Every time you read it again, it's new.
But that's a very interesting phenomenon. Every time I read Savitri, I feel as if I am reading it for the first time, really. It's not that I understand differently, it's that its completely new: I never read it before! It's odd. Its at least the fourth time I read it.
And truly there's everything in it. All the things I've discovered lately were there. And I hadn't seen it. It's odd.
The first time I read it was a revelation; it hung together perfectly well from beginning to end, and I felt I had understood (I did understand something). The second time I read it, I said to myself, "But this isn't the same thing as what I read! ..." It hung together, it made up a whole - and I understood something else. Then, recently when I read, at every passage I said to myself, "How new this is! And how the things I have found since are there!" Today again, that's how it is, as if I read it for the first time! And it puts me into contact with the things I have just discovered.
It's a miraculous book! (Mother laughs)
We'll continue in the same way. ...
In the course of her conversations with a disciple, the Mother on several occasions made comments about Sri Aurobindo’s transformative epic Savitri. We are reproducing these here, with our deep and sincere thanks to
|
||||
|
Sunday, February 15
by
RY Deshpande
on Sun 15 Feb 2009 05:50 AM IST
Narad
who has done this excellent piece of work. The series will cover these comments yearwise. The expectation is that we will grow in the richness of the insights and revelations given to us by the Mother. |
Login
Recent Articles
Recent Comments
Categories
Month Archive
Search
|
|||
|
|
||||