Bearing the Cross and undergoing a harrowing Jail experience perhaps are relatively small aspects of the work to do which the Divine comes as the incarnate. There are deeper issues, far more deep than these ‘externalities’ visible to us. Of those deeper things we might get some idea by going through a few passages in Savitri. Let us take, for instance, the frightening-chilling, and also the daring experience of Aswapati when he entered into the domains of the Inconscient Life.

As in a shapeless beast's intangible jaws,
Gripped, strangled by that lusting viscous blot,
Attracted to some black and giant mouth
And swallowing throat and a huge belly of doom,
His being from its own vision disappeared
Drawn towards depths that hungered for its fall.
A formless void suppressed his struggling brain,
A darkness grim and cold oppressed his flesh,
A whispered grey suggestion chilled his heart;
Haled by a serpent-force from its warm home
And dragged to extinction in blank vacancy
Life clung to its seat with cords of gasping breath;
Lapped was his body by a tenebrous tongue. …
There crawled through every tense and aching nerve
Leaving behind its poignant quaking trail
A nameless and unutterable fear.

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