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. (Savitri, pp. 353-58)
In this high signal moment of the
gods
Answering earth's yearning and her
cry for bliss
A greatness from our other
countries came.
A silence in the noise of earthly
things
Immutably revealed the secret Word,
A mightier influx filled the
oblivious clay:
A lamp was lit, a sacred image
made.
A mediating ray has touched the
earth
Bridging the gulf between man's
mind and God's;
Translating heaven into a human
shape
Its brightness linked our
transience to the Unknown.
A spirit of its celestial source
aware
Descended into earth's imperfect
mould
And wept not fallen to mortality,
But looked on all with large and
tranquil eyes.
One had returned from the
transcendent planes
And bore anew the load of mortal
breath,
Who had striven of old with our
darkness and our pain;
She took again her divine
unfinished task:
Survivor of death and the aeonic
years,
Once more with her fathomless heart
she fronted Time.
Again there was renewed, again
revealed
The ancient closeness by
earth-vision veiled,
The secret contact broken off in
Time,
A consanguinity of earth and
heaven,
Between the human portion toiling
here
And an as yet unborn and limitless
Force.
Again the mystic deep attempt
began,
The daring wager of the cosmic
game.
For since upon this blind and
whirling globe
Earth-plasm first quivered with the
illumining mind
And life invaded the material
sheath
Afflicting Inconscience with the
need to feel,
Since in Infinity's silence woke a
word,
A Mother wisdom works in Nature's
breast
To pour delight on the heart of
toil and want
And press perfection on life's
stumbling powers,
Impose heaven-sentience on the
obscure abyss
And make dumb Matter conscious of
its God. …
Once more that Will put on an
earthly shape.
A Mind empowered from Truth's
immutable seat
Was framed for vision and
interpreting act
And instruments were sovereignly
designed
To express divinity in terrestrial
signs.
Outlined by the pressure of this
new descent
A lovelier body formed than earth
had known. …
Passive she lay sheltered in
wordless sleep,
Involved and drowned in Matter's
giant trance,
An infant heart of the deep-caved
world-plan
In cradle of divine inconscience
rocked
By the universal ecstasy of the
suns.
Some missioned Power in the
half-wakened frame
Nursed a transcendent birth's dumb
glorious seed
For which this vivid tenement was
made.
But soon the link of soul with form
grew sure;
Flooded was the dim cave with slow
conscient light,
The seed grew into a delicate
marvellous bud,
The bud disclosed a great and
heavenly bloom.
At once she seemed to found a
mightier race.
Arrived upon the strange and
dubious globe
The child remembering inly a far
home
Lived guarded in her spirit's
luminous cell,
Alone mid men in her diviner kind.
…
Harmoniously she impressed the earth with heaven.
Aligned to a swift rhythm of sheer
delight
And singing to themselves her days
went by;
Each minute was a throb of beauty's
heart,
The hours were tuned to a
sweet-toned content
Which asked for nothing, but took
all life gave
Sovereignly as her nature's inborn
right. …
An occult godhead of this beauty is
cause,
The spirit and intimate guest of
all this charm,
This sweetness's priestess and this
reverie's muse. …
Aware of forms to which our eyes
are closed,
Conscious of nearnesses we cannot
feel,
The Power within her shaped her
moulding sense
In deeper figures than our surface
types.
An invisible sunlight ran within
her veins
And flooded her brain with heavenly
brilliancies
That woke a wider sight than earth could know.
Outlined in the sincerity of that
ray
Her springing childlike thoughts
were richly turned
Into luminous patterns of her
soul's deep truth,
And from her eyes she cast another
look
On all around her than man's
ignorant view. …
As from the soil sprang glory of
branch and flower,
As from the animal's life rose
thinking man,
A new epiphany appeared in her.
A mind of light, a life of rhythmic
force,
A body instinct with hidden
divinity
Prepared an image of the coming god…
A scout of victory in a vigil
tower,
Her aspiration called high destiny
down;
A silent warrior paced in her city
of strength
Inviolate, guarding Truth's diamond
throne.
A nectarous haloed moon her
passionate heart
Loved all and spoke no word and
made no sign,
But kept her bosom's rapturous
secrecy
A blissful ardent moved and
voiceless world. …
The body that held this greatness
seemed almost
An image made of heaven's
transparent light.