Savitri has reached the state of absolute Nirvana in the progress of her Yoga. It was her transcendental governing Spirit who was directly guiding her in it. Eventually, she became God’s nothing,—that in it all be God. In this connection, it is significant to note what the Mother tells about her becoming one with Sri Aurobindo, one in the absolute transcendence that he would speak to her in English. It was a sign of her total identity with him. Such full immergence! Savitri’s was a Nirvana-realisation beyond the Gita’s Brahma-Nirvana, beyond the Buddha’s Nirvana where even God vanishes. It was beyond the Vedantic ‘not-this, not-that’, beyond known and unknown realms, beyond all the formations of this infinite manifestation, including the transcendental. There was in it no Ignorance, there was no Death left behind; these cannot be there, nor grief and suffering and joy and pleasure. The cause of Ignorance and Death springing up from the Inconscience had disappeared, and the occult conquest over them was already made. It was as if by a miraculous yogic process going back in time, into the Past to remove the Cause from which all the effects flowed. In this Nirvana of hers it was the all-pervasive ‘yes-this, yes-that’, the absolute positive in the supreme Will. It was the state of affirmation of everything in the Will of the Lord. There existed only “What Thou Willest, What Thou Willest”, the supreme mantra of action.

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