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Savitri has gained some control of the downward march on Death’s dark road. Now the darkness is a little lighter. But Death gives her the experience of man’s life on earth as futile and unchanging endless repetitions without progress. He is still trying to convince Savitri that there is no God and man will never change. He says, “Hope not to call God down into his life. … All walk by Nature bound forever the same.”

We have seen that Savitri refused Death’s challenge to show him her strength and her freedom from his laws Now she refuses his statement that she will never again have Satyavan, and she challenges him in return. Savitri says; “If the eyes of Darkness can look straight at Truth, look in my heart and knowing what I am, give what thou wilt or what thou must, O Death. Nothing I claim but Satyavan alone.” Their debate has come to the central point. Savitri wants her Satyavan back and won’t go away without him. Death will not give Satyavan back. He wants her to go away without him. Savitri refuses Death’s promises of a better earthly life without Satyavan. She demands; “Give me back Satyavan, my only lord.” She begins to reveal who she really is by telling Death; “The great stars burn with my unceasing fire and life and death are both its fuel made…. There shall kiss, casting their veils before the marriage fire, the eternal bridegroom and eternal bride. Death’s darkness lightens a little as they move on.

Savitri claims the living Satyavan for their work together on earth, their sacred charge. Their God-given task is to bring God’s Light and Bliss and Love to earth for mankind. She tells Death that within herself she has already triumphed over his darkness. She reveals the roles that she and Satyavan will play by saying; “I. the woman am the force of God, He the Eternal’s delegate soul in Man”. Death challenges Savitri to reveal her strength and to prove her freedom from his laws.

Savitri has explained that humanity cannot see God’s Bliss, but it is everywhere. Earth was made for joy. Now she describes the joy that is the spirit of God in every aspect of man and his life. A time comes in man’s evolution when his soul turns to eternal things, because this is man’s true aim. It is the true work of Nature which began when this grand creation first rose out of the sleep of the inconscient. Man’s heart thrills to the love of God and all is new-felt in God. Man lives in unity and all is known and all is clasped by Love.

Savitri has already explained to Death that man’s consciousness is continually progressing to a greater and more complete manifestation of the Eternal consciousness of the Supreme. Now she tells Death that all the things he criticizes in man have been caused by his presence in man’s world. She says that death and ignorance govern the mortal world because the Bliss that made the world has fallen asleep. Although God made the world for his delight, an ignorant Power took charge and seemed his will, and Death’s deep falsity has mastered life. But a hidden Bliss is at the root of things. Earth was made for joy, not for sorrow.

Savitri explains to Death why we cannot understand and appreciate the marvels and mysteries of our life and our world. God has built a world of growth and progress for man’s mind and man’s life out of things that we do not see or do not recognize for what they really are. The gods that man worships are are false because they have been created by his own imagination and his interpreting mind. Man’s knowledge is clouded, but the clouds disappear when Light emerges. It is all the work of the Supreme Shakti, the Mighty Mother. As we move towards God, a thousand aspects point back to the One. Light is there in our efforts. Man’s mind can hold God’s knowledge and the Ray of God’s Light. A Spirit is uncovered within as man progresses on the roads to God.

Savitri never believed Death’s claims that he was the true reality and that he created the universe. Now she replies to all of his false arguments and twisted facts, telling him, “Thou hast used words to shutter out the light and called in truth to vindicate a lie.” In this Canto, Savitri begins to express her own true understanding of how God’s creation came to be, and how man is an evolving being. She says to Death, “How shall the child already be the man? Because he is infant shall he never grow? Because he is ignorant shall he never learn?” In this program we have the translations of Mother’s experience of the “Supramental Ship” in 1958, and her experience of the new Being on 1 January, 1969. The original French tape recordings of these two experiences will play at the end of the program.

Death tries to prove that the eternal love and eternal soul-relationship between Savitri and Satyavan are only passing thoughts which are made in the impermanent mind. He already falsely claimed that mind was made by matter and matter is not only impermanent, it is also unreal because it is a cover of passing energies. Now Death concludes his false arguments by piling falsehood on falsehood. He attacks the immortality of love and the soul by saying the world is only a machine. He claims neither divine wisdom nor divine love have their place on earth. When matter perishes, love, wisdom, the Ideal, the soul and God are gone. The only thing left is Death’s everlasting sleep.

Death has always tried to convince Savitri that her thoughts created her Immortal soul and her Immortal love for Satyavan. He told her to chastise her heart with knowledge. Now he changes his position. After saying that Savitri should prefer knowledge to love, Death completely negates the mind. Now he says that the mind came out of matter, but matter does not exist because everything is only energy. Then he asserts the falsehood that all was well until thought came in to spoil the happiness and harmony of the world.

Savitri has heard Death’s descriptions of vital love and his arguments that her love comes from her vital. She has heard him say that nothing ever lasts, and that her love will not last. She knows this is all falsehood. Savitri is strong and clear. She tells Death that her love does not come from the hungers of her heart or the cravings of her flesh. Her love comes from God and goes to God. Savitri tells Death that she and Satyavan have been together through many lifetimes. They were man and woman from the first.. They are twin souls, born from one undying fire.