A Sanskrit prayer invokes good auspicious things to all, sarvéşām bhadram astu vah. In fact, this is the benediction Narad utters just before taking the leave of the royal hosts in Madra. He had come all the way from his blissful home in Paradise to disclose the death of Satyavan whom Savitri has chosen as her life’s inseparable partner. More significantly, however, in the process he has initiated Savitri into the Yoga of Conquest of Death. So whatever has to happen in it will prove propitious to the entire world. It will dissolve the Evil Persona of the Divine operating in the cosmic field.

The Mother’s supplication to the divine Master is: “May all beings be happy in the peace of Thy illumination!” That illumination will remove all that is Shadow’s; that will remove the Shadow itself.

The roots of life are afflicted by evil and the question that always haunts us is, how does God permit evil, if God is all-good, summum bonum? how? Does he give rise to evil, summum malum? can a perfect creator cause imperfection in his creation? can in the divine’s world arise the undivine? But the undeniable fact is, in this phenomenality we do see good and evil, perfection and imperfection, divine and undivine, see under life’s terrestrial condition, under its duress and not in the freedom of the spirit. It is human reason that gets baffled at the dichotomy appearing in front of it, not only as evil and good, but also as truth and falsehood, ignorance and knowledge, pleasure and pain, light and shade, life and death; everywhere those baffling opposites are present.

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