Spirituality is not about go with the flow. It is about go with the Law, dharma, Divine Will. There are in fact two levels at which the Law operates. The first is the flow of lower nature. This operates when we are in ignorance. Here we have to go through joy and grief, suffering and happiness struggling or accepting as we feel best. To believe this is the way God wants us to be means He approves of all the evil and pain in the world. If that be the sense of Sri Krishna then he would not say that one can ask him even for material goods nor would he command Arjuna to fight and conquer the kingdom! Rather he says there is a higher kind of bhakta who is a gyani, who strives to understand the Divine Will and act in tune with it. The Divine Will is the higher flow but it is conceled here, acts from behind distorted by lower nature. Man must first know the Divine Will and then act according to it. Surrender is not mute acceptance of whatever is happening as God’s Will. It is not God’s Will but the play of lower forces that we attract according to our tuning and the choices we have made. The injunction is not blind and passive acceptance of situations but a dynamic invocation of the Divine Will. The command is not ‘let things happen as they will, but Let Thy Will be done.’
We live life at body consciousness level and all elevated souls are trying to make us live from Soul level I have understood. So, interpreting Savitri, which context do i understand from?
The body should become a perfect vessel and instrument of the Soul. Finding the Soul does not mean discarding the body. Finding God does not mean discarding the world. It means filling these too with God Consciousness and God Delight.
If Savitri refers to our soul and Satyavan to the “darker side” within us and integrating both, then her talking to god of death refers to whom?
Savitri is not the soul but the Divine Mother, the power of Divine Light and Love that incarnates to save us.
Satyavan is not the dark side of the soul but the soul caught up in ignorance.
Death is all that denies the Divine and His reign upon the world.
You will find this in Author’s note. I would suggest you go through some summary talks on Savitri on auromaa.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
