M V Nadkarni: Invitation to Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri

... chances are I may never get an opportunity to get into the sanctum sanctorum and stand before the Divine, but my delight is to describe this, draw people’s attention. This is the invitation.

Savitri shows to the God of Death another angle on human history. The facts are the same, but the way you look at these things can change.

The kingdom of heaven was always on the other side of death. Now, Sri Aurobindo discovered that this gap can be bridged. Once this bridge is built, that world can be brought rolling down to our earth.

Savitri says, my god that I cherish is not the God the Dream, my god is God the Fire: that which purifies, that which aspires, that which constantly burns upwards, the Agni of the Vedas, which always keeps mounting higher and higher!

"The only creature who is tragic is man. He has lost the innocence of the beasts, he is yet to achieve the perfection of gods. Mind is what has made the human enterprise tragic. "

"As long as the human mind is what it is, it is fully capable of twisting and perverting even the highest truth when it comes. And that is why Sri Aurobindo's aim was to go beyond the mind such that this perverting path of the mind can be completely abolished."

"The second question is equally important in Savitri’s case: can mortal nature change to the divine? "

...the voice says, “In silence seek god’s meaning in thy depths,” and “Find out thy soul.” The first thing we have to do is to find out who we are.

"Narad has steeled Savitri’s will, he has explained to Savitri’s mother what he believes pain is and how God created this world."