Savitri's parents bring her back to the wild forest to marry Satyavan. Her past receded and her future neared. Savitri put behind all her life and welcomed all that would be his life and hers. So close to death, apart with love, she lived for love alone.
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"O man, the events that meet thee on thy road, though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief, are not thy fate,- they touch thee awhile and pass: even death can cut not short thy spirit's walk: thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate."
"O mortal who complainst of death and fate, accuse none of the harms thyself has called; this troubled world thou hast chosen for thy home, thou are thyself the author of thy pain." The soul assimilates all it needs from its last life and yearns for rebirth
Narad describes the World-Redeemer. He is imperishable, wise and infinite. He must travel Hell to save the world. Then he describes the Titan, the adversary force of blind power and ego. Man must avoid his adverse influences and not follow the Titan's way.
Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart. Where ignorance is, there too suffering must come. Man must overcome an ancient adversary force, a hidden foe lodged within his breast. This is the inner war without escape.
Savitri's mother voices the suffering complaint of the surface soul in man and his revolt against his ignorant, fate because her daughter's fate seems doomed and she cannot understand why.
The Deep Unchanging Soul of Love - Stronger Than Death, Greater Than Fate. Savitri's Mother tells her to find another mate because Satyavan will die in one year. Savitri refuses to leave her eternal mate and the deep possibility always to love.
The Queen accuses the cosmic Law of injustice because Savitri's destiny is doomed when she marries Satyavan. She asks for the Truth. Narad, the all-knowing messenger of the Gods gives the Truth and sets free the spring of cosmic Fate.
Fate - Must fire always test the great of soul ? Savitri tells her parents she has chosen to marry Satyavan. They worry that this marriage has an adverse fate. Narad, the all-knowing Divine Messenger says no cry or prayer can turn Savitri from her path.
Narad, the Divine Messenger descends to earth from Immortal worlds to tell Savitri about her fate. Sri Aurobindo again writes about the creation of the universe and he also tells us about the ultimate fate of the anti-divine demons.