Thank you Alok jee for the very beautiful exposition of the divine Ved Savitri. Thank you again for bringing it to us. God bless you. Await your next lecture.
Namaste Alokji, I am so thankful to you , you are making it so easy to understand the deep meaning of Sri Maa and Sri Prabhu’s writings. Thank you. We are going to miss you this year at Greenville’s retreat. Pranaams
I’ll just take anything@18.27, that passage as with almost all 24,000 lines of Savitri in varying pitch, tone, nuance and intensity carry a weight for me (and some others) that does not need translation, as the words themselves are crafted and molded from the intuitive -overhead planes of mantric seeing-feeling-and-vision and impacts our viscera and solar plexus that defies translation into a, “What that means.” Their sense conveyed by the immediacy of translation crafted from the planes where they are experienced-and-heard (Vedas referring to this as the “Ear of Ears”) without the intermediaries or necessities of philosophical reflection as an afterthought.
What you say is absolutely true, that is how it must be. But what applies and works for you does not necessarily work for others because the 'Ear behind the ear' is not yet so developed in most as it is in you. In fact, it is true of almost all of Sri Aurobindo's Writings that no interpretation can do justice. To me these are not really an interpretation in the sense that it is not an understanding emerging through a process of word definitions and analysis through the mind's extrapolations. I share what comes as an intuitive flash that feels what is behind in a vaster cosmic sense. Yet I agree that nothing can come even remotely close to the original intuition that alone can reach out behind the words and grasp the import of a revelatory writing. On a personal note, it was for this reason that I hesitated long even after number of suggestions and indications to take up Savitri and share its joy with co-travellers, many of whom are not fully acquainted by the English language and its nuances, until I was literally pushed into it by Prof Nadkarni ji due to certain circumstances. Now I do not take these talks as either an interpretation or something sacrosanct and final in terms of understanding but simply the joy of Her Service through these readings and hopefully of encouraging few co-travellers to come nearer to Savitri. My little humble work begins and ends there. The rest is between the Master and those who have turned to Him through Savitri.
@@AuroMaaThank you for your quite long reply. When I first picked up Savitri 44 yrs ago, at around 19 yrs old I was stunned. As it spoke to me directly, not expositions on the explanatory nature of it’s story, which I was ignorant of and had but little interest but the poetic and mantric nature, if you will, of each passage, some more than others, reaching heights of knowing-seeing-and feeling where the words themselves vanished, spoke to me as if they were carved from the planes of Inspiration (enthosiasmos) and seeing. I could not account for elsewhere except later in scattered passages from Romantic poets (e.g., passages from Wordsworth but also Milton) which had the touch of higher Intuitive and Overmental but most certainly inexplicably and magically not enmass with a synthesis and transcendence and dare I say an Immediacy of palpable realization and knowing that went far beyond. It was only later when I began to read the works of Sri Aurobindo that curiously I came across a passage in his book Secret of the Vedas, about when he first had begun to read them in the original Vedic Sanskrit had deep and immediate illumination/realization with veins of gold (to paraphrase) that he could not account for anywhere else prior. I can aver and say similarly the immediacy of knowing (of hearing) and impact much the same for me in this masterpiece and treasure of not only Overmental realization from many long passages throughout but even I dare say, Supramental. Also, I always thought (at least for me) that it was best read silently, that reading it out loud lost some of its ineffable and immanent power that touched the deepest inner part of sensing-and-traveling that reading it out loud somehow diluted. My own poetry which I have not revisited for some time was deeply consciously or unconsciously but certainly implicitly influenced by him. I always felt a kindredness of soul-knowing with him.
Never happened, another series (on Sri Aurobindo's poetry) was started instead. Talks on Savitri in English are abundant ru-vid.complaylists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=4
You mean Savitri by Sri Aurobindo this talk is about? You can buy online from any major vendor (search by title and author), or order from the Ashram at www.sabda.in/catalog/booksearch.php
