Summary on Savitri by Dr. M.P Pandit

Book Ten Canto I: The Dream Twilight of the Ideal

In this land of Nought they drift without goal through dumb wastes. An effective beam of light follows them. It is as if Savitri has to pay for the sin of having presumed to live and to think, for having dared to will to be divine. In that formidable darkness she atones for the original revolt of Consciousness in Nature that broke the seal of the sleep of Inconscience. She is condemned to wander through eternal Night.

But Maya is only a veil of the Absolute; an occult Truth has made this great world. There is an Intelligence that works through the paradox of contraries. By Light we come and to the Light we go.

Slowly the Darkness pales and the struggling Dawn appears. Savitri finds herself in a new happy twilight world where everything is vague—vague scenes, vague spirits, vague melodies, elusive forms. Nothing is fixed, nothing stays. And yet there is a strange consistency of shapes. There is a sweetness and an appeal that are unearthly. It is a world of enchantment and strange fleeting joys.

Savitri walks through this realm besieged by bodiless touches, alluring cries, impinging thoughts and unhurting desires. Satyavan is there as the centre of this charm. Even the dreadful majesty of Death’s face does not affect this intangible lustre of the skies. Savitri almost seems to be as slight as a thought mid floating thoughts. But she possesses her soul throughout. Her spirit above watches all and lives on for its high task, immutable like a fixed eternal star.