object:13.08 - The Return
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
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The Return
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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
The weight of heaven in his limbs. . . .
And all her life was conscious of his life. . .||157.4||
Human she was once more, earth's Savitri,
Yet felt in her illimitable change.||157.5||
Satyavan's being was there:
Pure, passionate with the passion of the gods.||157.18||
Desire stirred not its wings; for all was made
An overarching of celestial rays
Like the absorbed control of sky on plain,
Heaven's leaning down to embrace from all sides earth,||157.19||
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,
To thee and sunlight's walls, O golden beam
And casket of all sweetness, Savitri,
Godhead and woman, moonlight of my soul ?"||157.21||
As he gazed upon her, his wonder grew more and more with a new flame of worship in his eyes and he exclaimed once more:
"What high change is in thee, O Savitri? Bright
Ever thou wast, a goddess still and pure,
Yet dearer to me by thy sweet human parts
Earth gave thee making thee yet more divine."||157.28||
The embodied Divine does not discard or even minimise the human; on the contrary greatens and heightens this earthly being. It is a sea-change that is wrought in the content and in a certain modality of the form, but the essential form and content remain somewhat like the process of fossilisation mortality is squeezed out and all is moulded in immortality; the Divinity is there in all its fullness but there is added to it the exquisiteness that earth brings to the human.
And so Savitri says:
"We have borne identity with the Supreme
And known his meaning in our mortal lives.||157.37||
Yet nothing is lost of mortal love's delight.||157.38||
Heaven's touch fulfils but cancels not our earth:||157.39||
Still am I she who came to thee mid the murmur
Of sunlit leaves upon this forest verge;
I am the Madran, I am Savitri."||157.40||
This is human as human can be, the quintessence of humanity; for it is human divinely.
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