Nirvana And The Discovery Of The Canto Analysis

“Nirvana and the Discovery of all Negating Absolute”, is the next Canto which has a self-explanatory title. The term ‘Nirvana’ means the individual seeker’s eternal rest in the highest non-existence. By and large, the term is used for liberation, though yet upon the earth passing into an, unspeakable peace and calmness. In other words, Jivanmukti ‘freedom from the vicious cycle of birth and rebirth’, Savitri experiences the Nirvana state and undergoes the different nature. It is to find out the transformation with the process of complete union with the Absolute, within. As in the previous Canto, Savitri undergoes the peak experience of meeting with her soul. The joy of the discovery of the soul vouchsafes unity and immortality of being, expresses
This is as good as her meeting the supreme divine mother, of whom Savitri is a delegate here on earth. As Savitri’s individual soul shows projection of the divine mother, it elevates her and makes her an avatar ‘incarnation’. Savitri has the total experience of the Gnostic godhead in her innermost being. She returns to her surface consciousness to experience the tremendous transformation of her inner being, in which she feels steeped. Such is the happy outcome of her awakened state that with a cry of victory she exults, “O soul, my soul, we have created Heaven, /Within we have found the kingdom here of God” (Savitri 7.5.318-19). As in Keats’s “Ode to Autumn”, Nature attains her maturity by becoming one with the “close bosom-friend of the maturing sun” (2), Savitri’s conjugal bliss, before the turning of the year, reaches its peak. A sense of permanency takes over in her relationship with Satyavan, which the Nature replicates. Realization in yoga is not confined to the personal self. True realization has a cosmic bearing. This truth the Kalidasian description of Nature abundantly
Although her kingdom of marvellous change within
Remained unspoken in her secret breast,
All that lived round her felt its magic’s charm. (Savitri 7.6.11-15)
Having ‘found herself’, Savitri has now achieved a total transformation of her inmost being. Her nature seems to recognize and respond to all in many ways: “The trees rustling voices told it to the winds” (7.6.15). What Wordsworth says, “The winds that will be howling at all hours, /And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers” (“The World is too Much with Us” 6-7); the light and the bliss that radiates, enfolds and encompasses all objects and all motions and all moving things around her. The earth takes on a new hue and a new shape of complete change:
Absorbed in wide communion with the