Savitri Is But The Life Divine In Poetry Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Savitri is not poetical Savitri,
But The Life Divine in poetry
Disturbing with his Miltonic parodies,
Latinized diction and Sanskritic base
Of Vedanto-Upanishadism.

Savitri is not Savitri
But the rishi's love for a celestial damsel,
Victory over kaam-vasana,
Infatuation and temptation,
The charm of celibacy materializing,
Culminating in Satyavan's marriage with Savitri.

In the character of Savitri,
The picture of the mother hangs heavily upon,
The French mother
Of the Pondicherry ashrama,
The favourite shisya of Aurobindo
And she an ashramite
In rudraksha rosary.

In Savitri the echoes of Paradise Lost
Can be heard
And reverberates it
The fall and temptation of man
To some extent,
A text so prosaic and classical,
But in poetry.