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<span style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Notes
on “Savitri”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>DEV ARSHI N<st1:City><st1:place>arad</st1:place></st1:City>, as usual,
was sailing through the spaces, with his Vina, singing songs of innocence and
joy. He was in the higher luminous heavens, the world of happiness, of light
and delight, his heart full of divine felicity and his music echoing the music
of his heart. Now he thought of coming down, into the lower spaces, regions
nearer to the earth. And as he entered the earth atmosphere a change came over
the tone and temper of his music. With the thickening of earthly shade, <span
class=GramE>a darkness</span> stole into the clear range of, his music and
consciousness. Instead of peace and love and joy his music turned to themes of sadness
and struggle and battle and doom – of great heroism and conquest and of the
supreme fulfilment of human destiny. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>In<b>
</b></span>and through this dark passage, there emerged slowly a new radiance,
the advent of a new conquest for the human consciousness - the possibi­lity of
man rising' from the animal to divinity.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Narad himself represents a divine consummation of
the human being. He is a devarshi, that is to say, he has by his tapasya and
spiritual growth surpassed his humanity and developed into a divine immortal
being. Now his special work is to be a wandering angel - surveying the world,
help it in its onward march, <span class=GramE>bring</span> to mankind the aid
for its forward march, so that it may battle successfully with the hostiles,
overpower the hostiles and win the glory of divine immortality.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>* <i>Savitri </i>(Cent.
Ed., Vol. 29), Bk.VI, C.I, p. 415.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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10.8pt;mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>LINES FROM <i>Savitri<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A seer was born, a shining <i>Guest </i>of Time.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>For him mind's limiting firmament ceased above,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>In<b> </b></span>the
griffin forefront of the Night and Day</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The conscious ends of being went rolling back: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The landmarks of the little person fell,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The island ego joined its continent:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Overpassed was this world of rigid limiting forms:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Life's barriers opened into the <span class=GramE>Unknown.!</span></p>

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mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>Notes:<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><st1:City><st1:place>Griffin</st1:place></st1:City>
= Golden Hawk</p>

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style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>+</p>

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style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Winged Lion</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The piercing eye of soaring aspiration</p>

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mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt 85.65pt; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='mso-tab-count:2'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>+</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Upsurging energy of the pure
vital</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Remember Vishnu's Garuda</p>

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.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt 86.85pt; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:3'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>+</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in 81.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Durga's lion</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:196.3pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With these twin powers you cross
safely the borderland between the lower and the upper hemisphere - the twilight
world (Night and Day) - <st1:City><st1:place>Griffin</st1:place></st1:City> is
the guardian God of this passage - <i>Dvarapalaka.</i><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>'</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>1
<i>Savitri </i>(Cent.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt'> Ed., Vol. 28), Bk.I, C.3, p. 25.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>II</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then stretches the boundless finite's last expanse,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The cosmic empire of the Overmind,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Time's buffer state bordering Eternity,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Too vast for the experience of man's soul:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All here gathers beneath one golden sky:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Powers that build the cosmos station take</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>In<b> </b></span>its house of
infinite possibility;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Each god from there builds his own nature's world;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ideas are phalanxed like a group of sums;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thought crowds in masses seized by one regard;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All Time is one body, Space a single book: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There is the Godhead's universal gaze</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And there the boundaries of immortal Mind: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The line that parts and joins the hemispheres </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Closes in on the labour of the Gods</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Fencing eternity from the toil of Time.¹</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>Notes:<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ideas are phalanxed like a group of sums; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thought crowds in masses seized by one regard.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The image is that of the composition of an army or that of a mathematical
series (e.g., arithmetical or geometrical pro­gression). It is composed of
regularised units of different values <i>(group of<span
style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow"'> </span>sums),
</i>but all measured and definite and pre­cise – e.g., in the case of an army –
company, brigade, battalion, army – an <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;</span>ascending scale, the whole also form­ing one
big unit, taken in at a glance – that is the nature of overmind vision.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Note, a unit is a summation or-sub-units – even
the ulti­mate units are composites <i>(masses, </i>in case of bigger units<span
class=GramE>)­</span> – e.g., molecule, atom, particle (nucleon), point.</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>¹
<i>Savitri </i>(Cent.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt'> Ed., Vol. 29), Bk, X, C.4, pp. 660-61.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>.I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Forerunners of a divine multitude</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Out of the paths of the morning star they came </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Into the little room of mortal life.¹</p>

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

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>Notes:<o:p></o:p></i></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The whole thing refers to the New Creation coming down from above – now
down into the psycho-vital or physico-­vital or even the subtle physical plane.
This New Crea­tion is the creation of the Divine Love – the Mother's Love.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Morning Star – Venus, Goddess of Love – embodying
New Creation.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Amber colour representing a
particular plane of con­sciousness.</span> Yellow + red + a touch of brown –
physico-vital or even subtle physical plane – the New Creation come down on
that plane.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination: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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>¹<i>Savitri
</i>(Cent.
Ed., Vol. 28), Bk.III, C.4, p. 343.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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