AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

In Savitri🕊️, can we say that Ashwapati’s yoga was more the Yoga of Ascent (to Supermind) whereas Savitri’s yoga was the Yoga of Descent, and that means bringing down the Supreme Consciousness and work towards the transformation of earth?

Of course, I am only trying to put it in a general understandable way. Their yogas have been described differently which made me think this way.

In  Savitri we see Aswapati actually experiencing  the descent in Book One Canto Five. So Aswapati’s yoga includes the descent even though it happens quite unexpectedly as he is seeking to transform this earthly life based on his experience of the Divine Presence in matter. Lines below as reference.

‘A purpose mingled with the whims of Time,
A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
And Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will;
A conscious wideness filled the old dumb Space.

In the Void he saw throned the Omniscience supreme.

A Will, a hope immense now seized his heart,
And to discern the superhuman’s form
He raised his eyes to unseen spiritual heights,
Aspiring to bring down a greater world.

The glory he had glimpsed must be his home.

A brighter heavenlier sun must soon illume
This dusk room with its dark internal stair,
The infant soul in its small nursery school
Mid objects meant for a lesson hardly learned
Outgrow its early grammar of intellect
And its imitation of Earth-Nature’s art,
Its earthly dialect to God-language change,
In living symbols study Reality
And learn the logic of the Infinite.

The Ideal must be Nature’s common truth,
The body illumined with the indwelling God,
The heart and mind feel one with all that is,
A conscious soul live in a conscious world.’

And the response of the Grace,

‘His being towered into pathless heights,
Naked of its vesture of humanity.
As thus it rose, to meet him bare and pure
A strong Descent leaped down. A Might, a Flame,
A Beauty half-visible with deathless eyes,
A violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire,
Enveloped him with its stupendous limbs
And penetrated nerve and heart and brain
That thrilled and fainted with the epiphany:
His nature shuddered in the Unknown’s grasp.

In a moment shorter than death, longer than Time,
By a Power more ruthless than Love, happier than Heaven,
Taken sovereignly into eternal arms,
Haled and coerced by a stark absolute bliss,
In a whirlwind circuit of delight and force
Hurried into unimaginable depths,
Upborne into immeasurable heights,
It was torn out from its mortality
And underwent a new and bourneless change.’

What happened however is that he renounces the individual transformation as he wants it for all. Hence the long journey as a representative to call down the Grace that alone can fulfill his vast aspiration.

What happened however is that he renounces the individual transformation as he wants it for all. Hence the long journey as a representative to call down the Grace that alone can fulfill his vast aspiration.

‘But now his being was too wide for self;
His heart’s demand had grown immeasurable:
His single freedom could not satisfy,
Her light, her bliss he asked for earth and men.’

‘ Now other claims had hushed in him their cry:
Only he longed to draw her presence and power
Into his heart and mind and breathing frame;
Only he yearned to call for ever down
Her healing touch of love and truth and joy
Into the darkness of the suffering world.

His soul was freed and given to her alone.’

On the other hand Savitri’s Yoga is meant to prepare man (and do the Yoga for him) for the descent and the transformation.

‘For man thou seekst, not for thyself alone.

Only if God assumes the human mind
And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak
And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride,
Can he help man to grow into the God.

As man disguised the cosmic Greatness works
And finds the mystic inaccessible gate
And opens the Immortal’s golden door.

Man, human, follows in God’s human steps.

Accepting his darkness thou must bring to him light,
Accepting his sorrow thou must bring to him bliss.

In Matter’s body find thy heaven-born soul.”   

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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