Ananke

Two mentions:

Ananke, the symbol of a binding and inevitable necessity or fate, is not personified in the oldest Greek authors, Homer and Hesiod. This character appears with the tragedies (by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides) and especially in the Orphic literature.

In Savitri, the two verses referring to Ananke seem contradictory but in fact indicate a progression. In Book 2, it is the elemental energies that govern our lives and are the instruments of a divine force – Ananke – organising what we call chance because we do not see the causes.

In Book 7, Sri Aurobindo indicates the possibility for man to reverse this pattern and become the master of his being on all planes, to acquire the powers that govern these planes, and thus become the absolute master of his destiny.