05.02 - Satyavan

01.01 - The Symbol Dawn, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This was the day when Satyavan must die.
\t:End of Book I - Canto I

05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:05.02 - Satyavan
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Satyavan
ALL SHE remembered on this day of Fate,
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And Satyavan looked out from his soul's doors
And felt the enchantment of her liquid voice

05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
object:05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri
author class:Sri Aurobindo
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Satyavan and Savitri
OUT OF the voiceless mystery of the past
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Thus Satyavan spoke first to Savitri:
"O thou who com'st to me out of Time's silences,
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And Satyavan replied to Savitri:
"In days when yet his sight looked clear on life,
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Son of that king, I, Satyavan, have lived
Contented, for not yet of thee aware,
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"Speak more to me, speak more, O Satyavan,
Speak of thyself and all thou art within;
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And Satyavan like a replying harp
To the insistent calling of a flute
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"O Satyavan, I have heard thee and I know;
I know that thou and only thou art he."
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The thatch that covered the life of Satyavan.
Adorned with creepers and red climbing flowers
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Her happy voice cried out to Satyavan:
"My heart will stay here on this forest verge
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Pace towards a tranquil clearing Satyavan.
A nave of trees enshrined the hermit thatch,

06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The son of Dyumatsena, Satyavan,
I have met on the wild forest's lonely verge.
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Happy is Satyavan mid earthly men
Whom Savitri has chosen for her mate,
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Delightful is the soul of Satyavan,
A ray out of the rapturous Infinite,
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This day returning Satyavan must die."
A lightning bright and nude the sentence fell.
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My heart has sealed its troth to Satyavan:
Its signature adverse Fate cannot efface,
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Or eyes and lips that are not Satyavan's?
I have no need to draw back from his arms
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Only now for my soul in Satyavan
I treasure the rich occasion of my birth:
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I have seen God smile at me in Satyavan;
I have seen the Eternal in a human face."

06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is decreed and Satyavan must die;
The hour is fixed, chosen the fatal stroke.
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In vain thou mournst that Satyavan must die;
His death is a beginning of greater life,

07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Where first she met the face of Satyavan
And he saw like one waking into a dream
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She abode with Satyavan in the wild woods:
Priceless she deemed her joy so close to death;
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She longed to cry, "O tender Satyavan,
O lover of my soul, give more, give more
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But Satyavan sometimes half understood,
Or felt at least with the uncertain answer

07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What need have I, what need has Satyavan
To avoid the black-meshed net, the dismal door,

07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Above the cherished head of Satyavan
She saw not now Fate's dark and lethal orb;

07.07 - The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And when she sat alone with Satyavan,
Her moveless mind with his that searched and strove,
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But now she sat by sleeping Satyavan,
Awake within, and the enormous Night

08.03 - Death in the Forest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
By Satyavan upon a forest stone.
What prayer she breathed her soul and Durga knew.
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"One year that I have lived with Satyavan
Here on the emerald edge of the vast woods
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To go with Satyavan holding his hand
Into the life that he has loved and touch
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Beside her Satyavan walked full of joy
Because she moved with him through his green haunts:
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But Satyavan had paused. He meant to finish
His labour here that happy, linked, uncaring
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But Satyavan wielded a joyous axe.
He sang high snatches of a sage's chant
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And Satyavan had passed from her embrace.
END OF BOOK EIGHT

09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As if her mind had died with Satyavan.
But still the human heart in her beat on.
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Another luminous Satyavan arose,
Starting upright from the recumbent earth
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Her violent spirit soared at Satyavan.
Out mid the plunge of heaven-surrounded rocks
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Her aim, joy, origin, Satyavan alone.
Her sovereign prisoned in her being's core,
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Turning arrested luminous Satyavan
Looked back with his wonderful eyes at Savitri.

09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Her eyes had lost their luminous Satyavan.
Yet not for this her spirit failed, but held
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And out of the dumb darkness Satyavan,
Her husband, grew into a luminous shade.
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To live for a little without Satyavan.
What shall the ancient goddess give to thee
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Hope not to win back to thee Satyavan.
587
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First I demand whatever Satyavan,
My husband, waking in the forest's charm
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Into earth's flowering spaces Satyavan
In the sweet transiency of human limbs
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The One lives for ever. There no Satyavan
Changing was born and there no Savitri

10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Dressed in its rays of wonder Satyavan
Before her seemed the centre of its charm,

10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If Satyavan had lived, love would have died;
But Satyavan is dead and love shall live
A little while in thy sad breast, until
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Death saves thee from this and saves Satyavan:
He now is safe, delivered from himself;
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He named himself for me, grew Satyavan.
For we were man and woman from the first,
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Let him first wear the face of Satyavan
And let his soul be one with him I love;

10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I have claimed from thee the living Satyavan,
But for his work and mine, our sacred charge.
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And Satyavan can never again be thine."
But Savitri replied to the vague Power:
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Nothing I claim but Satyavan alone."
There was a hush as if of doubtful fates.
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Whatever once the living Satyavan
Desired in his heart for Savitri.
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"Give me back Satyavan, my only lord.
Thy thoughts are vacant to my soul that feels
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Then Satyavan shall glide into the past,
A gentle memory pushed away from thee
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Death walked in front of her and Satyavan,
In the dark front of Death, a failing star.

10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Forgetting love, forgetting Satyavan,
Annul thyself in his immobile peace.
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Then will I give thee back thy Satyavan.
But here are only facts and steel-bound Law.
This truth I know that Satyavan is dead
And even thy sweetness cannot lure him back.
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Then will I give back to thee Satyavan.
Or if the Mighty Mother is with thee,
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Release the soul of the world called Satyavan
Freed from thy clutch of pain and ignorance
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And Satyavan and Savitri were alone.
But neither stirred: between those figures rose

10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Yes, she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body' she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through the human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be express and established. The human Savitri declares: If Death is conquered, it is for the sake of Satya van living eternally with her. She seems to say: What I wish to see is the living Satyavan and I united with him for ever. I do not need an earthly life without him; with him I prefer to be in another world if necessary away from the obscurity and turmoil of this earth here.
My strength is taken from me and given to Death,
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Here begins then the second stage of her mission,her work and achievement, the conquest of Death. Only the Divine human being can conquer Death. Savitri follows Death step by step revealing gradually the mystery of death, his personality and his true mission, although the dark God thinks that it is he who is taking away Satyavan and Savitri along with him, to his own home, his black annihilation. For Death is that in its first appearance, it is utter destruction, nothing-ness, non-existence. So the mighty Godhead declares in an imperious tone to the mortal woman Savitri:
This is my silent dark immensity,
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Then will I give back to thee Satyavan.||146.82||
Or if the Mighty Mother is with thee,
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In that domain of pure transcendent light stood face to face the human Savitri and the transformed Satyavan.
III
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So it is that Savitri comes down upon earth and standing upon its welcoming soil speaks to Satyavan as though consoling him for having abandoned their own abode in heaven to dwell among mortal men:
Heaven's touch fulfils but cancels not our earth. .||157.39||
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Voicing Satyavan's thought and feeling, all humanity, the whole world in joy and gratefulness, utters this mantra of thanksgiving:
If this is she of whom the world has heard,

11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thy blade's exultant smile name Satyavan.
Fashion to beauty, point us through the world.
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Lose thyself into infinite Satyavan.
O miracle, where thou beganst, there cease!"
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O Satyavan, O luminous Savitri,
I sent you forth of old beneath the stars,
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The soul of Satyavan drawn down by her
Inextricably in that mighty lapse.

12.01 - The Return to Earth, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
She pressed the living body of Satyavan:
On her body's wordless joy to be and breathe
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We are together, we live, O Satyavan.
Look round thee and behold, glad and unchanged
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I am and thou to me, O Satyavan.
Our wedded walk through life begins anew,
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We have each other found, O Satyavan,
In the great light of the discovered soul.
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Cried Dyumatsena chiding Satyavan:
"The fortunate gods have looked on me today,
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But Satyavan replied with smiling lips,
"Lay all on her; she is the cause of all.
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Stands silently by human Satyavan
To mark a brilliance in the dusk of eve?
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With linked hands Satyavan and Savitri,
Hearing a marriage march and nuptial hymn,

13.05 - A Dream Of Surreal Science, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A Note on Supermind The Passing of Satyavan
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Light of LightsA Note on SupermindA Dream Of Surreal Science
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A Note on Supermind The Passing of Satyavan

13.06 - The Passing of Satyavan, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
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Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Light of Lights The Human Divine The Passing of Satyavan
The Passing of Satyavan
I
This was the day when Satyavan must die.
The day is come, the fateful day, the last day of the twelve happy months that they have passed together. She knew it, it was foretold, it was foreseen. And she was preparing herself for it all the while, harbouring a pain deep-seated within the heart, revealed to none, not even to her mother, not even to Satyavan. Satyavan was innocent like a child, oblivious of the fate that was coming upon him. The two went out of the hermitage into the forest; for she wished to move about in the company of Satyavan in the midst of the happy greeneries where Satyavan had passed his boyhood, his youth. She was watching Satyavan at every step, she did not want to be caught unawares:
Love in her bosom hurt with jagged edges
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Satyavan in playfulness was cutting the branch of a tree with a joyous axe and on his lips:
. . . high snatches of a sage's chant
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Death is come claiming his prey, Satyavan must go and leave Savitri.
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13.07 - The Inter-Zone, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The Passing of Satyavan The Return
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Light of Lights The Human Divine The Inter-Zone
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Death is carrying away Satyavan, the luminous soul of Satyavan. The Great Shadow is leading the way, Satyavan following and Savitri clinging to his steps. Death saw Savitri pursuing, he turned and tried to dissuade her from the pursuit. Savitri refused to turn back. Death warned her, it was already a wrong and anomalous act that she has done to have crossed over to his sphere in her earthly personal being. It is time now to go back. Savitri answered that she would go back only with Satyavan in his earthly body. Death became impatient and answered: "You ask for the impossible. You want to go back to earth for earthly happiness. You can have that in plenty without Satyavan. Satyavan has passed beyond and there is no return for him." But Savitri was firm in her resolution:
"I claim back Satyavan as he was, my happiness is with him alone."
As they proceeded, they mounted higher and higher regions of being. And a change was coming on visibly on Savitri. Death was explaining to her that happiness on earth or in earthly life is not the supremely desirable thing. The supreme desirable thing is to discard the maya of earthly life, that vale of tears and rise into the very source, the origin of creation, the infinite peace and silence. As Death was receding towards that ultimate Nothingness, the Divinity that Savitri was, the mighty Godhead that took a human shape, manifested itself more and more shedding all around her a great effulgence, a mighty power. She had entered into Death's own lair and identified herself with Death's self which is the Divine Himself. In that great burning Light Death was consumed and dissolved.
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And Satyavan and Savitri were alone.||147.38||
They stand face to face with the supreme Divine alone.
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So they come down, Satyavan and Savitri, from the Supreme heavens, rushing down as heaven's blessing as it were, through ethereal atmospheres, gradually re-assuming the texture of earthly form till they found their material body again upon this concrete earth.
A power leaned down, a happiness found its home.||156.18||
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The Passing of Satyavan The Return

13.08 - The Return, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Satyavan lay on the green sward, over him and around green branches spread their peaceful felicity. His head reposed upon the lap of Savitri exactly as he lay at the last fateful hour confronting the mighty shadow as if there were no gap or hiatus in between, the great intervening experience was just a momentary vision and not the ageless Calvary that it seemed to be in the other sphere. But now
The waking gladness of her members felt
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Satyavan's being was there:
Pure, passionate with the passion of the gods.||157.18||
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Satyavan now turned to Savitri, vague recollections rose in him and he cried out in wonder:
"Whence hast thou brought me captive back, love-chained,

1953-12-09, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What does Satyavan represent?
Well, he is the Avatar. He is the incarnation of the Supreme.

1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Hinduism
According to tradition, Anubis, the jackal-headed god, helped Isis to rebuild the body of her spouse, Osiris, who had been killed and dismembered by his brother Set. Osiris was the first god to rule over men. Owing to certain special rites, Isis, helped by Anubis, succeeded in bringing him back to life. So we are not very far from the legend of Savitri and Satyavan.
L'Orpailleur, which had just been published. The man's description, as a matter of fact, bears a striking resemblance to the publisher.

1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Hinduism
But its explained very well in Savitri! All these things have their laws and their conventions (and truly speaking, a really FORMIDABLE power is needed to change anything of their rights, for they have rightswhat they call laws) Sri Aurobindo explains this very well when Savitri, following Satyavan into death, argues with the god of Death.3 Its the Law, and who has the right to change the Law? he says. And then comes this wonderful passage at the end where she replies, My God can change it. And my God is a God of Love. Oh, how magnificent!
And by force of repeating this to him, he yields She replies in this way to EVERYTHING.

1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But all of that is wonderfully, accurately expressed and EXPLAINED in Savitri. Only you must know how to read it! The entire last part, from the moment she goes to seek Satyavan in the realm of Death (which affords an occasion to explain this), the whole description of what happens there, right up to the end, where every possible offer is made to tempt her, everything she must refuse to continue her terrestrial labor it is my experience EXACTLY.
Savitri is really a condensation, a concentration of the universal Mother the eternal universal Mother, Mother of all universes from all eternityin an earthly personality for the Earths salvation. And Satyavan is the soul of the Earth, the Earths jiva. So when the Lord says, he whom you love and whom you have chosen, it means the earth. All the details are there! When she comes back down, when Death has yielded at last, when all has been settled and the Supreme tells her, Go, go with him, the one you have chosen, how does Sri Aurobindo describe it? He says that she very carefully takes the SOUL of Satyavan into her arms, like a little child, to pass through all the realms and come back down to earth. Everything is there! He hasnt forgotten a single detail to make it easy to understand for someone who knows how to understand. And it is when Savitri reaches the earth that Satyavan regains his full human stature.
These seem to be the forces ruling the subconscious mechanisms or reactions of the body: all the automatism produced by evolution and atavismwhat might be termed evolutionary habits. This is the 'descending path,' which started forty years earlier, as Mother said (or the 'physical plunge' referred to by Sri Aurobindo), leading to the pure cellular consciousness.

1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Lets take Savitri, which is very explicit on this: the universal Mother is universally present and at work in the universe, but the earth is where concrete form is given to all the work to be done to bring evolution to its perfection, its goal. Well, at first theres a sort of emanation representative of the universal Mother, which is always on earth to help it prepare itself; then, when the preparation is complete, the universal Mother herself will descend upon earth to finish her work. And this She does with SatyavanSatyavan is the soul of the earth. She lives in close union with the soul of the earth and together they do the work; She has chosen the soul of the earth for her work, saying, HERE is where I will do my work. Elsewhere (Mother indicates regions of higher Consciousness), its enough just to BE and things Simply ARE. Here on earth you have to work.
There are clearly universal repercussions and effects, of course, but the thing is WORKED OUT here, the place of work is HERE. So instead of living beatifically in Her universal state and beyond, in the extra-universal eternity outside of time, She says, No, I am going to do my work HERE, I choose to work HERE. The Supreme then tells her, What you have expressed is My Will.. I want to work HERE, and when all is ready, when the earth is ready, when humanity is ready (even if no one is aware of it), when the Great Moment comes, well I will descend to finish my work.

1965-06-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And Satyavan can never again be thine.
X.III.636

1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And Satyavan can never again be shine.
He made him a bit stupid, because even if Satyavan doesnt come back in this body, what prevents him from taking another!
Hes bragging!

1969-07-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This same afternoon, Satprem, struck by a sudden thought, wrote the following note to Mother: "Following this morning's conversation, I have suddenly thought, 'But Savitri goes into death in search of Satyavan... so Mother is going to bring back Sri Aurobindo?'" Mother seems to have replied to the person who brought her the note, "Something of the sort."
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1969-07-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Then Mother returns to the previous conversation about materializations, and Satprems note in which he asked, But Savitri goes into death in search of Satyavan so Mother is going to bring back Sri Aurobindo?)
Ive received your note. But you know that Sri Aurobindo said he wanted to come back on the earth only in a superhuman body a supramental body.6

1970-06-06, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Forgetting Love, forgetting Satyavan,
Annul thyself in his immobile peace.

21.03 - The Double Ladder, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Also the lines Satyavan addresses to Savitri:
What high change is in thee, O Savitri? Bright

2.1.7.07 - On the Verse and Structure of the Poem, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This First Book is divided into sections and the larger sections into subsections; you might wait till one section is with you before you type. E.g. the first section is the last Dawn, i.e. the dawn of the day of Satyavans death (but it must be remembered that everything is symbolic or significant in the poem, so this dawn also,) the next is the Issue both of these are short. Then comes a huge section of the Yoga of the Lord of the Horse (Aswapati, father of Savitri) relating how came about the birth of Savitri and its significancefinally the birth and childhood of Savitri.
25 October 1936

2.1.7.08 - Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I still consider the line a very good one and it did perfectly express what I wanted to sayas for baldness, an occasionally bare and straightforward line without any trailing of luminous robes is not an improper element. E.g. This was the day when Satyavan must die, which I would not remove from its position even if you were to give me the crown and income of the Kavi Samrat for doing it. If I have changed here, it is because the alterations all around it made the line no longer in harmony with its immediate environment.
21 May 1937

36.07 - An Introduction To The Vedas, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08, #unset, #Hinduism
Now the legend of Savitri-Satyavan arrests our attention. The very names Savitri and Satyavan are immediately inspiring truths. In the Vedas the Truth-Sun is synonymous with Savitr. As Purusha he is Satyavan, and Savitri is his Shakti. Every aspirant is aware of the fact that it is the Truth's own faith and power that can free the Truth from the grip of Matter, Ignorance and Death. However, one may not believe that whatsoever the Puranas say must be based on some truth or other. Nevertheless, we do not hesitate to assert that at the core of the teaching of the Puranas there lies a truth-secret - a Vedic or Upanishadic realisation. The Puranas too have an esoteric meaning based on the truth of the Vedic and Upanishadic realizations which have been colourfully related in the form of stories and legends for the easy comprehension of the masses.
To be sure, the Puranas cannot be accepted as commentaries on the Vedas. No, not even the Upanishads can dare claim to be so. The Vedas alone are the proper commentaries on the Vedas. And to understand the Vedas no other book can be our guide save the Vedas. No doubt, the Upanishads stand quite close to them, and they abundantly possess the Vedic ideas. But at the same time we must know that the dissimilarities too are not negligible. The concept of Matter in the Vedas and the concept of Spirit in the Upanishads - even if we fail to find a connecting link between the two, still we can be sure that the Vedas and the Upanishads are the two principles of one spirituality. To repeat it once again, we should first endeavour to understand the easy and clear portions of the Vedas and then try to discover their more abstruse and obscure truths. And we have sought to explain to our readers that the interpretation attempted here, the spiritual interpretation, means an interpretation of the basic principle of the Veda.12

Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
SRI AUROBINDO: Well, Satyavan, whom Savitri marries, is the symbol of the
soul descended into the Kingdom of Death. Savitri, who is, as you know, the
Goddess of Divine Light Knowledge, comes down to redeem Satyavan from
Death's grasp. Aswapati, the father of Savitri, is the Lord of Energy. Dyumatsena is "the one who has the shining hosts". It is all inner movement,
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the day when Satyavan has to die. The birth of Savitri is a boon of the
Supreme Goddess given to Aswapati. Aswapati is the Yogi who seeks the

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