For a while Savitri is
withdrawn into thought; her whole life flashes past in her mind, her childhood,
youth, her fateful meeting with Satyavan, the last twelve months of love lived
in the shadow of death.
In this hour of crisis
her exterior personality is displaced by her inner spirit which steps forth and
takes hold of the situation. For only so can the determinism of Nature be
erased. The destiny of the body can be changed only by the will of the soul.
With her it is not a question of her personal submission: the whole challenge
of Death to Life, of Doom to Love is involved and she is preparing for the
moment of trial in this context. She does not seek any external help, nor does
anyone know of the part in the cosmic struggle she is preparing for. The
solitudes of Nature in which she has passed the last twelve months have helped
in the deepening of her inner life.
It was here in the deeps
of green Nature that Love had at last found in Savitri a home which he had not secured
anywhere so far in the human world. Her wideness and height of consciousness,
her purity and sublimity of being, her unbreakable strength were a match to
his, she was worthy of this godhead of Love.
Till this encounter with
Love (who has brought Death in his shadow) Savitri has known of no earthly sorrow.
She has carried undimmed memories of the felicities of the higher worlds from
which she has come. But this state of joy cannot continue for long in this
world of Ignorance. The problem of life is presented to her in its acutest form
and she is called upon to face it. Savitri is no ordinary mortal to shirk the challenge
and stay content with her lot. She does not accept the clamps of the
Inconscient and the bounds of Ignorance on the embodied consciousness. She means
to change the order that has prevailed so far, assert the supremacy of Light
over Darkness, of Life and Love over -Death. She summons all her inner
resources, links herself with the transcendent Will and Force and stands up
ready for the momentous encounter.
The Divine Puissance
surges up in her being, she stops the wheels of Doom and breaks through the finite
into the Infinite.