Savitri has come to complete
the story of her soul she had undertaken to write long ago. It is not that she
was coming here now for the first time. In fact wherever and whenever there was
a possibility of manifestation of the divine Ray, she had been always there.
She has been carrying on the executive part of the evolutionary course,
carrying it out in the Will of the Lord, the Will that has gone into it. The
book is being written and written, and no page can be closed until the entire
story unfolds. Savitri is not going to terminate the work she had undertaken to
do.
Certainly, right from the beginning of this earth-process she has been engaged in accomplishing in life the great world-plan. She has the knowledge of it, and she is ready to put in whatever yogic-spiritual effort is demanded by it. In that assigned task or commitment or enterprise of hers there is an unbroken steadiness and solidity: if she has achieved something while here in life, she is going to continue it in another occult way after death. [*] If her work were going to be a failure, the very meaning of her birth in the earthly dynamics would be lost. That would mean the failure of the divine resolve, the frailty of the supreme Will in this creation. Not determined or swayed by the whims and fancies of Time and Circumstance, but a firm and strong will founded in her high self could take care of every contingency. Not given to happenstance, Savitri could stand up in her own divine right to meet every situation. Indeed, “her single will opposed the cosmic rule.”
[*This is a significant
revelation in the context of the Mother’s work of physical transformation, particularly when her New Body is there in the subtle-physical of the earth.]
The earth has
been chosen for the big work of bringing back the manifested to its Origin. The
world has become the symbol of the whole universe and upon the earth the
Sovereign Mother has incarnated from the beginning, to hasten the waking up of
the world to the consciousness of the Origin.
It is to this
Consciousness of the Mother that legend gave the name of Savitri and then the
whole story was built.
Savitri’s superhuman
personality in the frail human form had such might that it could even halt the
arrival of Doom. Now with this approaching event the strength slumbering in her
secret soul suddenly awoke to meet the challenge. It could bear the Unseen’s
knock and stand up to do the work it came to do. In the case of a lesser mortal
the knock would have proved disastrous; but Savitri could bear its impact and
therefore it rather saved her. This protecting concern of the Unseen is always
there for her, and she has the capacity to stand up to its demands. The huge
machinery of the cosmic working was in full operation, operating relentlessly;
but here was she who could immobilize it, terminate its functioning. It proved
utterly helpless in the rush of a flame of a soul. It is in such a moment of
supernatural proportion that at once a key is also discovered by the strong
soul. The will of the Indescribable is set into motion and a contact with the
highest Force established. The key could be a prayer which is also a master act
and a splendid idea. It could be all of them together, the threefold yoga of
bhakti-karma-jnana. This yoga has in its full efficacy the merit of linking the
aspirant soul to the transcendental Greatness. When this is done, nothing
appears miraculous. The supreme Will which is impersonal enters into the will of
an individual and through him does its work of omnipotence. Savitri has become
that glorious individual.
The secret of
this Power is the unification of the manifested Consciousness with the Original
Consciousness, with the Supreme. If this union is total and conscious, there is
no limit to the Power manifested. If it is constant, the world can be
transformed.
And then, if
this is realised, what would take some thousands and thousands of years to be
accomplished can be done in a moment.
In that Impersonal’s Will
entering into the Personal’s Will, mastery is won over everything. It has
acquired the control over things and events. In its absence all is a brute
mechanical movement, and there is the inexorable rule of cause-and-effect. That
is the logic on which operates this tragic world. Man himself becomes a machine
amid machines, his thoughts pumped out from the brain, his life-force creating
a surface entity to which he becomes a slave. If it is not this
cause-and-effect relationship, then it can be nothing but the working of a
dubious Chance. Matter and all that comes from it are subject to it. There is
no issue and only prevails the rule of probability. There are only likelihoods
and possibilities, and no assuring finalities.
This is the
new world as the New Consciousness has found it and still it lingers on,
without thinking even of changing. But the time will come when things will
change. The time is coming and one must be ready.
In this probabilistic domain
there are only inelegant and blundering events, and the reason is there to
provide an easy rationale for them. It even provides a justification that it
could be the colossal work of a mind which itself is the product of vast
ignorance. However, in spite of this clumsy brute rigid apparatus of cosmic
organization, does wisdom come and vision grow. Man can then become the master
of Nature. He can even feel the presence of the observant self and the working
of a secret conscious power. The sense of cosmic operation is disclosed. “His
soul steps back and sees the Light supreme.” There is a realization that after
all behind this huge affair of the world there is a Godhead who is in the
charge of it.
In the dawning of this truth
of the cosmic organization a victory is won for God in man, and the secret
deity that had been operating all along from behind the scene comes out openly
to posses the world for itself. This is what has happened to Savitri. “The
great World-Mother now in her arose” and what had appeared calamity and doom
has been dismissed. Not Chance nor Necessity but a conscious Will took
possession of everything. Savitri has become a flaming warrior on the
battlefield of God waging war against Death. Indeed, the result is, it is God
himself who had assumed that shape for a high intended purpose, is revealed
behind every thing, behind the Inconscient Void too. That is the victory
Savitri has come to win, and she has won it.
This is just
what has happened and is still happening, and, to pick up courage there is only
to look in front to a future that is not far away.
We are slowly
but surely coming out of an almost desperate past towards a future full of
promise and bringing to a harmony tired, exhausted and almost in despair, the
vision of a Realisation that will bring back not only hope but Light, Power and
Realisation.