Savitri Book 6, Canto 2, Part 4
Narad, the heavenly sage, tells the Queen, “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 art thyself the author of thy pain.” Then he describes how the immortal soul chooses to leave the boundlessness and truth and consciousness and light of the Self to take the giant fall into the Abyss and descend into matter’s rigid, hard unconsciousness. The soul assimilates all it needs from its last life and yearns for rebirth. He says that heaven’s wiser Love rejects the mortal’s prayer to be saved from the pain he has chosen, and this wiser Love keeps for Savitri her privilege of pain. Then he explains that man’s mind cuts the boundless truth into strips and takes each strip for all the heavens, so he cannot see the working of an all-wise Force or feel the mystic Mother’s heart, or know the will of the Timeless working out in time in the free absolute steps of cosmic Truth.