Savitri—the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision
The Mother

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Savitri: the Light of the Supreme
In Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra we have a phrase “Savitŗ, the Light of the Supreme, or in Sanskrit jyotih parasya”. This we have taken for the name of our site which is specifically devoted to Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri. It will be our endeavour to present its various aspects in the course of time. Texts of Savitri, the compositional details, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s writings about it will form one major section for reference purposes. Work on it by others in several other sections will follow in the sequel. It is also hoped that there will be audio-visual presentations in the creative spirit for us to grow more and more in it. Indeed, to live in Savitri who shall give us the truth and the things of the truth shall be the driving motivation behind this effort.

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El Dorado is generally taken as a land of fabulous wealth but Sri Aurobindo uses it as a bright metaphor describing a reality which does exist elsewhere and which must appear here on earth in all its reality. And there are dream-cities with the majestic sun-temples built for the dwelling of the mighty powers, built in the Paradise of the Spirit. These are not mere mythical or free imaginations, but have a concrete truthfulness waiting for the birth in this terrestrial manifestation.

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"The Absolute, the Perfect, the Alone" has called cut his silent power from within himself and has entered into Space and Time and become many. He has taken up this mask of imperfection so that ultimately man may rise to the divine nature. Transformation of nature becomes possible because of the presence of the Divine behind the human. As the Divine accepts man's nature with all its imperfections, so is it possible for man to put on the divine nature. In fact, that is the inevitable destiny intended of man. For we are children of God and must become like Him. The key to this divine becoming is hidden, "...and by the Inconscient kept". The identification with Nature is complete in the beginning and continues as long as the Puruşa does not succeed in establishing a witness-consciousness. It is with this attainment of the Puruşa-consciousness as the witness that the liberation of the human consciousness can begin.

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We are here to discover, to know and to live, and we can bear the horror with the certitude that the Light, the Knowledge and the Purpose will be one day manifested. With patience and firmness and quiet assurance we must go on, we must endure and we must realise.

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Only those who can communicate with the Powers and what they intend to do can prepare not only themselves but those around them to deal with the forthcoming events.

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The possibility of knowing in advance and seeing things all over the world is indeed in man, but very few care even to discover it and still less to take the trouble to develop and cultivate the capacity. It is only by withdrawing into the depths of the being, by giving more importance to the intuitive capacity, that we can be free from the prison in which our consciousness is shut up.

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In our crude and limited understanding we believe that things have no meaning and no purpose, but when we can rise to a higher and vaster vision we come to know that each thing is in its place, each event at its proper moment and that the whole universe is going by a tremendous and unopposable movement towards the goal of the Divine Realisation. It is our limitation, our ignorance that create the incoherence. But behind this ignorance there is a Will that knows and does. Never judge and never despair.

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There are difficulties of the waking of the Consciousness in a body that is not fully conscious and has to learn by experience what it is and what it can do.

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On the surface all seems unreal, useless, boring. The only way to get out of this incertitude is to find the Divine and to live for the Divine. All the rest is a mechanical law. Perhaps now, after much trouble and much misery, after much hope and much failure, the world will at last turn towards the Light and the Truth. And the Supreme Power will answer in such a way as to enable us to find it and to live in it.

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All the possibilities are already included in what is manifested, and it is by the long process of evolution that little by little these possibilities take shape and become living realities. We are approaching the time of one of these new revelations, and the world is preparing for this eventful manifestation which will be more true, more luminous, more divine.

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This is the description of the experiences that the human being prepared for getting in contact with his soul can have and has had for many centuries. They are just the preparation of the condition in which the Presence of the Divine is always and constantly felt.

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It is the condition of the body because for centuries none took care to give to the body the right Consciousness, but now this Consciousness has come down upon earth and is working to give to the body that same experience as many have got already in the mind, and the aspiration towards the true self and the true life which depends on a higher and more divine Consciousness. The time has come when this marvellous change can be effected and we must hope that many will take advantage of this exceptional hour.

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Here is the full text of Canto Four, The Secret Knowledge, Book One, The Book of Beginnings, as we have in the Revised Edition of Savitri, 1993, pp. 46-73.

On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights.
Our early approaches to the Infinite
Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge
While lingers yet unseen the glorious sun.
What now we see is a shadow of what must come.
The earth's uplook to a remote Unknown
Is a preface only of the epic climb
Of human soul from its flat earthly state
To the discovery of a greater self
And the far gleam of an eternal Light. …

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Here is the full text of Canto Four, The Secret Knowledge, Book One, The Book of Beginnings, as we have in the Centenary Edition of Savitri, pp. 46-73.

On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights.
Our early approaches to the Infinite
Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge
While lingers yet unseen the glorious sun.
What now we see is a shadow of what must come.
The earth's uplook to a remote unknown
Is a preface only of the epic climb
Of human soul from its flat earthly state
To the discovery of a greater self
And the far gleam of an eternal Light. …

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As Sri Aurobindo described it prophetically, so it is happening now and will happen more and more as the New Consciousness is working closer to the human consciousness. Let all be ready and understand the meaning of the present events.

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This is a realisation that is brought by the true Consciousness when it manifests upon earth. And Sri Aurobindo had described all these movements and all these events long before they took place. Now the Consciousness is come and what He described has become true.

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This is the description of what happens when the Consciousness or the Force from above enters into a physical form. All sorts of possibilities and experiences become possible and manifest in a way quite uncommon and unusual.

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Behind, there is a Conscious Will working and, through this confusion, preparing the evolution towards a greater perfection. When you can rise above the appearances and understand the ways of the Consciousness at work, then you can discover also the goal towards which the universe is tending.

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After the vision and the experience come the expression and the spreading of the new knowledge and the new experience. The whole thing is prophetic and an announcement of what will be.

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This is the period of preparation for the transformation of the physical. This Nature below, that seemed to be unchangeable, by this constant downpour of Power and Light became plastic and capable of transformation.

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