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Satyavan-Savitri story from Vana Parva of Mahabharata continued…………………
Savitri
Near my husband no place can be too far.
Human beings do not trust even themselves as they trust the saints; it is from love trust arises and because the saints have love for all, people have trust in them.
Yama
Blessed one! What you have said that I have not heard before except from you. It gives me great satisfaction. excepting the life of Satyavan, ask for a fourth boon and go back.
Savitri
May I with Satyavan have hundred sons, who brave and courageous, will continue our family line. This is the fourth boon I seek from you, Lord of Death.
And the Lord of Death granted that wish of Savitri as well. You will have hundred sons, who brave and courageous, who will enhance your happiness. Now go back, he said to her.
Savitri
With the power of truth, the saints keep sun on its course and sustain the earth. It is from the saints that the present, the past and the future derive their support, being with the saintly, people do not suffer.
Given to the good of the others, selflessly, the saints do not look upon each other with narrow concerns of the self.
The blessings of the saints never in vain. Nobody feels reduced by the saints, nor anybody’s self-interest suffer. In the nearness of the saints the three get united: blessings, self-esteem and the self-interest. the saints are thus protectors of the world.
Yama
The more you speak, and say in words most elegant, the things that I have deep meaning and are agreeable to mind and heart, the greater grows my feelings of bhakti for you. Ask from me, some exceptional boon.
Savitri
You have bestowed upon me the boon of having a hundred sons of my own that cannot come true without my union with my husband, whose life you are taking away. Therefore, I seek from you this last boon that Satyavan restored to life, for without him I am like dead. Without my husband, I have no desire for the prosperities of the world, nor any desire for any heavenly existence. Without him I do not even with to live.
Saying THATHAASTU (that shall be so) Yama released from the cord of mortality.
The Mahabharata shows how one’s pain is because of the pain of the other; Satyavan’s pain at the pain of anxiety of his father and mother and Savitri’s pain for both. To reassure Satyavan wiping his tears, she spoke to him thus:
Savitri
If I have ever done Tapasya (penance) in its true discipline, then may this night be blessed both for my mother-in-law and father-in-law and blessed for my husband.
They reached home from the dark forest as fast as they could.
All the seers from nearby Ashramas including Suvarcha, Gautama, Bharadwaj, Dhalbha, Ghaumya praised Savitri’s victory over Yama.
—subham—
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