To a space she came of soft and delicate air

The "destined spot and hour", however, draw close. Naught happens but has its time and setting in the preordained cosmic play. Savitri now approaches a region,

              

      .. .of soft and delicate air

      That seemed a sanctuary of youth and joy,

      A highland world of free and green delight

      Where spring and summer lay together and strove

      In indolent and amicable debate,

      Inarmed, disputing with laughter who should rule.¹⁷⁹

Sri Aurobindo's description of the 'other Eden', this 'demi-Paradise', recalls Milton's description of Paradise before the Fall. Man, bird and beast are at peace with themselves and with circumambient Nature. Sri Aurobindo's fancy takes wings and snaps a scene of almost other-world felicity:

      Pale waters ran like glimmering threads of pearl.

      A sigh was straying among happy leaves;

      Cool-perfumed with slow pleasure-burdened feet

      Faint stumbling breezes faltered among flowers.

      The white crane stood, a vivid motionless streak,

      Peacock and parrot jeweled soil and tree,

      The dove's soft moan enriched the enamoured air

      And fire-winged wild-drakes swam in silvery pools.

      Earth couched alone with her great lover Heaven,

      Uncovered to her consort's azure eye...¹⁸⁰

A space sanctified, a meeting-place of earth and heaven, a home for the profession of love and beauty, a primeval realm for the reign of peace, a retreat for solitude and fresh creation,

      This was the scene which the ambiguous Mother

      Had chosen for her brief felicitous hour;...¹⁸¹

Here love will confront Savitri, and her quest—so long pursued and so often renewed—will end in the glory of the recognition and acceptance of love. 

(“Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A study of the cosmic epic”, Dr. Premanandakumar, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry)