Savitri - A Legend and a Symbol- Table of Contents - Sri Aurobindo

The Mother

Savitri
“A Legend and a Symbol”

- Sri Aurobindo

The writing of Savitri extended over much of the later part of Sri Aurobindo’s life. The earliest known manuscript is dated 1916. The original narrative poem was recast several times in the first phase of composition. By around 1930, Sri Aurobindo had begun to turn it into an epic with a larger scope and deeper significance. Transformed into “A Legend and a Symbol”, Savitri became his major literary work which he continued to expand and perfect until his last days. In the late 1940s, when his eyesight was failing, he took the help of a scribe and dictated the extensive final stages of revision. Separate cantos started to appear in print in 1946. Part One of the first edition was published in 1950. The next year, after Sri Aurobindo’s passing, the rest of the poem was brought out in a second volume.

Table of Contents

Savitri
“A Legend and a Symbol”

Table of Contents

PART ONE

Book One

The Book of Beginnings

Canto I

The Symbol Dawn

Canto II

The Issue

Canto III

The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release

Canto IV

The Secret Knowledge

Canto V

The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness

Book Two

The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds

Canto I

The World-Stair

Canto II

The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

Canto III

The Glory and the Fall of Life

Canto IV

The Kingdoms of the Little Life

Canto V

The Godheads of the Little Life

Canto VI

The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life

Canto VII

The Descent into Night

Canto VIII

The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness

Canto IX

The Paradise of the Life-Gods

Canto X

The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

Canto XI

The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind

Canto XII

The Heavens of the Ideal

Canto XIII

In the Self of Mind

Canto XIV

Canto XV

The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge

Book Three

The Book of the Divine Mother

Canto I

The Pursuit of the Unknowable

Canto II

The Adoration of the Divine Mother

Canto III

The House of the Spirit and the New Creation

Canto IV

The Vision and the Boon

PART TWO

Book Four

The Book of Birth and Quest

Canto I

The Birth and Childhood of the Flame

Canto II

The Growth of the Flame

Canto III

The Call to the Quest

Canto IV

Book Five

The Book of Love

Canto I

The Destined Meeting-Place

Canto II

Satyavan

Canto III

Satyavan and Savitri

Book Six

The Book of Fate

Canto I

The Word of Fate

Canto II

The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain

Book Seven

The Book of Yoga

Canto I

The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain

Canto II

The Parable of the Search for the Soul

Canto III

The Entry into the Inner Countries

Canto IV

The Triple Soul-Forces

Canto V

The Finding of the Soul

Canto VI

Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Canto VII

The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness

Book Eight

The Book of Death

Canto III

Death in the Forest

PART THREE

Book Nine

The Book of Eternal Night

Canto I

Towards the Black Void

Canto II

The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness

Book Ten

The Book of the Double Twilight

Canto I

The Dream Twilight of the Ideal

Canto II

The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal

Canto III

The Debate of Love and Death

Canto IV

The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real

Book Eleven

The Book of Everlasting Day

Canto I

The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation

Book Twelve

Epilogue

The Return to Earth