At the Feet of The Mother
Satyavan, the human soul caught in the Ignorance recognizes Savitri in a soul moment. Now he cries out his heart to her and invites her to make his heart her chamber and shrine.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
All's miracle here and can by miracle change.
This is that secret Nature's edge of might.
A moment of illuminations comes when Satyavan senses the divinity of Savitri.
Savitri asks Satyavan and he now goes about sharing with her what he has known thus far and experienced and understood. Yet for all his experiences he wishes to go farther.
Now the Master-poet introduces to us Satyavan, the ideal humanity awakened to his soul though not yet able to harmonise the needs of his inner life and the outer necessities. Satyavan is the human soul now caught up in Ignorance.
Satyavan meets Savitri and his heart is drawn towards Her. In this talk we take up the background of this meeting as it is revealed in the Book of Love.
Satyavan responds to the force of love that now moves his heart. In a single soulful movement he turns towards Savitri as if a soul turns to the Divine.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
All once impossible deemed could now become
A natural limb of possibility,
A new domain of normalcy supreme.
The Lord and His eternal Spouse have met again in earthly form. It is a momentous moment when once again the dram of earth is carried on, the great epic of the soul which must bring together the Divine and World in a single embrace.
Love meets Savitri in the wilderness. Sri Aurobindo gives us here the secret truth of this godhead whose role in life and creation in unparalleled.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
His spirit breathed a superhuman air.
The imprisoned deity rent its magic fence.
As with a sound of thunder and of seas,
Vast barriers crashed around the huge escape.
The moment of Destiny has arrived and Savitri and Satyavan are brought close to each other on the destined spot. Here she would meet her answering soul.
Satyavan is the soul of man. He emerges out of the forest of human ignorance. But he is carved into the image of a god.
Savitri has now reached the destined spot. The turning wheels of her car and fate have carried her to the forest where Satyavan resides. Here she is filled with thoughts of beauty and love.
Savitri’s journey to find her mate is not any ordinary journey. It is symbolic of the Avatara’s work to find who will be best suited to share her work.
Savitri in her search for the ideal partner and mate in her divine mission, encounters various types of spiritual aspirants and siddhas. Yet none she finds ideal for her work.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
As when a timeless Eye annuls the hours
Abolishing the agent and the act,
So now his spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:
His wakened mind became an empty slate
On which the Universal and Sole could write.