Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - A critique

Nothing could hold back Rishi Aurobindo from his quest for soul or dissuade him from becoming a world famous poet; a poet who understood human psyche, who realised inner being of human beings, who seriously thought of well being of human beings. Sri Aurobindo himself on his epic poetry Savitri, has opined, "I used Savitri as a means of ascension. I began with it on a certain mental level, each time I could reach a higher level I rewrote from that level… In fact Savitri has not been regarded by me as a poem to be written and finished, but as a field of experimentation to see how far poetry could be written from one's own yogic consciousness and how that could be made creative". Savitri of Sri Aurobindo is depicted to overcome the ills of the earth to save Satyavan. She does this by overcoming the limitations of life including conflict, duality, pain, darkness, etc. Savitri is the divine word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme truth, who comes down and is born to save. Sri Aurobindo is also credited with offering a few plays in verse. These plays boast of characters, mythical and historical who belong to different countries.