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Savitri (A Legend, Symbol, the Mantric Epic of Sri Aurobindo), Lines 234 to 238.

 Page 7, Savitri (A Legend, Symbol, the Mantric Epic of Sri Aurobindo), Lines 234 to 238: 


A glory of lightnings traversing the earth-scene,

Their sun-thoughts fading, darkened by ignorant minds,

Their work betrayed, their good to evil turned,

The cross their payment for the crown they gave,

Only they leave behind a splendid Name.


Sri Aurobindo continues portraying divine messengers: They arrive like glorious flashes of lightnings traveling across some age earthly age or yuga, illuminating the ignorant masses and then departing quickly. After their passing those thoughts from the supreme sun of Truth, grow faint because they get darkened by the ignorant minds who cannot understand them. Their good work is denounced and ill-spoken of; the message gets distorted and perverted for exactly the opposite of what they intended to share. They are crucified for the taj they offer (reminding us of master Jesus). Regarding the Cross, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother taught their disciples that the Cross symbolically represents the resistance of the world to pouring of the divine grace. It is only after their passing that few realize their sacrifice and remember them with reverence, yet most cannot live up to their teachings. No wonder in gratitude to Sri Aurobindo, the Mother inscribed on the Samadhi these words:


"To Thee who hast been the material envelope of our Master, to Thee our infinite gratitude. Before Thee who hast done so much for us, who hast worked, struggled, suffered, hoped, endured so much, before Thee who hast willed all, attempted all, prepared, achieved all for us, before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget, even for a moment, all we owe to Thee."


In context of theosophy I vividly recollect in 2018 when we were in Urbana, we had found only two books in public library on Blavatsky and both of them vilified her. One of the books was titled Madame Blavatsky's Baboon. This intrigued me then but intuitively reading the secret doctrine and contemplating mahatma letters exposed the well-crafted falsehood of book. 


In one of the letters Morya writes regarding Blavatsky: "The Old Woman is accused of untruthfulness, inaccuracy in her statements. "Ask no questions and you will receive no lies." She is forbidden to say what she knows. You may cut her to pieces and she will not tell. Nay — she is ordered in cases of need to mislead people; and, were she more of a natural born liar — she might be happier and won her day long since by this time. But that's just where the shoe pinches, Sahib. She is too truthful, too outspoken, too incapable of dissimulation: and now she is being daily crucified for it."

Image: Pictures denoting gratitude for the grace of a divine messenger (Savitri).



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