About the book: 2023 / "Savitri" is the main work of Sri Aurobindo - a prominent public figure in India, a great spiritual pioneer, thinker, poet-seer. Above the poem " Savitri" Sri Aurobindo worked for several decades, continuing to improve it until the last days of his life. The poem is based on the ancient legend, set out in the Indian epic Mahabharata, about the devoted wife Princess Savitri, who with the power of her love and righteousness defeats death and brings her husband back to life husband of Prince Satyavan. Sri Aurobindo reveals the symbolic essence of the characters and plot of the ancient legend and uses it to express his own spiritual achievements and achievements. When creating his epic, Sri Aurobindo set the task of expressing in words the highest levels of consciousness accessible to man, in order to help all spiritual seekers come into contact with these levels and rise to them. The result is a grand epic poem of some 24,000 lines, the most complete and perfect expression of Sri Aurobindo's unique synthetic worldview and spiritual experience, and the largest work of poetry in the English language. This electronic edition is based on material from the site sri-aurobindo.co.in