Man can accept his fate or else he can refuse it when he has arrived at the moment of the truth. This is true for the case of highly evolved souls who have a certain mastery over the forces of Nature, of the lower Prakriti in which otherwise we are locked or trapped. Yet Savitri is somebody else, though she shares the need of human grief. There is something absolutely remarkable about Narad’s understanding of Savitri, the Sun-Word, the daughter of the Son of Strength. He says: sometimes one life is charged with earth's destiny, and that it cries not for succour from the time-bound powers,—because alone she is equal to her mighty task. Indeed, she herself seems to be the luminous and strong golden Destiny having taken birth here to mould the destiny of the world. She is La Forza del Destino, The Force of Destiny. Sri Aurobindo writes in a letter: “…both destiny and will exist and even a free-will exists somewhere; the difficulty is only how to get at it and make it effective.”

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