Who is this Yajna-Purusha, Yajneshwara of the Puranas, the Fire of the Yogins, the Tapas of the doers of austerities, the God of worship of the ritualists, the sacramental divinity of the religious, the bringer of the heavenly riches to the terrestrial creatures, the leader of the Aryans, the fulfiller of the purpose of the Supreme in the cosmos, in whom the wheels of Time move like great rhythms of happiness and joy and ever they expand into the Future claiming its felicitous abundances? Is he the alchemist in the cave experimenting with the baser materials to transmute them into the luminous self of his own gold? the physicist feeding the atomic faggots to set ablaze the cosmic conflagration in the very womb of Matter? the occultist who by his magic spell shall build the body of God with the nerve-centres of his own person? “Serene as the Antarctic silence,” who is it that burns in Hegel on his death-bed? in the non-violent march of the “naked fakir”? or the Blitzkrieg of the Titan? Is he the same Purusha strident like a fire and roaring in the loudness of a colossus of might? When was this Yajna-Purusha born and where does he abide? In the deepest sense the occult Fire that burns in the central hearth in Savitri’s House of Meditation is the eternal Yajna itself, the Yajna being performed by the Sat-Purusha as the house-lord with his mate Adya Shakti seated along with him in the great Action of upholding the Creation that the Transcendent may dwell in it with its full threefold beatitude. Although a small Yajna is constantly being performed in the heart of each one of us, this Yajna of Savitri is unique in its triple dimension of the Supreme. If her Yajna is to dissolve Ignorance and Death, that in the evolutionary manifestation divinity may inhabit this house of Matter, ours is to grow in that sun-bright splendour of divinity itself. Hers is the transcendental Yajna, ours the individual. In the flaming spirit of her Yajna are kindled all these thousand Yajnas of our souls. “She is the Sun from which we kindle all our suns.” Such is the possibility that the Divine as Death has now opened out in this earthly existence. such is the majesty of the Yajna that is constantly going on in Savitri’s House of Meditation.

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