Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri is both a legend and a symbol, legend belonging to the Vedic cycle and symbol describing evolutionary manifestation of the Consciousness of Immortality, manifestation in this material creation. Its sweep of about 24,000 lines encompasses at once the individual, the universal, and the transcendental dimensions, with the mystic-spiritual voice that has the power to make these real in our midst. Indeed, it is that gleaming...