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Savitri Let's explore the divine Mantra of Savitri. The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death.

But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. 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. Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness and immortal life. Sri Aurobindo. The writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are copyright of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry, India.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 28,   2026,  Friday.A house was there all made of flame and lightAnd crossing a wall of ...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 28, 2026, Friday.

A house was there all made of flame and light
And crossing a wall of doorless living fire
There suddenly she met her secret soul.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, pp. 525-526.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 27,   2026,  Thursday.Then through a tunnel dug in the last rockShe came out where there...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 27, 2026, Thursday.

Then through a tunnel dug in the last rock
She came out where there shone a deathless sun.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 26,   2026,  Wednesday.Thence all departed into silent self,And all became formless and ...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 26, 2026, Wednesday.

Thence all departed into silent self,
And all became formless and pure and bare.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 25,   2026,  Tuesday.In the last chamber on a golden seatOne sat whose shape no vision c...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 25, 2026, Tuesday.

In the last chamber on a golden seat
One sat whose shape no vision could define;
Only one felt the world's unattainable fount,
A Power of which she was a straying Force,
An invisible Beauty, goal of the world's desire,
A Sun of which all knowledge is a beam,
A Greatness without whom no life could be.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 24,   2026,  Monday.A sealed identity within her woke;She knew herself the Beloved of th...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 24, 2026, Monday.

A sealed identity within her woke;
She knew herself the Beloved of the Supreme:
These Gods and Goddesses were he and she:
The Mother was she of Beauty and Delight,
The Word in Brahma's vast creating clasp,
The World-Puissance on almighty Shiva's lap,--
The Master and the Mother of all lives
Watching the worlds their twin regard had made,
And Krishna and Radha for ever entwined in bliss,
The Adorer and Adored self-lost and one.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 23,   2026,  Sunday.As thus she passed in that mysterious placeThrough room and room, th...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 23, 2026, Sunday.

As thus she passed in that mysterious place
Through room and room, through door and rock-hewn door,
She felt herself made one with all she saw.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 22,   2026,  Saturday.A light not born of sun or moon or fire,A light that dwelt within ...
18/09/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 22, 2026, Saturday.

A light not born of sun or moon or fire,
A light that dwelt within and saw within
Shedding an intimate visibility
Made secrecy more revealing than the word:
Our sight and sense are a fallible gaze and touch
And only the spirit's vision is wholly true.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

ஶ்ரீ அன்னை பலமுறை கூறியிருக்கிறார்: “யார் என் ஸ்பரிசத்தைப் பெறுகிறாரோ, யார் என் மீது ஒரு நொடியாவது உண்மையான பேராவலையும்,...
23/08/2026

ஶ்ரீ அன்னை பலமுறை கூறியிருக்கிறார்:

“யார் என் ஸ்பரிசத்தைப் பெறுகிறாரோ,

யார் என் மீது ஒரு நொடியாவது உண்மையான பேராவலையும், உண்மையான அன்பையும் கொண்டிருக்கிறாரோ,

அவர் வாழ்நாள் முழுவதும், எல்லா பிறவிகளுக்கும் என்னுடன் பிணைக்கப்பட்டு விடுகிறார்.

நான் அவர் கழுத்தில் ஒரு தங்கச் சங்கிலியை அணிவித்திருக்கிறேன்,

அவர் இதயம் என்றென்றும் என்னுடன் பிணைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.”

அது யாராலும் காண முடியாத ஒரு விஷயம், நீங்களே கூட அதைக் காண்பதில்லை;

ஆனால் அது ஒரு உண்மை, அது அங்கே இருக்கிறது.

அந்தத் தங்கச் சங்கிலி உங்கள் இதயத்திற்குள் இருக்கிறது.

நீங்கள் எங்கு சென்றாலும், அந்தச் சங்கிலியை இழுத்துச் செல்கிறீர்கள், அது நீண்டு கொண்டே போகும் ஒரு சங்கிலி.

நீங்கள் எவ்வளவு தூரம் சென்றாலும், அது ஒரு நெகிழ்ச்சியான சங்கிலி, அது நீண்டு கொண்டே போகும், ஆனால் ஒருபோதும் அறுந்து போகாது.

உங்கள் வாழ்வில் துன்பமான நேரங்களிலும், சந்தேகமும் குழப்பமும் நிறைந்த நேரங்களிலும், உங்களுக்கு ஆதரவளிக்க அது உங்களுக்குள் இருக்கிறது. நீங்கள் அதை உணர்ந்தால், அது இன்னும் சிறந்தது;

நீங்கள் அதை உணராவிட்டாலும், அது அங்கே இருக்கிறது என்று நம்புங்கள்.

அன்னையின் அன்பு, அவளது பிரசன்னம் எப்போதும் அங்கே இருக்கிறது.

ஸ்ரீ நளினி காந்த குப்தா,
அக்டோபர் 26, 1976

Meditations on Savitri,  August 21,   2026,  Friday.All this she saw and inly felt and knewNot by some thought of mind b...
21/08/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 21, 2026, Friday.

All this she saw and inly felt and knew
Not by some thought of mind but by the self.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

Meditations on Savitri,  August 20,   2026,  Thursday.Yet all the worlds and God himself were there,For every symbol was...
20/08/2026

Meditations on Savitri, August 20, 2026, Thursday.

Yet all the worlds and God himself were there,
For every symbol was a reality
And brought the presence which had given it life.

Sri Aurobindo, 1964. Savitri. Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 525.

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