Aswapati comes to the mortal world as eternity’s
delegate. He is aware that in man’s deep hid soul can reside celestial powers.
But at present what rule over it are the grim and gruesome forces of darkness,
of doom. The existential fact is: Death is the Lord of Life, and he remains
unconquered. Terrible agencies are abroad, and they are busy thwarting God’s
great design. Has some adverse agent or authority, some antagonist, some
dreadful Foe marred his beautiful work, brought imperfection to its perfection?
Certainly, that was not the way the world was intended to be, flawed and full
of misery and suffering. Something has slipped somewhere, something has gone
wrong somewhere and there is the distortion and the crookedness. But in
Aswapati was born the Seer and things opened into the Invisible. He accepted
the apprenticeship of Ignorance—only to make his march the soar of an “eagle’s
flight”. He has also the strong perception, a luminous intuition that this
world will change into God’s world, that surely (Savitri, p. 200)
…one day he shall come to our cry,
One day he shall create our life anew
And utter the magic formula of peace
And bring perfection to the scheme of things.
One day he shall descend to life and earth,
Leaving the secrecy of the eternal doors,
Into a world that cries to him for help,
And bring the truth that sets the spirit free,
The joy that is the baptism of the soul,
The strength that is the outstretched arm of Love.
One day he shall lift his beauty's dreadful veil,
Impose delight on the world's beating heart
And bare his secret body of light and bliss.
But, in the meanwhile, there is the struggle and there is the pang, there is
the darksome uncertainty. Could it be that an “error of the gods has made the
world”? Or indifferent is the Eternal, watching futile Time? And yet the hard
work and the labour and the effort must go on, the thinker and the toiler think
and toil, that the imbroglio is changed into a joyful miracle. When this shall
happen then will life, free from death, reveal her true immortal face. Then
shall “Night bare its core of mystic light”.
Aswapati must set himself on the discovery of that mystic light, bring the sun
here by which all can get true illumination, remove the error if it was made by
the erring gods, correct the goof that has fouled up the system, make the
eternal alert to the reality of this inconscient creation to give to it divine
sense and divine contents. As eternity’s delegate Aswapati must fulfil himself
here. He must fulfil himself to fulfil God’s desire.