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normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">Savitri</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>SAVITRI, the poem, the
word of Sri Aurobindo is the cosmic Answer to the cosmic Question. And Savitri,
the person, the Godhead, the Divine Woman is the Divine's response to the human
aspiration.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
world is a great question mark. It is a riddle, eternal and ever-recurring. Man
has faced the riddle and sought to arrive at a solution since he has been given
a mind to seek and interrogate.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What
is this universe? From where has it come? Whither is it going? What is the
purpose of it all? Why is man here? What is the object of his existence?</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Such
is the mode of human aspiration. And Ashwapati in his quest begins to explore
the world and see what it is, the way it is built up. He observes it rising
tier upon tier, level upon level of consciousness. He mounts these stairs,
takes cognisance of the modes and functions of each and passes on enriched by
the experiences that each contributes to his developing con­sciousness. The
ascent he finds is from ignorance to knowledge. The human being starts from the
darkest bed of ignorance, the solid basis of rock as it were, the body, the
material exis­tence. Ignorance here is absolute inconscience. Out of the total
absence of consciousness, the being begins to awake and rise to a gradually
developing – widening, deepening and heightening – consciousness. That is how
Ashwapati advances, ascends from a purely bodily life and consciousness, to the
next rung of the ladder, the first appearance and expression of life-force, the
vital consciousness – energies and forms of the small lower vital. He moves on,
moves upward, there is a growing light in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 237</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And mixed with the
obscurity; ignorance begins to shed its hard and dark coatings one and gives
place to directed and motivated energies. He meets beings and creatures appro­priate
to those levels crawling and stirring and climbing, moved by the laws governing
the respective regions. In this way Ashwapati passes on into the higher vital,
into the border of the mental.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ashwapati
now observes with a clear vividness that all these worlds and the beings and
forces that inhabit them are stricken as it were with a bar sinister branded
upon their bodies. In spite of an inherent urge of ascension the way is not a
straight road but devious and crooked breaking into by-lanes and blind alleys.
There is a great corruption and perversion of natural movements towards Truth:
falsehoods and pretensions, arrogance of blindness reign here in various
degrees. Ashwapati sought to know the wherefore of it all. So he goes behind,
dives down and comes into a region that seems to be the source and basis of all
ignorance and obscurity and falsehood. He comes into the very heart of the
Night, the abyss of consciousness. He meets there the Mother of Evil and the
sons of darkness. He stands before</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>. . the gate of the false
Infinite,<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:43.65pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>An eternity of disastrous absolutes ¹</p>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>Here are
the forces that pull down and lure away to perdition all that man's aspirations
and the world's urge seek to express and build of Divine things. It is the
world in which the forces of the original inconscience find their primitive
play. They are dark and dangerous: they prey upon earth's creatures who are not
content with being vassals of darkness but try to move to the Light.</p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dangerous is this passage for the celestial
aspirant:</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span>Where the<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>red Wolf waits by the
fordless stream</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span>And Death's black eagles scream to the precipice. .²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>He must be absolutely
vigilant, absolutely on his guard, absolutely sincere.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, Book II: Canto 8: p.
250. . <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² Ibid: Book II: Canto 8: p. 260.</span></p>
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– 238<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Here must the traveller of the upward
way­<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>–</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For daring
Hell's kingdoms winds the heavenly route­ – </p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Pause or
pass slowly through that perilous space,</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A prayer upon his lips and the great
Name.¹</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But there
is no escape. The divine traveller has to pass through this region. For it lies
athwart his path to the goal. Not only so, it is necessary to go through this
Night. For Ashwapati</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Knew death for a cellar of
the house of life,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In destruction felt
creation's hasty pace, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Knew loss as the price of
a celestial gain</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And
hell as a short cut to heaven's gates.²</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ashwapati
now passes into the higher luminous regions. He enters regions of larger breath
and wider movement – the higher vital and then into the yet more luminous
region of the higher mind. He reaches the heavens where immortal sages and the
divinities and the gods themselves dwell. Even these Ashwapati finds to be only
partial truths, various aspects, true but limited, of the One Reality beyond.
Thus he leaves all behind and reaches into the single sole Reality, the
transcen­dental Truth of things, the status vast and infinite and eternal,
immutable existence and consciousness and bliss.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A Vastness brooded free from sense of
Space, </p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>An
Everlastingness cut off from Time. .</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>&quot;A stillness absolute,
incommunicable. .³</p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Here seems
to be the end of the quest, and one would fain stay there ever and ever in that
status</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:1.9pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>. . occult, impenetrable,­–</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Infinite,
eternal, unthinkable, alone.<span style='font-size:8.0pt'>4<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:2.85pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ashwapati
was perhaps about to be lured into that Bliss but</p>
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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>1 Ibid: Book II: Canto 7: p. 238.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>2 Op. tit. Book II:
Canto 8: p. 262.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>3 Op. tit. Book III:
Cantos 1-2: pp. 349; 351.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>4 Op. tit. Book III:
Canto 1: p. 350.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 239 </span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>suddenly a doubt enters
into him – there is a hesitation, a questioning; he hears a voice:</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>The ego is dead; we are free from being and
care,</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>We have done with birth and death and work and
fate.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>O soul, it is too early to rejoice!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the
Self, </p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>But where hast thou thrown self's mission and
self's power?</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>On what dead bank on the Eternal's road? ¹</p>

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<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ashwapati
veers round. A new perception, a new conscious­ness begins to open within him.
A new urge moves him. He has to start on a new journey, a new quest and achievement.
The world exists neither as a Truth nor as an illusion in itself. It exists in
and through the Mother of the worlds. There is a motive in its existence and it
is her will that is being worked out in that existence. The world moves for the
fulfilment of a purpose that is being evolved through earth-life and human­ -
life. The ignorant incomplete human life upon earth is not the be-all and
end-all of the life here. That life has to evolve into a life of light and love
and joy perfect here below. Nature as it is now willl be transmuted into a new
pure and radiant substance. Ashwapati is filled with this new urge and
inspiredby this new vision. He sees and understands now the truth of his life,
the goal that has to be achieved, the great dream that has to be realised here
upon earth in and through matter. He sees how nature has been labouring
ceaselessly and tirelessly through aeons through eternity onward. He is now
almost impatient to see the consummation here and now. The divine Voice however
shows him the wisdom of working patiently, hastening slowly. The Voice
admonishes him:</p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style='line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I ask thee
not to merge thy heart of flame</p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the
Immobile's wide uncaring bliss. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy soul was born to share
the laden Force;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Obey thy nature and fulfil
thy fate:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Accept the difficulty and
godlike toil,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>¹Op. tit. Book III: Canto </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>2:
p. 351.</span></p>
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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;
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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 240 </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-indent:21.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>For
the slow-paced omniscient purpose live. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All
things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">But the human flame once kindled is hard to put down. It
seeks an immediate result. It does not understand the fullness of time. So
Ashwapati cries out:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Heavy
and long are the years our labour counts</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
still the seals are firm upon man's soul,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>And weary is the ancient Mother's heart. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Linger not long with thy transmuting hand </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Let a great word be spoken from the heights </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>And one great act unlock the doors of
Fate.&quot;²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:14.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>This great cry of the human soul moved the
Divine Mother and she granted at last its prayer. She answered by
bestowing<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>of her motherly comfort on the
yearning thirsty soul:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>0 strong
forerunner, I have heard thy cry.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One shall
descend and break the iron Law. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A seed
shall be sown in Death's tremendous hour,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>A branch of heaven transplant to human soil;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nature
shall overleap her mortal step;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Fate shall
be changed by an unchanging will.³</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And She herself came down
upon earth as Ashwapati's daughter to undertake the human labour and accomplish
the Divine work.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(2)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Divine
Mother is upon earth as a human creature. She is to change the mortal earth
into an immortal paradise. Earth at present is a bundle of material inconscience.
The Supreme Consciousness has manifested itself as supreme unconsciousness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>¹Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp. 380; 386.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>²Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp.
390-391.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>³Op. cit. Book III: Canto 4: pp.
391-392.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 241 </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Divine has lost itself
in pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed
here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to
revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly
life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its
original radiant status of the Divine Con­sciousness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Such
is Savitri's mission. This mission has two sessions or periods. The first, that
of preparation; the second, that of fulfilment. Savitri, the human embodiment
was given only twelve months out of her earthly life and in that short space of
time she had to do all the preparation. She knew her work from her very birth,
she was conscious of her nature and the mission she was entrusted with. Now she
is facing the crisis. Death is there standing in front. What is to be done, how
is she to proceed? She was told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish
immortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Arise,
soul, and vanquish Time and Death.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Yes,
she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was
the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the
mortal body' she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human
consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through
the human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be express and established.
The human Savitri declares: If Death is conquered, it is for the sake of Satya
van living eternally with her. She seems to say: What I wish to see is the
living Satyavan and I united with him for ever. I do not need an earthly life
without him; with him I prefer to be in another world if necessary away from
the obscurity and turmoil of this earth here.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>My strength is taken from me and given to
Death,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Why should I lift my hands to the shut
heavens. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Why should I strive with earth's unyielding
laws</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Or stave off death's inevitable hour?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Op cit. Book VII:
Canto 2: p. 539.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page
– 242 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>
<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>This
surely is best to pactise with my fate</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And follow close behind my
lover's step</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And pass through night
from twilight to the sun. .¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But a
thunderous voice descends from above shaking Savitri to the very basis of her
existence.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>“And
what shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
work was left undone for which it came?&quot;²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thus
a crisis very similar to that which Ashwapati had to face now confronts Savitri
also. Both of them were at the crossroads away from the earth in the pure
delights of the heavens or in the world labouring on earth's soil. Savitri's
soul was now revealed to her in its fullness. She viewed the mighty destiny for
which she had come down and the great work she had to achieve here upon earth,
not any personal or individual human satisfaction or achievement but a cosmic
fulfilment, a global human realisation. The godhead in Savitri is now fully
awake, established in its plenitude – the Divinity incarnate in the human
frame. All the godheads, all the goddess-emanations now entered into her and
moulded the totality of her mighty stature. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Here
begins then the second stage of her mission,– her work and achievement, the
conquest of Death. Only the Divine human being can conquer Death. Savitri
follows Death step by step revealing gradually the mystery of death, his
personality and his true mission, although the dark God thinks that it is he who
is taking away Satyavan and Savitri along with him, to his own home, his black
annihilation. For Death is that in its first appearance, it is utter
destruction, nothing-ness, non-existence. So the mighty Godhead declares in an
imperious tone to the mortal woman Savitri:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This is my silent dark
immensity,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This is the home of
everlasting Night, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This is the secrecy of
Nothingness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Entombing the vanity of
life's desires. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hopest thou still always
to last and love?³</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Op. tit. Book VII: Canto 2: p. 539. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² Op. cit. Book VII: Canto 2: p. 540.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>³ Op. cit. Book IX: Canto 2: p. 661.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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Indeed Death is not merely a destruction of the body, it is in reality 
nothingness, non-being. The moment being, exis­tence, reality manifested itself, established
itself as a material fact, simultaneously there came out and stood against it,
its opposite non-being, non-existence, non-reality; against an everlasting
'yes' there was posited an everlasting 'no'. And in fact, this everlasting No
proves to be a greater effective reality, it has wound itself around every
constituent atom of the universe. That is what has expressed itself in the
material domain as the irreversible degradation of energy and in the mortal
world it is denial and doubt and falsehood – it is that which brings about
failure in life, and frustration, misery and grief. But then Savitri's vision
penetrated beyond and she saw, Death is a way of achieving the end more swiftly
and more completely. The negation is an apparent obstacle in order to increase,
to purify and intensify the speed of the process by which the world and
humanity is being remodelled and re­created. This terrible Godhead pursues the
human endeavour till the end; until he finds that nothing more is to be done;
then his mission too is fulfilled.¹ So a last cry, the cry of a desperate dying
Death, pierces the universe and throws the final challenge to Savitri:<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>0 human claimant to
immortality,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Reveal thy power, lay bare
thy spirit's force, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then will I give back to
thee Satyavan.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Or if the Mighty Mother is
with thee,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Show me her face that I
may worship her; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let deathless eyes look
into the eyes of Death. .²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Death's
desire, his prayer too is fulfilled. He faces Savitri but this is not the
Savitri against whom he fought. Whose is this voice?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:8.15pt;mso-line-height-alt:
8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ We are reminded here of a parallelism in Goethe's
conception of the role of Satan (the Negative Principle) in human affairs.
Satan is not merely a destroying devil, he is a constructive angel. For it is
he<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.4pt;
mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Who must goad and tease<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>And toil to serve creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:1.4pt;
mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>whenever<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:82.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Man's<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>efforts<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>sink below his proper level. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:7.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>²
Op. cit. Book X: Canto 4: p. 745.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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– 244</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I hail thee almighty and
victorious Death,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thou grandiose Darkness of the
Infinite. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have given thee thy awful
shape of dread</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And thy sharp sword of terror
and grief and pain</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To force the soul of man to
struggle for light. .¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What happens thereafter is
something strange and tre­mendous and miraculous. Light flashed all around, a
leaping tongue of fire spread out and the dark form of Death was burnt-not to
ashes but to blazing sparks of light:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>His
body was eaten by light, his spirit devoured. ² </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.0pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thus Death
came to his death – not to death in reality but to a new incarnation. Death
returned to his</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.0pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>original
divine Reality, an emanation of the Divine Mother.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A secret splendour rose
revealed to sight</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Where once the vast
embodied Void had stood.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Night the dim mask had
grown a wonderful face.³</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>In that domain of pure
transcendent light stood face to face the human Savitri and the transformed
Satyavan.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(3)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>SAVITRI has entered into
the deathless luminous world where there is only faultless beauty, stainless
delight and an un­measured self-gathered strength. Savitri heard the melodious
voice of the Divine:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You
have now left earth's miseries and its impossible con­ditions, you have reached
the domain of unalloyed felicity and you need not go back to the old turbulent
life: dwell here both of you and enjoy eternal bliss.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>But Savitri answered firm and
moveless:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I climb not to thy
everlasting Day,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even as I have shunned thy
eternal Night. .</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:
7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>¹ Op. cit.
Book X: Canto 4: p. 747. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:
7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>² Op. cit.
Book XI: Canto I: p. 762. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:
7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>³ Op.
cit. Book X: Canto 4: p. 749<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;
mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
'>Page – 245</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Earth is the heroic spirit's battlefield. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thy
servitudes on earth are greater, king, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Than all
the glorious liberties of heaven.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Once
more Savitri, even like Ashwapati, has to make a choice between two
destinies, two soul-movements – although the choice is already made even before
it is offered to her. Ashwapati had to abandon, we know, the silent immutable
transcendent status of pure light in order to bathe in this lower<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>earthly light. Savitri too as the prototype
of human conscious­ness chose and turned to this light of the earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Rishi of the Upanishad declared: they who worship only</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ignorance
enter into darkness, but they who worship knowledge alone enter into a still
darker darkness. This world of absolute light which Savitri names 'everlasting
day' is what the Upanishadic Rishi sees and describes as the golden lid upon
the face of the Sun. The Sun is the complete integral light of the Truth
in its fullness. The golden covering has to be removed if one is to see the Sun
itself-to live the integral life, one has to possess the integral truth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>So
it is that Savitri comes down upon earth and standing upon its welcoming soil
speaks to Satyavan as though consoling him for having abandoned their own abode
in heaven to dwell among mortal men:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Heaven's touch fulfils but cancels not our
earth. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Still am I she who came to thee mid the murmur
    </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>Of sunlit leaves upon this forest verge. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>All that I was before, I am to thee still. .²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Voicing
Satyavan's thought and feeling, all humanity, the whole world in joy and
gratefulness, utters this mantra of thanksgiving:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>If this is she of whom. the world
has heard, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Wonder no more at any happy change.³</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹
Op. cit. Book Xl: Canto I: p. 770.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>²
Op. cit. Book XII: Canto: p. 808. . <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>³
Book XII: p. 812.</span></p>

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7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page
– 246</span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(4)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>IN her Prayers and
Meditations the Mother says:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:10.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Comme l' homme n' a pas voulu du repas
que j' avais préparé avec tant d' amour et de soin, alors j' ai
invite<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>le Dieu à le prendre.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Et mon Dieu, Tu as
accepté mon invitation et Tu es venu T' asseoir à ma table,. et en
change de ma pauvre et humble offrande Tu m' as octroyé la
finale libération.¹<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What
is this banquet that she prepared for man and which man refused? It is nothing
else than the Life Divine here below -the life of the Gods enjoying
immortality, full of the supreme light and power, love and delight. Man refused
because for him it is something too high, too great. Being a creature earth­bound
and of small dimensions he can seize and appreciate only small things,
little specks of a material world. He refused, first of all,
because of his ignorance, he does not know, nor is he capable of conceiving
that there are such things as immortal life, divinity, unobscured light,
griefless love, or a radiant, tranquil, invisible energy. He does not know and
yet he is arrogant, arrogant in his little knowledge, his petty power, in his
blind self-sufficiency. Furthermore, besides ignorance and arrogance there is
an element of revolt in him, for in his half ­wakefulness with his rudimentary
consciousness, if ever he came in contact with something that is above and
beyond him, if a shadow of another world happens to cross his threshold,
he is not at peace, does not want to recognise but denies and even curses it.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Divine Mother brings solace and salvation. For the Grace it is such a small and
easy thing, it is a wonder how even such a simple, natural, inconspicuous thing
could be refused by anybody.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If
man finds no use for the gift she has brought down for him, naturally she will
take it back and return it to Him to whom it belongs, for all things belong to
the Supreme Lord,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹
&quot;Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care,
I invoked the God to take it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>My God, Thou hast accepted my invitation, Thou hast
come to sit at my table, and in exchange for my poor and humble offering Thou
hast granted to me the last liberation.&quot;</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 247<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>even She belongs to Him,
as She is one with Him. The Gita says: there is nothing else than the Brahman
in the creation – ­the doer, the doing and the deed, all are essentially He. In
the sacrifice that is this moving, acting universe, the offerer, the offering
and the offered, each and every element is the Brahman<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>– brahmarpanam brahma havib.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and
attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we
should always remem­ber Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis
each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him,
return them to the/ parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom,
the divine detachment which the individual must possess always in order to be
one with Him, feel one's identity with Him.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(5)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>MAN'S refusal of the
Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect
dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one
from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a
material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and
misery, of brutish blindness. He does not know that there is something other
than his present state of misfortune and dark fate. He is not even aware that
there may be any­thing higher or nobler than the ugliness he is steeped in. He
lives on earth-life with an earth-consciousness, moves mechani­cally and
helplessly through vicissitudes over which he has no control. Even so the
material life is not a mere despicable thing; behind its darkness, behind its
sadness, behind all its infirmities, the Divine Mother is there upholding it
and infusing into it her grace and beauty. Indeed, she is one with this world
of sorrows, she has in effect become it in her infinite pity and love so that
this material body of hers may become conscious of its divine substance and
manifest her true form. But the human being individualised and separated in
egoistic conscious­ness has lost the sense of its inner reality and is vocal
only in regard to its outward formulation. It is natural for physical man<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 248</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>therefore to reject and
deny the physical Godhead in him, he even curses it and wants to continue as he
is. He yells therefore in ignorance and anguish:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who is nailed on the wide
cross of the Universe. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I
toil like the animal, like the animal die.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am man the rebel, man
the helpless serf. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know my fate will ever
be the same,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is my Nature's work
that cannot change..</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I was made for evil, evil
is my lot;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Evil I must be and by evil
live;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Naught other can I do, but
be myself;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What Nature made, that I
must remain.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
Divine glory manifests itself for a moment to the earthly consciousness but man
refuses to be pulled out of its pigsty. The Grace with draws but in its Supreme
Consciousness of unity and love consoles the fallen creature and gives it the
assurance:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One day I
will return , a bringer of strength. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Misery
shall pass abolished from the earth;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The world
shall be freed from the anger of the Beast. . ²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
basic status or foundation of Man, in fact of creation, is earth, the material
organisation. After the body, next comes the life and Life-power. Here man
attains a larger dynamic being of energy and creative activity. Here too, on
this level, what man is or what he achieves is only a reflection, a shadow, but
mostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides
behind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother's form of
Might, we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace
that is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. I t is
because of this realising power of the Mother that</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Slowly
the Light grows greater in the East, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Slowly
the world progresses on God's road.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹Book VII: Canto 4: pp. 574-6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>²Book VII: Canto 4: p. 576.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 249</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt'>His seal is on my task, it cannot fail;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt'>I shall hear the silver swing of heaven's gates </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt'>When God comes out to meet the soul of the world.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
man in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this
Goddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine
Power but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is full of
his egoistic vital self-confidence: he believes it is his own will that is
realising all, all which is achieved here; whatever he has creater it is
through the might of his own merit and whatever new creations will be done in
the future will be through the Grace of his own genius. A mighty vital selfhood
obscures his consciousness and he sees nothing else, understands nothing else
beyond the reach of that limited vision. This is the Rakshasa, this is the
Asura in man. Here is his philosophy of life:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:21.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>I climb, a claimant to the throne of heaven. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The last born of the
earth, I stand the first. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am God still unevolved
in human form; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even if he is not, he
becomes in me. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No magic can surpass my
magic's skill.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:42.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There is no miracle I
shall not achieve. ²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>So
this vital being in man in his Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects
the Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess,
in the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however
a consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; she will bide her
time. For one day,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt'>The cry of the ego shall
be hushed within, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt'>Its lion-roar that claims
the world as food, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:42.55pt'>All shall be might and
bliss and happy force.³</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
his body man is the beast, in the vital he is the Rakshasa and the Asura, he
rises now into the mind. And in the mind</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹
Book VII: Canto 4: p. 579.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>²
Book VII: Canto 4: pp. 580-2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>³
Book VII: Canto 4: p. 583.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>he is the human being proper,
he has attained his own hu­manity. Here he has received the light of knowledge,
a wider and deeper consciousness, he has unveiled the secret mysteries of
Nature, brought to play hidden forces that were unknown and untapped. All these
achievements have been possible for man because it is the Mother of Light that
is behind and has come forward to shed something of her luminous presence
around. But man has no inkling of the presence of this luminous Deity, his own
light has been a screen in front of the inner divine light. It is not possible
for the human mind to seize the higher light: his consciousness, his knowledge
is too narrow, too superficial, too dull to comprehend what is beyond. This
Divine Light is also a thing of delight, the consciousness it possesses is also
the very essence of Joy and Felicity. But all that is occult to the human
knowledge. Man considers Truth is his property, whatever truth is there his
understanding can grasp it and bring it to play: Truth and Reality are
commensurate with his own consciousness, his mental comprehension. What others
speak of as realities of the spirit, truths transcendental, are an illusion and
delusion. This is what is usually known as the scientific mind, the rational
consciousness. An orthodox scientific mentality is in the first instance a
thing of overweening self-confidence, of arrogant self-assertion. It declares
in its formidable pride:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
have seized the cosmic energies for my use. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
have pored on her infinitesimal elements </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
her invisible atoms have unmasked. .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:35.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If
God is at work his secrets I have found.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
imperiousness in man seems however to be a sheer imperviousness: it is a mask,
a hollow appearance; for with all his knowledge, at the end he has attained no
certainty, no absoluteness. There is something behind, all the outer bravado he
flourishes has a sense of helplessness, at times almost as pitiable as that of
a child; for he finds at last</p>
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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>All
is a speculation or a dream:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the end the world
itself becomes a doubt.²</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Book VII: Canto 4: p. 589. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² Book VII: Canto 4: p. 589.</span></p>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
is true his survey of the universe, his knowledge of bound­less Nature and the
inexhaustible multiplicities of creation have given him a sense of the endless
and the infinite but he has not the necessary light or capacity to follow those
lines of infinity, on the contrary, there is a shrinking in him at the touch of
such vastnesses; his small humanity makes him desperately earth-bound, his
aspiration follows the lines of least resistance:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Our smallness saves us
from the Infinite.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In a frozen grandeur lone
and desolate</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Call me not to die the
great eternal Death. . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Human I am, human let me
remain</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Til1 in the Inconscient I
fall dumb and sleep.¹</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thus,
this Goddess too, is rejected like her previous comrades, the Mother of Light,
the Deity who is properly the guide and ruler of man's own destiny. Even she is
refused but hers is not to complain, in tranquil quietness she brings comfort
and hope to the troubled human mind and says she goes to come back in the
fullness of her incarnation. She utters divinely:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One
day I shall return, His hands in mine, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
thou shalt see the face of the Absolute. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then
shall the holy marriage be achieved,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:28.35pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then
shall the divine family be born.²</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(6)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To the inconscient and
ignorant human nature, Savitri, the Divine's delegate presents the powers and
personalities that are behind man's present infirmities – these broken images
of true realities lying scattered about in the front of existence. Man will be
made conscious, he is being made conscious step by step precisely by such
relations from time to time. The Vedic image is that of the eternal succession
of dawns whose beginning no one knows, nor the end, that creation proceeds from
light to light, from consciousnes to higher reaches of consciousness.</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:
7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Book VII: Canto 4: p. 590.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>² Book VII: Canto 4: p. 591.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From the
material life through the vital and the mental life he first reaches the
spiritual life and finally the Life Divine. From the animal he rises to
manhood, and in the end to Godhood.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
there are intermediaries. The fullness of the realisation depends on the
fullness of the incarnation. The Evil in the body, the Evil in the vital, the
Evil in the mind are, whatever their virulence and intransigence, subsidiary
agents, for they serve only a mightier Lord. The first original Sin is Death,
the God of Denial, of non-existence. That is the very source­<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>–<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>
<i>fons
et origo</i> – the fount and origin of all the misfortune, the fate that
terrestrial life involves. This demon, this anti-Divine has to be tracked and
destroyed or dissolved into its original origin. This is the Nihil that negates
the Divine – Asat that seeks to nullify Sat and that has created
this world of ignorance and misery, that is to say, in its outward pragmatic
form. So Savitri sees the one source and knows the remedy. Therefore she
pursues death, pursues him to the end, that is, to the end of death. The
luminous energy of the Supreme faces now its own shadow and blazes it up. The
flaming Light corrodes into the substance of the darkness and makes of it her
own trans­figured substance. This then is the gift that Savitri brings to man,
the Divine's own immortality, transfusing the mortality that reigns now upon
earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
view of the necessity of the age, for the crucial, critical and, in a way,
final consummation of Nature's evolutionary urge, the Divine Himself has to
come down in the fullness of His divinity; for only then can the earth be
radically changed and wholly transformed. In the beginning the Divine once came
down, but by sacrificing Himself, being pulverised, scattered and lost in the
infinitesimals of a universal, material, un­consciousness. Once again He has to
come down, but this time in the supreme glory of His victorious Luminosity.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
then is the occult, the symbolic sense of the Mother's gesture turning away
from man with her gifts and returning to the Divine Himself, and inviting Him
as the chief guest of honour upon this earth. Or, in the Vedic image, He is to
come as the flaming front and leader of the journeying sacrifice that is this
universal existence.</p>

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