06: Notes — Covenant in Savitri
There are two occurrences of “covenant” in Savitri:
1: God’s covenant with the Night
In the glow of the Spirit’s room of memories
He could recover the luminous marginal notes
Dotting with light the crabbed ambiguous scroll,
Rescue the preamble and the saving clause
Of the dark Agreement by which all is ruled
That rises from material Nature’s sleep
To clothe the Everlasting in new shapes. ||18.8||
He could re-read now and interpret new
Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs,
Resolve its oracle and its paradox,
Its riddling phrases and its blindfold terms,
The deep oxymoron of its truth’s repliques,
And recognise as a just necessity
Its hard conditions for the mighty work,—
Nature’s impossible Herculean toil
Only her warlock wisecraft could enforce,
Its law of opposition of the Gods,
Its list of inseparable contraries. ||18.9||
The dumb great Mother in her cosmic trance
Exploiting for creation’s joy and pain
Infinity’s sanction to the birth of form,
Accepts indomitably to execute
The will to know in an inconscient world,
The will to live under a reign of death,
The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh,
And works out through the appearance of a soul
By a miraculous birth in plasm and gas
The mystery of God’s covenant with the Night. ||18.10||
(Savitri Book One Canto Four)
Aswapati the delegate from eternity has entered into the field of Ignorance. He takes upon himself the entire burden and the travail of birth in Inconscience. The Mystic in him is in search of that by which he can redeem this lot under which is gripped this life on earth. He explores all the dimensions of the working of the Lower Nature. His soul is already released from the cosmic Ignorance; but his spirit must be free of from the bondage of this dumb great Mother. Appears the soul, and she is there to unravel the mystery of God’s covenant with the Night. The Night is there not for nothing, that God should have entered into agreement with her. She has a purpose in the logic and in the working scheme of things to manifest the luminous powers of the spirit in this creation. Though there is pain and suffering, Ignorance and Death, they are the means for the divine wonders to be here in growing and glowing proportions.
2: Abolished were conception’s covenants
A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. ||5.35||
For him mind’s limiting firmament ceased above,
In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day
A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault;
The conscious ends of being went rolling back:
The landmarks of the little person fell,
The island ego joined its continent:
Overpassed was this world of rigid limiting forms:
Life’s barriers opened into the Unknown. ||5.36||
Abolished were conception’s covenants
And, striking off subjection’s rigorous clause
Annulled the soul’s treaty with Nature’s nescience. ||5.37||
All the grey inhibitions were torn off
And broken the intellect’s hard and lustrous lid;
Truth unpartitioned found immense sky-room;
An empyrean vision saw and knew;
The bounded mind became a boundless light,
The finite self mated with Infinity. ||5.38||
His march now soared into an eagle’s flight. ||5.39||
(Savitri Book One Canto Three)
If it were not by accepting the measure of mortality by taking a mortal birth mortality of the earth’s soul would have never been abolished. Yogi Aswapati has first static oneness with this creation and also the dynamic power operating here. Now this transcendental Seer is born in him. Island ego joins the vast continents of the person, all limits are thrown away, the soul’s treaty with Nature’s nescience is dismissed, ideas and thoughts and conceptions of the mind are abolished, that agreement which was there earlier exists no more. His soul is released but also his spirit must be free to explore the million aspects of this sprawling complexity. There has to be a bright future for which all this happens to be present, with a perfection assurance given right at the beginning of the process, the Divine Promise.
The Mother takes a passage from Prayers and Meditations of September 25, 1914:
The Lord hast willed, and Thou dost execute;
A new Light shall break upon the earth.
A new world shall be born.
And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.
and rewrites it as follows in her own hand:
29 February—29 March
Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute:
A new light breaks upon the earth,
A new world is born.
The things that were promised are fulfilled.
(Original English.)
This happened on Wednesday 29 February 1956, the Supermind universally entering into the subtle-physical of the earth.
The Biblical assurance is: My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
I Will Sing of His Love Forever
1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
16In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
17For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.
18For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
The featured image is a painting by Huta, Book One Canto Three # 3
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