In a conversation recorded by AB Purani Sri Aurobindo tells: “Savitri awakes on the day of destiny, the day when Satyavan has to die. The birth of Savitri is a boon of the Supreme Goddess given to Aswapati. Aswapati is the Yogi who seeks the means to deliver the world out of Ignorance.”

Satyavan has to die—that is the imperative. Satyavan must die—that is how the opening canto of Savitri ends. Such is also the prophecy the heavenly sage Narad makes in the palace of Aswapati when Savitri discloses her choice of Satyavan as her life’s partner, that twelve swift-winged months are given to him and her, and this hour returning Satyavan must die.

A great golden dawn heralds the destined day. The moment of truth has arrived and Savitri has to carry out the work for which she is here as the Goddess incarnate, in a human form. It is a day in the life of human Savitri bearing far-reaching implications, superhuman implications, of doom and darkness versus light and joy. But as the day is opening with a great and golden dawn, it must be bringing happy richnesses only, the felicities of the manifesting spirit. The Yogi-Poet has already seen these in their greatness, on the golden verge of materialisation. In fact he worked for that to happen.

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