07: Scribbled Notes — The Eternal’s Powers
To vanquish Death Savitri was told to find her soul and harbour the Divine Force in it. She has done it. Soul and Oversoul rush into each other and become one. There is the descent of Mahākuṇdalīṇi in it. But that is not sufficient. She has taken a mortal birth in the Inconscience and as long as its elements are present in her she won’t be able to win victory over Death, that stuff of inconscience itself would be capitalised by him to thwart her attempt to defeat him. She is told to annul herself completely that only God be.
Banish all thought from thee and be God’s void. ||128.46||
Then shalt thou uncover the Unknowable
And the Superconscient conscious grow on thy tops;
Infinity’s vision through thy gaze shall pierce,
Thou shalt look into the eyes of the Unknown;
Find the hid Truth in things seen null and false,
Behind things known discover Mystery’s rear. ||128.47||
Thou shalt be one with God’s bare reality
And the miraculous world he has become
And the diviner miracle still to be
When Nature who is now unconscious God
Translucent grows to the Eternal’s light,
Her seeing his sight, her walk his steps of power
And life is filled with a spiritual joy
And Matter is the Spirit’s willing bride. ||128.48||
Consent to be nothing and none, dissolve Time’s work,
Cast off thy mind, step back from form and name. ||128.49||
Annul thyself that only God may be. ||128.50||
That is Savitri’s Nirvana Yoga. Calm and detached, aloof, she stands back. She is “a witness of the drama of herself, a student of her own interior scene,” watching “the passion and the toil of life, hearing in the crowded thoroughfares of mind the unceasing tread and passage of her thoughts.” And what does she see?
The unseen grew visible and audible:
Thoughts leaped down from a superconscient field
Like eagles swooping from a viewless peak,
Thoughts gleamed up from the screened subliminal depths
Like golden fishes from a hidden sea. ||129.22||
This world is a vast unbroken totality,
A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers. ||129.23||
God’s summits look back on the mute Abyss. ||129.24||
So man evolving to divinest heights
Colloques still with the animal and the Djinn;
The human godhead with star-gazer eyes
Lives still in one house with the primal beast. ||129.25||
The high meets the low, all is a single plan. ||129.26||
So she beheld the many births of thought,
If births can be of what eternal is;
For the Eternal’s powers are like himself,
Timeless in the Timeless, in Time ever born. ||129.27||
This too she saw that all in outer mind
Is made, not born, a product perishable,
Forged in the body’s factory by earth-force. ||129.28||
Out of the mind she rises to escape its law, stands free from Nature, sees creation’s life from far above. Then upon all she lays her sovereign will dedicating it to God’s timeless calm. All grows in her being’s space. She has annulled herself but she must not get lost. The Earth-Mother claims her back to do the work for which she has come here.
The first step in the Nirvana Yoga was to empty out what arises from Mind. The difficulty is Thought has many births, ever born in Time, timeless births in the Time. It is so because it is a power of the Eternal himself. Like thought every aspect in the creation, love, joy, beauty, feeling, sensation, resoluteness, all have births and births, each birth as in the Eternal. Transience and Stability cannot be if that Eternal were not there. Wherefrom do the bird-songs come, the murmur of the stream, the roar of the lion and of the sea, waxing and waning of the Moon, the seasons, the solar flares, and the eclipses also? From there only, ultimately?
But are these seasons in the Eternal himself? Is that a frozen existence, without moving Time or the Timeless? it moveless and unmoving, giving rise to movement? Do the Transcendences grow and expand and flourish and multiply bourgeon? No, because there is immortality but not deathlessness. The miracle to happen is in deathlessness it giving rise to change form, change according to the needs of consciousness, bringing into expression the wonders of the possibilities, unending in Time, ever renewed or new-created. That is the power of the Eternal in the dynamics of Eternity’s Time, Brahman ever becoming more and more Brahman.
17 March 2026
Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 – Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
Then all grew still, nothing moved any more:
Immobile, self-rapt, timeless, solitary
A silent spirit pervaded silent Space. ||129.55||
Then all| grew still,| noth+ing| moved an|+y more:|
Im+mo+bile,| self-rapt,| time+less,| sol+i|+tary|
A si|+lent spir|+it per+vad|+ed si|+lent Space.|
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