object:13.06 - The Passing of Satyavan
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
A Dream Of Surreal Science The Inter-Zone
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta Light of LightsThe Human DivineThe 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
Of anguish moaned at every step with pain
Crying, "Now, now perhaps his voice will cease
For ever". . .||133.18||
She was on tip-toe as it were, almost breathless, the end must be coming on fast.
Her life was now in seconds, not in hours,
And every moment she economised...||133.21||
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
That pealed of conquered death and demons slain, ||133.23||
All of a sudden the doom came upon him, he felt a biting pain through his body and an invading suffocation besieged him. He threw away the axe and cried out to Savitri:
"Savitri, a pang||133.27||
Cleaves through my head and breast. . .||133.27||
Such agony rends me. . . .||133.28||
Awhile let me lay my head upon thy lap. . ."||133.29||
Savitri saw the end coming and she was ready:
All grief and fear were dead within her now
And a great calm had fallen.||133.31||
His life was ebbing away and
He cried out in a clinging last despair,
"Savitri, Savitri, O Savitri,
Lean down, my soul, and kiss me while I die".||133.34||
His cheek pressed down her golden arm. She sought
His mouth still with her living mouth, as if
She could persuade his soul back with her kiss;
Then grew aware they were no more alone.||133.35||
Something had come there conscious, vast and dire.||133.36||
Near her she felt a silent shade immense. . . . .||133.37||
Death is come claiming his prey, Satyavan must go and leave Savitri.
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A Dream Of Surreal Science The Inter-Zone
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