Aswapati perceives realms of griefless life looming above the worlds of struggle and suffering below. They appear bright with the splendour of the gods unlike any the human mind has conceived. Man does get glimpses of them at rare moments of inner experience. Aswapati is attracted to the Life-planes, to the world of bliss but feels a gulf in between. There is still in his nature some legacy of the darkness, the pain and sorrow he has undergone during life on earth. He observed that Life invaded the material kingdom in order to fill it with all her joy and power. But before Life could establish her full sway a dark Power of Nescience cast its shadow on the soul and imposed a purposeful ordeal on the Spirit that was manifesting through its Life-Power. Life underwent an arrestation of her dynamisms, a diminution and deformation of her natural beauty and bliss. Her immortality got veiled and, in her constricted movement, desire and struggle afflicted Life. Life turned into a purveyor of Death.
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Friday, December 11
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book Two Canto III: The Glory and the Fall of Life
by
RY Deshpande
on Fri 11 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
Thursday, December 10
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book Two Canto II: The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
by
RY Deshpande
on Thu 10 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
The source of all movements creative of Beauty, Delight and Grace is there in the subtle physical world. But only a fragment of the true inspiration received there is able to get through to this world of gross matter. There is no gulf between Matter and Soul, between Mind and Form. Each truth finds its natural expression without deformation. Form does not conceal but reveals. This subtle world is the first station of the human soul after its exit from the physical world on its way to the higher realms; the subtle physical embodiment is the radiant vehicle of the soul after it has shed the grosser body.
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A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book Two Canto I: The World-Stair
by
RY Deshpande
on Wed 09 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
As Aswapati moves in the realms of the Unknown, all that is beyond the human ken comes into his range. There is no limit anywhere; a boundless movement fills a boundless peace. Beyond this earth existence he enters into another existence where the Soul essays in the Oneness of all amidst the free play of the multitude of possibilities released from the Infinite. Here the Inexpressible moves into multiple expression and the Soul takes delight in all experience which is perceived and realised to be one plan.
… more » Tuesday, December 8
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book One Canto V: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness
by
RY Deshpande
on Tue 08 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
Aswapati sees the world of Light, the Mahas, the world of plenary Truth-Consciousness, the Truth, the Right, the Vast, which in its lower ranges is the source all the worlds below and in its upper reaches opens into the infinities of Sat-Chit-Ananda. Here is the Wisdom that reconciles all the warring truths in the domain of Ignorance and is the source of all Revelation, Inspiration and Illumination; here is where the Eternal casts itself into Time, where the One organises itself into the Many. Beyond is the One in its infinitude. Into these Countries of the Unknown adventures Aswapati.
… more » Monday, December 7
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book One Canto IV: The Secret Knowledge
by
RY Deshpande
on Mon 07 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
As Aswapati stood on the high peak of existence, still higher peaks came into his ken. For the vistas of the Infinite are endless and what man achieves by way of ascent is only a promise of greater conquests in store. Aswapati came to see and realise that the present state of limitation and death is not the permanent condition of earth-life. States of freedom and immortality await discovery by man. Whether he is conscious of it or not, his being steadily grows towards them in the stress of the evolutionary labour to which he is subject.
… more » Sunday, December 6
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book One Canto III: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release
by
RY Deshpande
on Sun 06 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
Savitri's birth in this world was in response to the aspiration of the Earth voiced through Aswapati, leader of men and Lord of Life. It was he who embodied the call of humanity and succeeded in bringing down the Saviour Grace in the form of his daughter Savitri.
… more » Saturday, December 5
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book One Canto II: The Issue
by
RY Deshpande
on Sat 05 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
In the hour of crisis Savitri’s exterior personality is displaced by her inner spirit which steps forth and takes hold of the situation. For only so can the determinism of Nature be erased. The destiny of the body can be changed only by the will of the soul. With her it is not a question of her personal submission: the whole challenge of Death to Life, of Doom to Love is involved and she is preparing for the moment of trial in this context. She does not seek any external help, nor does anyone know of the part in the cosmic struggle she is preparing for. The solitudes of Nature in which she has passed the last twelve months have helped in the deepening of her inner life.
… more » Friday, December 4
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: Book One Canto I: The Symbol Dawn
by
RY Deshpande
on Fri 04 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
The Dawn shines for a brief while on the slender border of life recording as it were in earthly terms the Beauty and the Bliss and the greatness of the Divine Spirit on the verge of manifestation. She casts the seed of Splendour on the dense vasts. Then appears the Form of the Goddess of eternal Light opening the heavens. Seeing that the spaces are ready for her feet, she steps forth with all her omniscience and revelation. The Earth feels her coming; her ear hears the steps of the Goddess, her eye turns on her Form. The luminous smile of the Deity sets aflame all life that was still. All Nature rises in worship of the Divinity, the trees, the hills, the wind, the skies, the air - all participate in the adoration. The Earth is awakened to the Light of Life. The divine afflatus, however, cannot last long as conditions on mortal earth are not ready for its stay.
… more » Thursday, December 3
A Summary of Savitri—by MP Pandit: The Story of Savitri
by
RY Deshpande
on Thu 03 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
It is well known. Aswapati, King of Madra, is childless. He undergoes severe austerities and as a result of his propitiation of Goddess Savitri, he is blessed with a daughter who is named after the Deity that gave the boon. She grows up bright and beautiful, but none offers his hand to the princess as she is overpowering in her personality. Her father bids her seek her own partner and she goes forth on the quest. She returns after two years and announces in her father's court that her choice is Satyavan, son of Dyumatsena, the blind King of Shalwa, then in exile. Narad, who happens to be present on the scene, warns them against this choice because, he says, Satyavan is fated to die a year thence. But Savitri does not change her decision and the marriage takes place. Savitri stays with her husband sharing his simple life and serving his aged parents.
… more » Wednesday, December 2
Book Three Cantowise Summary by AB Purani: Canto IV—the Vision and the Boon
by
RY Deshpande
on Wed 02 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
In his present state in the world man is subjected to darkness and opposed by hostile forces. He is subject to the law of division and duality on which he depends for his working and progress. He cannot at present attain to knowledge, he can only fabricate "signs of the Real in Ignorance." He asks for freedom but needs to live in bondage, "he has need of darkness to perceive some light." In his life, he actually obeys the Inconscient which he has come to rule. His mind, his life and all his other natural instruments are not capable of attaining the highest spiritual knowledge and perfection because of their inherent defects. And, yet, in man's imperfect state there is a godhead struggling. And the real leader of the course of human evolution is God himself behind the apparent veil of ignorance.
... more » Tuesday, December 1
Book Three Cantowise Summary by AB Purani: Canto III—the House of the Spirit and the New Creation
by
RY Deshpande
on Tue 01 Dec 2009 04:30 AM IST
In order to make himself fit for the reception of this great Power, Aswapati "tore desire up from its bleeding roots" so that the divine Power may take its place. The aspiration in him was to bring a divine harmony into the whole of life and to make this earth "an empire of the immanent Divine." Not merely his self but even his nature parts became universalised and in their tremendous universality they "included every soul and mind in his". The joys and sorrows of others became his and a universal sympathy arose in his nature. He became oceanic or like the earth in his wide universal sympathy.
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