The English of Savitri
Volume 2 deals with Book Three, The
Book of the Divine Mother. This volume, the second in the series The English of Savitri, is based on
classes led by Shraddhavan at Savitri Bhavan. The classes aim at assisting the
understanding and appreciation of Savitri
– a legend and a symbol, Sri
Aurobindo’s mantric epic which The Mother has characterised as ‘the supreme
revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision’.
Readers who have appreciated volume 1 of this series,
dealing with Book One of Savitri, will be surprised to find that this second
volume does not continue in sequence with Book Two, The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds. Instead it leaps to Book
Three, The Book of the Divine Mother.
This, explains Shraddhavan, is because the immense journey through all the
planes of existence followed by King Aswapati in the fifteen cantos of Book Two
was too daunting a task to be taken up immediately. The weekly study sessions
at Savitri Bhavan covering Book Two ...
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