Savitri’s birth is in response to Aswapati’s prayer to the transcendental divine Shakti. He brought down her radiant power in this world of mortality, that in her dynamism it be transformed into divinity that really it is. As we have already seen, Sri Aurobindo writes in a letter: “Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother. This incarnation is supposed to have taken place in far past time when the whole thing had to be opened out, so as to ‘hew the ways of Immortality.’ ” Which means that, the Story of Savitri is not just a social episode designed to declare ethical-moral values in the social context. It declares the Triumph of Love over Death. “To wrestle with the Shadow she had come,” and it is for that purpose that she accepted the mournful line. For that purpose she did the Shakti Yoga in this earthly creation. For that purpose she identified herself with the Divine Love. It is for that purpose she prayed to the Lord to be consumed in it, consumed “in all the worlds of being.”

Aswapati has discerned what the God’s desire is, and it is in that discernment that he carried the world’s desire to the transcendental divine Shakti, she being the executive power to get done whatever is wished to be got done in its authentic truth. Aswapati’s focused yoga-tapasya has revealed to him the purpose of this creation, its present predicament also, and in it he found the only solution that can successfully tackle the difficulties. But what is God’s desire? It is concerned with the will that is there behind this creation; it is to fulfil himself in this creation: (Savitri, pp. 311-12)

The mystery of God's birth and acts remains

Leaving unbroken the last chapter's seal,

Unsolved the riddle of the unfinished Play;

The cosmic Player laughs within his mask,

And still the last inviolate secret hides

Behind the human glory of a Form,

Behind the gold eidolon of a Name.

A large white line has figured as a goal,

But far beyond the ineffable suntracks blaze.

What seemed the source and end was a wide gate,

A last bare step into eternity.

An eye has opened upon timelessness,

Infinity takes back the forms it gave,

And through God's darkness or his naked light

His million rays return into the Sun.

There is a zero sign of the Supreme;

Nature left nude and still uncovers God.

But in her grandiose nothingness all is there:

When her strong garbs are torn away from us,

The soul's ignorance is slain but not the soul.

The zero covers an immortal face.

A high and black negation is not all,

A huge extinction is not God's last word,

Life's ultimate sense, the close of being's course,

The meaning of this great mysterious world.

In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power.

Awaking, it can wake the trance-bound soul

And in the ray reveal the parent sun:

It can make the world a vessel of Spirit's force,

It can fashion in the clay God's perfect shape.

To free the self is but one radiant pace;

Here to fulfil himself was God's desire.

The Yogi-Poet has already seen the transcendental Savitri poised to take birth in the world, but it can happen only when there is the call from below, when there is the world’s prayer for her incarnation. But that incarnation can take place only when the prayer becomes compelling, when there is someone to carry it to the supreme Mother. It is for this that Aswapati comes here and does the yoga-tapasya: (p. 22)

A world's desire compelled her mortal birth.

One in the front of the immemorial quest,

Protagonist of the mysterious play

In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms

And limits his eternity by the hours

And the blind Void struggles to live and see,

A thinker and toiler in the ideal's air,

Brought down to earth's dumb need her radiant power.

Aswapati takes the human birth, finds his soul, makes it free from the bondage of Nature, Prakriti, and explores the cosmic dimensions in the freedom and greatness of his spirit, locates where the real problem lies, pursues his spiritual quest to find the solution to the problem: (pp. 101-02)

A Seer within who knows the ordered plan

Concealed behind our momentary steps,

Inspires our ascent to viewless heights

As once the abysmal leap to birth and life.

His call had reached the Traveller in Time.

Apart in an unfathomed loneliness,

He travelled in his mute and single strength

Bearing the burden of the world's desire.

A formless stillness called, a nameless Light.

Above him was the white immobile Ray,

Around him the eternal Silences.

With all his exceptional spiritual attainments, however, Aswapati has yet to meet the Formless, has to move into the utter Unknowable, into the Non-Manifest, the Avyakta, from where all creation issues forth. It is there can he really be free of the burden he is carrying, the world’s desire. It is someone else who is going to fulfil it. (p. 305)

The effort to rule seemed a vain pride of Will;

A trivial achievement scorned by Time,

All power retired into the Omnipotent.

A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light.

A silence settled on his striving heart;

Absolved from the voices of the world's desire,

He turned to the Ineffable's timeless call.

A Being intimate and unnameable,

A wide compelling ecstasy and peace

Felt in himself and all and yet ungrasped,

Approached and faded from his soul's pursuit

As if for ever luring him beyond.

It is in that absolute freedom the true contents of the world’s desire acquire the fire and the glow of the divinity that it seeks. In it is the fulfilment of the world’s desire.