Intense Fire and Flame of Savitri

The intense fire and Flame of Savitri:

A conscious frame was here, a self-born Force.

In this enigma of the dusk of God,

This slow and strange uneasy compromise

Of limiting Nature with a limitless Soul,

Where all must move between an ordered Chance

And an uncaring blind Necessity,

Too high the fire spiritual dare not blaze.

If once it met the intense original Flame,

An answering touch might shatter all measures made

And earth sink down with the weight of the Infinite.

Page 18, Savitri (A Legend, Symbol, the Mantric Epic of Sri Aurobindo), The Issue.

How is Savitri different from an ordinary earthbound human ? She is a Force, a power in touch with higher planes of consciousness. Her mold is fully conscious and active. An ordinary earth life is mysterious puzzle difficult to solve. We are in a twilight of God, where the light of truth and darkness of ignorance are almost equally balanced. At our current stage in evolution, the material world is restricting to a limitless soul such as Savitri. For her it is certainly a slow, strange and an uneasy compromise. The material world is governed by physical laws creating conditions of limitations under which a soul has to live when it takes birth here. On other hand not everything can be determined and predicted by these laws appearing like an ordered Chance. Between such 'ordered Chance' and 'an uncaring blind Necessity' of these physical laws, the fire of will and aspiration cannot risk to flame up too high. Thus even the fire of spiritual progress cannot dare to be ablaze under present limiting material conditions of Nature. If it is fully ablaze in present conditions and recieves unrestricted response from original Divine Flame, then it might break into pieces all measures of form and the entire material framework. Since consciousness evolves gradually via manifested form through ages, a too-soon and full descent of spiritual energy and power will shock the earth with its Infinite weight.

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