and especially the path of integral yoga. While the First Part (Books I-III) mainly focusses on the Yoga of King Aswapati (Savitri’s father), the Second and Third Parts especially deal with the meeting of Savitri and Satyavan, their deep psychic love and Savitri’s battle with Yama, the God of Death, when he comes to take Satyavan’s soul and faces her indomitable resistance. Metre and Inspiration Sri Aurobindo has written his epic poem in blank verse, which is a very flexible metre allowing manifold variations of cadence and rhythm. But K.D. Sethna, a poet and disciple of Sri Aurobindo, notes that the freedom of this metre “does not cut any modernistic zigzag of irregularity”. Sri Aurobindo would reject any kind of free verse without underlying and unifying rhythm. He further explains that Savitri adopts, with some adaptations, the iambic five-foot line of English blank verse as the most apt and plastic medium for this specific type of inspiration. He adds that independent text blocks with a kind of self-sufficient structure are characteristic of Sri Aurobindo’s style, and his verses get their special sound and mantric force, because he is writing from the so-called “Overhead-planes”, that is to say planes beyond the mind. Literature Indian editions Sri Aurobindo’s original text has been brought out as vols. 33 and 34 of the Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) as well as various one-volume editions: Sri Aurobindo, Savitri. A Legend and a Symbol. Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo Ashram 1997 American edition Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin Secondary literature M.P. Pandit (2000), Introducing Savitri, Dipti Publications, Pondicherry Mangesh V. Nadkarni (2012), Savitri. The Golden Bridge, the Wonderful Fire. An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo’s epic. Savitri Bhavan, Auroville K.D. Sethna (2008), The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, Clear Ray Trust, Puducherry Jugal Kishore Mukherjee (2001), The ascent of sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri D. S. Mishra (1989), Poetry and philosophy in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri Shraddhavan (2017-2022), The English of Savitri, vols. 1-11, Savitri Bhavan, Auroville References External links Official online text The Mother on Savitri Information on Sri Aurobindo and his writings 1954 books Integral thought New Age in popular culture New Age literature Epic poems in English Works by Sri Aurobindo