Sāvitrī as a poem has many cantos of sustained height of inspiration and the reader should prepare himself to breathe in the rare and high atmosphere on which Sāvitrī moves. There are even in those inspired long passages portions that rise to the heights of the Overmind where the vision and the word fuse. The reader has to make some effort to allow the expression to sink into him instead of trying to understand it with too much mental effort. Take for instance the description of Savitri in the very first canto where we see that "even her humanity was half divine" and to her "her own calamity" was "the private sign" of the evil that is at the root of life. After this, when we come to the second canto, the author again gives us a more detailed description of her personality. The first canto reminds us of her transcendent origin and her contact with the life-situation, but here in the second we have a more detailed and intimate description...   more »