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Savitri tells her parents that she has chosen Satyavan to be her husband, and her father, King Aswapathy sees a darkness above Satyavan’s name that is chased by stupendous light. He asks Narad, the all-knowing Divine Messenger not to give Savitri the dreadful foreknowledge of this fateful danger unless his words can avert the impending doom. The king worries about fated dangers in human life. And Narad answered not, silent he sat, knowing that words are vain and Fate is lord. Aswapathy’s queen, Savitri’s mother becomes alarmed and asks Narad for the blessing of the Immortals’ confirmation of a happy married life for her daughter. She asks to be warned so they can turn aside and avoid any doom that comes with the house of Satyavan. Narad says no cry or prayer can turn Savitri from her path.

Savitri returns home to her father’s palace to tell her parents that she has found Satyavan, the mate she was searching for. Narad, the all-knowing Divine messenger is waiting there to tell her the fate of her marriage. Narad knows all about what has happened to Savitri and what is going to happen to her. But he hides his thoughts in his all-knowing mind and asks her where she has been. The end of his speech is a veiled warning of approaching doom, but most people do not hear it. Savitri’s father, King Aswapathy hears the veiled warning. He asks the Divine Singer to chant the Divine blessing of a sorrowless life for his beautiful daughter.

Savitri has found her mate in the remote forest. The wedding of the Eternal Lord and Spouse took place again on earth in human forms. While Savitri was returning to her father’s palace to tell her parents, Narad, the messenger of the Gods was approaching the palace from above. The heavenly sage and singer from paradise crossed the boundary into the mortal’s plane, chanting his hymn of everlasting bliss and the Light that never wanes. Across an intangible border of soul-space he passed from Mind into material things and plunged into solid Matter’s dense communion. His chant became a hymn of Ignorance and Fate. When Savitri approaches her father’s throne, Narad is singing to Savitri’s parents about the lotus-heart of love which will bloom when the Eternal Spouse is seized by her Eternal Lord. Thus opens teachings on fate and free will and Divine will which will be explained later. Sri Aurobindo again writes about the creation of the universe, and he also gives us the ultimate fate of the anti-divine demons.

Savitri remembers all that happens on this day of fate when Satyavan asks her to enter his life. She tells him that he is the soul her soul is seeking. She descends from her high car and they join their souls in their own deep, life-changing personal marriage. Sri Aurobindo’s descriptions of their wedding and what happens in their embrace disclose ancient wisdom about the experience of marriage. He says that the wedding of the Eternal Lord and Spouse took place again on earth in human forms. Ancient Indian teachings say that this is the true relationship between married couples. The Supreme Unmanifest All manifested the creation by putting his own power out from himself. Marrriage is looked upon as the ongoing intimate union of these two great Powers who are the creation and its source, and the world is only their love and their giving and caring for each other. In the joining of Savitri and Satyavan, Sri Aurobindo says the natural miracle was wrought once more; in the immutable ideal world, one human moment was eternal made.

The two soul mates continue to learn their true relationship. Satyavan continues to tell Savitri about his life, growing up in the forest. He felt a covert touch of the Divine and heard a call. Because of his efforts he glimpsed the presence of the One in All, but there still lacked the last transcendent power. He knows that the final realization is to realize the Divine in his body, but he has not been able to do it. Now that Savitri comes he knows he will realize his goal.

Savitri has met her mate, Satyavan at the edge of a sunlit forest clearing. In their secret conscious selves they know the truth of their eternal union, but this awareness has not yet dawned in their surface consciousness. They begin to speak, and there has been so much love between them in so many past lives that Satyavan begins by asking Savitri to come home with him and tells her that it is a place of chanting nuptual waters, the waters of marriage. He starts to tell her about himself and his life growing up alone in the forest.

Destiny has drawn Savitri and Satyavan to the sunlit grove at the edge of the wild forest. They see each other for the first time. Although to sight unknown, though life and mind had altered to hold a new significance, these bodies summed the drift of numerous births, and the spirit to the spirit was the same. Although as unknown beings we seem to meet, the soul can recognise its answering soul. Without needing speak, weaving affinity in a silent gaze, full of wonder, Savitri and Satyavan know deep within themselves that they have been together in past lives and that they will share the future.

Following the fateful orbit of her life, Savitri, the golden virgin in her carven car, is passing through wild, solitary forest groves. Satyavan, living in the forest, communing with the earth, grown a foster-child of beauty and solitude, a brother of the sunshine and the sky, has turned from his usual paths. Fate leads them both into a beautiful, sunlit space and Savitri sees her destined life’s partner for the first time.

The destined spot and hour are close – everything happens in the cosmic play at its proper time and in its foreseen place. Sri Aurobindo describes the solitary forest glade where Savitri will meet Satyavan, the mate of her soul, for the first time in this life. The Great Mother has chosen primaeval peace of natural beauty, where earth is alone with her great lover, heaven, for the atmosphere in which she will meet her destiny. Far from the world, Savitri begins to play her part in the world’s joy and strife.

Savitri is nearing her destined meeting with Satyavan, the mate of her soul, and she is also drawing closer to her Divine work. Part of that work is the yoga that she will do to prepare her being. On this part of her journey she sees great yogis and sages and feels the atmosphere of their spiritual practices, but she is impelled to go on her unfinished way and to follow the fateful orbit of her life. Still she has not found the one predestined face for which she sought among the sons of men.