Savitri: Its Profound and Magnificent Significance
Book XI (The Book of Everlasting Day) Canto I (The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation)
— V. Ananda Reddy
Price: Rs 525
Soft Cover Pages: 336 Dimensions (in cms): 14x22
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research Trust, Pondicherry ISBN: 978-93-85391-44-6
About Savitri: Its Profound and Magnificent Significance
This volume is a collection of talks given at the Hall of Harmony, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in 2008. Consisting of only one canto, the longest single canto of the entire poem, the Book picks up the story after Savitri’s victory over Death. The “Eternal Night” that began in Book IX has ended, Death has been defeated and transformed, and that eternal night transformed into “The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation”, the title of this canto. Savitri remains adamant in her decision to work for the earth, declining all divine boons offered. That is her soul’s settled choice. The supreme consummation is the Divine’s declaration that She will descend upon earth in a physical body and secure the deliverance of humanity. “The incarnate dual Power shall open God’s door.” The author contends that this canto, a perfect poetic creation, reflects all the beauty, ecstasy, truth, and love of pure mantra.
