
Alok da , Throughout our two epics the proud heros make heroic proclamations on how they will not yield to fate, how they will challenge the fate with their will, manhood and courage, they display such a dynamism of self will and resoluteness in such moments and even Savitri’ s tale is about challenging fate but we have also this disposition towards surrender, of telling the mother let thy will be done. Is there any really a bit of conflict between both these standpoints? If my will and desire isn’t exactly in tune with the Mother’s will can I be stubborn like an angry child that I will rather die fighting for it rather than accept the fact that this might not be the Mother’s will🤨?
Here we have to first understand that the Divine Will does not operate freely in the world. If it did so the world would be















