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Savitri is married to Satyavan and now she lives with him in the sylvan forest hermitage. The clear sunny skies of summer become covered by the Monsoon rain clouds and the voice of mighty storms echos through the great forest. Savitri lives in the sound of fateful thunder and sobbing rain. Her rapture and happiness turn to grief as she remembers Narad’s prediction and the day of Satyavan’s death d...

Savitri’s parents bring her back to the wild Shalwa forest to marry Satyavan. She will leave her luxurious life as a princess in a great palace to live the simple ascetic forest life with a prince whose father, once a mighty king, has lost his kingdom. Savitri’s heart had chosen and forced the long curve of fate to its issue. Her past receded and her future neared. Her parents, helpless against th...

Narad tells Savitri and her parents; “Ït is decreed and Satyavan must die, the hour is fixed, chosen the fatal stroke”. He explains that our fate is not the events that meet us on the road of life, our fate is the goal we choose and the road we take to get there. In the Radio broadcast of Mother’s Questions And Answers, December 26, 1956, Mother speaks about the first experience we have which show...

Narad, the heavenly sage, tells the Queen, “O mortal who complainst of death and fate, accuse none of the harms thyself has called; this troubled world thou hast chosen for thy home, thou art thyself the author of thy pain.” Then he describes how the immortal soul chooses to leave the boundlessness and truth and consciousness and light of the Self to take the giant fall into the Abyss and descend...

Narad Speaks about the invincible World-Redeemer, who lives through the opposition of Earth’s Powers and Nature’s ambushes and the world’s attacks. His task is to save mankind from darkness and ignorance. He must enter the eternity of Night and know God’s darkness as he knows his sun. Imperishable and wise and infinite he still must travel Hell the world to save. Then Narad describes the Titan, th...

Narad tells the Queen that her grief is a cry of darkness to the light which she cannot experience because she is living in ignorance. Her mind’s light hides from her the Eternal’s thought, her heart’s hopes hide from her the Eternal’s will, earth’s joys shut from her the Immortal’s bliss. Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come. Therefore the dread teacher, pain is necessary. Pain is th...

Last time Savitri’s mother told her to go out and find another husband because Satyavan was fated to die in one year. Savitri refused, saying her love was Eternal and beyond death. Now the Queen expresses all the misery and discontent of the surface soul of common man and his revolt against his ignorant fate, because her daughter’s future seems doomed and she cannot understand why. She complains a...

Savitri’s Mother, the Queen, tells her to leave Satyavan and find another mate because he is fated to die in one year. But Savitri says once her heart has chosen and will not choose again. Her heart has sealed its troth to Satyavan. Fate and death cannot dissolve the seal of her promise. She is stronger than death and greater than her fate. The Queen tries to convince her that she is mistaken in b...

Savitri’s Mother, Aswapathy’s Queen is worried about Savitri’s fate if she marries Satyavan because Narad, the all-knowing messenger of the Gods has spoken a veiled prediction of Doom and the King has asked if fire must always test great souls. When Narad says that nothing can turn Savitri from her destined path, the Queen opens her doors to grief and complains about the cosmic law that gives Savi...

Savitri tells her parents that she has chosen Satyavan to be her husband, and her father, King Aswapathy sees a darkness above Satyavan’s name that is chased by stupendous light. He asks Narad, the all-knowing Divine Messenger not to give Savitri the dreadful foreknowledge of this fateful danger unless his words can avert the impending doom. The king worries about fated dangers in human life. And...

Savitri returns home to her father’s palace to tell her parents that she has found Satyavan, the mate she was searching for. Narad, the all-knowing Divine messenger is waiting there to tell her the fate of her marriage. Narad knows all about what has happened to Savitri and what is going to happen to her. But he hides his thoughts in his all-knowing mind and asks her where she has been. The end of...

Savitri has found her mate in the remote forest. The wedding of the Eternal Lord and Spouse took place again on earth in human forms. While Savitri was returning to her father’s palace to tell her parents, Narad, the messenger of the Gods was approaching the palace from above. The heavenly sage and singer from paradise crossed the boundary into the mortal’s plane, chanting his hymn of everlasting...

Savitri remembers all that happens on this day of fate when Satyavan asks her to enter his life. She tells him that he is the soul her soul is seeking. She descends from her high car and they join their souls in their own deep, life-changing personal marriage. Sri Aurobindo’s descriptions of their wedding and what happens in their embrace disclose ancient wisdom about the experience of marriage. H...

The two soul mates continue to learn their true relationship. Satyavan continues to tell Savitri about his life, growing up in the forest. He felt a covert touch of the Divine and heard a call. Because of his efforts he glimpsed the presence of the One in All, but there still lacked the last transcendent power. He knows that the final realization is to realize the Divine in his body, but he has no...

Savitri has met her mate, Satyavan at the edge of a sunlit forest clearing. In their secret conscious selves they know the truth of their eternal union, but this awareness has not yet dawned in their surface consciousness. They begin to speak, and there has been so much love between them in so many past lives that Satyavan begins by asking Savitri to come home with him and tells her that it is a p...

Destiny has drawn Savitri and Satyavan to the sunlit grove at the edge of the wild forest. They see each other for the first time. Although to sight unknown, though life and mind had altered to hold a new significance, these bodies summed the drift of numerous births, and the spirit to the spirit was the same. Although as unknown beings we seem to meet, the soul can recognise its answering soul. W...

Following the fateful orbit of her life, Savitri, the golden virgin in her carven car, is passing through wild, solitary forest groves. Satyavan, living in the forest, communing with the earth, grown a foster-child of beauty and solitude, a brother of the sunshine and the sky, has turned from his usual paths. Fate leads them both into a beautiful, sunlit space and Savitri sees her destined life’s...

The destined spot and hour are close – everything happens in the cosmic play at its proper time and in its foreseen place. Sri Aurobindo describes the solitary forest glade where Savitri will meet Satyavan, the mate of her soul, for the first time in this life. The Great Mother has chosen primaeval peace of natural beauty, where earth is alone with her great lover, heaven, for the atmosphere in wh...

Savitri is nearing her destined meeting with Satyavan, the mate of her soul, and she is also drawing closer to her Divine work. Part of that work is the yoga that she will do to prepare her being. On this part of her journey she sees great yogis and sages and feels the atmosphere of their spiritual practices, but she is impelled to go on her unfinished way and to follow the fateful orbit of her li...

King Aswapati has been able to work on his own body with more light. The Supreme Self of Eternal Light has also been working in the King's darker parts and they are changing. The King's consciousness is becoming omniscient, all-knowing. The Divine Mother continues bringing him Light and transcendent wisdom, and he learns the truths which are still hidden from humanity at this stage of ev...

The World-Ways open before Savitri as she follows her inner and outer road. She is guided by both her individual portion of the Immortal Self and her individual soul. A deeper consciousness wells up in her and she remembers things that are a part of old forgotten selves from previous births. Even her journey to find her mate is not new to her. To her remembering witness soul she seemed to trace ag...

The mighty yearning that asks for a perfect life for earth and men again raised it flame. King Aswapathy hears a Voice from hidden skies, calling mankind to its greater destiny. The Voice speaks of man’s failure to change. Then, Savitri comes like a shining answer from the gods. There comes the gift of a revealing hour, and with his inner sight, the king sees the great and unknown spirit born as h...

Savitri is a lovely being – a friend, yet too great wholly to know. To be near her drew a high communion’s force. Through the story of how people relate to Savitri, Sri Aurobindo tells us stories about how people related to Mother with their imperfect human development in the Ashram. Savitri is so high that no equal heart comes near to join her longing heart; no comrade soul made like her – made o...

The Godheads of a grandiose past look on Savitri and see the future’s Godheads come. Art and culture refine her sense. The knowledge of the thinker and the seer hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible. Her soul learns to soar beyond things known. Aware of the universal self in all, she wishes to make all one immense embrace and raise all to light.

The Divine Mother comes as Savitri to take up her divine unfinished task. Her will to divinise the clay of our physical bodies and make dumb matter conscious of its God again puts on an earthly shape. At once she seemed to found a mightier race. A lovelier body formed than earth had known. The link of soul with form grew sure. A mind of light, a life of rhythmic force, a body instinct with hidden...