The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri

Publishers' Note

This is the tenth book coming from the pen of Jugal Kishore Mukherjee who has been residing as an inmate for the last fifty-two years in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, and has been teaching there various subjects to the students of the Higher Course of SAICE (Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education).

Each one of Mukherjee's previously published books, whether in English or in Bengali, has been the product of carefully conducted research in a separate field of its own. The present book also is no exception to this general characteristic of his literary productions.

The titles of the books Jugal Kishore Mukherjee has already presented to the readers testify to the author's keen interest in widely varied fields of Aurobindonian research. Here are, for example, the titles and subtitles of a few of his books:

1.The Destiny of the Body (The Vision and Realisation is Sri Aurobindo's Yoga).

2.From Man Human to Man Divine (Sri Aurobindo's Vision of the Evolutionary Destiny of Man).

3.Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny.

4.Sri Aurobindo: The Smiling Master (Humour in Sri Aurobindo's Writings).

5.Sri Aurobindo's Poetry and Sanskrit Rhetoric.

6.The Mystery of Death and the Conquest of Immortality (in Bengali).

7. The Way of Practicing the Integral Yoga (in two volumes in Bengali).

The present monograph, The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, will, we hope, be able to grip the interest of the discerning readers.

We are thankful to Dr. R.Y. Deshpande for his scholarly 'Foreword' which will greatly help in the proper appreciation of the content of the book.