Savitri Reading Group
We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Wednesday until the poem is fully read.
Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in blank verse by Sri Aurobindo, based upon the theology from the Mahabharata. Its central theme revolves around the transcendence of man as the consummation of terrestrial evolution, and the emergence of an immortal supramental gnostic race upon earth. Unfinished at Sri Aurobindo’s death, Savitri approaches 24,000 lines.
The Book We’re Reading
Savitri
Sri AurobindoSavitri is Sri Aurobindo’s major poetic work, an epic in blank verse. In Savitri, a legend from the Mahabharata becomes the symbol of the human soul’s spiritual destiny. In poetic language, Sri Aurobindo describes his vision of existence and explo …
Archived Events

Savitri Reading Group – Book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain (second half, first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book VI, Canto I: The Word of Fate (second reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book V, Canto III: Satyavan and Savitri

Savitri Reading Group – Book V, Cantos I and II: "The Destined Meeting Place" and "Satyavan" (second reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book V, Cantos I and II: "The Destined Meeting Place" and "Satyavan"

Savitri Reading Group – Book IV, Cantos II and III: "The Growth of the Flame" and "The Call to the Quest"

Savitri Reading Group – Book IV, Canto One: The Birth and Childhood of the Flame

Savitri Reading Group – Book Three, Canto IV: The Vision and the Boon (first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Three (The Book of the Divine Mother), Canto III (The House of Spirit and the New Creation) - first reading

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto XII: The Heavens of the Ideal (first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto XI, "Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind" (first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto X, "Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind" (first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VIII – "The World of Falsehood"

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VII: The Descent into Night (first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain (full reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain (first half, first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book VI, Canto I: The Word of Fate (first reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book V, Canto III: “Satyavan and Savitri”

Savitri Reading Group – Book V, Canto III: Satyavan and Savitri

Savitri Reading Group – Book IV, Canto IV: The Quest

Savitri Reading Group - Book IV, Canto Two: The Growth of the Flame

Savitri Reading Group – Book Three, Canto IV: The Vision and the Boon (second reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Three (The Book of the Divine Mother), Canto III (The House of Spirit and the New Creation) - second reading

Savitri Reading Group – Book Three, Cantos I, II, and some of III (The Book of the Divine Mother)

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto XIII: In the Self of Mind

Savitri Reading Group – 2020-12-16

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto X, "Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind" (second reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto IX, The Paradise of the Life-Gods

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VII: The Descent Into Night (second reading)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VI: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life (continued)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VII, "The Descent Into Night" (first part)

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VI: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
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Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto VI (Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life) [first session]
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Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto V (The Godheads of the Little Life) [session 2]

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group: Part One, Book One, Canto V, (part 2 of ?) - 2020.2.5

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group

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Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group

Savitri Reading Group
![Savitri Reading Group – Book II, Canto Six, "The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life" [continued]](https://wp.cosmos.media/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2019/07/298d81ea89df9afb11630711967bab22542113e9.jpg)
Savitri Reading Group – Book II, Canto Six, "The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life" [continued]

Savitri Reading Group – Book Two, Canto V (The Godheads of the Little Life) – FULL READ-THROUGH

Savitri Reading Group
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Savitri Reading Group [2020-04-15]

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Savitri Reading Group

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