An opening of the Savitri Study Camp with Dr Alok Pandey from August of 2007. The talk gives a general introduction to Savitri, its main characters and the core message.
At the Feet of The Mother
English
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
All-knowing he accepts our darkened state,
Divine, wears shapes of animal or man;
Eternal, he assents to Fate and Time,
Immortal, dallies with mortality.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
A few shall see what none yet understands;
God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;
For man shall not know the coming till its hour
And belief shall be not till the work is done.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
In the unchanging Silence white and nude,
Aloof, resplendent like gold dazzling suns
Veiled by the ray no mortal eye can bear,
The Spirit's bare and absolute potencies
Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion's gleams,
A Will expressive of soul's deity,
A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed,
Joy that drags not sorrow as its shade.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
In moments when the inner lamps are lit
And the life's cherished guests are left outside,
Our spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
Apart he lived in his mind's solitude,
A demigod shaping the lives of men:
One soul's ambition lifted up the race;
A Power worked, but none knew whence it came.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
The Supreme's gaze looked out through human eyes
And saw all things and creatures as itself
And knew all thought and word as its own voice.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
As so he grew into his larger self,
Humanity framed his movements less and less;
A greater being saw a greater world.