When Sri Aurobindo was still young, the ancient tale of Savitri in
Mahabharatha had attracted his heart. He felt drawn to it foreseeing a great
work to be done with it in the future. There are texts that illustrate his
efforts to write Savitri at Baroda and other places of his stay.
The love he had for the tale made him use the same as the spinal cord
around which he spawned a creative poem expressing the philosophy of yoga and
life he had given birth to. Victory through the Truth of Love was his noble aim
and he found Savitri resounding the same.
Having found his true call in serving India and realizing her freedom,
he left his life in England and came to India on a wonderful mission. As he was
going through his political journey, a revealing event made him decide India
can attain true freedom only through spiritual service. He proclaimed that
India is to become the spiritual leader of the world and her people have to
work towards that. His life at Pondicherry was one of a spiritual mission and
creation of a new world.
As he was working towards his noble aim, he got reminded of Savitri, the
delightful tale his young heart had got attracted to. He called all life as
yoga and made all our lives an enjoyable yoga through his work in Savitri.
Savitri has come as a literary symbol for Sri Aurobindo’s yoga. The work
lives as a vibrant expression towards universal love, truth and delight in The
Mother. Sri Aurobindo has sung his own self search in Aswapathy’s journey, has
given rhythmical notes for The Mother in the book of Divine Mother and has set
into music the birth and growth of a beautiful soul in the forthcoming
chapters. The song of Savitri’s life marks the onset of a life divine on earth.
Princess Savitri enters as the heaven gods shower a rain of flowers. She
grows as the flame gold daughter of King Aswapathy. She grows up doing art and
science, she grows up as the Mother of the world. Her destined work calls her
as she chooses the person she has to blossom along with. The foreknowledge that
Satyavan is going to die does not let her fall into a grief, rather, she
withdraws into the depths of her soul and grows into the beauty of Truth. A
debate she has with lord yama, a debate that expresses the Truth she has grown
into, when he appears to take Satyavan’s life. Her wisdom and love conquers
death and she wins Satyavan back into her midst. A divine life begins on earth.
The English of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri has Sanskrit in it. It is modern
Veda alighting the world to move towards a new age, the next future.
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Sandhya
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