Savitri Era Learning Forum: The Yogi-Poet is travelling simultaneously through different zones of time

Satyavan has to Die
by RY Deshpande on Wed 08 Apr 2009 03:15 AM IST Permanent Link Cosmos

But, actually, the Yogi-Poet is travelling simultaneously through different zones of time and, with swift and wide luminous ease, is covering the domains of different worlds—transcendental-universal-individual all the three in one quickness of movement. While the story belongs to the terrestrial mode there are also present in it, and at every stage of its development, other dimensions too.

It is sometimes said that Savitri begins with a flashback. The central event of the story, of the death of Satyavan, has been brought right at the beginning of the narrative. It could possibly so. The Passion of Christ is a movie which has used this technique. And there are many instances too. In the literary art, ancient as well as modern, many a great examples is present. Horace himself in his Ars Poetica speaks of in media res, into the middle of things. The issue, the event, and the characters are introduced by plunging into middle of the story. Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid are such classical epics. Horace also speaks of the story beginning at the beginning, ab initio or ab ovo, from the egg. He says The Trojan War does not begin from the double egg, but hurries to the action into the middle of things.

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The Yogi-Poet is travelling simultaneously through different zones of time

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