<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411763" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aurobindo 149 Savitri Book 10</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An appreciation on Savitri-<br>Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight<br>Canto Three - The Debate of Love and Death<br>Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Even so men cheat the Truth with splendid thoughts.<br>Thus wilt thou hire the glorious charlatan, Mind, <br>To weave from his Ideal's gossamer air<br>A fine raiment for thy body's nude desires<br>And thy heart's clutching greedy passion clothe? <br>Daub not the web of life with magic hues: '<br>A charlatan even in Savitri's era? unbelievable<br>O'Death, had in mind this our kind even then? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thy words are large murmurs in a mystic dream.<br>For how in the soiled heart of man could dwell<br>The immaculate grandeur of thy dream-built God, '<br>'O human face, put off mind-painted masks: '<br>'Accept thy futile birth, thy narrow life.<br>For truth is bare like stone and hard like death; <br>Bare in the bareness, hard with truth's hardness live.'<br>'But Savitri replied to the dire God: '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yes, my humanity is a mask of God: <br>He dwells in me, the mover of my acts, <br>Turning the great wheel of his cosmic work.'<br>'I am the thinking instrument of his power, <br>I incarnate Wisdom in an earthly breast, <br>I am his conquering and unslayable will.<br>The formless Spirit drew in me its shape; <br>In me are the Nameless and the secret Name.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seemingly strenuous and challenging continual<br>The debate of Love and Death along the dark<br>Yet a pleasant stress for the presaged victory<br>Their war of words battled fiery in spirited field<br>For Savitri to light her soul in Satyavan<br>'Death from the incredulous Darkness sent its cry: '..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">............My consciousness this moment, <br>O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights<br>Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation<br>My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine<br>May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise<br>Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Indira+Renganathan">Indira Renganathan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411763" data-title="Aurobindo 149 Savitri Book 10 de Indira Renganathan" data-description="An appreciation on Savitri- Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight Canto Three - The Debate of Love and Death Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Even so men cheat the Truth with splendid thoughts. Thus wilt thou hire the glorious ch..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black