Savitri Analysis

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In her yoga sadhana ‘inner discipline’, she reaches the Nirvanic ‘librated’ state. She enters into the Gnostic or the supramental world. She dwells with the divine and incarnates the supreme divine mother. Realizing her oneness with the supreme mother, she possesses new power of divine consciousness, which means abolishing all imperfections, fear, including that of death. For death is just a reminder to life, that it has not found itself. Savitri has found life as she is one with the divine mother. In her terrestrial existence her being is perfection embodied. She also holds the key to golden perfection for complete mankind. Her yoga and her sadhana ‘discipline’ succeed and goes far beyond the mental state of complete liberation. But evolution …show more content…

For, the visual images are the life-sap of the epic poem. It is told that when Savitri was sitting and making her “joy a bridge twixt earth and heaven /An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart” (Savitri 7.6.67-68); then suddenly “a formless Dread” (74) with shapeless endless wings enveloped the heavens and possessed the earth. The endless wings want to end the fabled joy of life. It is an apprehension a conscious premonition of Savitri’s inner mind that she feels within herself that the fatal day of Satyavan’s death is nearby Savitri’s heart feels unhappy within. The abyss draws a nihilistic picture of life. The inner mind voices the forebodings that there is no soul, no personality, and no hope, “not to be happy in a world of pain” (106). Such is the lower level of the human life common to man. Such is the mysterious working of the intransigent involution. Savitri now clearly sees the inner …show more content…

She feels within herself that the onus of the burden of Satyavan’s life rests in her hands. The voice of darkness- the voice of Night within her says: “I am Death”, “I am Kali”, “I am Maya and the universe is my cheat” (7.6.117-119), “for only the blank Eternal can be true” (124). In this way, the dualistic life of delusion that is world overtakes her. Thus, the earthly life and the human return again and again, ever haunting, ever pulling, the upward thrust of aspiration downward. The main subject of Sri Aurobindo is to find out the divine absolute. When Savitri’s inner world is of perfection and delight, her outer world of imperfection hears the voice of negative night. “A barren silence” (137) weighs upon her heart. In the presence of the world of illusion, a sudden voice of light counsels Savitri to hide her kingdom of heaven within herself. Her inner voice of light reminds her, it is not only for her personal realization of the own self, but to win the self of the world, her life has found a birth on the earth. Her life is not limited to herself. It is “not for self alone the Self is won” (7.6.153). There are many more fields to be won for the divine

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