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	<span
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normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font size="4">The Opening Scene of &quot;Savitri&quot;</font></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p><font size="4">&nbsp;</font></o:p></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'>&quot;IT
was the hour before the Gods awake&quot;. Only when the Gods awake, does the
light begin to appear on earth. Other­wise it is all night here, black,
impenetrable and unfathomable. Indeed the very creation begins with the
awakening of the Gods. When the Gods are asleep, it is the non-existence – <span
class=SpellE>tamaasit</span> <span class=SpellE>tamasa</span> <span
class=SpellE>gudhamagre</span> – 'in the beginning darkness was
engulfed in darkness'. This is the <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>asat</span>,
non-being, this is the acit, the
inconscience, this is the blackest night. The Bible also speaks of a similar
darkness – Job's terrible vision: &quot;A land of darkness, as darkness itself;
and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as
darkness.&quot;<span class=GramE>¹ The lamp of con.</span> <span
class=GramE>sciousness</span> is not yet lit. The dark vacancy stretches
across the path of creation yet to be, the light that is to come. This shadow
is the negation of the light behind, it is the original of the creation. It is
presented as the mere material universe appa­rently dead and dry, the utter
inconscience with no sign of consciousness anywhere. And earth seems to be
there part of it, a shadow within the shadow, a dark spot wheeling in a dark
mass.</span></p>

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is the pre-creation, one might say, the creation before the creation – the
shadow creation. We know coming events cast their shadow before, as a kind of
forewarning, foreboding: that is the dark messenger, the bright messenger will
follow. For after all, it is His shadow –&quot;And into the <st1:time Minute="0"
Hour="0">midnight</st1:time> his shadow is thrown.&quot;</p>

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original inconscience is a non-existence, a nihil in which all existence is
rolled up and dissolved, an infinite non-entity or zero. This is the zero here
below, on the reverse side of the reality. But there is another zero up above
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>¹ Book of Job, 10.21</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></span>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>beyond</span>,
beyond the <span class=SpellE>superconsciousness</span>, the <span
class=SpellE>Sunya</span>, beyond <span class=SpellE>Sachchidananda</span>.
In between is the world of night, the world of gestation where the Gods are
asleep. When the Divine, the One indivisible existence felt the first stirring
and was moved to create, he divided himself and cast himself as it were out of
himself. And the Light and Consciousness of his <span class=GramE>Being</span>
forth­with leaped into darkness and inconscience. That is the involu­tion of
the Supreme into material existence.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
original darkness is the womb of <span class=GramE>creation,</span> it is some­thing
akin to Hiranyagarbha of Indian tradition. The fiat has gone from the
Supreme to resurrect this darkness – his alter-ego – and he sends down the
messenger-light. So the Gods are about to wake, there is a stir in their
slumber. The creation as manifestation begins when the first ray of light
strikes the darkness. That is when the Gods open their eyes. But the spell of
darkness returns and swallows up the light.</p>

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earth too, one with the surrounding mass of darkness and inconscience is asleep
and insentient. She has to wake up and start on her journey moving forward,
unveiling her secret mysteries towards the supreme revelation, the Divine in­carnation
in matter. The Gods are awake, in order to awaken the earth. A first ray is
sent down and it touches as it were the sleeping Mother. The Divine Ray is just-
like a finger of a child touching her mother trying, as it were, to persuade
her to open her eyes and look at her child. The first ray, however,
comes not as a caress to the inert being of <span class=GramE>darkness,</span>
it is a sharp prick, even a hard blow. Such is the first impact of light upon
dead matter; and the light is thrown back, as an un­welcome intruder, into what
it came from; and the darkness grovels in its old groove. The second
stage comes when the impact is not felt as a pain or something totally foreign
and strange; its touch is felt as something soothing, something that heals an
eternal sore. But this too was not suffered long and the light has to go back
again.</p>

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are the successive dawns of which the Vedic Rishis speak, through which the
light and consciousness in the dark inconscience gradually grows, increases in
volume and strength. The continued descent of the light into earth brings about
the change upon earth, that is called evolution, that is to say, the
transformation of the dark inconscience here below into the</p>
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class=GramE>original</span> Super-Light of which it was the shadow cast out
because of the original separation from the Source.</p>

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represents one such divine dawn at a crucial moment of earth-life. She embodies
creation's entire past and shows in her life how that past is transformed
through the alchemy of Divine Grace to a glorious future – the inevitable
destiny that awaits man and earth.</p>

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