Narad had made the prophecy of Satyavan’s death after one year after the marriage with Savitri. The year is now coming to a quick close and Savitri, after considering all the prospects, has kind of resigned herself to the impending doom. Her “grief’s self” has become calm and she is ready to accept whatever be the verdict of the fiery struggle and the issue that is connected with it. But a Voice commands to her to find her soul and get up to conquer the adversary Death. She is reminded about the purpose of her birth and, to accomplish it, she must first establish the divine Force in it. Savitri accepts the command and her Yoga of the Conquest of Death begins. At first she witnesses the cosmic Past, all the karmic load that is weighing on the soul of man. This must be dissolved. She sees how in the indeterminate formlessness of Self creation took its first mysterious steps, how Matter learned to think. A consciousness looked out at the inconscient Vast, and pleasure and pain stirred the insensible Void. Out of the subconscient life arose surface consciousness. Soon came Mind with a thousand queries and got busy with the commerce of the world. But there is a whole mysterious world which remains locked within. Also Man’s lower nature hides awful guests, and these must be dislodged. Not only that. Death and his hunters stalk a victim earth, and the terrible Angel smites at every door. Ghastlier than all this is the almighty Evil, and he has straddled the straight path of Nature. But Savitri also gets an assurance that there is a guardian power, there are Hands that save. Behind this calamitous present is the look and concern of the divine Calm. Savitri knows that all this is only Matter's first self-view, a scale and series in the Ignorance, that this is not all we are or our entire world. There are domains beyond it and there are prospects also for this world of ours to grow and expand. The cosmic Past, passing through the Present has to give way to the cosmic Future, the evolutionary future in terms of the higher manifestation with its own ascending grades of possibilities. That is also the evolution of the incarnate Savitri, the divine Power in the earth-consciousness. But in the present state of hers, what will exactly be the nature of the outcome, that she does not know, cannot know. It could be this humanity moulding into God’s own shape, or it could be the discovery of a new felicitous world, or else it could be the creation of a world of beatitude. In any case, earth must transform herself and equal heaven or else heaven descend into earth’s mortal state and work out things in it. This vast spiritual change is aleady built into the scheme of things and it is the process of Time that must see it done. What is it that we can do to participate in it, participate in a meaningful way? We must first discover our soul and make it an agent for this transformative action. But let us read the passage from Savitri.

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