‘But thou hast come and all will surely change:
I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.
The child of the Void shall be reborn in God,
My Matter shall evade the Inconscient’s trance.
My body like my spirit shall be free.
It shall escape from Death and Ignorance.” [Savitri]
These magnificent lines from Savitri uttered by Satyavan when he sees Savitri is, in a way, the quintessence of the significance of the Mother’s coming to earth and furthermore, into our lives. Her coming was awaited since long. Through the Ages mankind has toiled and struggled and suffered to express something of Her Beauty, Her Light, Her Bliss, Her Love but almost always the effort has ended up in a fiasco, at best a caricature, a religion, a doctrine or system of thought, art and philosophy. At worst, it has been a gross distortion, a crudity and ugliness dealing with the powers and joy and love She has poured upon earth. That is why Her coming is so precious and important. For man has generally been a poor intermediary between the Supreme Power and the material world. But now the earth, at least a certain section of mankind has been made ready for Her direct intervention upon the earthly life and transform human destiny.
The Mother herself reveals the secret:
‘None of those beings, those gods and deities of various pantheons, have the same rapport with the Supreme that man has; for man has a psychic being, in other words, the Supreme’s presence within him. These gods are emanations—independent emanations—created for a special purpose and a particular action which they fulfill SPONTANEOUSLY; they do it not with a sense of constant surrender to the Divine but simply because that’s what they are, and why they are, and all they know is what they are. They don’t have the conscious link with the Supreme that man has—man carries the Supreme within himself.
That makes a considerable difference.
But with this present incarnation of the Mahashakti…. She is the Supreme’s first manifestation, creation’s first stride, and it was She who first gave form to all those beings. Now, since her incarnation in the physical world, and through the position She has taken here in relation to the Supreme by incarnating in a human body, all the other worlds have been influenced, and influenced in an extremely interesting way. I have been in contact with all those gods, all those great beings, and for the most part their attitude has changed. And even with those who didn’t want to change, it has nonetheless influenced their way of being.
Human experience, with this direct incarnation of the Supreme is ultimately a UNIQUE experience,
which has given a new orientation to universal history. Sri Aurobindo speaks of this—he speaks of the difference between the Vedic era, the Vedic way of relating to the Supreme, and the advent of Vedanta (I think it’s Vedanta): devotion, adoration, bhakti, the God within. Well, this aspect of rapport with the Supreme could exist ONLY WITH MAN, because man is a special being in universal History—the divine Presence is in him. And several of those great gods have taken human bodies JUST TO HAVE THAT. But not many of them—they were so fully aware of their own perfect independence and their almightiness that they didn’t NEED anything (unlike man, you see, struggling to escape his slavery): they were absolutely free.’ [Conversations with a Disciple: June 30, 1962]
Yet there is something we have to do. She has fulfilled Her promise. Now it is our turn to do our bit, to aspire, to surrender ourselves completely, entirely to Her who is the secret Cause and Source of all and feel with Satyavan.
‘Descend, O happiness, with thy moon-gold feet
Enrich earth’s floors upon whose sleep we lie.
O my bright beauty’s princess Savitri,
By my delight and thy own joy compelled
Enter my life, thy chamber and thy shrine.’ [Savitri]
