This talk is based on Savitri, Book seven, Canto II. It is about a tremendous inner journey that Savitri undertakes even as she arms herself with the power to take on the challenge of Death.
When the psychic unfolds, a range of experiences and states of consciousness can emerge. A deep and quiet devotion towards the Divine is an obvious sign. There is also the growth of soul-powers such as faith and gratitude, enthusiasm for the Divine Service, urge for progress, spontaneous intuitive knowledge.
Aswapati has now entered the borders where Form and Formless meet. He enters the realm of the pure Spirit, It is the seed state before creation begins.
To light the psychic fire is the most important initiation in human life. Before that human life is not much connected with the true goal of life. Once the psychic fire is lit, then the whole life and its activities are offered to the Divine.
Aswapati is now entering the realm of infinity and eternity. He enters the Transcendent, where from he can see the entire universal play in a single look.
The whole life and its experiences are a preparation and the evolution of the psychic entity within us. Our ordinary nature has no free will, though it feels like it has. But it is an illusion.
The transformation of nature and divinization of life was not intended in classical yogas. But new aspiration for earthly transformation has been planted upon earth and those who are open to it are progressing towards this new possibility that goes beyond all the various spiritual types that the earth has witnessed up till now.
Aswapati has reached as far and beyond what any human tapasya can take. Yet there is something more to be done, something for which he had undertaken this tremendous journey.