It may then be said that
Savitri a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the
Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself
will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to realise the
Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other
Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is always what is revealed here in
each verse one will reach finally the transformation of supramental Yoga. It is
truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; his support is always there
for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a Mantra
which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this,
the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the
rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything
is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the
history of man, of the Gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was
created, why, for what purpose, what destiny—all is there. You can find all the
answers to all your questions therein. Everything is explained, even the future
of man and of evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in
beautiful and clear words so that spiritual "adventurers" who wish to
solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this
mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must climb to the
required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophecies, all that
is going to come is presented with a precise and wonderful clarity. Sri
Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the truth, to discover the
consciousness, solve the problem of what the light may penetrate there and
transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the
ignorance and climb right up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of
consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of
death and reach immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and
much more yet. It is a real experience—reading Savitri. All the secrets that
man possessed, he has revealed,—as well as that awaits him in the future; all
thus is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to
discover it all, the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the
stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is own experience,
and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my
sadhana which he has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all
the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words,
phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the
book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when he was writing he
used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear him read Savitri. During
the night he would write and in the morning read out to me in the morning were
those I had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the
colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it
all, put by him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my
experiences of the previous night which he read out to me the following
morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together.
And every time I used to compare what he said with my previous experiences and
that he had noted them down afterwards, no, he knew already what I had seen. It
is my experiences he has presented of our joint adventure into the unknown or
rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived
by him, realities, supracosmic truth. He experienced all these as one
experiences of joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of
inconscience, even in the neighbourhood of death, endured the sufferings of
perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign
plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went
through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine.
Nobody till today has suffered like him. He accepted suffering to transform
suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and
incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never
happened, he is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we
may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work
easy for us. Savitri is his whole Yoga of Transformation, and this Yoga appears
now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not
yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot
understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand
Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate
it. The more one advances on the path of Yoga, the more one assimilates and the
better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is
the poetry of tomorrow of which he has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too
subtle, too refined,—it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in
meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity
to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do
not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And
it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in
a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will
be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare
with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is the super-epic, it is
super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one
considers the number of lines he has written. No these human words are not
adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperbolas to
describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is;
at least I do not find them. It is of immense value—spiritual value and all
other values; it is eternal in the subject, and infinite in its appeal,
miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more
you come in contact with this, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is
something! It is most beautiful thing he has left for man, the highest possible.
What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth?
When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be known.
(Source: http://savitri.in/library/mother/the-mothers-talk-on-savitri)
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