Goddess Savitri takes human birth in the tapasya of Aswapati. He prays to her to incarnate herself and redeem the lot of this suffering mortality. She agrees. In the story by Vyasa as we have in the Mahabharata, she tells Aswapati that it is by the sanction of the Creator-Father Brahma himself that a radiant daughter would soon be born to him. In it is avowed, in a decisive way, the Will of the Supreme coming into play in this evolutionary world. The executive Shakti working in the authority of the Supreme Being is a great occult-spiritual truth and the Savitri-story upholds it in a convincing manner—the Purusha as the giver of consent without which the Prakriti as the doer of works will not do anything: he wills, and she executes. That is the operative mechanism.

...   more »