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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri:
A Quest for a Deathless State

Saroj Kanta Mishra, B.Sc. (Ag.), M.A. (Eng.)


Aurobindo’s Savitri: A Deathless State

Seems a bit confusing, ‘a deathless state’ is not it? But Sri Aurobindo has always envisaged that- ‘a deathless state’. In fact, this state of deathlessness is not an el dorado, not a utopia either; rather, it can be experienced with a certain mental attitude and attribute, where death ceases to exist, at least in a subtle sense, no matter how much death-bound we may be in reality.

That’s what this magnum opus Savitri, a long narrative poem, an epic in the true sense of the term, tells us in almost 24000 lines of blank verse in iambic pentameter. The simple story of Savitri and Satyavan, taken out of the ‘Banaparba’ of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharat, has been treated as the base for this great poem which is the symbol of the future of the mankind as well, as per Sri Aurobindo’s version.

Achieving Divinity

The title of the poem is Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, which is self-explanatory as every character of the poem symbolizes one or the other attributes of human endeavour to achieve divinity. In the ‘Author’s Note’ of this epic poem, Sri Aurobindo says,

Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine word, daughter of the sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save ; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan is the Divine mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision and through that loss its kingdom of glory. (Sri Aurobondo, Savitri - Author’s Note).

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