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Satyavan — The Golden-Tower & The Future of the Earth

We are skimming through Dr Pravir Malik’s new significant booklet on the way to publication, a welcome addition to the expositions of Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri. It is entitled Satyavan — The Golden-Tower & The Future of the Earth and runs into just 105 A-4 pages, 42000 words. Here is the opening text, entitled Earth’s Flowering:

In The Debate of Love and Death (Pg 637, CIII, Bk X: The Book of the Double Twilight) Savitri tells Death: “Thy Gifts resist.  Earth cannot flower if lonely I return.” 

For earth to flower, she must return with Satyavan, the soul of the earth who is the incarnation of the Supreme.  It is he that through the ages has held the evolutionary changes in the climbing from becoming to becoming interned in the being-possibilities involved in matter. 

Mother sheds light on the formation of the earth (CWM, Vol. 04: Q&A 1951, 24 March):

“The formation of the earth as we know it, this infinitesimal point in the immense universe, was made precisely in order to concentrate the effort of transformation upon one point; it is like a symbolic point created in the universe to make it possible, while working directly upon one point, to radiate it over the entire universe.

If we want to make the problem a little more comprehensible, it is enough to limit ourselves to the creation and the history of the earth, for it is a good symbol of universal history.

From the astronomical point of view the earth is nothing, it is a very small accident. From the spiritual point of view, it is a symbolic willed formation. And as I have already said, it is only upon earth that this Presence is found, this direct contact with the supreme Origin, this presence of the divine Consciousness hidden in all things.

The other worlds have been organised more or less hierarchically, if one may say so, but the earth has a special formation due to the direct intervention, without any intermediary, of the supreme Consciousness in the Inconscient.

This is a very creative-perceptive approach to look into Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. The publication of this little tract can mark the beginning of a continued study comprising of multi-faceted epic that Savitri is. Congratulations to the author.

Savitri Book 10 Canto 3 – The Debate of Love and Death

Death bowed his sovereign head in cold assent:
“I give to thee, saved from death and poignant fate
Whatever once the living Satyavan
Desired in his heart for Savitri…. ||142.70||
Return, O child, to thy forsaken earth.” ||142.75||
But Savitri replied, “Thy gifts resist. ||142.76||
Earth cannot flower if lonely I return.” ||142.77||

Featured Image: A Painting by Huta Savitri X:iii # 3

Savitri Book 10 Canto 3 – The Debate of Love and Death

Death bowed his sovereign head in cold assent:

 “I give to thee, saved from death and poignant fate

Whatever once the living Satyavan

Desired in his heart for Savitri…. ||142.70||

Return, O child, to thy forsaken earth.” ||142.75||

But Savitri replied, “Thy gifts resist. ||142.76||

Earth cannot flower if lonely I return.” ||142.77||

Re+turn,| O child,| to thy| for+sak|+en earth.| 142.75

But Sa|+vi+tri| re+plied,| “Thy gifts| re+sist.|142.76

Earth can|+not flow|+er if lone|+ly I| re+turn.| 142.77

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