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At the Feet of The Mother

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The Heavenly Bard and Divine Messenger Narad, pp. 415-416 (SH 214)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Meanwhile, in the Seer-King Aswapati’s palace, Narad, the demigod, choses to descend! As always he brings with him a strange mix of good news and a bad news. But in fact the attribution of good and bad is our doing, or rather the mind’s way of looking at things. Narad simply brings down to man the word of Fate.
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The Momentary Parting of Savitri and Satyavan, pp. 411-412 (SH 213)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Savitri and Satyavan have spoken and met. They have rediscovered each other through Love and grown one. But now Savitri must hasten back to her home and disclose the news to her parents about her choice. Thus she parts from her self-chosen home to the home of her birth and childhood.
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The Wedding of the Eternal Lord and Spouse, pp. 410-411 (SH 212)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
The coming together of Man and Woman is simply a symbol, a distorted reflection in our human Ignorance, of the coming together of two seeming opposites, Purusha and Prakriti, Soul and Matter, Heaven and Earth. This profound inner truth of our inmost heights is being revealed to us through the marriage of Savitri and Satyavan...
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The Silver Call

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The Silver Call. Written on or before 25 April 1934 (when Sri Aurobindo quoted five lines in a letter to Dilip Kumar Roy); revised 1944. Five handwritten manuscripts and one typed manuscript; the first handwritten manuscript was written shortly after those of the two preceding sonnets. The original poem went through several versions, eventually becoming two, “The Silver Call” and “The Call of the Impossible”.
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The Moment of Acceptance, pp. 408-409 (SH 211)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Satyavan has spoken his deepest heart out to Savitri. Savitri has seen and heard and felt with her inmost heart that the one whom she has searched for is here, embodied in the being of Satyavan. She accepts and, coming down from her chariot, reveals her choice through words and symbol gestures.
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The Seeking Spirit of Satyavan, pp. 406-408 (SH 210)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Satyavan is no ordinary mortal. In Savitri he is the symbol of the human soul trapped in a double ignorance. On the one side he is ignorant of the world he inhabits while on the other side he is ignorant of his secret Self. When with great labour and struggle he finds the one, he tends to lose the other...
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Man the Thinking Animal

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Man the Thinking Animal. Circa 1934. Five handwritten manuscripts and one typed manuscript, the earliest contemporaneous with close-to-final drafts of “Transformation” and “The Other Earths”.
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