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Issue No: 321, April 2016

The English of Savitri, vol. 2

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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Issue No. 321, April 2016

  • Shalom Shanti Salam
  • The Auroville Economy: In Dire Straits
  • Is Auroville Moving Toward a Market Economy?
  • All for Water for All
  • Discovering Johannes Hohlenberg
  • Down Memory Road or The Tunnel
  • The English of Savitri, vol. 2
  • "You have to keep going forward": A Portrait of Pashi
  • German Volunteers in Auroville: The Weltwaerts Programme
  • Rockstar Racing
  • Eric Hughes (Passing)

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