Opening Remarks
As if this is not enough. These messengers of God may meet sometimes a worse fate despite being God’s own son.
Worse may be the cost
Even worse may be the cost, direr the pain:
His large identity and all-harbouring love
Shall bring the cosmic anguish into his depths,
The sorrow of all living things shall come
And knock at his doors and live within his house;
A dreadful cord of sympathy can tie
All suffering into his single grief and make
All agony in all the worlds his own.
The fate may be even worse and direr the price for the messenger of God. His vastness and love may bring the cosmic suffering into his depths. The sorrow of all living beings may knock at his doors. A cord of sympathy may tie him to all that suffers and make all grief and agony of the worlds his own.
Poison of the world
He meets an ancient adversary Force,
He is lashed with the whips that tear the world’s worn heart;
The weeping of the centuries visits his eyes:
He wears the blood-glued fiery Centaur shirt,
The poison of the world has stained his throat.
The ancient Adversary that hates all Light lashes him with its whip that tear the world’s heart. The weeping of centuries visits his eyes and he wears the blood stained shirt of the warrior of the worlds. He swallows the poison of the world and stains his throat.
Victim in his own sacrifice
In the market-place of Matter’s capital
Amidst the chafferings of the affair called life
He is tied to the stake of a perennial Fire;
He burns on an unseen original verge
That Matter may be turned to spirit stuff:
He is the victim in his own sacrifice.
In the world market where life is sold cheaply for a rice, he is tied to the stake of a perennial fire of hell. He burns on the edge of life so that matter may be spiritualised. He is the sacrificant and he is the victim in his sacrifice.
Immortal bound to earth’s mortality
The Immortal bound to earth’s mortality
Appearing and perishing on the roads of Time
Creates God’s moment by eternity’s beats.
The Immortal bound to earth’s mortality seems to appear and perish upon the roads of Time creating God’s moments tuned to eternity’s rhythms.
World may be new born and live
He dies that the world may be new-born and live.
He dies for the world to be new born and live.
He must face the fight
Even if he escapes the fiercest fires,
Even if the world breaks not in, a drowning sea,
Only by hard sacrifice is high heaven earned:
He must face the fight, the pang who would conquer Hell.
He who would conquer hell is not allowed to escape the fight and the pang. Even if he escapes the fiercest fires and the world’s flood, one can win heaven only through hard sacrifice.
Closing Remarks
We see here a description of the inner life of the messengers of God.
About Savitri | B1C3-11 Towards Unity with God (pp.31-33)