Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitr.,
on the Light of the Supreme,
which shall illumine us with the Truth.   more »

Sri Aurobindo is giving all the process of rebuilding the Consciousness into the Unconscious. He calls the separation “the fall”: that is truly a fall of the Consciousness in the Unconscious. And now he describes how the message sent from the Supreme to repair the harm done wakens up again the Consciousness—as by a kind of imperative influence—to begin to climb up, back to the Supreme Consciousness.

This ascent is the evolution that will take so many thousands and thousands of years. But for a very long time it was not measured. It is only when Mind took the form in man, that time began to be measured. And, before that, who can know how long It took to wake up from the complete Unconsciousness? He is speaking of the starting-point of this evolution.

Savitri came to transform this world and make it fit to receive the Higher Light and Power. But in order to transform the world, one must come upon earth, accept it, and then accept at the same time its insincerity, its weakness, its incapacity to live this Higher Consciousness. That gives me the impression, a strong impression, of what has been for ages and centuries, but it is not the final destiny of the earth. Life is expected to transform itself in order to be able to express the divine things—the Divine Consciousness. And that is why She has come upon earth to prepare it.

That is the history of human life upon earth: each time that help has been sent to hasten the evolution, it has been received in that way. But each time the effort and the help are bigger, higher, truer; and each time a little work, some result, is achieved; and step by step, the world grows towards its Realisation. The whole story has been shown under a symbolic form, in a symbolic story, and it is that that Sri Aurobindo gives in Savitri…

It is this terrible story of the creation of earth and man as the means to save the world from suffering and destruction. The death of Satyavan becomes the symbol of the misery of the earth’s creation, of its fate and, through Savitri, of its liberation. She faces the doom in order to give the solution. The creation is plunged in misery, suffering and death. But it can and will be saved through Her intervention. …    more »