Savitri
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- Life-Sketch
- Yoga
- Politics
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Savitri
- 'The Symbol Dawn'
- 'The Issue'
- 'The Yoga of the King- The Yoga of the Soul's Release'
- 'The Secret Knowledge'
- 'The Yoga of the King- The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness'
- 'The World Stair'
- 'The Kingdom of Subtle Matter'
- 'The Glory and Fall of Life'
- 'The Kingdoms of the Little Life'
- 'The Godheads of the Little Life'
- 'The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life'
- 'The Descent into Night'
- 'The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil, and the Sons of Darkness'
- 'The Paradise of the Life-gods'
- 'The Kingdoms and the Godheads of the Little Mind'
- 'The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind'
- 'The Heavens of the Ideal'
- 'In the Self of Mind'
- 'The World-soul'
- 'The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge'
- 'The Pursuit of the Unknowable'
- 'The Adoration of the Divine Mother'
- 'The House of the Spirit and the New Creation'
- 'The Vision and the Boon'
- 'The Birth and Childhood of the Flame'
- 'The Growth of the Flame'
- 'The Call to the Quest'
- 'The Quest'
- 'The Destined Meeting Place'
- 'Satyavan'
- 'Satyavan and Savitri'
- 'The Word of Fate'
- 'The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain'
- 'The Joy of Union - the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief'
- 'The Parable of the Search for the Soul'
- 'The Entry into the Inner Countries'
- 'The Triple Soul- Forces'
- 'The Finding of the Sou'l
- 'Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-negating Absolute'
- 'Rose of God'
- The Two Missing Cantos
- 'Death in the Forest'
- 'Towards the Black Void'
- 'The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness'
- 'The Dream Twilight of the Ideal'
- 'The Gospel of Death and the Vanity of the Ideal'
- 'The Debate of Love and Death'
- 'The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real'
- 'The Eternal Day'
- 'The Soul's Choice'
- 'The Supreme Consummation'
- 'Epilogue- The Return to Earth'
- The Legend
- 'The Wonderful Poem'
- The Tale of the Epic- A Comparative Analysis
- New Dimensions
- Legends and Myths
- The Vedic Storehouse of Myth
- 'Symbols'
- 'Savitri' in the Veda
- Allegorical Interpretations of the Legend
- Symbolism in Savitri
- The Symbolism of the 'Sacrifice'
- The Problem
- The Overhead Planes of Conciousness
- Overhead Aesthesis
- Mystic Poetry and the Mantra
- 'Overhead' Poetry
- Overhead Influence in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga
- Savitri Five-Fold Aim Behind Its Composition
- The Basis of Savitri Sri Aurobindo's Yoga
- Planes of Consiousness Stair of Worlds
- Battles of the Soul
- 'Upanishadic and Kalidasian'
- Similes in Savitri
- 'Technique' and 'Inspiration' in Savitri
- 'Dawn' in Savitri
- Savitri Her Power and Personality
- Epics, Ancient and Modern
- Paradise Lost and Savitri
- Song of Myself and Savitri
- The Cantos
- The Odysseus Theme
- Kazantzakis' 'Modern Sequel'
- Sri Aurobindo and Kazantzakis
- 'A Triple Challenge'
- Dante and Sri Aurobindo
- Savitri and the Commedia
- Savitri and Aurobindo's Early Narrative Poems
- Savitri and Faust
- Savitri Its Architectural Design
- Savitri Its Symbolic Action in a Cosmic Background
- Savitri and the 'Sonnets'
- Advocatus Diaboli and Advocatus Dei
- Conclusion Towards a Greater Dawn
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index
XV
'THE KINGDOMS OF THE GREATER
KNOWLEDGE'
Returning to consciousness "after a measureless moment of the soul", Aswapati knows that here once and for all has "closed the finite's crawl to the Infinite". This is an experience without parallel, and Aswapati feels new-made; renewed, purified, strengthened:
Absolved from the ligaments of death and sleep
He rode the lightning seas of cosmic Mind
And crossed the ocean of original sound;...135
He gains new insights into the heavens above and the abyss below, and he grows in the "wisdom of the timeless Child". One more effort at self-transcendence, and all that he has aspired for himself are now finally his; he is heir to primal Energy and overwhelming Light; he reads the book of the Overmind and he tingles with the rapture of the Oversoul:
A borderer of the empire of the Sun,
Attuned to the supernal harmonies,
He linked creation to the Eternal's sphere.
His finite parts approached their absolutes,
His actions framed the movements of the Gods,
His will took up the reins of cosmic Force.136
And that is the end of Aswapati's ascent as a typical representative of the race. He has realised all for himself, and he has seen the Possibility open to the race. He has reached after endless trials and heroic persistence the shining tablelands of the Kingdom of the Greater Knowledge. He has been thrilled by the mighty currents in the "kingdom of the Spirit's power and light", and his inviews of Reality and outviews of Possibility have coalesced into a clear and ardent hope for the future of man and of the earth.
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