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Savitri - Glimpses of "Maitreya's The Divine Mother's Mission"

 Few glimpses of the oriental (Upanishadic and Kalidasian) version of "The World Saviour's Mission" complementing the occidental mystical version (through the eyes of Djwal Khul in an earlier post) from Savitri.  


What is Savtri (a legend and a symbol) ?


The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance (the lower quaternary as per Blavatsky or lower triad of mind, astral and physical body as per Djwal Khul); Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save (Savitri is symbolic of Avatar Krishna/Maitreya/Christ/World Teacher representing the Divine Mother) ; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes (that corresponds to Inititations of human race as described by Djwal Khul) ; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory (The Divine mind is symbolically the Monad or Divine Spark of Blavatsly and Djwal Khul or Satchitananda and Supermind of Sri Aurobindo). Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness and immortal life. - Sri Aurobindo


(Note that the words in brackets above are my own interpretations as I am progressively understanding the synthesis and not Sri Aurobindo's).



In November 1950, when Sri Aurobindo had already decided to withdraw from his body, he asked Nirod to take up the draft of the Savtri again. And, at that point of time, he dictated in three places additional matter. The passage (which I have reproduced in this post) of seventy-two lines, absolutely the last piece of poetry dictated by Sri Aurobindo. And that was when his work on Savitri ended (in this emobdiment as messenger of Maitreya as I intuit) , - that is, Sri Aurobindo put on Savitri, what Nirod calls, “the seal of incomplete completion”.



(Last 72 lines from Canto Two , Book of Fate)

....

“Queen, strive no more to change the secret will;

Time’s accidents are steps in its vast scheme.

Bring not thy brief and helpless human tears

Across the fathomless moments of a heart

That knows its single will and God’s as one:

It can embrace its hostile destiny;

It sits apart with grief and facing death,

Affronting adverse fate armed and alone.

In this enormous world standing apart

In the mightiness of her silent spirit’s will,

In the passion of her soul of sacrifice

Her lonely strength facing the universe,

Affronting fate, asks not man’s help nor god’s:

Sometimes one life is charged with earth’s destiny,

It cries not for succour from the time-bound powers.

Alone she is equal to her mighty task.

Intervene not in a strife too great for thee,

A struggle too deep for mortal thought to sound,

Its question to this Nature’s rigid bounds

When the soul fronts nude of garbs the infinite,

Its too vast theme of a lonely mortal will

Pacing the silence of eternity.

As a star, uncompanioned, moves in heaven

Unastonished by the immensities of Space,

Travelling infinity by its own light,

The great are strongest when they stand alone.

A God-given might of being is their force,

A ray from self’s solitude of light the guide;

The soul that can live alone with itself meets God;

Its lonely universe is their rendezvous.

A day may come when she must stand unhelped

On a dangerous brink of the world’s doom and hers,

Carrying the world’s future on her lonely breast,

Carrying the human hope in a heart left sole

To conquer or fail on a last desperate verge,

Alone with death and close to extinction’s edge.

Her single greatness in that last dire scene

Must cross alone a perilous bridge in Time

And reach an apex of world-destiny

Where all is won or all is lost for man.

In that tremendous silence lone and lost

Of a deciding hour in the world’s fate,

In her soul’s climbing beyond mortal time

When she stands sole with Death or sole with God

Apart upon a silent desperate brink,

Alone with her self and death and destiny

As on some verge between Time and Timelessness

When being must end or life rebuild its base,

Alone she must conquer or alone must fall.

No human aid can reach her in that hour,

No armoured god stand shining at her side.

Cry not to heaven, for she alone can save.

For this the silent Force came missioned down;

In her the conscious Will took human shape:

She only can save herself and save the world.

O queen, stand back from that stupendous scene,

Come not between her and her hour of Fate.

Her hour must come and none can intervene:

Think not to turn her from her heaven-sent task,

Strive not to save her from her own high will.

Thou hast no place in that tremendous strife;

Thy love and longing are not arbiters there;

Leave the world’s fate and her to God’s sole guard.

Even if he seems to leave her to her lone strength,

Even though all falters and falls and sees an end

And the heart fails and only are death and night,

God-given her strength can battle against doom

Even on a brink where Death alone seems close

And no human strength can hinder or can help.

Think not to intercede with the hidden Will,

Intrude not twixt her spirit and its force

But leave her to her mighty self and Fate.”

...


Image: Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa) 

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