Man is driven by the forces of Nature, and very rarely does he get intimations from the higher worlds of knowledge and beauty and joy; even if he might be getting them, the chances are that he will ignore them, if not dismiss them—because he has not established a living contact with those wonderful worlds. But Savitri, though she has taken the human birth with all its limitations, is fully conscious of who she is and for what purpose she has come. The veil of Nature is certainly there, a thick and dark veil, but it does not obscure her innate divine spirit: she belongs to Ishwarkoti.

She has entered into this enigmatic world built in the dusk of God where the spiritual fire gets promptly curbed or smothered. In fact precaution has to be taken that, there is no sudden outbreak of the heavenly powers in the life of man. The danger is, the weight of the Infinite can crush this entire creation. That is what Savitri herself has to weigh up, and act. There has to be a sufficiently strong ādhāra, a supportive base for the entry of the magnificent supernal powers in this complex terrestrial working. If summoned or invoked too fast, too early in this unprepared world, it can cause havoc.

This is a magnificent description of what will happen when the true Power will manifest upon earth. She came to prepare earth with the New Consciousness, the Consciousness that will transform the life on earth to make it ready for a New Creation.

If read with the true understanding, this Epic becomes prophetic and announces the events that are beginning to come upon earth.

The pragmatics are such that, this vast material creation is a trap, is locked in its own limitations, is a jail where operate stiff and unseeing laws, and there are sentries kept at every gate of entrance, and they will not allow anything to happen that does not conform to fixed stipulations. There cannot be argument with them. Here are laws of Ignorance born of Inconscience, and they are not going to surrender just like that. Its tribunals, its inquisitions, its courts and judgements are there only to uphold its infamous rule. They exist to make sure that its dark foundations are secure and safe against the invading fire of the spirit. The law of Karma is firmly based on the subconscient nature of things and its agents are active in man’s life and in the working of the cosmos. In the face of such terrible and destroying antagonism it is not an easy task to work for the divine advent. That uncompromising antagonism and hostility is an aspect Savitri has to reckon with. It is as though this whole question is gathered up in the problem of Death halting and obstructing the movement of immortal Life. Satyavan’s preordained death simply focuses the issue in a distinct way. So much is tied to Inconscience that we live only a small vitalistic life and our soul has no capacity to take wings to the higher skies of spiritual wideness and grandeur. Will this be ever so? But Savitri cannot remain content with this state of affair here.

This is a very pathetic description of the condition of the world; each effort to pull it out from this condition meets at each step, every moment, this horrible resistance. Not only power is needed but also endurance, self-sacrifice and a patience that can face all ordeals.

It is Savitri who is going to light up the flame. She, infringing into the world of the Wrong and accused of her superior deed, has been summoned to the court by the dark Power. But she is there to face every challenge thrown at her, and she is not going to bend her head by accepting the shadowy-sinister destiny. Lesser creatures might do so, in fact they do it all the while, but not she. The dark Power cannot accept bliss as the foundation of this creation, because that would mean his reign coming to an end; it will be a suicidal act for it.

But Savitri is exceptional, the divine omnipotence having cast its seed in her. She is not going to despair if God-light and God-power get struck by the adversary’s blows. She is the one who is ever in identity with the eternal and the true, and her being is conscious of the divine source; she will not make any compromise or do bargain to patch up the differences. Her single concern is, to establish the reign of love even in this gloom-filled life of ours, her single concern.

It is only when there is the power to remain in constant contact with the Supreme Consciousness, beyond all these distortions and these black thoughts, that it is possible to maintain the Truth and to keep up the hope and the conviction of a better life.

The Consciousness is there, the faith is there, the clear vision is there. There is only to bear and to last.