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The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the

Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering
death. But this legend is, as shown by many features
of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths
of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the
divine truth of being within itself but descended into

the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine
Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme
Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati,

the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of
Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeav-
our that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal
planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father
of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing

its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss
its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory,
the characters are not personified qualities, but incar-

nations or emanations of living and conscious Forces
with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they
take human bodies in order to help man and show him
the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness
and immortal life.

Savitri SRI AUROBINDO

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