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Namah Privilege of Pain

Then shall be ended here the Law of Pain.” p. 451 us, but truth will be told through the choices
we make in our lives — big and small — we
create our fate.

“O man, the events that meet thee on thy road,
...
Are not thy fate...
...
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.” p. 458

This does not mean that there is no destiny
and all is free-will; There is a meaning and
a purpose in everything that happens in our
lives.
“A conscious power has drawn the plan of
life,
We think that the Divine is only up there, There is a meaning in each curve and line.” p. 460
but actually, the Divine is also in-here, down
below, even in the subconscient and inconscient However, destiny does not bind us, if we
regions of the overall consciousness. Nothing choose not to allow it to limit us.
exists in the world that does not have the
divine Essence behind it. Even in hell and That Satyavan is bound to die is an opportunity
the Patal-loka, there is still the omnipresence for the soul of Savitri to come to the forefront
of divinity. And the entire subconscious has and reveal its true identity and conquer death.
to be ignited with the light of Consciousness. To the normal human mind, conquering
All evil has to return back to its original death is impossible. And indeed, it would
Good. All Falsehood has to find within its have been impossible if Savitri was battling
heart a grain of truth and return to Truth. with the Lord of Death as an ordinary
For instance, desire is a distorted form of the woman attached to her husband and wanting
soul’s aspiration and instead of suppressing him back. But it was not for her personal
the evil of desire, we have to take it to its pure attachment or her married life that she ensued
origin — the soul’s aspiration! the battle; it is for what Satyavan symbolised
and the work that the two of them were
Who is the Author of Our Pain? meant to do for transformation of life on
Earth that she fought and won. Nothing but
“O mortal who complainst of death and fate, a pure and true love can conquer decay,
Accuse none of the harms thyself hast called; disease, degeneration and death. And that’s
This troubled world thou hast chosen for thy what she showed. But had she chickened
home, away from marriage, knowing that her future
Thou art thyself the author of thy pain.” p. 454 husband will die, she would have never
received this privilege of pain!
We feel that fate is something that happens to

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