The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a
story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as
shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic
myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine
truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death
and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun,
goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save;
Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of
Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps
us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord
of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here
fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through
that loss its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory,
the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or
emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter
into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man
and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine
consciousness and immortal life.
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