas, William S. 307,316 Hakim, Khalifa A 33 Hardy, Thomas 251,377 Hartmann 33,34 Hegel 30,33 Highet, Gilbert 383,384,411,412,414 Hodgson, Ralph 367 Homer 53-55,265,267,319,320,370,381, 383,384,387,398,399,401 Hopkins, G.M. 75,98,314,368,455 Horu Thakur 45 Housman, A.H. 56 Hugo, Victor 377 Human Cycle, The 38,56,293,359,459 Huxley, Julian 37 |
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Ideal of Human Unity, The 38,293,359,459 Ilion 53-55,318,319,364,446,458 Indu Prakash 27 Inge.W.R. 331,434 IshaUpanishad 25,26,241 Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa 29,46,415,421
Jacobi,Jolande272,273 James, William 13 Jones, Rufus M. 305,330 Joyce, James 267,428 Jung, C.G. 437
Kalidasa 46,52,340,341,374,376 Karmayogin 11-12 Kazantzakis, Nikos 330,377,398-408,436, 441,460,461 Keats, John 174,313,315,365 Kenner, Hugh 391-393 Knight, G. Wilson 33,410,458 Krishnaprem, Sri (Ronald Nixon) 339,461, 463 Kurtz, Benjamin 306
Lal,P.357 Last Poems 41,458 Lawrence, D.H. 388 Leeuw.J.J.Van Der 334 Lele, Yogi 11,81,327,458 Leopardi 309 Lewis, C.S. 174,326,337 Life Divine, The 5,30,32-37, 111, 112,126, 210,282,293,294,298,323,329,347,359, 400,411,416,417,440,446,459 Lodge, Sir Oliver 436 Longinus 316 Lord, George de R 395-396,398 Love and Death 40, 52, 201, 318, 340, 342, 386,421-423,458 Lowes.J.L. 315
Machen, Arthur 317 MacLeish, Archibald 390,391 |
Madhusudan 40 Maeterlinck, Maurice 377 Mahabharata, 12,21,45,46,135,200,201, 209,210,242-244,252,254,256,261,279, 375-377,416,418,419,448,458,460 Maharaja of Baroda 8 Maitra, S.K.33,34 Mallarme317 Marlowe, Christopher 337 Masefieldjohn 268 Mehta, Phirozeshah 10 Meleager 45 Mickiewicz, Adam 376 Miller, Henry 4,281 Milton, John 7, 142, 214, 243, 265, 309, 336, 356, 362, 371, 377, 378, 381-386, 461,462 Mirandola, Pico Delia 332 Morgan, Charles 316 Mother, The (Madame Mirra Richard) 9, 14-18,20,28, 262, 289, 294,334,338, 416, 420,426,438,458; 459 Mukerjea, S.V. 253 Muller,Max267 . Munshi,K.M.17 Murray, D.L. 5 Murray, Gilbert 55 Murry, Middleton 308, 355,412,414 Myers, F.W.H. 334,436 AWa256,458 Nehru, Jawaharlal 17 Nevinson, Henry 29 Newbolt, Sir Henry 412 Nidhu,Babu45 Nietzsche 30,400 Nirodbaran358,386,416 Noyes, Alfred 331,408 Olson, Elder 434 Omar Khayyam 262 O'Neill, Eugene 268 On Yoga, ibid.mes one & two) 20 Osgood, C.G. 333 Ouspensky 34 Owen, Wilfred 390 Pandit, M.P. 20 Parnell 40 Patanjali 21 Peacock, Ronald 427 Pearce, Roy Harvey 388,394 Perseus the Deliverer 12,47,49,318 Pinto, Vivian de Sola 344 Piper, Ravmond Frank 373 Plato 33,271 Plotinus33,326 |
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Pope, Alexander 33, 78,315,341,346,355, 410 Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398, 402,414,447,460,461 Prince of Edur 47,51,52 Prothero, G.M. 7 Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, 371
Quiller-couch, Sir Arthur 377
Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 25 Rai, Lala Lajpat 10 Rajagopalachari, C (Rajaji) 17,25 Rajnarain 40 Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri 4 Ramayana 45, 56, 160, 330, 336, 341, 375, 418-420,445,447,458,461 Read, Herbert 267,306,383 Reddy,C.R.9,16,17 Richard, Paul 5,14 Richards, I.A. 410 Richardson, Dorothy M. 35 Richardson, Jack 268 Rishabhchand 20 Robinson, Edwin Arlington 314 Rodogune 47-49,318,341 Rolland, Romain 4,5 Rose of God 42, US, 458 Roy, Dilip Kumar 462 Roy, Dwijendralal 45 Roy, Raja Rammohan 6
Samuel, Viscount 35 Santayana, George 266,372 Sarma,D.S. 33 Sartre, Jean-Paul 268 Sassoon, Siegfried 390 Savage, D.S. 34 Savitri - Need for the reverent study of, 56-57; summary of, 61-238; publication dates of, 242; context of the original upakhyana, 240-244; the Mahabharata story, 244-251; character of Savitri as seen by other writers, 252-253; Vyasa's Savitri, 254-255; Nala and, 256; comparative analysis of Vyasa's tale and, 257-259; Sri Aurobindo's contribution in, 260-265; Vedic significances in, 274-279; symbolism
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in, 284-285; symbolism of the characters in, 285-290; difficulties in understanding the poem quickly, 293-294; mystic explorations in, 305; description of overhead poetry in, 308; Sri Aurobindo's aims in the composition of, 323-325; yogic experiences imbedded in, 325; occult fields described in, 330-331; descriptions of spiritual-awakenings in, 334; 'struggle' theme in, 337-338; visionary element in, 338-339; mystic element in, 339-340; metre, rhythm & blank verse of, 338-349; use of symbols in, 348-349; similes in, 349-355; varying of blank verse in, 356-357; the alleged intractability of, 356-359; Sri Aurobindo's inspiration in, 359-360; need for patience in reading, 360-361; theme of Dawn in, 361-368; personality of Savitri as envisaged in, 468-471; claims of Savitri as a cosmic epic, 473-474; Paradise Lost compared to, 385; possible influence of other poets in, 386-387; Song of Myself 'and, 388-389; Cantos and, 389-394; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel compared to, 403-408; the Mother's role in the writing of,415-416; the Commedia and, 416-420; The Life Divine and, 417; scheme of, 420; Urvasie and Love and Death compared to, 421-423; revisions in, 423-424; Faust and, 424-427; architectural design of, 427-431; the Commedia's cosmos and the cosmos of Savitri compared, 432; symbolic action in, 432-440; Sri Aurobindo's Sonnets and, 440; views on the length of, 445-447; views on the human interest of, 448-449; views on the philosophic content of, 450-451; word-combinations in, 455-456; Savitri as the fulfilment of Sri Aurobindo's life's work, 457-458; Savitri as a new revelation for a greater Dawn, 464. Schopenhauer 13 Sethna, K.D. 319,357,423,440 Shakespeare, William 7, 50, 309, 311, 312, 341,366,371,395,412,419,425,458
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Shankara 30 Shaw, Bernard 400, 436 Shelley, P.B. 309,315 Somadeva 48 Spengler, Oswald 400 Spiegelberg, Frederic 53 Stacc.W.T. 272 Stambler, Bernard 272, 380 Stanford, W.B. 402 Stephen, J.K. 376 Stevens, Wallace 313, 314, 396 398 Stoudt, J.J. 20,21 Strachey, Lytton 346, 347 Strong, L.A.G. 294 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 9 Synthesis of Yoga, The 20, 24, 25, 210, 283, 293-295,347.359,400
Tagore, Rabindranath 3-5, 13, 17, 19, 47, Tasso 381,383 Tate, Allen 314, 366,390-392, 414, 419 Tennyson, Alfred Lord 315, 344, 345, 396, Thompson, Francis 270,311 Thought the Paraclete 42,321 Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 10,19, 25 Tillyard, E.M.W. 337,379,395, 445 456 Tod, James 51 Turner, W.J. 310-312
Underhill, Evelyn 339, 348 Urban, Wilbur Marshall 274, 449
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Urvasie 40, 52,201,318,340,342,363,386, 421-423, 458
Valmiki 243,340,341,384 Van Ruvsbroeck, Jan 326 Vasavadutla 47-49, 318 Vidula 12, 46, 458 Vidyapati 45 Vijayatunga J. 18 Virgil 33, 54, 309, 376, 380, 381, 383, 384, 395, 417 Vivekananda, Swami 4, 5,19 Viziers of Bassora, The 47,49, 318 Vyasa 135,137,209,257,258,261,262,
Wadia,B.P.77 Walker, Dr. 7 Wallace, Alfred 252 Whitehead, A.N. 33, 34 Whitman, Walt 377,387-389 394 Willey, Basil 410 Williams, Charles 381, 448 Williams, Tennessee 268 Winternitz 254, 255 Wolff, Otto 37 Woodroffe, Sir John 330 Wordsworth, William 135, 309, 388
Yeats, W.B. 314,389,391,445 Younghusband, Sir Francis 5 Yutang, Lin 305 |
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