Aswapati has now entered the penultimate experience of Adwaita, the experience of the sole Reality that is beyond all constructions, definitions, forms and conceptions we can build out of it.
Savitri is prepared to confront the riddle of man’s life. She is ready and armed to meet death. She knows the fated day and hence goes with Satyavan into the forest to keep a vigil. The fated moment nears and the god Death arrives.
Aswapati has arrived at the brink of Nothingness. It is the zone where all begins and ends. It is the last sense of the Self, the eternal immortal Self that was experienced before even this had vanished.
Heart-broken and utterly depressed I came to You, my dearest Mother, feeling lost and forlorn. ... “Is this a defeat of the Divine?” I asked. “Why did you leave Your body when all along we were expecting its transformation? ... You were the heart of my heart, my sole guide and protector.”