Savitri: the Light of the Supreme
Re: Towards the Intermediate Race—the Story of Creation
by Narendra
Since He and She are one then by deduction the corresponding aspect of an emanation should also arise: As long as Nature lasts, he too is there, For this is sure that he and she are one; Even when he sleeps, he keeps her on his breast: 1. Now considering Void or inconscient Being as the Supreme's emanation and somnabulist force as the spouse, what would be the corresponding male emanations for Her Force emanations of Truth, Consciousness, Love and Bliss and Life? Put another way in context of story of Creation - Are the four Asuras emanations of Her counterpart emanation of somnabulist Force? or direct emanations of Her which then plunge into the Void or descend? 2. Since Death is revealed to be the fourfold Being (Whom I assume to be the Supreme in Universal poise): And knew him for the same who snares our lives Captured in his terrifying pitiless net, And makes the universe his prison camp And makes in his immense and vacant vasts The labour of the stars a circuit vain And death the end of every human road And grief and pain the wages of man’s toil. One whom her soul had faced as Death and Night A sum of all sweetness gathered into his limbs And blinded her heart to the beauty of the suns. Transfigured was the formidable shape. So this means that it was the Supreme in his Universal poise who supported Divine Mother's emanation of Life from behind? 3. It is within, below, without, above. Regarding the planes of consciousness they exist in the above four dimensions. Now for these planes to have come into existence separately there had to be previously either a descent or an ascent via these routes. Now I understand the 'within' part as our self and soul route of descent and ascent which is part of Book of Yoga in Savitri. The 'above' part is the Universal Being's descent and ongoing ascent which is part of Book Two of Traveller of the worlds. The 'below' part is the part Three of Savitri and have probably come into existence because of the four Asura's cut off from their Origin. As for the 'without' what I speculate is that it is the earth with Book eleven and twelve having relevant portions pertaining to it. And idea is to build this structure with descents of different plane substances of which Mother completed the final step with Supramental descent. Is my thought running on credible lines? 4. And light and darkness are their eyes’ interchange; blindfold search and wrestle and fumbling clasp Of a half-seen Nature and a hidden Soul, A game of hide-and-seek in twilit rooms, A play of love and hate and fear and hope Continues in the nursery of mind Its hard and heavy romp of self-born twins. The above two passages refer to the idea that the relationship between He and She are the parameters and substance for any plane. The same pattern I have observed to be present in Savitri for different planes of consciousness in Book two where Sri Aurobindo would touch on this relationship present for each plane. Now for typal plane the character of this relationship would be broadly fixed, whereas for evolutary planes it would be dynamic?
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