Aswapati’s was a dauntless spirit that came here to this ephemeral world of ours from the larger spheres, the sempiternal spheres of light and joy and truth, he ungrudgingly accepting the lot of the dark and difficult mortality. But soon he has unique spiritual experiences and realisations that would first make his soul free from these thousand lower bondages. Static Oneness and dynamic Power descend in him and his yogic journey begins. Even as he grows into his greater larger self, humanity frames his movements less and less. In fact the Supreme’s gaze looks out through his human eyes and he sees all things and creatures as itself. He knows that this huge material universe is but a small result of a stupendous force. Going farther beyond it, he glimpses the superconscient realms of motionless peace, the uniqueness of the utter and the alone. What he sees are only the Silence and the Absolute. He is now aware that his spirit had its source over there. But the contrast between that state and things as they are here on the earth is sharp, and it is necessary that the cause of it be discovered. Aswapati sets himself to find it, unearth it. In the face of the cosmic past weighing heavily on the soul of man, the remarkable story of evolution has to unfold in the Yogi-Tapasvin’s untiring pursuit. Savitri’s passages reveal some of these aspects.

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