There are several aspects and facets of Sri Aurobindo’s vast and complex personality, namely poet, philosopher, revolutionary, journalist, visionary, seer, yogi. But what is the essential core of his being, the central lever of his immense personality so to say? On one side we see him as an embodiment of tyaga (renunciation) and tapasya (concentrated spiritual endeavour). On the other hand we see his tremendous compassion for earth and humanity.
The empty void that Savitri has become begins to be filled with a greater Truth than the sense of an illusion of the world.
About Savitri | B1C1-09 Advent of the Divine Mother (p.4)