Savitri is the only one who knows in the forest hermitage about the death of Satyavan on the foretold day and hour; neither he nor her parents-in-law nor the great accomplished rishis has any idea about it. But she has understood the meaning and purpose of it and, such was her greatness that, she keeps it hid from everybody. Why does she do that? By sharing this knowledge, could it not be that they would have worked out another approach to deal with the situation? But deep is Savitri’s understanding of human nature and the chances were that she would have been more cursed that assisted. Deeper yet is the occult aspect of this knowledge. By making it public she would have actually played into the hands of Death himself. All kinds of forces would have entered into operation and these would have caused great damage to her work. The significant fact is also that, death is to occur not in the hermitage but in the lonely forest when Satyavan and Savitri are alone, none else being present anywhere around, not even a passer-by happening to go that way. Savitri has taken the load of the human kind on herself and she knows that she is not going to get any help from anybody if she were to disclose it; on the contrary, it was bound to complicate the matter, frustrate the entire attempt, frustrate by dissipating the yogic power she had gathered in her soul. Therefore, as far as human Savitri is concerned, that whole situation makes her condition psychologically extremely difficult. On the one hand she cannot disclose what was impending, and on the other, she has to bear the reality, the time-born harshness of the moment all alone, absolutely all alone. The poet is handling with great deftness this emotional condition of Savitri, her plight also, she yet standing far above the emotionalism of the ordinary. She is in it yet she remains calm and composed, her spirit towering above all this mundane or even cosmic, it in oneness with her transcendental spirit.

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