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is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is
a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable per-
fection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me
*"I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant
in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still I do not know
how far I shall succeed. I pray for help."* And you know what
it was? It was — before beginning, I warn you in advance — it
was his way of speaking, so full of humility and divine mod-
esty. He never... *asserted himself.* And the day he actually
began it, he told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless
boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having
started, he wrote page after page without intermission, as
though it were a thing already complete up there and he had
only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en
masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with his
genius only arranged the lines — in a superb and magnificent
style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and he has left
them intact; he worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspira-
tion could come from the highest possible summit. And what
a work he has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is
an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a
simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid
and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but
I have never come across anything which could be compared
with Savitri. I have studied the best works — in Greek, Latin,
English and of course in French literature, also in German and
all the great creations of the West and the East, including the
great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere any-

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