A mighty Guidance leads us through all (Savitri, 059/01-23)

A mighty Guidance leads us through all

Savitri, (059/01-23)

We live not here upon a mechanical and casual globe bound by our Fate.

God has not abandoned us on this earth to a task beyond our capacity. He always accompanies us like a friend and a guide, helping us from life to life in our journey from mortality to immortality. He not only walks with us but actually carries us in His loving arms through the hardships and tribulations of our lives.

When we first came upon this earth to do His work and dared death, we were promised the crown of Immortality. This crown is safe in His hands, and no power can take away that glory from us.

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इस यांत्रिक और अकारण प्रकट हुई धरा पर हम अपने भाग्य से बंधे हुए जीवन व्यतीत नहीं करते हैं। 

भगवान् ने हमें इस धरा पर अपनी क्षमता से अधिक कार्य के लिए नहीं छोड़ दिया है। वे एक मित्र और एक मार्गदर्शक के समान सदा हमारे साथ रहते हैं और मृत्यु से अमरता की ओर हमारी यात्रा में, जीवन दर जीवन, हमारी सहायता करते हैं। वे न केवल हमारे साथ चलते हैं अपितु वे हमें अपनी बाहों में लिए हमें जीवन के कठिनाइयों और दु:खों से पार ले जाते हैं।

जब हमने भगवान् का कार्य करने के लिए प्रथम बार धरा पर जन्म लिया और मृत्यु का वरण किया था, तभी उन्होंने हमें अमरता का मुकुट पहनाने का वचन दिया था। यह मुकुट उनके हाथों में सुरक्षित है, और कोई भी शक्ति उसे हमसे छीन नहीं सकती है।

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Alive in a dead rotating universe

We whirl not here upon a casual globe

Abandoned to a task beyond our force;

Even through the tangled anarchy called Fate

And through the bitterness of death and fall

An outstretched Hand is felt upon our lives.

It is near us in unnumbered bodies and births;

In its unslackening grasp it keeps for us safe

The one inevitable supreme result

No will can take away and no doom change,

The crown of conscious Immortality,

The godhead promised to our struggling souls

When first man's heart dared death and suffered life.

One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:

Our errors are his steps upon the way;

He works through the fierce vicissitudes of our lives,

He works through the hard breath of battle and toil,

He works through our sins and sorrows and our tears,

His knowledge overrules our nescience;

Whatever the appearance we must bear,

Whatever our strong ills and present fate,

When nothing we can see but drift and bale,

A mighty Guidance leads us still through all.

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Savitri and the Common Man (Savitri, 006/11-26)

Savitri and the Common Man (006/11-26) 

These lines describe the state of Savitri and the people around her on the morning of the day when Satyavan must die: With the sunrise, when ordinary people get busy with their daily routine chasing their small joys and hopes, Savitri, amidst them, is indifferent and sad. There is a pain in Savitri's heart - the pain of a god who is immortal but born on this earth and consequently entrapped by Death.

ये पंक्तियाँ उस दिन की प्रातः जिस दिन सत्यवान की मृत्यु होना निश्चित है, सावित्री और उसके आस-पास उपस्थित मनुष्यों की मनःस्थिति का वर्णन कर रही हैं: सूर्योदय के साथ ही जब सामान्य मनुष्य अपनी छोटी-छोटी खुशियों और आशाओं का पीछा करते हुए अपनी दिनचर्या में व्यस्त हो जाते हैं, तब सावित्री उन सब के मध्य उदासीन और व्यथित हैं। सावित्री के हृदय में एक पीड़ा है - एक देव की पीड़ा, जो अमर है परन्तु इस धरा जन्म लेकर मृत्यु के पाश में फँस गया है।

                             And Savitri too awoke among these tribes

                            That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner's chant

                            And, lured by the beauty of the apparent ways,

                            Acclaimed their portion of ephemeral joy.

                            Akin to the eternity whence she came,

                            No part she took in this small happiness;

                            A mighty stranger in the human field,

                            The embodied Guest within made no response.

                            The call that wakes the leap of human mind,

                            Its chequered eager motion of pursuit,

                            Its fluttering-hued illusion of desire,

                            Visited her heart like a sweet alien note.

                            Time's message of brief light was not for her.

                            In her there was the anguish of the gods

                            Imprisoned in our transient human mould,

                           The deathless conquered by the death of things.

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How can I give up my mission in these difficult times?

At the time of birth, we made a pact with God that we will do His work upon the earth. Now in these difficult times, how can we choose an easier path and break our promise? What shall we reply to Him on return that His son has faltered and failed in his mission?

[अनुवाद: धरा पर जन्म लेने से पूर्व हमने भगवान से एक अनुबंध किया था कि हम धरा पर उसका कार्य करेंगे | इस कठिन दौर में अब हम अपना मार्ग कैसे बदल लें, अपना वचन कैसे तोड़ दें ? लौट कर हम उसे क्या उत्तर देंगे कि उसका पुत्र घबरा गया, असफल हो गया ?]

Context based on Lines from Savitri (475/10-476/08):

A similar situation occurs in Savitri’s life. She has come to wrestle with Death but in a moment of deep sorrow, Savitri thinks of abdicating her mission. But then, a voice (an inner voice) intervenes and questions her:

Lines from Savitri 475/10-476/08:

          What need have I, what need has Satyavan

          To avoid the black-meshed net, the dismal door,

          Or call a mightier Light into life's closed room,

          A greater Law into man's little world?

          Why should I strive with earth's unyielding laws

          Or stave off death's inevitable hour?

          This surely is best to pactise with my fate

          And follow close behind my lover's steps

          And pass through night from twilight to the sun

          Across the tenebrous river that divides

          The adjoining parishes of earth and heaven.

          Then could we lie inarmed breast upon breast,

          Untroubled by thought, untroubled by our hearts,

          Forgetting man and life and time and its hours,

          Forgetting eternity's call, forgetting God.”

          The Voice replied: “Is this enough, O spirit?

          And what shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows

          The work was left undone for which it came?

          Or is this all for thy being born on earth

          Charged with a mandate from eternity,

          A listener to the voices of the years,

          A follower of the footprints of the gods,

          To pass and leave unchanged the old dusty laws?

          Shall there be no new tables, no new Word,

          No greater light come down upon the earth

          Delivering her from her unconsciousness,

          Man's spirit from unalterable Fate?

          Cam'st thou not down to open the doors of Fate,

          The iron doors that seemed for ever closed,

          And lead man to Truth's wide and golden road

          That runs through finite things to eternity?

          Is this then the report that I must make,

          My head bowed with shame before the Eternal's seat,—

          His power he kindled in thy body has failed,

          His labourer returns, her task undone?”

The Vision of the Divine Mother

A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful
Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.
                                                              (Savitri, 312/29-30)

परम-सौन्दर्य का एक मधुर क्षण सृष्टि के चक्र को अर्थ प्रदान कर देता है|

(माँ भगवती के समक्ष एक क्षण, उसकी एक मधुर मुस्कान, युगों-युगों के श्रम को और जन्म-जन्मों के संघर्ष को उचित ठहरा देती है|)

A Mighty Guidance leads us through all

Alive in a dead rotating universe
We whirl not here upon a casual globe
Abandoned to a task beyond our force;

Even through the tangled anarchy called Fate
And through the bitterness of death and fall
An outstretched Hand is felt upon our lives.

It is near us in unnumbered bodies and births;
In its unslackening grasp it keeps for us safe
The one inevitable supreme result
No will can take away and no doom change,
The crown of conscious Immortality,
The godhead promised to our struggling souls
When first man's heart dared death and suffered life.

One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:
Our errors are his steps upon the way;
He works through the fierce vicissitudes of our lives,
He works through the hard breath of battle and toil,
He works through our sins and sorrows and our tears,
His knowledge overrules our nescience;

Whatever the appearance we must bear,
Whatever our strong ills and present fate,
When nothing we can see but drift and bale,
A mighty Guidance leads us still through all.

Savitri, (059/01-23)

When all has been explained nothing is known.

If God is at work, his secrets I have found.
But still the Cause of things is left in doubt,
Their truth flees from pursuit into a void;
When all has been explained nothing is known.
                                                                             - (Savitri, 519/06-09)

(०६) यदि भगवान् कार्यरत हैं तो मैंने उनके रहस्यों को जान लिया है |
(०७) परन्तु फिर भी पदार्थों का मूल कारण संशययुक्त बना हुआ है,
(०८) उनका (पदार्थों का) सत्य मेरी पकड़ से बच कर शून्य में खो जाता है;
(०९) जब सबकुछ प्रतिपादित कर दिया गया है, कुछ भी ज्ञात नहीं है |

## If it is God who created this world, I (the man, a scientist who prides on his knowledge) have found all his secrets.

## But the original cause of all that happens is still evasive.

(Logic has a serious limitation - it believes in cause and effect as the ultimate; it explains a thing with what existed before it. Thus it creates a chain that has no beginning and the origin of the world remains a mystery. If there is a Beginning, Logic still can’t explain the cause of the Primordial for there is nothing before that. Thus, yet when all is known, man feels that nothing is known.)

For not by Reason was creation made
And not by Reason can the Truth be seen
                                                 - (Savitri, 256/33-34)

## Reason is not the ultimate power; the world was not made by Reason and Truth can’t be known by Reason.

(God is self-existent, it needs no reason to exist. Mind imprisoned in ‘Time’, seeks the reason for God’s existence but fails to understand the mystery for this creation is beyond the reach of Reason.)

Future of the Mankind

Future of the Mankind 

Based on The Secret Knowledge (Savitri, Book-01, Canto-04)

For the Talk Click Here:  The Secret Knowledge (Savitri, Book-01, Canto-04)

This talk takes up some of the most Fundamental Issues before the Mankind, i.e. (i) The God and this World, (ii) The Purpose of this World, (iii) The Gods or the Powers of the God that run this World (iv) The Man (v) The Purpose of Human Life (vi) The Limitations of Human Mind that hide from him the Working of this World and the Purpose of His Life, (vii) The Way out and (viii) The Glorious Future Promised to the Mankind.

The talk provides the solution to these questions based on one of the most important cantos of Savitri, i.e. “The Secret Knowledge” (Book-01, Canto-04) and the Gita.

The various sections of the talk are -

1) Invocation (Slide 1, Time 0:00:00 to 0:01:20)

2) Title of the Talk (Slide 2-3, Time 0:01:20 to 0:01:57)

3) About the Talk (Slide 4-5, Time 0:01:57 to 0:07:19)

4) About Savitri (Slide 6-10, Time 0:07:19 to 0:13:36)

5) Truths mentioned in Savitri (Slide 11-13, Time 0:13:36 to 0:17:46)

6) The Mother on Savitri (Slide 14-18, Time 0:17:46 to 0:22:21)

7) The Problem before the Mankind and its Origin (Slide 19-28, Time 0:22:21 to 0:42:47)

8) Lines from Savitri and Gita that provide Solution to the Issues mentioned above (Slide 29-90, Time 0:42:47 to 1:43:35)

9) Summary of the Talk (Slide 91-100, Time 1:43:35 to 1:54:20)

10) Credits (Time 1:54:20 to 1:54:55)

Mystery of The World

Mystery of The World 

Based on The Secret Knowledge (Savitri, Book-01, Canto-04)

For the Talk Click Here:  The Secret Knowledge (Savitri, Book-01, Canto-04)

This talk takes up some of the most Fundamental Issues before the Mankind, i.e. (i) The God and this World, (ii) The Purpose of this World, (iii) The Gods or the Powers of the God that run this World (iv) The Man (v) The Purpose of Human Life (vi) The Limitations of Human Mind that hide from him the Working of this World and the Purpose of His Life, (vii) The Way out and (viii) The Glorious Future Promised to the Mankind.

The talk provides the solution to these questions based on one of the most important cantos of Savitri, i.e. “The Secret Knowledge” (Book-01, Canto-04) and the Gita.

The various sections of the talk are -

1) Invocation (Slide 1, Time 0:00:00 to 0:01:20)

2) Title of the Talk (Slide 2-3, Time 0:01:20 to 0:01:57)

3) About the Talk (Slide 4-5, Time 0:01:57 to 0:07:19)

4) About Savitri (Slide 6-10, Time 0:07:19 to 0:13:36)

5) Truths mentioned in Savitri (Slide 11-13, Time 0:13:36 to 0:17:46)

6) The Mother on Savitri (Slide 14-18, Time 0:17:46 to 0:22:21)

7) The Problem before the Mankind and its Origin (Slide 19-28, Time 0:22:21 to 0:42:47)

8) Lines from Savitri and Gita that provide Solution to the Issues mentioned above (Slide 29-90, Time 0:42:47 to 1:43:35)

9) Summary of the Talk (Slide 91-100, Time 1:43:35 to 1:54:20)

10) Credits (Time 1:54:20 to 1:54:55)

A Talk on Savitri - The Secret Knowledge

The Secret Knowledge (Savitri, Book-01, Canto-04)

For the Talk Click Here:  The Secret Knowledge (Savitri, Book-01, Canto-04)

This talk takes up some of the most Fundamental Issues before the Mankind, i.e. (i) The God and this World, (ii) The Purpose of this World, (iii) The Gods or the Powers of the God that run this World (iv) The Man (v) The Purpose of Human Life (vi) The Limitations of Human Mind that hide from him the Working of this World and the Purpose of His Life, (vii) The Way out and (viii) The Glorious Future Promised to the Mankind.

The talk provides the solution to these questions based on one of the most important cantos of Savitri, i.e. “The Secret Knowledge” (Book-01, Canto-04) and the Gita.

The various sections of the talk are -

1) Invocation (Slide 1, Time 0:00:00 to 0:01:20)

2) Title of the Talk (Slide 2-3, Time 0:01:20 to 0:01:57)

3) About the Talk (Slide 4-5, Time 0:01:57 to 0:07:19)

4) About Savitri (Slide 6-10, Time 0:07:19 to 0:13:36)

5) Truths mentioned in Savitri (Slide 11-13, Time 0:13:36 to 0:17:46)

6) The Mother on Savitri (Slide 14-18, Time 0:17:46 to 0:22:21)

7) The Problem before the Mankind and its Origin (Slide 19-28, Time 0:22:21 to 0:42:47)

8) Lines from Savitri and Gita that provide Solution to the Issues mentioned above (Slide 29-90, Time 0:42:47 to 1:43:35)

9) Summary of the Talk (Slide 91-100, Time 1:43:35 to 1:54:20)

10) Credits (Time 1:54:20 to 1:54:55)