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This Chinese/English compilation comprises selections on the Chinese culture and character from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It also includes an article on Hu Hsu, a Chinese scholar, linguist and artist who lived in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for many years and translated several major works of Sri Aurobindo into Chinese. Paintings by Hu Hsu and facsimiles in the Mother’s hand of sayings by Chinese masters add beauty and interest to the volume. The first half of the book is a Chinese translation of the second half, the original English text.

In this book the author comments on a sampling of significant passages in Savitri that convey a wide-ranging yet insightful view of Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual teaching. He often draws on prose works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for context in understanding the themes of Savitri. Beginning with the highly symbolic opening passage of the poem, he proceeds in subsequent chapters to examine themes such as the parallels between King Aswapati and Savitri, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, respectively, in the context of their work for the world. Love in its higher possibilities, the role of the soul, the layers of our inner being, the question of fate and free will, the debate with Death, and the higher reaches of spiritual consciousness are other themes explored. The final two chapters highlight passages about the divine, supramental worlds pressing for manifestation in our material world as the pioneering spiritual work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Sri Aurobindo’s profound exploration of Indian culture revealed the magnificent truths and secret knowledge hidden within the Vedas and Upanishads, the richness of spirit reflected in various hymns and sagas, and the underlying essence among different religions and their impact on shaping life and activities across centuries. Originally published as a series of essays in the journal Sri Aurobindo Circle, this book provides a literate, accessible introduction to Sri Aurobindo’s interpretation of Indian culture. Choosing to focus on Indian literature, Prema Nandkumar examines Sri Aurobindo’s insights in a comprehensive manner covering the Vedic age, the great Indian epics, Kalidasa’s place in world poetry, the classical age of Sanskrit writers with their cultured thought and high imagination, the Puranas, and several chapters on Indian religion and spirituality, culminating in the Sanatana Dharma, the eternal religion. The depth and breadth of his observations bring a new dimension to our understanding of Indian culture and its relevance in reclaiming her heritage for the modern age.

The very title of this book, Fundamentals of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy in Savitri, promises a study of how the substance of its high thought is at the heart of its innovative poetic style, its revelatory mantric poetry. The first chapter introduces how these two aspects of the poem unite in some of its most visionary and incandescent passages. Subsequent chapters partner timely prose passages from his major works with selections from Savitri on such principles as the duality of Ishwara-Shakti, the Divine Mother, the psychic being, fate, karma and free will, the occult worlds, involution and evolution, the realisation of the spiritual Self, and the Supermind and its transformation of life on earth into a life divine. The author’s commentaries on the selected passages from Savitri and their corresponding grounding in excerpts from his prose works weld language and import in a nuanced understanding of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching.

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