Savitri Quotes

“Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“But though hast come and all will surely change.”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Immortal rhythms swayed in her time-born steps;
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight
Poured a supernal beauty on men’s lives.

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― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart”
― Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

“Savitri itself, one might say, is just such a ‘message from the unknown immortal Light’, revealed to humankind at the dawn of an age of global seeking and aspiration for change. To derive the utmost benefit from reading it, one must, to whatever degree, be able to open oneself to that Light.


Much of Savitri describes things that take place in an inner consciousness or in subtle worlds beyond our normal awareness. The three books of Part One, forming the first half of the epic, are almost entirely of this character. After two opening cantos introducing the heroine’s crisis on the morning of the fateful day to which the narrative returns hundreds of pages later in ‘The Book of Death’, the rest of Part One is a flashback to the spiritual and occult experiences of Aswapati, the king and yogi who is Savitri’s father in the legend. These books culminate in a vision of the Divine Mother and her promise of an incarnation who is to bring a new factor into the play of forces upon earth.”
― Gautam Chikermane, Reading Sri Aurobindo