The issue that Savitri has to address is getting sharpened, the issue between Existence and Non-existence, between Being and Non-being, between the original Gods colloguing with each other, they debating the fate of this evolutionary earth. If Being is the cosmic determinate, then Non-being would be the indeterminate, that which cannot be defined, and therefore it would make matters intractable. If Savitri has to confront this great occult and stiff indeterminate, then that can become possible only when it shall assume a perceptible tangible shape, a form, when it becomes a sort of seizeable determinate. This is precisely what happens in the figure of Death, the cosmic Nothingness assuming a shape, the Shadow-figure thrown by the original Void rising to meet the challenge of the invading divinity. The event of Satyavan’s death is the occasion which marks this appearance.

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