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In this book the author comments on a sampling of significant passages in Savitri that convey a wide-ranging yet insightful view of Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual teaching. He often draws on prose works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for context in understanding the themes of Savitri. Beginning with the highly symbolic opening passage of the poem, he proceeds in subsequent chapters to examine themes such as the parallels between King Aswapati and Savitri, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, respectively, in the context of their work for the world. Love in its higher possibilities, the role of the soul, the layers of our inner being, the question of fate and free will, the debate with Death, and the higher reaches of spiritual consciousness are other themes explored. The final two chapters highlight passages about the divine, supramental worlds pressing for manifestation in our material world as the pioneering spiritual work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

A cartoon series that once delighted parents and children alike, the comic strip Curly Wee ran daily in the Irish Independent from 1937 until the late 1950s and was syndicated worldwide. In India, it appeared in The Daily Mail and, as attested by Tara Jauhar and Nirodbaran, Sri Aurobindo enjoyed reading the adventures of Curly Wee, the aristocratic pig, and his furry and feathered friends. The lively cartoon figures and amusing rhymes are still entertaining, and this set of twelve books, each telling a different story from the celebrated strip, is from Tara Jauhar’s collection given to her by the Mother each Christmas from 1950 to 1953.

The very title of this book, Fundamentals of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy in Savitri, promises a study of how the substance of its high thought is at the heart of its innovative poetic style, its revelatory mantric poetry. The first chapter introduces how these two aspects of the poem unite in some of its most visionary and incandescent passages. Subsequent chapters partner timely prose passages from his major works with selections from Savitri on such principles as the duality of Ishwara-Shakti, the Divine Mother, the psychic being, fate, karma and free will, the occult worlds, involution and evolution, the realisation of the spiritual Self, and the Supermind and its transformation of life on earth into a life divine. The author’s commentaries on the selected passages from Savitri and their corresponding grounding in excerpts from his prose works weld language and import in a nuanced understanding of Sri Aurobindo’s teaching.

Dino and the Mystery of the Sea, a parable for readers of all ages, recounts the story of a little fish who uncovers the hidden secrets of the great big sea. Dino, guided by the wise Mauna, faces many challenges during his journey of discovery through the mysterious sea.