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Savitri, The Christ : End of The Symbol Dawn

 Today let us finish the first canto covering the last two paintings. Savitri will symbolically emerge as the Mediator, Messiah or Christ from the ancient scriptures of Vedas, Who will plead the cause of humanity with God (Lord Yama) and try to bring about a rescue of Satyavan (representing soul of humanity). She is the ageless symbol of Divine Intermediary and Word portrayed by Sri Aurobindo in his epic.


Page 9, Savitri (A Legend, Symbol, the Mantric Epic of Sri Aurobindo), Lines 310 to 315: 


At the summons of her body’s voiceless call

Her strong far-winged spirit travelled back,

Back to the yoke of ignorance and fate,

Back to the labour and stress of mortal days,

Lighting a pathway through strange symbol dreams

Across the ebbing of the seas of sleep.


In these lines Sri Aurobindo is portraying Savitri as she is beginning to wake up on that fateful day on which she will have to fulfill her divine mission all alone. Savitri has been asleep in the forest hermitage and her Spirit is travelling on the subtle planes of consciousness. A movement of her body at the dawn is commanding her strong soaring Spirit to travel back to the burden and limitations of her dense body. When in the body the Spirit will again be subjected to blindness, tension, stress and strain of the mortal fate and laws of lower three worlds of matter. Just as we usually remember those dreams before waking up in the morning, Savitri's Spirit on it's pathway back to her body is recollecting such dreams (of her happy days with Satyavan so far). As if submerged in an ocean of deep sleep, the seas of sleep are flowing back waking on the shores of a new day. Huta paints Savitri with a flashback of her memorable past with Satyavan. 


Page 10, Savitri (A Legend, Symbol, the Mantric Epic of Sri Aurobindo), Lines 339 to 342:


Amid the trivial sounds, the unchanging scene 

Her soul arose confronting Time and Fate. 

Immobile in herself, she gathered force. 

This was the day when Satyavan must die.


Sri Aurobindo ends the canto saying: In the middle of everyday noise and the scene of routine activities of every morning, Savitri's soul arises facing up to Fate which is inevitable in the further movement of Time. Becoming still, she gathers the entire might of her soul to face that fateful doom of Satyavan when Lord Yama as the prime mover of cycle of death and rebirth will come to deliver the karmic consequences of his actions. Huta paints Savitri with Satyavan almost on the verge of his death.


Djwal Khul conveys through Alice Bailey: "When men feel that they have exhausted all their own resources and have come to an end of all their own innate possibilities and that the problems and conditions confronting them are beyond their solving or handling, they are apt to look for a divine Intermediary and for the Mediator Who will plead their cause with God and bring about a rescue. They look for a Savior. This doctrine of Mediators, of Messiahs, of Christs and of Avatars can be found running like a golden thread through all the world faiths and Scriptures and, relating these world Scriptures to some central source of emanation, they are found in rich abundance everywhere. Even the human soul is regarded as an intermediary between man and God; Christ is believed by countless millions to act as the divine mediator between humanity and divinity." - The Reappearance of the Christ.



Can you connect Savitri with the doctrine of the coming one ? Yet much objective work is pending by his disciples before he can emerge as we shall see in further posts both scientifically and objectively. 

Image: 1. Savitri that Mediator, Messiah or Christ from the ancient scriptures of Vedas, Who will plead their cause with God (Lord Yama) and try to bring about a rescue of Satyavan (representing humanity). She is the ageless symbol of Divine Intermediary and Word portrayed by Sri Aurobindo in his epic poem. (Savitri image by By Raja Ravi Varma and A.K. Joshi & amp; co. Bombay) 2. Prophecy and warning by Djwal khul - Third war wiping out the opportunity for evolution for many slumbering souls (edited out from original manuscript to prevent the disciples from getting demotivated around almost 75 years ago) 




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