The Mother's Virgin Fortress

"If the spirit could from the ﬁrst dwell securely on the superior heights and deal with a blank and virgin stuff of mind and matter, a complete spiritual transformation might be rapid, even facile: but the actual process of Nature is more difﬁcult, the logic of her movement more manifold, contorted, winding, comprehensive; she recognises all the data of the task she has set to herself and is not satisﬁed with a summary triumph over her own complexities. Every part of our being has to be taken in its own nature and character, with all the moulds and writings of the past still there in it: each minutest portion and movement must either be destroyed and replaced if it is unﬁt, or, if it is capable, transmuted into the truth of the higher being. If the psychic change is complete, this can be done by a painless process, though still the programme must be long and scrupulous and the progress deliberate; but otherwise one has to be satisﬁed with a partial result or, if one’s own scrupulousness of perfection or hunger of the spirit is insatiable, consent to a difﬁcult, often painful and seemingly interminable action. For ordinarily the consciousness does not rise to the summits except in the highest moments; it remains on the mental level and receives descents from above, sometimes a single descent of some spiritual power that stays and moulds the being into something predominatingly spiritual, or a succession of descents bringing into it more and more of the spiritual status and dynamis: but unless one can live on the highest height reached, there cannot be the com- plete or more integral change. If the psychic mutation has not taken place, if there has been a premature pulling down of the higher Forces, their contact may be too strong for the ﬂawed and impure material of Nature and its immediate fate may be that of the unbaked jar of the Veda which could not hold the divine Soma Wine; or the descending inﬂuence may withdraw or be spilt because the nature cannot contain or keep it. Again, if it is Power that descends, the egoistic mind or vital may try to seize on it for its own use and a magniﬁed ego or a hunting after powers and self-aggrandising masteries may be the untoward result. The Ananda descending cannot be held if there is too much sexual impurity creating an intoxicant or degrading mixture; the Power recedes, if there is ambition, vanity or other aggressive form of lower self, the Light if there is an attachment to obscurity or to any form of the Ignorance, the Presence if the chamber of the heart has not been made pure. Or some undivine Force may try to seize hold, not of the Power itself, for that withdraws, but of the result of force it leaves behind in the instrument and use it for the purposes of the Adversary. Even if none of these more disastrous faults or errors should take place, still the numerous mistakes of reception or the imperfections of the vessel may impede the transformation. The Power has to come at intervals and work meanwhile behind the veil or hold itself back through long periods of obscure assimilation or preparation of the recalcitrant parts of Nature; the Light has to work in darkness or semi-darkness on the regions in us that are still in the Night. At any moment the work may be stayed, personally for this life, because the nature is able to receive or assimilate no more, — for it has reached the present limits of its capacity, — or because the mind may be ready but the vital, when faced with a choice between the old life and the new, refuses, or if the vital accepts, the body may prove too weak, unﬁt or ﬂawed for the necessary change of its consciousness and its dynamic transformation."

Sri Aurobindo

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The Agenda of The Mother’s Virgin Fortress

“Assailed, surprised in the fortress of her self,

Conquered by her own unexpected king (the Divine),” Savitri-87

"Apotheosised, transfigured by wisdom’s touch,

Her days became a luminous sacrifice;

An immortal moth in happy and endless fire,

She burned in his sweet intolerable blaze.

A captive Life wedded her conqueror (Supreme Lord)." Savitri-125

“As a fortress for his (man of ignorance) undefended heart,” Savitri-145

“Within we have found the kingdom here of God,

His fortress built in a loud ignorant world.” Savitri-531

All that is sacred in the earth’s atmosphere drew near to Savitri’s Divine passivity. Her Soul’s power was too great for earth, the bliss that lived in her heart was too large for heaven, her love was too boundless and Light was too intense for the thought. Her being rose into unreachable heights and plunged into unfathomable depths and saw there was no end in the Soul’s journey and found no end to the silent occult Mystery.

Earth’s each grain needs the sap of pleasures and tears and rejects the undying rapture’s boon. Savitri permitted earth’s children to lend her self and all she was and hoped to implant her greater being in their body’s life so that through her pure virgin touch Heaven might grow native on the mortal soil.

The Mother’s Fortress evolves through Savitri’s sacrifice who toiled to perfect her creation since the earth was made by pointing to the Souls of men the routes to God. And it accommodates four hieratic institutions harmoniously to synthesize its objective world action and subjective movement in the ranges of Consciousness. The God-ward movement begins with the activation of moderate Spirituality to include the whole of humanity within its scope who begin to serve the Divine in spite of many lapses in their outer living. Thus, earth struggles through a million roads to find the Deity. Then, through her Divine call some developed moderate seekers will enter entire renunciation of lower nature by entire consecration of outer life which forms the basis of sane ascetic living. Then, out of them few can hold her Divine call to elevate the ascetic living to the gradation of the entire consecration of inner and outer life to the Divine. Then fewer can integrate her Divine Call in isolation and prepare themselves to be a fit channel of large Divine descent. Then it is the fewest to whom she reveals herself in her entirety, samagram mam.

Moderate Spirituality:

A moderate is an earth-bound soul who is built on Nature’s early plan and owes a small debt to a superior plane. It is safe for man to begin his conscious God-ward journey through a moderate path, the middle way which is neither too extreme, dangerous, or too strenuous an effort. Those moderate seekers who have come closer to Savitri by attraction of her pure physical form, a reflection of her Divinity, were lit by her touch but were extinguished too soon as their vessels were not so pure to illumine the light and fire constantly; her force was too pure and her demand was too great for them to bear and when they looked upon the world and missed the self; she leans down with her strong passionate hands to their littleness, knew by sympathy their needs and wants and bent to heal their sorrow and pride.

Spirituality of Renunciation:

The limitation of animal grossness, self-imprisoned narrowness and downward movement of mind of moderate humanity is corrected in the Spirituality of renunciation as practiced in Ascetics’ Fortress where world shunning and heaven seeking Souls dream shut in sainthood’s brilliant cell, finds the shadow of God or brief Spiritual illumination and Spirit’s immobile liberty by losing the world and life; his experience of world and matter is void of its Lord; the Divine Mother chooses this state for her hard ground of preparation, brief felicitous hour in world’s play of joy and strife and discloses some of her mystic secrets.

Spirituality of Consecration:

The limitation of ascetic inaction in solitude, belittling of the individual and universe, the Soul’s hunger for individual salvation by escape into farthest height of unalloyed bliss, its unwillingness to return from the ecstasy of the divine embrace into the lower field of work, struggle and service are corrected in the Spirituality of consecration as practiced in a Divine Centre, where inmates are fit to live constantly in her ray but are unable to face and bear the Power of her high Sunlight, they have the habit of seeing the Highest in a limiting form and refuse to admit that Truth is wider and greater than her single form and man adores her with thousand icons since the beginning of the creation; Her greater self lived alone, unclaimed and within severing a distance from all those who were most close and thus, she transcends all but denies none.

High Spirituality:

The deficiency of becoming a forced satellite of her Sun or illumining the world’s darkness by becoming a moon light of consecrated Spirituality is mended, widened, corrected and fulfilled in a more concentrated Divine Centre or an extreme Spirituality of Virgins’ Fortress where the consecration and renunciation of virgin Souls reach their absolute state to link the finite and the Infinite and she acknowledges that her highest and widest seeing are only a partial half-search, her mighty world action is only a half finished work and to exceed herself is her Transcendent task. Immaculate in white virginity, the nude God children, in self-knowledge and self-power, repose on the eternal Will and live in His inalienable Bliss. They are her sun-eyed children of God’s everlasting Day and Omnipotent’s flaming pioneers who count Supreme’s law only and obey only His command and they find a passage to meet the Lord in Matter’s night.

So, in The Mother’s Fortress all the above four types of collective aspirations that of serving and seeking the Divine by reason’s lamp; entire renunciation of desire, ego, dualities, three gunas, initiation of work and old association; triple consecration through mind’s method of abstraction of Karma, Jnana and Bhakti Yoga; and Yoga of Self-perfection by a triple swift God-ward Soul movement of will, intellect and emotion are accommodated, harmonised and integrated.

(1) Ambition, the deformation of Divine’s Infinite capacity through interference of mind’s ego and impatience, the deformation of Time’s eternity through subjection of the hasty mind’s desire, seems to be the main motive force behind moderate spirituality and when it takes an ascetic turn, the impatience does not leave the earthly scene. (2) When the scope and outcome of Yoga is extended from this whole life to all life of successive unnumbered past and future births, or shifting of centre of living from surface to inner life, then a Sadhaka is liberated from the limitation of Ascetic impatience. (3) When one rises in consciousness uninterruptedly through the Spirituality of consecration, the mind’s ambition leaves the mortal scene to substitute the Soul’s ambition which can lift up the individual and the race. (4) A universalised Consciousness, entirely free from desire and ego, is the normal state of extreme integral Spirituality.

The Divine’s Call:

“Only a few responded to her call:

Still fewer felt the screened divinity,” Savitri-362

“Then kindling the gold tongue of sacrifice,

Calling the powers of a bright hemisphere,

We shall shed the discredit of our mortal state,” Savitri-171

Savitri’s Soul wanders in the lone tremendous woods in this strange, dangerous, sorrowful and beautiful world to find an aim of greater destiny. Immaculate grandeur broods upon her days and Almighty powers are shut in Nature’s cells. Somewhere in the longing breast of earth her unknown Lover waits for her the Unknown. Now the destined spot and hour were close and all things happen in the cosmic play at its time and in its foreseen place.

On life’s road, the conscious Soul can recognise its answering Soul of a 'predestined face' across the dividing time. The Lovers met upon their different paths by traveling across limitless plains of Time.

Savitri, after the first discovery of her Lord, Satyavan on earth, the comrade of her Soul’s high task, in whom Nature and Self equal Presence felt, received the Soul’s Call and declared that ‘Now of wandering it has no need’²⁵ and now she must hasten back to her father’s house for final preparation to begin a life with new Divinity which began in the sylvan forest land and often her conscious Spirit walked with him and knew her vast inner action. A boundless isolation made them one in Spirit and one human moment was Eternal made.

Satyavan (the symbol of Divine Love), ‘the Godhead by which all can change,’³⁶ is incarnated here to tempt the God’s light for earth and man, his love is meant to fill the hollow in men’s heart and his bliss is directed to heal the unhappiness of the world. And Savitri is the sun-gold Godhead of mighty force, she can lift man’s Soul to God, her will is greater than the Death’s law and her Love is stronger than bonds of Fate. She shines as a single lamp lit in perfection’s house. Their love is a heavenly seal of the Supreme and Savitri guards that seal against the Death’s rending hands.

The Mother, during first meeting with Sri Aurobindo, recognised Him as the One for whom Her life has waited long unfulfilled, Her Soul flung wide its inner door to this new Sun and received Her Soul’s Divine Call. Her instrumental nature needed six years of inner preparation to dynamise that Call of final arrival of Her future home at Pondicherry. They were the Mother Soul and the Master Soul from the beginning of the creation, born from one undying Fire. In the self-closed solitude of Their past, They were drawn towards a swift rapturous dream of future vision, an intense hour began, the matrix of new Time and new Space.

It is only in the Supermind, the outer wandering can be dispensed with and an individual can act as Sun Light, still, motionless and becomes the cause of all movement and all action. Sri Aurobindo was able to transcend the habit of wandering of His Spiritual predecessors because the triple experiences of integral Divine that possessed him at Alipore jail were from the Supramental plane, where the reconciliation of World, Self and God are automatic and self-existent. The gospel of ‘Universal (Divine) Incarnation’²⁶ through Supramental action was a remote possibility prior to Sri Aurobindo because the doctrine of Individual Divine Incarnation was prevalent through Overmental interference.

We also observe that Sri Aurobindo’s Supramental vision has foreseen the emergence of ‘nude God-children’²⁷ or ‘garbless deity’²⁸ who will unfold the multiple inner suns, whose ‘radiance like the suns’²⁷ can alight the heaven and earth around and the dark Subconscient cave. The emergence of Supramental Sun on earth’s atmosphere is a collective phenomenon though this exercise may begin with an individual incarnating Soul, which can be clear from the following lines:

“The guardian of the fire that lights the suns,” Savitri-179

“Equalled with the godheads of the living Suns,” Savitri-216

“Around him was a light of conscious suns” Savitri-234

“On an earth which looked towards thousand suns,” Savitri-268

“Ablaze the triple heavens revealed their suns,” Savitri-300

“The Sun from which we kindle all our suns.” Savitri-314

“A wanderer from the occult invisible suns” Savitri-348

“Above them blazed eternity’s mystic suns.” Savitri-381

“Below him circling burned the myriad suns:” Savitri-415

During Savitri’s outer wandering in search of her own Self, she came across a crowded place where people were gathered together for Spiritual yearning and Savitri felt the impatient longing to ‘hasten like them’²⁹ to save God’s world. But she ‘reined back the high passion in her heart’²⁹ as she knew that those who have found their Soul can only save themselves and save others and those who have found the desire soul but not the true Self can guide the world but they cannot guide themselves; so, she took the firm resolution that she must first find her Soul. She also observed that age-long grey restraints of earth cannot be broken by the man’s slow impatient evolutionary life, which is hurried towards a ‘sudden splendid path’³⁴ by the revelation, sermon and profound words of ‘human gods.’³⁴ She was further informed that man’s ‘mind is closed between two firmaments’³⁵ of seeking truth through (1) images and words, and (2) surface and brute out sides, and is unwilling to plunge into the depth.

So, an aspirant Soul of Divine Life must pass through a difficult preparatory period of ‘wandering seekers’ on the Eternal’s path or a traditional Ascetic ‘wandered in some lone tremendous wood.’⁴⁰ Outer wandering for the tireless search of truth becomes inevitable till the emerging Consciousness has arrived at its self-existent, self-fulfilling and reconciling oneness of Self and Nature. The Light his Soul has brought, his mind has lost and all he has learned soon becomes a doubt by the pressure of the Inconscient pull and the Sunlight seems to him as the shadow of his own thought and then all becomes shadow and nothing becomes true. Mind is considered impotent to reconcile the Earth and Heaven and its outer wandering for apparent reconciliation and apparent harmony always precedes the Soul’s self-existent oneness and harmony, which seems clear from the following lines: -

“Mind the thought-driven chariot of the soul

Carrying the luminous wanderer in the night

To vistas of a far unending dawn

To the end of the Spirit’s fathomless desire,

To its dream of absolute truth and utter bliss.” Savitri-704

“Across which mind can step towards the sun.” Savitri-245

“Shrank into themselves as from too bright a sun” Savitri-365

“The people of the gulfs despised the sun.” Savitri-216

“Our mind’s unquiet search asks always light,” Savitri-153

“Ill-lit from clouds by the pale moon of Mind,

Or in devious byways wandering alone,

Or lost in deserts where no path is seen,” Savitri-224

“Where mind like a moon illumines the world’s dark.” Savitri-71

Savitri provides us a patient lesson about how outer wandering and the wandering of mind for the search of truth can be shifted to an integration of Divine call of uninterrupted inner wandering in Consciousness for Spirit and Nature’s expansion and how mind’s faint and pale borrowed moon light status and fragmentary ray can be shifted to an activation of the higher Selves or multiple Sun lights.

An earth-bound Soul can wander away from higher Light forfeiting the grace of the great Mother and the Souls, who have not received the Divine’s Call are the ‘spirits entrapped’²² or ‘lost souls’²³ and they ‘might wander through all time, yet never find the truth by which they live’²² or they are ‘blind wanderers mid the perils of Time’²⁴ and through human fall of consciousness they are forced ‘back to the beast.’³⁸

All can serve the Divine but some are able to listen to the Savitri’s Divine Call; few can climb to her un-perishing Sun and channel to earth mind the wizard Ray and still it is fewer who can dare to dynamise her call and trace the path of Immortality uninterruptedly through Matter’s Night of abysmal hell and it is still the fewest who can hope to arrest the Wheels of earth’s Doom and universalise her action of Divinising the clay.

A Soul is prepared and made ready through thousands of years of Soul birth to receive the initiation of Savitri’s Yoga. It is a rare vessel fit to hold the Divine Love, which is as rare as to hold the God’s birth. His yearning towards All meets two solitudes (1) that of outcast from the empire of the outer light and (2) lost to the comradeship of sound, touch, sight, taste and smell and to live in the high peopled loneliness of the Spirit. Savitri’s Yoga of Sunlit path, Golden path and a passage in Abysmal night asks for ‘mind’s solitude,’¹ ‘heart’s secluded shrine,’² ‘sweet honey of solitude,’³ ‘the inner ear that listens to solitude,’⁴ ‘a mind remembering ancient silences,’⁵ ‘great solitary tracts,’⁶ ‘gleaming borders solitary as sleep,’⁷ ‘solitude far from the world,’⁸ ‘forest’s bosom of loneliness,’⁹ ‘pierced its enormous dream of solitude,’¹⁰ ‘foster child of beauty and solitude,’¹¹ ‘corner of happy solitude,’¹² ‘lost in the depths of its own solitude,’¹³ ‘infinite solitude and sleep,’¹⁴ ‘the sylvan solitude,’¹⁵ ‘the night’s solitude,’¹⁶ ‘apart in self, alone,’¹⁷ ‘seeking loneliness,’¹⁸ ‘Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God,’³⁷ ‘in some deep internal solitude,’²¹ environmental isolation that ‘greatened her human hour,’¹⁹ prohibition from ‘public way,’²⁰ movement restricted in ‘close secluded chamber,’²⁰ which culminates in calling down of the Divine Mother into the mortal tenement, God union and His strong embrace.

Inner Wandering of the Soul:

“As so he (King Aswapati) grew into his larger self, (Universal Self)

Humanity framed his movements less and less (outer wandering reduces with the realization of cosmic Self)

A greater being saw a greater world.” Savitri-26

“His being lay down in bright immobile peace

And bathed in wells of pure spiritual light;

It wandered in the wide fields of wisdom-self

Lit by the rays of an everlasting sun.” Savitri-43

“No wandering ray of Heaven can enter there (Inconscient Sheath).” Savitri-226

“Love passes through his heart, a wandering guest.” Savitri-340

“A wanderer from the occult invisible suns” Savitri-348

“A wanderer communing with depth and marge.” Savitri-393

“Now of more wandering it has no need.” Savitri-412

“I (Satyavan) wandered in far-off eternities,

Yet still, a captive in her (Savitri’s) golden hands,” Savitri-723

Savitri in her Spiritual quest was able to overcome the habit of outer wandering to enter the inner world and took a resolution that she must first discover her Self, because by that alone she can save herself and save the world.

Savitri systematically unravels the Divine stationed in the heart by breaking the barrier of multiple layers of desire Soul which ‘Surround the beautiful temple of the soul’⁴⁹ and she transcended the attraction of fine and subtle lure of multiple inner worlds which could enrich our life with intermediate opulence, glory and fame.

The preliminary training to open the Psychic being is to remember first why our Soul came to earth; in silence seek the God’s meaning in our depth; open God’s door and enter into trance through meditation; in God’s tremendous hush still our brain to wake the vast truth within that can know and see; cast from our life the sense that veils the Spirit’s vision; in the enormous emptiness of mind we shall see the Eternal’s subtle body and hear His subtle voice and in world’s contact meet the Divine’s single touch.

Man’s house of life unfolds subtle worlds. There are occult shadows, tenebrous powers, dangerous forces, Titans, Fury, Goblins and Djinns who are inhabitant of life’s nether rooms of Subconscient pit. They touch all with perverting breath, discolour the walls of upper mind and invite instincts of forbidden joy. The doors of God they have shut with keys of creed, intercept the caravans of light and block the fine entries of celestial fire. His lower nature hides these awful guests. Into earth-ways they break out from all doors to slay, massacre, torture, invade with blood-lust and fill with horror and carnage God’s fair world. Old rejected nature, slain thoughts, old longings and acts, dead passions live again to recur in sleep, dream and waking. Night is their refuge and strategic base and no wandering ray of Heaven can enter there. All who would raise this fallen world must come under the dangerous arches of giant sons of Darkness. None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.

She strove with difficulty and pain to find the inner vital self concealed behind the world of sense during her forced journey from body to the Soul through passages of inner Time. Here, life deeps into the Subconscient dusk or struggles from matter to chaos of mind and cries of life, in which no light, no joy and no peace can come. In that vital world she met lower vital entities known as troll, gnome and goblin ‘that most disturb human life.’⁴⁶ Out of the dreadful press she dragged her will and fixed her thought on the repetition of Divine Name. Her vital Godhead, pranamaya Purusha wakes within to lift the life with Divine touch. Then, all grew still, empty and free; a large deliverance and vast calm of vital self emerged and she moved awhile through a blank tranquility of naked Light that descended from the invisible sun.

Then after silencing of the vital mind and realisation of her vital Self, she drew closer to ‘mightier danger’s front’⁴⁷ identified as the physical mind or the material mind. It is an aimless thought and will, a deaf force, a torrent that carries life’s hope and fear, a forbidden delight of honey-sweet poison-wine of lust and death, the bottomless danger-pits and swallowing gulfs. It could mingle poison with the wine of God, all contraries meet in the life’s nether room and Ignorance is Wisdom’s patron here. The souls trapped in the physical mind can never escape. By silencing the physical mind, she met her true physical being, annamaya Purusha. By its influence, thousands of dark voices fell mute.

Then journeying forward beyond the physical and vital mind Savitri reached a brilliant ordered space of Sattwic mind which is divided into three parts of schoolman mind, fixed mind and outer mind. The narrow ideal of schoolman mind has occupied life’s large domain. It has the fear of getting lost in the vastness of Soul. The Spirit’s limted freedom was there in reason’s small limiting ideals and it is too far from Psychic fire and it has no power to ‘set the world ablaze.’⁴⁸ The reason’s diplomatic balanced reign kept limited order and limited peace, disciplined beauty and a harmonic smooth life and she lived closed in the adamant walls of law, ethic’s rule and fixed pillars of thought. Its rational religion dries the heart, meditation muses on a narrow seat, limits his worship to an exclusive God, worships the God in a chapel whose doors are shut against the universe, Spiritual wisdom of Shastra is a sealed book and this schoolman mind can offer a cold and flameless sacrifice.

Then she arrived at firm and settled space, the quiet country of fixed mind, where the doubt of arriving at the source of existence has taken the appearance of fixed limiting faith and ordered knowledge of apparent things. It has the capacity to make the sun invisible. This fixed mind claims to be the Spirit, sole creator of the apparent world and the Soul and Spirit sees itself as a form of fixed mind and loses itself in the glory of its thought and reaches the brilliant air flaming with thought’s supreme finality. The few intellectuals, artists, musicians and players are admitted in the home of cosmic certainty, stand on their limited faith as on a rock, attain best achievement of exclusive kind, and register their name in the book of elite. It claims the safety of the ultimate wall, the clarity of the sword of Light, victory of a single Truth, burns the diamond of flawless bliss, bright contented world and lives as favourite of Heaven and Nature. For fixed mind, Divine is identified as ‘A splendid shadow of the name of God’⁵⁰ and none has touched His limbs or seen His face. The Souls, who are satisfied with this achievement of fixed mind do not turn to the adventure of the Beyond, do not go ahead to discover their Psychic being.

Savitri did not want to stay in this petrified wisdom of intellect with small grain of spiritual certitude for long time and came to a road thronged with an ardent crowd of hurrying outer mind where no mystic voice and Light can come. This surface mind is a ceaseless dynamic machine which draws its raw material from outside world and all its product is perishable and wears out in the passage of time. This mind is impatient to gather together devotees to commence a Spiritual movement. With the hope of finding her Soul, Savitri mingled with the crowd of devotees and her mind hastens like them to save God’s world and yearns the Spiritual light they bear. She reined back the high passion of her heart as she knew that she must discover her Soul first and only those who have found their Psychic beings can only save themselves and subsequently can save others. So, by realising the hurrying time of the outer world/surface mind she turns her eyes towards the Timeless eternal Source to find the birth place of occult Psychic Fire.

Then Savitri came to a narrow path to tread the rare wounded pilgrim feet of first ascent in inner mind and met the Mother of seven sorrows who projected herself as Savitri’s Soul. A patient prayer has risen from her breast to change this great hard world of pain. She came to share the suffering of this world, draws the children’s pangs into her breast. God gave her love and power to solace but not His force and power to save; she has seen the slashed corpse of the slaughtered child, heard the woman’s cry ravished and stripped, shared the toil of the yoked animal drudge; she shared the daily life of common man, the unwanted tedious labour without joy, the burden of misery and the strokes of fate and lived with the prisoner in the dungeon cell. In her shoulders she weighs the yoke of Time, watched the nature’s cruelty to suffering things without God’s help. She hoped to look towards her God who never came to her. When the mother of seven sorrows is transformed into the mother of seven Anandas, then misery shall be abolished from earth, and everywhere there will be peace and joy and all-embracing Divine love and compassion.

The seven sorrows of a Sadhaka are (1) memory of ‘beauty of sadness,’ (2) ancient strain of tears, (3) world’s agony, (4) sorrow and struggle in all Time, (5) anguished music, (6) deep sorrowful compassion towards bereaved souls, (7) patient gaze and patient prayer that does not reach heaven. In order to transform these seven-fold Subconscient sorrows into seven-fold Ananda, a Sadhaka has to travel backward with his Spiritual energy towards past births and bodies in subtle world.

Then Savitri recognised the Mother of seven sorrows, an incarnation of pity as first subliminal desire soul of surface tamasic force and passed ahead in her Spirit’s upward route. Next, she met the second subliminal desire Soul, the Mother of Might, an incarnation of some intermediate egoistic Power, behind the ambitious surface rajasic force, who sat in a gold and purple sheen, her feet on a couchant lion’s back. A formidable smile curled round her lips, heaven-fire laughed in the corners of her eyes, her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength her speech is like a war cry and her word is of luminous command. She came down into the human world with a faculty which seems to be Almighty to help the unfortunate and save the doomed. She smites the Titan who bestrides the world, slays the ogre in his blood-stained den and tramples the corpses of the demon hordes and guards man from the red wolf and snake. She has the power to guide, save and help the few and the mass fall back unsaved.

Savitri still ascended to find her Soul’s upward route and arrived into a high and happy space of inner mind, a wide tower of vision to see all, a clear and crystal light; there she met her third subliminal desire soul, the Mother of Light, an incarnation of some intermediate surface sattwic wisdom, whose mission is to lift the human Soul slowly towards the light through error and sin. She represents charity, silence, knowledge, peace, courage and a Power that labours towards the best. With her help man’s mind will admit the sovereignty of Truth; heart will at last hold the Divine Love and the body can bear the immense Divine descent.

The three subliminal Mother Powers,⁵¹ (1) the Mother of seven sorrows, (2) the Mother of (limited) Might and (3) the Mother of (limited) Light are the three Mother powers of inner mind having their root in the negative inconscient energies of tamas, rajas and sattwa and these three subliminal desire selves surrounding the Psychic Being obstruct the free working of the Psychic being. They also wait for their hour of Divine transformation when they will emerge as (1) the Mother of seven Delights, (2) the Mother of limitless Might and (3) the Mother of limitless Light.

Onward she moved seeking the mystic cave of the Soul. The mind abolished all its thought and in a simple purity of emptiness she knelt down before the Unknowable. At first she stepped into a night of God and crossed the fathomless impersonal Night in silence. A last change and the Truth’s last retreat came with the breaking of the mental emptiness and the blissful inner self became her space. Then she came across the land of marvelous twilight and holy stillness of voiceless space. The two golden serpents curled round the lintel of her body and enveloped it with pure dreadful strength and wisdom. Across the threshold of the sleep state she entered the land with great figures of Gods who are conscious in stone and live without breath. In climbing the planes of consciousness she met numberless worlds and faces of beings representing that world. She reached a point, the meeting place of all the worlds where there was no trace of breathing men, no sound and living nearness of Soul and unimaginable bliss. She met a light which is not born of sun or moon or fire, a light that dwelt within and saw within and made secrecy more revealing than the word and there Spirit’s vision is wholly true. Thus, she passed in that mysterious place through rooms and rock-hewn doors. A sealed identity in her woke to give the experience of utter Oneness of God and Goddess, the Master and the Mother, Krishna and Radha, and Adorer and Adored. Then she came to the last chamber of golden seat where one sat whose shape no vision can define, formless, pure, bare, only one feels the world’s unattainable fount and Power of which she is a straying Force. Then she dug the tunnel of the last rock and came out where there shone a deathless sun. A house was there and all is made of flame and light. And crossing the wall of doorless living fire where she suddenly met her Soul, the Psychic being.

The Psychic and Spiritual being open generally through the practice of Self-control. Through King Aswapati’s Yoga Spiritual being opens first and by its descent Psychic being opens. Through Savitri’s Yoga, Psychic being opens first and by its ascent the Spiritual being opens. The long movement between Psychic and Spiritual being opens the Supramental being.

Evolution of the Virgins’ Fortress:
“Incarnate the white passion of thy force,
Mission to earth some living form of thee.” Savitri-345

"A single lamp lit in perfection’s house,
A bright pure image in a priestless shrine,” Savitri-368

The Mother’s bare and absolute Power is represented through Savitri’s Virgin Force, which burns in the solitudes of the thoughts of God and the whole world lives in the lonely ray of her sun. She questioned changeless destiny and strove against the immutable Will from the inception of this creation. Her high nude Soul tramples fixed destiny and the groves of mortal law with her living feet.

A virgin is she or he whose mind, life, body and Soul seek only the Divine and the collectivity gathered around her are identified as apprentices of the Virgins’ Fortress. When this seeking is culminated in Divine union then a true Virgins’ Fortress emerges and it can guard Truth’s diamond throne and if the gained Divine Consciousness is inverted earthward then the Integrated Virgins’ Fortress is dynamised and it can call down fragments of Truth Supreme or fragments of highest Truth.

Savitri lifts the literal meaning of virginity from its narrow sense to its widest and profoundest significance. In the Spiritual sense virginity means the purity, the feminine or passive status of the Self. Its masculine or active status is concentration. Purity is the condition in which concentration becomes entire, rightly effective and omnipotent. Without concentration, purity can become a state of peaceful quiescence of eternal repose. The opposite of purity is identified as impurity which is defined as the confusion of the law of the Soul or a mixed and mutually entangled action of the different parts of the being. This confusion proceeds towards the absence of right concentration. Concentration is defined as gathering back of the thought into the Self. It has three powers (1) by concentration one can know anything but this power must be utilised to know the Self, the Being, the One; (2) by concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the knowledge of Self that is not yet grasped and (3) by concentration we can become the Self. Integration of virginity is related with integration of concentration and it is in integral concentration the Supramental is dynamised.

The Law of Virginity:

“Heaven's tranquil shield guarded the missioned child.” Savitri-16

“She burned in his sweet intolerable blaze.
A captive Life wedded her conqueror.” Savitri-125

“Heaven’s fixed regard beholds him (man) from above,” Savitri-336

“And guards intact unchanged by death and Time” Savitri-351

“Lived guarded in her spirit’s luminous cell,” Savitri-355

“Self-guarded in the silence of her strength” Savitri-357

“A mighty Presence still defends thy frame.
Perhaps heavens guard thee for some great soul,” Savitri-374

Virgin’s Fortress has existed on earth since the advent of Savitri as priest-less Shrine, which is entirely sealed from the attack of world influence and it can be invaded and conquered by the Supreme Lord from above and possesses it.

This paper identifies twenty-one distinct characters of Savitri which build the basis of the Law of Virginity or integral purity of Integral Yoga. Adherence to this law integrates the personality, prevents one from any Spiritual fall and ruin and gives strength to fight against Death and Suffering.

Savitri searched her integral purity through the first door of entry of physical virginity which is reflected in her outward nature. She awoke among these common tribes like a parable of dawn and lived like a mighty stranger in the human field. Heaven guarded her physical purity till the arrival of some great Soul, her second Self, and the Godhead in the form of Satyavan leading her towards comprehensive virginity.

Physical Virginity:

“No part she took in this small happiness;” Savitri-6

“Then life beat pure in the corporeal frame” Savitri-232

“Immaculate with white virginity” Savitri-274

“His transience trembles with the Eternal’s touch,” Savitri-339

“No transient earthly love assailed her calm,” Savitri-367

“Missalled in aureate (golden) virginity” Savitri-374

"Even as her body, such is she within." Savitri-422

“Her body quivered with eternity’s touch” Savitri-671

“Virgin motions of bacchant innocences” Savitri-677

The physical substance can open itself towards the pure Divine touch. Her single glance can make his whole day wonderful. The first sign of Savitri’s physical virginity⁵⁴ is that she took no interest in small earth-bound enjoyments, life’s fragile littleness, heaven’s brief light. She came to love, help and save all, spoke no word, strong, calm like a hill and a dark foreknowledge separated herself even from those she loved. Savitri gives us this message that she was absolutely not interested in any small happiness and enjoyments because that cannot help her to resolve her single issue which she concentrates on each birth, “This was the day when Satyavan must die.”⁴³ Rather these small earthly enjoyments are door of escape from the problems of existence. The second sign is that she had disrupted and dislodged by her Soul’s force her past that stood as a block in the immortals path; in her inner adventure of Consciousness, with each new height she explored she would completely lay bare and break the system she had reached earlier; or ‘A giant dance of Shiva tore the past.’³⁰ A fire that seemed the body of the God consumed the limiting figures of the past and made a large room for the new self to live; thirdly, she was never interested in any solitary bliss, her task was to raise the world to God and deathless Light and called down a fire of Eternity to make the body’s joy as vivid as the Soul’s, earth she would lift to the neighbourhood of Heaven, reconcile the Eternal and the Abyss and her greatness rose to ‘stay the wheels’⁴⁴ of earth’s Doom.

Vital Virginity:

“A purity of sense we never feel” Savitri-104

“A purer, fierier sense had there its home,
A burning urge no earthly limbs can hold;” Savitri-123

“Then life beat pure in the corporeal frame;” Savitri-232

“Flitting through thickets of thy pure desires
In the unwounded beauty of thy soul.” Savitri-420

“Her immortality her chastisement,” Savitri-600

“A pure celestial joy is the use of sense.” Savitri-663

Savitri’s fulfilled vital was flower-sweet, adamant, passionate and calm. The vital substance and sensory organs can open themselves towards pure Divine Delight which is an inlet of ocean’s force and can retain their vital virginity.

The first sign of Savitri’s vital virginity is that an inner law of beauty shaped her whole life; by the pressure of the Soul force ‘the proud ambition and its master lust’³¹ were transformed into instruments of great calm sway; ‘daily dwarf desire’³¹ was changed into a sweet and boisterous play; the second sign is that all her sense instincts or organs are in search of beyond sense pure delight; a power within and above shaped and moulded her sense; the body’s sense renounced its earthly look and Eternity’s contact broke the moulds of sense and kindled a Divine identity; thirdly she gives no interest in human association which generally takes a vitalistic turn. The common earthbound Souls who generally draw irresistibly towards the forbidden fruit of Adam and Eve, the Souls tempted by Nature have eaten, which is again mind and body’s faltering search through Prakriti’s possession of Purusha in Ignorance. A puritan God made pleasure a poisonous fruit or red drug in the market place of Death. Savitri symbolises all gross enjoyment of life as wine and projects the lord of Death as the ‘çupbearer of the wine;’³⁹ so in order to fight and conquer against Death one must give up all desire and earthly enjoyment and must turn inward.

Right human relation becomes Godward, pure and virgin when the Prakriti, the Nature is possessed by the Purusha, the Soul. Savitri’s Supreme relation with the Satyavan is still in higher Spiritual planes of Ishwara-Shakti oneness, Brahman-Maya oneness in the Supramental plane and Sat-Chit oneness in the Absolute plane resulting in universal Action, Creation and descent of Ananda. This Ananda will not cancel but fulfils the human love and life will house God’s Love in Self and Nature.

Mental Virginity:

“Her mind, a sea of white sincerity,” Savitri-15

"Above mind’s twilight and life’s star-led night
There gleamed the dawn of a spiritual day." Savitri-26

“Apart he lived in his mind’s solitude,
A demigod shaping the lives of men:
One soul’s ambition lifted up the race;
A Power worked, but none knew whence it came. ” Savitri-44

“The Spirit’s bare and absolute potencies
Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God.” Savitri-57

“His wakened mind became an empty slate” Savitri-81

“A pure Thought-Mind surveyed the cosmic act” Savitri-259

“Or like a high-bred maiden with chaste eyes
Forbidden to walk unveiled the public ways,
She must in close secluded chambers move,
Her feeling in cloisters live or gardened paths.” Savitri-496

“Banish all thought from thee and be God’s void.” Savitri-537

“Her mind now seemed like a vast empty room” Savitri-543

“A blank pure consciousness had replaced mind.” Savitri-545

“A mind delivered from all twilight thoughts,” Savitri-638

“My mind is a torch lit from the eternal sun,” Savitri-648

The surface mind has to open itself towards the Divine wisdom which generally lives far from the authentic light and thus, it retains mental virginity.

The first sign of Savitri’s mental virginity is that she loves mind’s solitude which remains untouched in the battlefield, mart and crowded places; her mind was an enormously empty sea of white sincerity resulting in the simple purity which knelt down before the seat of the Eternal. She is ‘forbidden to walk unveiled in public ways’²⁰ because the mental purity always insists seclusion as the highest and best opportunity to multiply the value of Time, use time as a bank to accumulate Spiritual experience and economise the limited and passing moments towards God union. In the still mind a Timeless Ray descends into our heart and we are rapt into her eternity. Secondly, her thoughts either gleamed up from subliminal depths or leaped down from a Superconscient field and thus, the Unseen grew visible, audible, touchable and discernible and her mind became a vast empty slate to hold the Divine; the third sign is that all the mind’s twilight thoughts were abolished and delivered to save her naked Self and transformed Nature. ‘A mind delivered from all twilight thoughts,’⁵² is the symbol of Savitri’s mental virginity and and above the clear twilight of sattwic mind, ‘there gleamed the dawn of a spiritual day.’⁵³ Thus, the obscure physical mind, the impure vital mind and limiting intellect can be transformed into plenary Supramental illumination.

Psychic Virginity:

“An ocean of untrembling virgin fire” Savitri-16

“He dwelt in his self’s colourless purity” Savitri-297

“On the white purity of the Witness Soul.” Savitri-326

“In her young spirit yet untouched with tears.
All beautiful things eternal seem and new
To virgin wonder in her crystal soul.” Savitri-422

“But now the half-opened lotus bud of her heart
Had bloomed and stood disclosed to the earthly ray;
In an image shone revealed her secret soul.” Savitri-527

The Psychic being is the perennial virgin stationed in a mutable form, by whose influence the surrounding desire soul can regain its purity and retain the virginity of the Psychic sheath.

Savitri in her inner journey in the highway leading to the Soul met at least ten sign posts or ten traps, whose lure she must overcome in order arrive at her Psychic being. They are identified as world of titans and asuras, the world of lower nature of forbidden joy, the world of vital mind surrounding the vital self, the world of physical mind, the world of schoolman mind, the world of fixed mind, the world of outer mind, the mother of seven Sorrows, the mother of (limited) Might and the mother of (limited) Light respectively. All these domains questioned Savitri’s Psychic virginity. They are all fire tests which the greatness of her Soul must overcome. The last three desire Souls surrounding the Psychic being are transformed into the mother of seven Delight or Vaisya Shakti, the mother of supreme Power, Kshetra Shakti and the Mother of supreme Light, Brahma Shakti.

The first sign of Savitri’s Psychic virginity is that her Psychic being was that half opened lotus bud of the heart which bloomed and stood disclosed to the earthly ray and she called the mighty Mother of the worlds to make this earthly tenement her house; the waking witness Soul looks at the Truths unseen and scans the Unknown and all assumes a new marvelous face; secondly, after the Psychic being is opened, a mighty movement rocked the inner space and out of inconscient’s mindless and soulless night a flaming serpent rose and climbed mightily and stormily on its way and touched her six occult centres with its flaming mouth. Those centres, lotus of the head, lotus of the throat, the lotus of the heart, the navel lotus and two nether lotus centres bloomed and laughed surcharged with light and bliss and then at the crown of the head they joined the Eternal’s space. Thus, a firm ground was made for Heaven’s descending Might and the third sign is that she surrendered herself entirely into the great World-Mother’s hands and she obeyed her sole supreme command in the enigma of inconscient’s world. She accepted the earth, the woods, the thatched house, never spared the labour of the broom, the jar and the well and heap the fire and no slight task she allowed to others; thus, in the simplest movement of Psychic action she could bring strange Divinity and Oneness with earth’s growing robe of Light and her commonest, smallest and meanest doing welled from an inner Light.

The kingdom of this new and marvelous change within and its magic charm was felt by all those who live around her. Beasts and birds forgot their strife and lived at ease, flowers and trees felt unknown joy and mild ascetics of the wood received a sudden greatening of their lonely muse.

Spiritual Virginity:

“So now his spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:
His wakened mind became an empty slate
On which the Universal and Sole could write.” Savitri-81

“Immaculate in the Spirit’s deathless air,” Savitri-109

“And objects are its pure spiritual shapes;” Savitri-298

“On sorrowless heights no winging cry disturbs,
Pure and untouched above this mortal play
Is spread the spirit’s hushed immobile air.” Savitri-320

“A golden virgin in her cavern car” Savitri-384

“But truest truth of that which in thee sleeps.
For such is thy spirit, a sister of the gods,” Savitri-420

“But the spirit’s consent is needed for each act” Savitri-457

“A calm slow sun looked down from tranquil heavens.” Savitri-532

“Virgin conception of a bodiless god” Savitri-609

   The Spiritual Being is the eternal virgin whose release can dim the moon and it is stationed in an immutable form, by whose influence the Fate’s dark and lethal orb over Satyavan’s cherished head was transformed into a golden circle of mystic Sun. She received protection from the luminous cell of Spiritual sheath.

The first sign of Savitri’s Spiritual virginity is the grace and beauty of Spiritual light which is a blank pure Consciousness of celestial fire that replaced the mind and ascends to the emptiness of the Supreme so that all in her may reach the absolute; the second sign is that Spiritual virginity opens the doors of sheer truth discernment, sheer truth vision, sheer truth hearing and sheer truth touch, it understood without the aid of thought, uttered what is needed to be said, did what is needed to be done, a pure perception was the only power; she has come down to this suffering world to help a blind and suffering mortal race, to open to Light the eyes that could not see and to bring down bliss into heart of grief; thirdly, development of Spiritual Sheath ensures a secured and enlightened earthly life without any danger of Spiritual fall and possession of a Bliss that none can ever hope to taste and experience of a Love without the Lover and the Beloved. So Savitri recommends that ‘we must search our nature with spiritual fire’³² and ‘must break’³² all earth’s smallness. It further asks not to remain content with one exclusive conquered realm and adventure all to include all and make the whole world under her possession.

Supramental Virginity:

“And high dependencies of her virgin sun” Savitri-124

“O sunlight moulded like a golden maid?” Savitri-400

“Still rigid in her golden motionless pose,
A statue of the fire of the inner sun.” Savitri-477

“All that thou doest, all our minds conceive,
Like the strong sun that serves earth from above.” Savitri-562

“A virgin unity, a luminous spouse” Savitri-695

“With violent breaking of its virgin sleep.” Savitri-721

The Supramental Being is the virgin Source of all existence, by whose movement this whole existence can retain the integral virginity including the virginity of the Inconscient Sheath. It is this integral virginity that gives birth to the status of eternal Bride and eternal Bridegroom for which Savitri and Satyavan were destined for the earthly play.

When two Souls are united Divinely, then their union is virgin unity and Supramental light is radiated from their body. Here Savitri and Satyavan were luminous Spouses through their dual Divinity and virgin unity.

The first sign of Supramental virginity is that in its Truth there is no place of negation and she stands firmly on earth with her status of ‘the Lover’s everlasting Yes;’45 an invisible sunlight ran within her veins, flooded her brain with overwhelming light and woke a wider sight than earth could know; a lightning from the height entered the hell of the abyss; it is a flame that cancels death in mortal things and radiates the human limbs that knows not birth and death; her kindly care is a sweet temperate sun which has the capacity to embrace all human contacts without any disturbance, discord and disharmony; the second sign is that she wishes to make all one immense embrace and she might house in it all living things; there are regions where her absolute powers meet and made circle of bliss with married hands, light stood embraced by light and fire wedded fire to find all the world within her lonely breast; thoughts rose in her that no earthly mind can hold; Savitri had developed in her lonely days the inner capacity in Consciousness of serving the earth from above like the strong splendid Sun and lighting around her, she kindles all other suns and the whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun; thirdly, a mighty transformation came on her as heaven’s light consented to descent; her forehead’s span vaulted the Omniscient’s gaze, the Presence came down and held the lotus centre of her brow and the Divine Force opens the third mysterious eye; when the golden ecstatic light seized the brain then eternal Wisdom and Will captures the mortal being; it stirred in the lotus of the throat the song and in her speech throbbed the immortal Word; the God’s sun glided into the lotus of her heart and woke in it the Force that alters the Fate and when it came to the navel lotus centre made desire a pure celestial flame and when it broke into the nether centre where coiled World-Energy sleeps, smote the thousand hooded serpent Force and clasped the World-Self above.

Bliss Virginity:

“Virgin who comest perfected by joy” Savitri-424

“Some passion of the inviolate purity
Broke through, a ray of the original Bliss.” Savitri-123

“He is saved by her silence from his rack of self;
In her tranquil beauty is his purest bliss.” Savitri-165

“A priestess of immaculate ecstasies” Savitri-15

“One-pointed to the immaculate Delight,” Savitri-79

“The bliss that made the world in his body lived” Savitri-682

“Her body of beauty mooned the seas of bliss.” Savitri-314

“Bliss was the pure undying truth of things” Savitri-324

“O Bliss who ever dwellst deep-hid within
While men seek thee outside and never find,” Savitri-345

“In the soul’s unprofaned star-white recess
They sojourned with an everliving Bliss;” Savitri-381

“Moon-bright thou livest in thy inner bliss.” Savitri-420

“His (Satyavan's) eyes keep a memory from a world of bliss.” Savitri-430

Savitri had brought with her human form the calm delight that weds one Soul to all and that is the key to the flaming door of ecstasy and the All Blissful smites with rapture the heart’s throb.

Bliss Self is the ultimate virgin Power of the existence, the Creatrix, the artist Bride of the Supreme, by whose intervention the whole existence retains its oneness with the Supreme and seeks for forms to manifest the Truth Supreme and sustains all other intermediate worlds for the dynamisation of multiple perfections.

The first sign of all-creating unmanifest Bliss virginity is the manifestation of utter gladness in the trinity of the Enjoyer, the Enjoyed and the Delight that unites them; a giant drop of Bliss unknowable shatters the mortal flesh and with immortal pleasure cleansed and purified the whole Nature and the Soul became a fiery ocean of felicity; His bliss laughs to us or its call concealed like a far-heard unseen entrancing flute from the moonlit branches of the throbbing wood tempting our angry search and passionate cry; the second sign is that it manifested as trinity of the Lover, the Beloved and the Love, where Love has the capacity to heal all disorder and bitter cruelties of earth, turns worst into the best and sustains this creation; her love was not the hunger of the heart, nor was it the craving of a flesh and it came to her from All Bliss and to All Bliss it returns, and the third sign of Bliss virginity is that it is manifested as trinity of possessor of Beauty, the Beauty possessed and the Beauty. In beauty, she treasures the sunlight of her smile. The All Beautiful’s ray is a miracle in each shape and it is caught and flowered in Art and Life.

The First Object of Virgins’ Fortress or the Time’s Virginity:

“Creating in a young and virgin Time.” Savitri-38

“She has lured the Eternal into the arms of Time.” Savitri-178

“No silent peak is found where Time can rest.” Savitri-197

“A timeless Spirit was made the slave of the hours;” Savitri-268

“A marriage with eternity divinized Time.” Savitri-327

“Time was Eternity’s transparent robe.” Savitri-329

“His day is a moment in perpetual Time;” Savitri-336

“Linger not long with thy transmuting hand
Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time,
As if Time dare not open its heart to God.” Savitri-345

“The splendid youth of Time has passed and failed;
Heavy and long are the years our labour counts” Savitri-345

“One human moment was eternal made.” Savitri-411

“Earth keeps for man some short and perfect hours” Savitri-421

“She crossed through spaces of a secret self
And trod in passages of inner Time.” Savitri-490

“She passed beyond Time into eternity,” Savitri-555

“Eternity looked out from her on Time.” Savitri-557

“A Force descended trailing endless lights;
Linking Time’s seconds to infinity,” Savitri-573

“Time travels towards revealed eternity.” Savitri-623

“The Eternal’s face was seen through drifts of Time.” Savitri-625

Time’s virginity can be retained by building a protective fence or shield in the subtle body, permitting only the Divine vibrations to enter in. Savitri during her inner journey and sadhana remembered one issue constantly that is Narada’s date. This memory helped her not to allow the time to run barren or preoccupied in transient enjoyments, rather she maintained her effort to retain Time’s virginity, where the marriage with the Eternity could be possible. This marriage is a constant accumulation of the Spiritual strength of the eternal Bride to make her eternal tie strong with her eternal Bridegroom. If Death can break this link, then Satyavan must die; otherwise, they will enter some tremendous dawn of God and never may part again in Time. Savitri was anxious to compress time so as to experience centuries in one day or shuts eternity into an hour and she was interested in building a little room for timelessness and by deep union shut God as her cherished prisoner.

A Divine Supramental force descended in her trailing endless light to link Time’s seconds to eternity. The Timeless has stationed Himself in emptiness so that the Soul might adventure in Time to reveal the mysteries of Eternity. Savitri claimed from Time, her will’s eternity and God, from His slipping moments.

An inspired Knowledge lit the thought that glowed through centuries and sat enthroned within whose seconds illumined more than reason’s years. One can attract into time the Timeless Light and imprison eternity in the hours. One moment can fill God’s eternity and the might of the Eternal can fill in one human hour and with one gesture change all future time. Such is the promise of Savitri whose great act can unlock the doors of Fate and whose pressure on the golden bar of Time dares to open the Time’s heart to God.

Man is a patient trustee of the slow eternal Time and waits for the Eternal’s hour of mighty transformation. The Time’s traveler of endless pilgrimage must explore a greater world of Self and Nature and fills his days with her celestial clasp. The world quivers with a God-light at its core and in Time’s deep heart high purposes move and life crumbles at its border and joins the infinity. The breath of Godhead in solitude greatens her human hour.

The first objective of a more concentrated Divine Centre or Virgins’ Fortress is to safeguard Time’s virginity from the invasion of various world forces and universal subconscient and open wide its door for marriage with Eternity or a captive life wedded her conqueror, the Supreme; thus, Time is divinized to become Eternity’s transparent robe and climbs back into undying Self through a golden ladder.

The Second Object of the Virgins’ Fortress or Virgin Fire:

“An ocean of untrembling virgin fire” Savitri-16

“A fire that seemed the body of a god
Consumed the limiting figures of the past
And made large room for a new self to live.” Savitri-81

“A Nature lifted by a larger breath
Plastic and passive to all-shaping Fire,
Answers the flaming Godhead’s casual touch:” Savitri-112

“In us too the intuitive Fire can burn;
An agent Light, it is coiled in our folded hearts,
On the celestial levels is its home:
Descending, it can bring those heavens here.” Savitri-112

“He served the sessions of the triple Fire.” Savitri-299

“Then meet a greater god, thy self beyond Time.” Savitri-375

“Then Savitri by her doomed husband sat,
Still rigid in her golden motionless pose,
A statue of the fire of the inner sun.” Savitri-477

“The Woman answered not. Her high nude soul,
Stripped of the girdle of mortality,
Against fixed destiny and the grooves of law
Stood up in its sheer will a primal force.
Still like a statue on its pedestal,
Lone in the silence and to vastness bared,
Against midnight’s dumb abysses piled in front
A columned shaft of fire and light she rose.” Savitri-581

“My soul can meet them (Law and Fate) with its living fire.” Savitri-589

Its second objective is to bridge the gulf between the dream truth and earth fact through annulment of manifold void and oblivion and sharp self-seeking tears the Consciousness that can keep the passage open for the virgin Fire. The Spirit in an ignorant world must rescue its prisoned Consciousness. During the auspicious period when the inner fires are lit and the life’s cherished guests are kept outside, our Spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs; a wider Consciousness then opens its doors and leaves a huge white stamp upon our subtle and bright sheaths. Thus, Nature is lifted to a wider breath and becomes plastic and passive to an all-shaping fire and always Heaven’s truth brood in life’s nether deep and even in her obscurest members burns that fire. If our Souls could see, love and clasp God’s Truth, if His infinite radiance would seize our hearts then earthly life becomes the Life Divine.

The Psychic being enjoys more power than the Gods. When Savitri’s mother asked Narad to change the destiny of her daughter, he refused as that was beyond his capacity. Only Savitri’s Psychic being has the power to change Satyavan’s destiny.

The discovery of the Soul or the virgin Fire is identified as ‘one man’s perfection’41 or ‘one soul’s ambition’⁴² that can still save the world and lift up the Consciousness of the whole race. Out of the wood and stone of our nature’s stuff a temple is built where the Psychic God can dwell safely with deep agreement between Truth and Life and one needs no outer guidance. He felt the unending future and lived with the unbeginning past and the Soul’s experience of time and space changes as one moves in the multiple inner worlds.

The Third Object of the Virgins’ Fortress or the Virgin Sun:

“And high dependencies of her virgin sun” Savitri-124

“Climbed through white rays to meet an unseen Sun.” Savitri-23

“His soul, mind, heart became a single sun;” Savitri-37

“We cannot free our gaze to reach wisdom’s sun.” Savitri-53

“And lived in the rays of an intuitive Sun.” Savitri-299

“And in the ray reveal the parent sun:” Savitri-312

“O Truth defended in thy secret sun,” Savitri-345

“And the inner sight adored an unseen sun.” Savitri-351

“Thus lighting earth around her like a sun,” Savitri-366

“The sunlight’s radiant blessing clasped my brow,” Savitri-404

“And sunlight grows a shadow of thy hue” Savitri-408

“But now the gold link comes to me with thy feet
And His gold sun has shone on me from thy face.” Savitri-408

“And lives in a great light of inner suns.” Savitri-421

“Aspiring to live near the deathless sun.” Savitri-452

“A ray has touched him from the eternal sun;” Savitri-622

“Heaven’s sun forces its way through death and night;
Its light is seen upon our being’s verge.” Savitri-648

There is a Consciousness to which the mind cannot touch, speech cannot utter and thought cannot reveal. It is the source of all conscious existence, thought and idea. At Savitri’s will the inscrutable Supermind leans down inverting the Spirit’s apex towards life to control its restless seas; our human ignorance moves towards the Truth to make Nescience the field of Omniscience and Nature climbs towards God’s identity and canalises the seas of Omnipotence.

A Divine force flows through tissue, vein and body’s cell, all the thought, breath, speech and act shall be the glow of the suns, every feeling, tissue and cell takes part in beatitude. Often a lustrous inner and greater dawn shall come; common nature and common acts feel a wide uplift and the body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame. The Truth Light strike by surprise the Nature’s massive roots of trance and wake the dumb Self in the Inconscient depths and raise the lost power of Inconscient Self from the python sleep. A golden fire invaded and burned the night’s heart, Inconscient grew conscious, Night felt the living touch and transformed till a few black remnants stained that Ray.

The third objective of the Virgins’ Fortress is to build a similar bridge between the subtle physical and the highest experience of Truth Supreme through the movement of Consciousness that seems to recoil from reaching its Source, the Virgin Sun. How can one cross the gulf between her dream world and the Truth Supreme whose fragment can light the Soul? When Savitri was able to cross this gulf, the Supramental Light invaded all the occult centres and finally captured and possessed Death, the Godhead of the Inconscient world. A Light like a burning tongue licked up his thought, heart, veins and his darkness perished in her blaze. Her mastering word commanded every limb and left no room for his enormous dark will to activate. His body was eaten by light and the Spirit devoured. In the dream twilight of that symbol world, the Death vanished into the Void of Inconscient abandoning the hope to make man’s Soul his prey. So it is through activation of Supramental Force that the Death’s reign can be annulled from the earthly scene.

The Fourth Object of the Virgins’ Fortress or the Virgin Earth:

"A crown of the architecture of the worlds,
A mystery of married Earth and Heaven
Annexed divinity to the mortal scheme." Savitri-25

“And earth grow unexpectedly divine.” Savitri-55

“There are brighter earths and wider heavens than ours.” Savitri-111

“Heaven’s joys might have been earth’s if earth were pure” Savitri-123

“She conquers earth, her field, then claims the heavens.” Savitri-134

“The world quivers with a God-light at its core,” Savitri-168

“On every plane, this Greatness must create.
On earth, in heaven, in hell she is the same;
Of every fate she takes her mighty part.” Savitri-179

“Earth she would lift to neighbourhood with heaven,” Savitri-196

“Curing the antithesis twixt heaven and hell” Savitri-235

“Earth-nature stood reborn, comrade of heaven.” Savitri-236

“Earth’s consciousness may marry with the Sun,” Savitri-256

“She made earth her home, for whom heaven was too small.” Savitri-275

“Earth was the comrade of a happy sun.” Savitri-351

“Earth couched alone with her great lover Heaven,” Savitri-390

“Earth shall be made a home of Heaven’s light," Savitri-451

“Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven
Or Heaven descend into earth’s mortal state.” Savitri-486

“Her Spirit saw the world as living God;” Savitri-556

“Heaven ever young and earth too firm and old” Savitri-603

“Too far thy heavens for me from suffering men.
Imperfect is the joy not shared by all.” Savitri-686

“Make earth almost the mate and peer of heaven,” Savitri-706

The earth could have been made equal and peer of heaven and heaven’s joy could have stabilised here, had the earth been pure and virgin. If the dream of the Virgins’ Fortress can extend towards the realisation of a Virgin Earth, then through the earth’s virgin form the Formless will shine with all resplendence and glory and establish the empire of the Soul and lift the earth to the neighbourhood with Heaven. Thus, all discords are healed that Time’s torn heart has made and immortality captures Time and carries ahead the Life.

Her Spirit saw this apparent world as the living God and all was He. This wide world was her Spirit’s circumference and her Being was a circle without circumference and she surpassed all cosmic bound and more and more spread into infinity. She was the subconscient life of tree and flower who climbed in man to God. The cosmos flowered in her and she was its bed.

This apparent surrounding world and the vast darkness of the Inconscient world have always questioned Savitri’s virgin Power and mocked her mighty mortal birth and death. It is easy for the God to build Heaven, Earth is His difficult field. Earth can retain her virginity through the tapasya of her fit and high Souls, who can incarnate the white passion of the Divine Mother’s force and call down to earth some living form of her, or Heaven shall lean down from all sides of earth to transform earth life to equal heaven. Supermind shall be his nature’s fount and a mightier race shall inhabit the mortal’s world. The Eternal Truth shall bring a magic change moulding his thoughts and acts, the Divine harmony, beauty and joy shall mould his life and even the body shall remember the God. The Superman shall be born as Nature’s King and make Earth almost a mate and peer of heaven. His presence shall transfigure Matter’s world and light up Truth’s fire in Nature’s night. Even the multitude shall hear the Divine voice, turn to commune with the Spirit within, enter into light and strive to obey the higher Spiritual law. Mere men into Spiritual being grow; Truth will dictate their life, thought, speech and act; common natures feel the wide uplift, common acts are illumined by the Spirit’s ray and Deity will be revealed in common things. Earth can be made a stepping stone to Heaven. The Soul saw Heaven’s limiting boundaries and a joy exceeding Earth’s and Heaven’s poured down. Earth will be a field and camp of God pitched in human time. Seven immortal sublime subtle Earths were seen behind this gross earth and they arose beneath the triple mystic Heaven of Sat, Chit and Ananda. Thus, all Earth becomes the Spirit’s manifest home or we realise a Supramentalised earth which becomes equal and peer of heaven.

Recapitulation:

“Iconoclast and shatterer of Time’s forts,
Overleaping limit and exceeding norm,
It lit the thoughts that glow through the centuries
And moved to acts of superhuman force.” Savitri-259

“The string of forts that make the frail defence
Safeguarding us against the enormous world,” Savitri-528

Savitri book has issued an injunction on the ‘too great’³³ Souls to walk alone in ‘mighty solitude’³³ and discourages them to waste time in their effort to create a Soul of their own kind or lokasangraha; for an earth-nature-bound Soul cannot bear the Spirit’s absolute power and he cannot bear a million wounds of time. These great Souls' own strength is their most faithful and precious companion to tread the difficult and dateless path in the world journey, inner exploration, world transformation and to help inwardly humanity’s blind and suffering life.

The above injunction can be a little modified and extended to seeking Souls, Sadhaka Souls, child Souls and integrated Souls. A moderate seeker of the Virgins’ Fortress must first seek the protection of his (her) virginity through Savitri’s touch and then he must be preoccupied entirely in integrating and strengthening this purity, thus, ascending himself to the status of a true virgin Sadhaka. He will adore Savitri as the Protector and Lord of Virginity and shall aspire for her Touch, Influence and Presence wholly. A virgin Sadhaka of the Virgins’ Fortress will open himself only towards her Law of Virginity and obey her command alone. He will identify that all the problems of existence can be resolved by restoring the virgin Consciousness. Thus, he will ascend to the status of consecrated virgin Child and will have two realisations simultaneously that of (1) The Mother as the manifestation of Savitri in this life and (2) Savitri as the manifestation of The Mother in all life. Alternatively, he will realise that the exclusive Mother has extended herself as the All-Mother of All Life and the All-Mother has chosen a mortal birth for diffusion of Her Divinity in this life. He will accept this world as God fulfilled in outwardness and foresees in this half-built and half-finished world its large virgin future. Thus, he can ascend to the status of an Integrated virgin Yogi and will be preoccupied in his entire effort to reveal Savitri, the All-Mother in humanity. The True Virgins’ Fortress will stand as substitute of The Mother’s Fortress of extreme Spirituality and will survive as the highest hope of an evolutionary accelerator for the whole of humanity.

This world itself is now a fortress of moderate Spirituality where men pursue growth, progress and change through the universalisation of Religion and Science. The pace of this growth can take a decisive change when humanity turns towards Spirituality which is a leap of action from the unconscious Yoga of Nature to the conscious Yoga of the Soul. Savitri draws heaven-seeking and world-shunning liberated Souls earthward to reconcile Spirit and Nature and fills in them the equal Divine Presence and builds in the abysm of hell a road for the Heaven’s descent. Thus, Earth retains her virginity and becomes a temple ground of self-existent Virgins’ Fortress of a great golden dawn.

If an individual is having direct contact with the Divine and if he utilises this Dynamic Divine union initially for individual transformation of Nature and finally for world transformation,⁵⁵ then a Divine Centre or Ashram is born. Integral Yoga foresees a hierarchy of a collective body with one liberated Soul at its centre, known as the ‘Divine Centre,’ or collective group with more than one liberated Gnostic Soul or ‘spread beyond the individual’⁵⁶ known as the ‘Gnostic Centre’ or a Centre without Soul Centre/Central Representative, known as ‘priestless shrine’⁵⁷ where all are liberated souls, identified as ‘virgin bridals of the dawn’⁵⁸ symbolising the purity of collective living or ‘citizens of that mother State’⁵⁹ symbolising selfless Spiritual fosterers or ‘nude god-children’⁶⁰ who ‘steeped existence in their youth of soul.’⁶¹ The action of the Divine Mother in a rare ‘priestless shrine’ beyond the Divine Centre will be the pursuit of the Divine in isolation, alone, without the aid of collectivity, without the law of collective living, without the help of fixed Shastra and the flow of the Transcendent and Universal Divine Love will be further reinforced through realisation of ‘seven-fold Personal Divine Love.’

Before meeting Paramatma Satyavan, Paraprakriti Savitri came across twelve types of liberated Souls,⁶² who were having Divine realisations in twelve specialised fields. They were satisfied with their partial Spiritual achievements and were considered unfit to hold Savitri’s comprehensive Divine Love, and hence Virgins’ Fortress could not be dreamed with these liberated Souls. These Master Souls were fit to build Ascetics’ Fortress, Divine Centre and Gnostic Centre. To hold Savitri’s comprehensive Divine Love or ‘hold God’s birth,’ a Soul is ‘made ready through a thousand years.’⁶³ Before discovering a Virgins’ Fortress without, one has to discover a Virgins’ fortress within, of meeting ground of Paramatma Satyavan and Paraprakriti Savitri in the heart centre or ‘The incarnate dual Power shall open God’s’⁶⁴ Supreme door.
OM TAT SAT

References:
1: Savitri-44,
2: Savitri-170,
3: Savitri-479,
4: Savitri-380,
5: Savitri-384,
6: Savitri-385,
7: Savitri-389,
8: Savitri-391,
9: Savitri-392,
10: Savitri-392,
11: Savitri-393,
12: Savitri-411,
13: Savitri-411,
14: Savitri-435,
15: Savitri-468,
16: Savitri-724,
17: Savitri-187,
18: Savitri-81,
19: Savitri-14,
20: Savitri-496,
21: Savitri-48,
22: Savitri-175,
23: Savitri-211,
24: Savitri-428,
25: Savitri-412,
26: “We have the emergence of that Conscious Being in an involved and inevitably evolving Life, Mind and Supermind as the condition of our activities; for it is this evolution which has enabled man to appear in Matter and it is this evolution which will enable him progressively to manifest God in the body, — the universal Incarnation.” CWSA-21/The Life Divine/p-64,
27: Savitri-126,
28: Savitri-430,
29: Savitri-501,
30: Savitri-343,
31: Savitri-530,
32: Savitri-240,
33: Savitri-368, “Then there were the few—the rare individuals— who are ready to make the necessary effort to prepare themselves for the transformation and to attract the new forces, try to adapt matter, seek the means of expression and so forth. Those are ready for Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga. They are very few. There are even those who have the sense of sacrifice and are ready have a hard and difficult life, as long as it leads them or helps them towards this future transformation. But they should not, they should in no way try to influence others and make them share their own effort: that would be quite unjust – not only unjust, but extremely clumsy because it would alter the universal – or at least terrestrial – rhythm and movement, and instead of helping, it would cause conflicts and result in chaos.” The Mother Agenda/27th November, 1965,
34: Savitri-652,
35: Savitri-690,
36: Savitri-397,
37: Savitri-57,
38: Savitri-224,
39: Savitri-431,
40: Savitri-385,
41: Savitri-531,
42: Savitri-44,
43: Savitri-10,
44: Savitri-19,
45: Savitri-310,
46: CWSA-22/The Life Divine/p-812,
47: Savitri-491,
48: Savitri-497,
49: Savitri-163,
50: Savitri-500,
51: “She (Mother of seven sorrows) looked out far and saw from inner mind” Savitri-503
“August on her seat in the inner world of Mind,
The Mother of Might looked down on passing things,” Savitri-508
“She (Mother of Light) came into a high and happy space (of inner mind),
A wide tower of vision whence all could be seen” Svitri-514
52: Savitri-638,
53: Savitri-26,
54: “Since you feel that you are weak in regard to women, never touch a woman. Never allow a woman to touch you.” TMCW-17/More Answers from the Mother/p-13,
55: The Synthesis of Yoga/p-58,
56: The Synthesis of Yoga/p-90,
57: Savitri-368,
58: Savitri-401,
59: Savitri-262,
60: Savitri-126,
61: Savitri-127
62: Savitri-382,
63: Savitri-398,
64: Savitri-705,

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“An incarnation is always through a human mother, though there have been one or two cases in which a virgin birth has been proclaimed (Christ, Buddha). The only other meaning — unless we suppose an unprecedented miracle — might be a descent such as sometimes happens, the Godhead manifesting in somebody who at birth was a Vibhuti, not at once the full incarnation.”

Sri Aurobindo

CWSA-35/Letters on Himself and the Ashram/p-400

“Whatever is signiﬁcant in the outward life is so because it is a symbol of what has been realised within himself and one may go on and say that the inner life also is only signiﬁcant as an expression, a living representation of the movement of the Divinity behind it. That is why we need not enquire whether the stories about Krishna were transcripts, however loose, of his acts on earth or are symbol-representations of what Krishna was and is for men, of the Divinity expressing itself in the ﬁgure of Krishna. Buddha’s renunciation, his temptation by Mara, his enlightenment under the Bo-Tree are such symbols, so too the virgin birth, the temptation in the desert, the cruciﬁxion of Christ are such symbols true by what they signify, even if they are not scrupulously recorded historical events.”

Sri Aurobindo

CWSA-28/Letters on Yoga-I/p-479

The Mother's Virgin Fortress

The Agenda of The Mother’s Virgin Fortress

“Assailed, surprised in the fortress of her self,

Conquered by her own unexpected king (the Divine),” Savitri-87

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"Apotheosised, transfigured by wisdom’s touch,

Her days became a luminous sacrifice;

An immortal moth in happy and endless fire,

She burned in his sweet intolerable blaze.

A captive Life wedded her conqueror (Supreme Lord)." Savitri-125

“As a fortress for his (man of ignorance) undefended heart,” Savitri-145

“Within we have found the kingdom here of God,

His fortress built in a loud ignorant world.” Savitri-531

Moderate Spirituality:

Spirituality of Renunciation:

Spirituality of Consecration:

High Spirituality:

The Divine’s Call:

“Only a few responded to her call:

Still fewer felt the screened divinity,” Savitri-362

“Then kindling the gold tongue of sacrifice,

Calling the powers of a bright hemisphere,

We shall shed the discredit of our mortal state,” Savitri-171

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On life’s road, the conscious Soul can recognise its answering Soul of a 'predestined face' across the dividing time. The Lovers met upon their different paths by traveling across limitless plains of Time.

“The guardian of the fire that lights the suns,” Savitri-179

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“Equalled with the godheads of the living Suns,” Savitri-216

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“Around him was a light of conscious suns” Savitri-234

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“On an earth which looked towards thousand suns,” Savitri-268

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“Ablaze the triple heavens revealed their suns,” Savitri-300

“The Sun from which we kindle all our suns.” Savitri-314

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“A wanderer from the occult invisible suns” Savitri-348

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“Above them blazed eternity’s mystic suns.” Savitri-381

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“Below him circling burned the myriad suns:” Savitri-415

“Mind the thought-driven chariot of the soul

Carrying the luminous wanderer in the night

To vistas of a far unending dawn

To the end of the Spirit’s fathomless desire,

To its dream of absolute truth and utter bliss.” Savitri-704

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“Across which mind can step towards the sun.” Savitri-245

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“Shrank into themselves as from too bright a sun” Savitri-365

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“The people of the gulfs despised the sun.” Savitri-216

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“Our mind’s unquiet search asks always light,” Savitri-153

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“Ill-lit from clouds by the pale moon of Mind,

Or in devious byways wandering alone,

Or lost in deserts where no path is seen,” Savitri-224

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“Where mind like a moon illumines the world’s dark.” Savitri-71

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Inner Wandering of the Soul:

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“As so he (King Aswapati) grew into his larger self, (Universal Self)

Humanity framed his movements less and less (outer wandering reduces with the realization of cosmic Self)

A greater being saw a greater world.” Savitri-26

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“His being lay down in bright immobile peace

And bathed in wells of pure spiritual light;

It wandered in the wide fields of wisdom-self

Lit by the rays of an everlasting sun.” Savitri-43

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“No wandering ray of Heaven can enter there (Inconscient Sheath).” Savitri-226

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“Love passes through his heart, a wandering guest.” Savitri-340

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“A wanderer from the occult invisible suns” Savitri-348

“A wanderer communing with depth and marge.” Savitri-393

“Now of more wandering it has no need.” Savitri-412

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