The Eternal Day: the Soul’s Choice and the Supreme
Consummation
Fled the embodied nihil,—only to appear
As the tempter divine behind the void,
The new gate through which Savitri forced the way
To claim Satyavan in the world of her choice,
The world of men and matter and joyous things.
Far behind were left the original creations
And in the tremendous hour of reality
She made her will one with the supreme’s will
And in the luminous hush of her heart
Rose the calm sachchidānandaic word.
Then hurried the hymn of sweetness, and triumph,
And the soul of earth awoke to the splendid sun.
The
eternal day has dawned. However, a choice has yet to be made. Savitri has
vanquished Death but earth has yet to receive the boon of that victory. There
are endless realms of beauty and wonder and the young couple could as well live
in those realms, in the transcendent. Savitri has now to reject that Empire of
Light, escape from this bright snare also. It could easily become a wide gate
for disappearance into the everlasting day, lost to earth. But she maintains
that, after all, it was to bring God down to the world on earth that they had
taken birth and it cannot remain unfulfilled. Hers is a wonderful affirmation
of the divine in the material. Savitri makes a choice and asks for Peace,
Oneness, Power, and Joy. Identifying herself with the Will of the Supreme she
prays for those exceptional boons, but only for the good soul of the earth. “Be
it so, tathāstu” declares the Lord and Savitri’s heart is glad. The seal
of sanction is put on the Incarnate’s forceful plea-and-the-claim, that
Superman shall wake in the mortal creature. This earthly life shall become the
life divine. Even as Savitri holding in her deep bosom the soul of Satyavan returns
to the earth, follow them Krishna and Kali. That
is the most magnificent thing she has done, of bringing them down to this world of ours.