It is only when the outer crust of the ordinary life is violently taken by some unexpected and tragic event that the inner consciousness has the occasion to take the place of this outward movement and to govern fully the whole being.
Those who have come upon earth fully conscious of their entire being and conscious of their Origin, there is at first a period when this consciousness gets veiled by the physical life and the body-consciousness.
About Savitri | B1C2-03 Foresight and the Human Spirit (pp.13-14)