Sri Aurobindo & The (d.i. Mira Alfassa) Mother 
All Life Is Yoga: Savitri 
A Mantra for the Transformation of the World

“Savitri is the record of a seeing, of an experience which is not of the common kind and is often very far from what the general human mind sees and experiences. You must not expect appreciation or understanding from the general public or even from many at the first touch; as I have pointed out, there must be a new extension of consciousness and aesthesis to appreciate a new kind of mystic poetry.” (Sri Aurobindo)


The Mother considered Savitri to be “the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision” and called it “that marvellous prophetic poem which will be humanity’s guide towards its future realisation.”

Tabella dei contenuti

I. INTRODUCTION
1. Savitri – This Wonderful Prophetic Poem
2. Savitri – the Divine Mother
3. The Composition of Savitri

II. A VISION OF HIGHER REALMS THAN OURS
1. The Supramental Vision and Its Expression

III. THE CREATIVE WORD
1. Theory of the Mantra
2. Poetic Vision and the Mantra
3. The Poetry of the Future

IV. SAVITRI – THE DIVINE WORD
1. Savitri – The Sun-Word
2. Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol
3. Savitri – A Revelation
4. The Extraordinary Power of Savitri
5. Messages from the Mother

V. SAVITRI – THE SONG OF THE INFINITE AND ETERNAL (Selections from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri)
1. The Book of Beginnings

Canto 1: The Symbol Dawn
Dark Beginning
The Revelation and the Flame
The God-Light
Mortality and the Eternal’s Touch
Savitri’s Inner Conflict
The Day of Satyavan’s Death

Canto 2: The Issue
The Many-Imaged Past
Savitri and the God of Love
The Immortal and the Snare of Time
A Magic Leverage
The Victory for God in Man

Canto 3: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release
The Seer, Savitri’s Father
The Growing Divinity
Aswapati’s Growth into Larger Self
A Magical Accord
The Inner Planes
Time’s Drama
New Discovery
Silent Self
Beyond Thought
The Unseen Guide
Inspiration
The Universe as God’s Body
Release from Ignorance

Canto 4: The Secret Knowledge
Our Forgotten Vastnesses
In Great Lonely Hours
The Labour of the Earth Goddess
The Immortals Vision
Time’s Fulfilment
The Certitude of our Divine Destiny
Dream Truth
He and She
The Self-Determining Absolute
A Nameless Resident
The Voyager Soul

Canto 5: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness
The Eternal’s Promise
The Tessellated Whole
Towards the Eternal
The Transforming Descent
Mind – A Mediator Divinity
The Hierarchy of Worlds

2. The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds

Canto 1: The World-Stair
The Ascending World Hierarchy
Ladder Towards Deity
The Mystery’s Process

Canto 2: The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
Earth-Nature’s Origins
Our Lives and Divine Intimations
Earth’s Forms and Man’s Art
The Finite Perfection and the Immeasurable

Canto 3: The Glory and the Fall of Life
The Heavens of Light

Canto 4: The Kingdoms of the Little Life
The Formless Yearning
The Birth of Sense

Canto 5: The Godheads of the Little Life
The Deeper Vision of the Spirit
The Divine Influx

Canto 6: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
Death – A Passage to New Worlds
The Certitude of God’s Descent

Canto 7: The Descent into Night
Life: Its Obverse and Reverse Faces
The Abysm of Hell

Canto 8: The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness
Aswapati Crosses the World of Falsehood

Canto 9: The Paradise of the Life-Gods
The Life Heavens

Canto 10: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
The Human Ascent
Reason and the Infinite
Great Thoughts

Canto 11: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
The Spirit of Mind
Eternal Truth

Canto 12: The Heavens of the Ideal
The Deathless Rose
Our Hidden Centres
The Deathless Flame

Canto 13: In the Self of Mind
The Source of Knowledge
The Mind-Self

Canto 14: The World-Soul
Entry into the World-Soul
The Interval Between Birth and Birth
The Supreme Power

Canto 15: The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
Overmind and Oversoul

3. The Book of the Divine Mother

Canto 1: The Pursuit of the Unknowable
The One

Canto 2: The Adoration of the Divine Mother
Self and World
The Everlasting Yes
The Experience of the All-Beautiful
The Vision of the Supreme Mother
The Descent of the Mother-Might

Canto 3: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
Aspiration
The Universal Soul

Canto 4: The Vision and the Boon
The Advent of the Divine Mother
Aswapati and the Divine Mother
Savitri and Her Mission

4. The Book of Birth and Quest

Canto 1: The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
The Cycle of the Seasons
Savitri’s Body

Canto 2: The Growth of the Flame
The Truth of Ethics and Philosophy
The Divine Word
Towards Love’s Universality

Canto 3: The Call to the Quest
The Working of the Mantra

Canto 4: The Quest
Savitri’s Memory-Waking Quest
Divine Providence
Yogis and Nature
The Fateful Search

5. The Book of Love

Canto 1: The Destined Meeting-Place
The Meeting-Place

Canto 2: Satyavan
The Meeting
The Significance of the Meeting
The Truth of Love
Fitness to Receive Love
Affinity Revealed

Canto 3: Satyavan and Savitri
The Recognition
Satyavan’s Inner Sight and Hearing
Satyavan’s Deepening Vision of the Soul
Satyavan Finds the Key to Transformation
The Gold Link
The Marriage Garland
The All-Embrace

6. The Book of Fate

Canto 1: The Word of Fate
The Descent of Narad
His Vision of the Future
The King’s Plea to Narad
Man’s Tragic Struggle
The Mystery of Pain
Narad Describes Satyavan
Savitri’s Resolute Will

Canto 2: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
World Pain and Its Necessity
End of the Law of Pain
Origin of Death and Fate
The Working of Providence
Narad on Death as the Spirit’s Opportunity
The Heroic Strength

7. The Book of Yoga

Canto 1: The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain
Joy and Grief

Canto 2: The Parable of the Search for the Soul
Mind’s Restlessness
The Persistent Past

Canto 3: The Entry into the Inner Countries
The Mission of the Avatar
Savitri Enters the Inner Worlds
Life’s Nether Realms

Canto 4: The Triple Soul-Forces
Savitri to the Three Soul-Forces

Canto 5: The Finding of the Soul
The Search for the Soul
The Finding of the Soul
The Rising of the Serpent Power

Canto 6: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
Autumnal Mellowness
An Upsurge of the Inconscient
The Saviour’s Labour
Introversion
Mystic Visitations
The Mystery of the Genius
The Stilling of Thought
Nirvana

Canto 7: The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness
Unreal Reality
Enlightenment

8. The Book of Death

Canto 3: Death in the Forest
Satyavan’s Death

9. The Book of Eternal Night

Canto 1: Towards the Black Void
A New Birth of Consciousness
Savitri’s Spiritual Stature
The God of Death
Savitri in the Forest
Savitri Pursues Death in the Occult Planes

Canto 2: The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness
Night Threatened by Light
Savitri’s Challenge to Death

10. The Book of the Double Twilight

Canto 1: The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
Night the Shadow of Day
Twilight of the Gods
A Dream World

Canto 2: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
Love, the Rapturous Core of Suns
Savitri’s Great Promise

Canto 3: The Debate of Love and Death
The World as God Fulfilled
The Tangle-Dance of the One
The Growth of the Inner Light
The Graded Ascent of Love
Savitri on Love Linking Earth and Heaven
Savitri’s Universal Heart
Psychic Fire

Canto 4: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
Savitri, God and the World
Beyond Law
Most Bound Most Free
The Overhead Planes
Transformation – Its Phases

11. The Book of Everlasting Day

Canto 1: The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation
God’s Everlasting Day
The Delights of the Purified Heart
The Dance Celestial
Spirit – An Upsoaring Bird
Revelation of the Supreme Divine
The Divine’s Promise
Savitri’s Universal Love
Savitri’s Supplication
Ordinary Humanity
Savitri and Satyavan – Their Appointed Work
Savitri and the Supreme Lord
The Supreme Lord to Savitri
The Things to Come
The Descent to Earth

12. Epilogue

Canto 1: The Return to Earth
Back to Life

APPENDIX
A Brief Introduction to Savitri
References