The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 58 : Savitri - Transcending Death - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 58 🌹

🌴 Savitri - Transcending Death - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Story of Savitri 🌻

The story of Savitri is deeply symbolic:

A King named Ashvapati needed an heir to his throne before he could depart. Ashva means “horse” and in Vedic symbolism stands for life force; Pati means Master; Ashvapati is the Master of life force. 

In order to have a child, he did spiritual exercises for 18 years, until the Goddess Savitri finally appeared. Savitri embodies the principle of Savitru, the central sun. 

It is the heart of the sun which receives its energy from the spiritual sun called Bhargo Deva and transmits it through the sun of our solar system, Surya.

The King asked Goddess Savitri for a good son but the goddess replies, “I can only grant you with a good daughter. Through her presence in your family, you will get 100 sons.” Then she disappeared again.

After a while a daughter was born to the royal couple whom they called Savitri. She was the goddess herself taking to the form of the child. She was an extraordinary child full of good qualities and great knowledge. 

By birth she had the golden and diamond bodies and therefore could easily move in the subtle planes. When she grew up, the father feared that he could not find an appropriate husband for her who corresponds to her qualities. 

Savitri had heart for a young man called Satyavan. His name means truth bearer and he always lived by the truth.

In olden times children were named according to their life purpose and their qualities. You can realise the subtle meaning of the quality of an individual by the sounds of his name if you know the related keys.

The father of Satyavan was Dyumatsena, meaning “Army of Light”; he was filled with light and had the subtle vision. 

He was a king but due to his careless use of speech and action he lost the kingdom to his enemies and had to live quite poor in the forest with his wife and his son. 

He also had gone blind. Dyumatsena represents the Divine Mind fallen into matter which has lost the subtle vision and thus also the celestial kingdom.

One day Ashvapati said to his daughter that she can marry a husband of her own choice. 

Savitri was shy and at first didn’t want to tell her father of her love for Satyavan. Just at this moment the Sage Narada passed by their house and heard their conversation. 

Finally Savitri said, “I want to marry Satyavan, the son of King Dyumatsena who now lives in a forest. I can only accept him as my husband.”

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Sources: Master K.P. Kumar: Uranus / notes from seminars. Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Book of Rituals.

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