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Savitri comes in answer to earth’s yearning

Savitri comes in answer to earth’s yearning

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Savitri comes in answer to earth’s yearning

In this high signal moment of the gods

Answering earth’s yearning and her cry for bliss,

A greatness from our other countries came. ||94.1||

Translating heaven into a human shape ||94.3||

A spirit of its celestial source aware

Descended into earth’s imperfect mould

And wept not fallen to mortality,

But looked on all with large and tranquil eyes. ||94.4||

The featured painting is by Huta, IV:1 #7; the Mother’s sketch is as follows:


Savitri Book 4 Canto 1 – The Birth and Childhood of the Flame

Let us scan the related passage:

In this| high sig|+nal mo|+ment of| the gods|

An+swer|+ing earth’s| yearn+ing| and her cry| for bliss|

A great|+ness from| our oth|+er coun|+tries came.| 94.1

A si|+lence in| the noise| of earth|+ly things|

Im+mu|+ta+bly| re+vealed| the se|+cret Word,|

A might|+i+er in|+flux filled| the o+bliv|+i+ous clay:|

A lamp| was lit,| a sa|+cred im|+age made.| 94.2

A me|+di+at|+ing ray| had touched| the earth|

Bridg+ing| the gulf| be+tween| man’s mind| and God’s;|

Trans+lat|+ing heav|+en in|+to a hu|+man shape|

Its bright|+ness linked| our tran|+sience to| the Un+known.| 94.3

A spir+it| of its| ce+les|+tial source| a+ware|

De+scend|+ed in|+to earth’s| im+per|+fect mould|

And wept| not fall|+en to| mor+tal|+i+ty,|

But looked| on all| with large| and tran|+quil eyes.| 94.4

She as a royal self-assuring child already looking into the Unknowable’s Unknown

2 responses to “Savitri comes in answer to earth’s yearning”

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    RY Deshpande

    The Mother: When I was a child of about thirteen, for nearly a year every night as soon as I had gone to bed it seemed to me that I went out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above the city, very high above. Then I used to see myself clad in a magnificent golden robe, much longer than myself; and as I rose higher, the robe would stretch, spreading out in a circle around me to form a kind of immense roof over the city. Then I would see men, women, children, old men, the sick, the unfortunate coming out from every side; they would gather under the outspread robe, begging for help, telling of their miseries, their suffering, their hardships. In reply, the robe, supple and alive, would extend towards each one of them individually, and as soon as they had touched it, they were comforted or healed, and went back into their bodies happier and stronger than they had come out of them. Nothing seemed more beautiful to me, nothing could make me happier; and all the activities of the day seemed dull and colourless and without any real life, beside this activity of the night which was the true life for me. Often while I was rising up in this way, I used to see at my left an old man, silent and still, who looked at me with kindly affection and encouraged me by his presence. This old man, dressed in a long dark purple robe, was the personification—as I came to know later—of him who is called the Man of Sorrows.

    https://incarnateword.in/cwm/01/february-22-1914

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    The Mother: When I was a child (about twelve years old) I knew nothing of spiritual things, my family lived in a completely materialistic atmosphere; but once, I saw something in a dream: a being came to me, a woman, and she told me, “What you need you will always have in abundance.” That was Nature, material Nature, the same being I always saw later on. And it’s true, absolutely true! (Mother, laughing, shows the jumble around her) Later, when I saw Théon, he explained to me; but at that time, I knew nothing at all, it wasn’t made up by my thought, it came without my knowing anything: “What you need you will always have in abundance.” (Mother laughs) It’s true!

    https://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/june-3-1970

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