Ry Deshpande

The Secret Knowledge Ry Deshpande

"On a height he stood that looked at greater heights,"-this is the opening line of Section One, Canto Four, The Secret Knowledge, Book One, The Book of Beginnings of Savitri. We shall take this Canto Section-by-Section (Eight Sections) and try to study it in some quick detail in the context of the Yoga-Tapasy? of Aswapati that led him to the discovery of the cosmic working, a necessary step in his integral pursuit of the possibility of a divine manifestation upon earth. He gets the secret knowledge and steps into the world of the vast Spirit, into the worlds of the vast Spirit, becoming aware of its freedom and knowing its greatnesses. These soon become measures of his core yogic realisations, enabling him to enter into the sunbelts of knowledge and moonbelts of delight, all in widenesses of the belts of truth and consciousness and joy. A voyager launching upon unchartered routes, fronting the hazards of the unexpected and the unknown, he adventures into the countless realms of the cosmic extension, discovering space after space, realm after realm, in the richness of each domain, and moving in the thousand movements of time that endlessly unfolds the rhythms of realisation, realisation after realisation. Such is the preparation which makes possible for Aswapati to grasp in his strong yogic will the essence of this creation, of this mortal world. It is with that kind of preparation he could look into the issues haunting it, of mortality, mortality which indeed must disclose the immortal spirit on which it is founded, its powers and functionings getting objectified in it.