Aswapati receives the boon from the Divine Mother when she promises him that one will be born and redeem the world. She the Eternal now steps into swift movements of Time, the rolling seasons of the earth: the Timeless enters into the rhythms of cyclic Time. She is conceived, she is born, she grows rapidly like a flame, bright and imperial and conquering—she seems at once to found a mightier race. One who has been coming here again and again, she has taken up yet again her unfinished task; to it she awakes among these human tribes. The great expectation is that this time it will be completed, the task for which she has been coming repeatedly. Now the embodied Guest is there to see it through. Because there is a kind of divine sponsorship of it, it becomes an assurance that it will succeed. That she belongs to Ishwarkoti is brought out everywhere in Savitri. Let us read the description, for instance, of the birth and growth of divine incarnation. She comes in response to the ardent prayer-desire Aswapati carried to the supreme Shakti standing on the verge of manifestation. She comes and weeps not fallen to mortality. One had returned from the transcendent planes and bore anew the load of mortal breath. Once more that Will put on an earthly shape. The Power within her shaped her moulding sense. She grows to her sweet and full maidenhood, and each minute becomes a throb of beauty's heart, the hours tuned to a honey-toned content. This is so because of this beauty an occult godhead is the cause. She a silent warrior pacing in her city of strength, calls by her aspiration high destiny down. Even as a child she is conscious of her high mission—because within her heart is seated the embodied Guest.

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