Explorations in Savitri

"Each rainbow brilliance was a splendid lie; A beauty unreal graced a glamour face. [...] Love ended early in hate, delight killed with pain, Truth into falsity grew and death ruled life."

"All who were there lived for themselves alone; All warred against all, but with a common hate Turned on the mind that sought some higher good; Truth was exiled lest she should dare to speak And hurt the heart of darkness with her light..."

A video recording of a conversation between Alok Pandey and Narad on Indian concept of the Night and its difference from Judo-Christian tradition, as well as necessity of exploring and confronting the Night on the spiritual path.

"There Ego was lord upon his peacock seat And Falsehood sat by him, his mate and queen: The world turned to them as Heaven to Truth and God."

"Around him crowded grey and squalid huts Neighbouring proud palaces of perverted Power ... A misery haunting splendour pressed those fell Dun suburbs of the cities of dream-life."

"Impure, sadistic, with grimacing mouths, Grey foul inventions gruesome and macabre Came televisioned from the gulfs of Night."

"In that wide cynic den of thinking beasts One looked in vain for a trace of pity or love; There was no touch of sweetness anywhere, But only Force and its acolytes, greed and hate"

"Mighty and mute the Godhead in him woke And faced the pain and danger of the world. He mastered the tides of Nature with a look: He met with his bare spirit naked Hell."

"All high things served their nether opposite: The forms of Gods sustained a demon cult; Heaven’s face became a mask and snare of Hell."

"A seeking Mind replaced the seeing Soul: Life grew into a huge and hungry death, The Spirit’s bliss was changed to cosmic pain."

"The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan The drama of the earth, their tragic stage. All who would raise the fallen world must come Under the dangerous arches of their power [...] None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell."

"In Night he plunged to know her dreadful heart, In Hell he sought the root and cause of Hell."

"There waiting its hour the future lay unknown, There is the record of the vanished stars. There in the slumber of the cosmic Will He saw the secret key of Nature’s change."