ABOUT THE ENGLISH OF SAVITRI: VOLUME 6 (BOOK 11 – THE BOOK OF EVERLASTING DAY AND BOOK 12 - EPILOGUE)

Volume Six in this series on the English of Savitri explores the final two books of the epic. In Book Eleven, The Book of Everlasting Day, Savitri at last obtains the sanction of the Supreme Lord to her prayer for the return of Satyavan to earth, tokening the promise of a divine life on earth. At the start of Book Twelve, Epilogue: The Return to Earth, Savitri awakens from her deep trance to find herself in the forest again, in the late afternoon of the same day on which Death had stolen Satyavan’s soul. As night falls on this momentous day, the book concludes with the promise of a greater dawn when a new world will be born.

Like the previous volumes, this book is based on the transcripts of classes held at Savitri Bhavan. Its aim remains the same, to read the poetry according to the natural rhythms of English speech and to gain a better understanding and appreciation of Savitri by explaining Sri Aurobindo’s vocabulary, sentence structure, and imagery.