There is a remarkable coincidence of this appearing as the 365th line of Savitri

Re: 05: A Many-hued inner Dawn RY Deshpande Wed 14 Feb 2007 08:00 AM PST Profile Permanent Link Twelve passionate months led in a day of fate

There is a remarkable coincidence of this line appearing as the 365th line of Savitri: 12 months, one year, 365 days, 365 lines to exactly come to this point.

The last line of the previous canto, Canto One, The Symbol Dawn, is “This was the day when Satyavan must die.” The divine Savitri has awoken to the reality of this prophecy and the human Savitri has now to get ready to meet the eventuality. She will do yoga and prepare herself to achieve what Necessity has imposed upon her to achieve. This last line of the Canto is the 341st line in the Centenary Edition of Savitri.

The line “Twelve passionate months led in a day of fate” becomes 365th line in Canto Two, The Issue. That is, the destined day is the 365th day of the year, the last day. Year is the body of Man and hence he having 365 days to live is notable, indicating the completeness of life at present. Which means that, each line of Savitri is a day. The death is going to occur at the end of 365 days, at 365 lines of Savitri: “Twelve passionate months led in a day of fate.

This line is 366th line in the Revised Edition, interpretatively suggesting us that the Savitri-episode occurred in a leap year, making a leap in evolution. Possibly so. But the entire thing happened in a single day,—Savitri woke up, met love, met death, came back with the boons at its end. The ‘day’ is the ‘year’—from Dawn to Dawn.

Numerologists should be interested in this wonderful ‘coincidence’. But the yogi-poet does not count and calculate to put lines in an arranged sequence, with the intention of bringing about such ‘coincidences’ in any deliberate manner. In a yogi’s hand things happen so, kind of naturally, automatically, even as there is the universal relationship between the objects and events in a deep occult way, a living harmony in its universal play.

If each line is a day to complete a year of 365 days, and if each ‘day’ is a ‘year’, then the 24,000 lines in Savitri will mean that the evolutionary process has been going on over a period of 24,000 days in terms of years. Does it entail something?

The creative movement in the Truth-Consciousness, rhythm, the Vedic ŗtam, is described by Gayatri metre, having 24 syllables. So each syllable of the Gayatri Mantra corresponds to 1000 lines of Savitri, 1000, the figure of fullness, completeness. Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra, invoking the Light of the Supreme, parasya jyotih, is its representation in terms of the “auspicious form, varam rūpam” that must appear. Can a competent numerologist throw more light, proper light than what I am attempting here? It might be rewarding in its own way. Thanks. RYD