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Savi:
A LOVER OF LIGHT AMONG LUMINARIES : Dilip Kumar Roy Savitri, at last, is granted the One boon she has sought : "All thou asked I give to earth and men... Dilip Roy remarks
"In Savitri Sri Aurobindo's message as well as aspiration is voiced not through Aswapati alone but also through Narad, the
Prophet, and Savitri, the final invoker of the New Gleam." Furthermore, he adds :
"..... he--as a Divine Representative on earth-is sent to uplead us, earthlings, to Divinity by daring what none but a Divine
Deputy, an avatar, can dare."9
Sri Aurobindo, Dilip Roy thinks, really spoke of himself when he described King Aswapati as one who made of miracle a normal act and his genius transformed life's difficulties into opportunities at every turn. For instance, Sri Aurobindo was brought up and educated in an exclusively English atmosphere in England without having contact with any Indian. He did not know the culture and spiritual traditions of his own country. Yet, when he returned to India, he shone out overnight as a revolutionary who left high position to plunge himself into political activities for realizing freedom of motherland from foreign rule.
In his Utterpara speech, Sri Aurobindo refers to the incident in which Sri Krishna enjoined him to leave his politics and to dedicate himself whole heartedly to the spiritual life. According to that Adesh or command of Krishna, Sri Aurobindo had to go forth to tell his nation to arise and walk selflessly for the service of the Sanatan Dharma. Sri Krishna said: "It is for the Dharma and by the Dharma that India exists."!0 By Krishna's grace Sri Aurobindo could see him in all things, places and persons. Krishna guarded Sri Aurobindo from all fears as his 'Friend and Lover' and sustained him in all of his trials and tribulations. He realised that, "All life is a yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself."!!
Hence, while practising the yogic path, as shown by Krishna, he did not renounce the world. He sought to harmonise this worldliness with the other-worldliness and thus differed like Tagore from the traditional Hindu wisdom which required renunciation as precondition for personal deliverance from the cycle of birth and death. Dilip Roy writes:
".....Sri Aurobindo's pronunciamento about the final victory of human aspiration over God-hostile titans is one of his most eloquent vindications of the immortality of Divinity pent in
death-ridden humanity."12
This mystic vision of Sri Aurobindo was based on his absolute in the Absolute who is beyond the ken of reasoning mind. All through his life, Sri Aurobindo stood for the greatness of faith in God in an age of science, antagonistic
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