What Basically is Savitri? – A Brief Commentary
The author emphasises that we should so train ourselves in heart and mind that Savitri becomes an experience of a miraculous communion.
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“To read Savitri is indeed to practise Yoga.”
After all that Sri Aurobindo had set forth in his major works, why he undertook another massive effort of literary creation, namely, Savitri?
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‘A Great Illuminative Power’ – Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry – Part 1
The author presents a few key facets of Sri Aurobindo’s poetry and poetics that she, a poet herself, finds most fascinating.
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‘A Great Illuminative Power’ – Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry – Part 2
In this part, with the help of a few examples, the author speaks of poetic vision of Sri Aurobindo and also discusses Overhead aesthesis.
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A Splendour that Lit up the Suns
The author reminds that “if there is a highest point of meeting between Literature and Yoga, it has to be in the works of Sri Aurobindo.”
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Life, Love and Union in Sri Aurobindo’s Eric
The author zooms in on Eric which is a story of love, heroism, responding to a higher call and opening to a greater power.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of Indian Culture: The Mahabharata – 5
Sri Aurobindo was fascinated with the legend of Savitri in the Mahabharata. With a sage’s vision he saw Savitri as the redeemer of the entire humanity.
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Studies in Sri Aurobindo’s Dramatic Poems
The author reviews a book by M. V. Seetharaman which unfolds the inner significance of the five poetic dramas written by Sri Aurobindo – Rodogune, The Viziers of Bassora, Perseus the Deliverer, Vasavadutta and Eric.
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