Aurobindo 53 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Eleven: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'To all that Spirit conceives they give a mould;
Persuading Nature into visible moods
They lend a finite shape to infinite things.'
'The All-containing was contained in form,
Oneness was carved into units measurable,
The limitless built into a cosmic sum: '
Here I have a doubt or say a plea Guru
The shaped up finite, isn't it for the social oneness too
'Above stood ranked a subtle archangel race
With larger lids and looks that searched the unseen.'
'Arranging symbol and significance'
'They framed the cabbala of the cosmic Law, '
'The psycho-analysis of cosmic Self
Was traced, its secrets hunted down, and read
The unknown pathology of the Unique.'
A helping technique perhaps of the cosmos...
'Out of the chaos of the Invisible's moods
Derived the calculus of Destiny.
In its bright pride of universal lore
Mind's knowledge overtopped the Omniscient's power: '
Wonderful defining narration on destiny....
'In the wide sequence of Necessity's steps
Predicted, every act and thought of God, ..'
'The mighty Mother's whims..'were chained to a cause and aim; '
'Nothing was left untold, incalculable.
Yet was their wisdom circled with a nought:
Truths they could find and hold but not the one Truth:
The Highest was to them unknowable.
By knowing too much they missed the whole to be known: '
The big zero theory, yet to be sought...I agree
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 123 Savitri Book 7
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Seven: The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit
and the Cosmic Consciousness
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'In its might of irresponsible sovereignty
It seized on speech to give those flamings shape,
Made beat the heart of wisdom in a word
And spoke immortal things through mortal lips.'
'A thought came through draped as an outer voice.'
'It came direct to the pure perception's seat,
An only centre now of consciousness,
If centre could be where all seemed only space; '
'In her the Unseen, the Unknown waited his hour.'
But now she sat by sleeping Satyavan,
Awake within, and the enormous Night
Surrounded her with the Unknowable's vast.
A voice began to speak from her own heart
That was not hers, yet mastered thought and sense.
As it spoke all changed within her and without;
All was, all lived; she felt all being one; '
'She passed beyond Time into eternity,
Slipped out of space and became the Infinite;
Her being rose into unreachable heights
And found no end of its journey in the Self.'
'Her mind became familiar with its mind,
Its body was her body's larger frame
In which she lived and knew herself in it
One, multitudinous in its multitudes.'
She challenged herself towards the divine goal
Captured it to live divine by supra mental practice
A journey detached victoriously from Matter-bond
Inwardly breaking all hindrance cosmic, universal
Atlast to the abode of the Absolute in oneness
Savitri is exemplary for human beings to follow....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
End of Canto Seven
End of Book Seven
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Aurobindo 41-Savitri-Book -2
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Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto VI The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Being felt being even when afar
And consciousness replied to consciousness.
And yet the ultimate oneness was not there.
There was a separateness of soul from soul: '
'All was imperfect still, half-known, half-done: '
'As forms they came of the formless Infinite,
As names lived of a nameless Eternity.'
Inseparable oneness, aham brahmmasmi yet to be..is that Guru
'A riddling answer met the riddle of things.'
'As he moved in this ether of ambiguous life,
Himself was soon a riddle to himself; '
A thousand baffling faces of the Truth
Looked at him from her forms with unknown eyes..'
'Embodied was there what we but think and feel,
Self-framed what here takes outward borrowed shapes.'
Now doubtful all, even the primordial He and She..
'Life's secret sense is written within, above.'
'The thought that gives it sense lives far beyond; '
'It is not seen in its half-finished design.
In vain we hope to read the baffling signs
Or find the word of the half-played charade.'
'Only in that greater life a cryptic thought
Is found, is hinted some interpreting word
That makes the earth-myth a tale intelligible.'
'Here is the gap, here stops or sinks life's force; '
'This greater life wavers twixt earth and sky.'
'Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk: '
'nothing has been achieved of infinite worth: '
'A greatness yet unreached by the halting world.'
A greatness yet to be in oneness with the only Absolute...
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 108 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Four: The Triple Soul-Forces
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Man only sees the cosmic surfaces.
Then wondering what may lie hid from the sense
A little way he delves to depths below:
But soon he stops, he cannot reach life's core
Or commune with the throbbing heart of things.'
'He has the blind man's subtle unerring touch
Or the slow traveller's sight of distant scenes; '
'The soul's revealing contacts are not his.'
'But only reason and sense he feels as sure,
They only are his trusted witnesses.'
'His knowledge scans bright pebbles on the shore
Of the huge ocean of his ignorance.'
'Yet grandiose were the accents of that cry,
A cosmic pathos trembled in its tone.'
'I am the mind of God's great ignorant world Line 536 to
This wizard gods may dream, not thinking men.'Line 624..
His all capability of exploring and discovering
Man's self defining in Thou superb words..
'Only what end he serves I know not yet
Or if there is aim at all or any end
Or push of rich creative purposeful joy
In the wide works of the terrestrial power.'
His incapability of knowing the ends
Inbetween where he is..Thou words, Thee exemplify
'And Savitri heard the voice, the warped answer heard'
'Thou art a portion of my self put forth
To raise the spirit to its forgotten heights
And wake the soul by touches of the heavens.'
'One day I will return, His hand in mine, '
'There shall be light and peace in all the worlds.'
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
End of Canto Four
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Aurobindo-10-Savitri-Book -1
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Book I The Book of Beginnings-
canto-4-The Secret Knowledge
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'All here where each thing seems its lonely self
Are figures of the sole transcendent One'..
Yes, on whose breathing pace we breathe to tread
Whose 'unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.'
'A playmate in the mighty Mother's game..'
'A secret spirit in the Inconscient's sleep,
A shapeless Energy, a voiceless Word'
And 'Accomplice of' Mother's' cosmic huge pretence'
'His semblances he turns to real shapes'
'He gives to his timeless thoughts a form in Time.
He is the substance, he the self of things'
He is all in all finites as infinite
'She has forged from him her works of skill and might:
She wraps him in the magic of her moods
And makes of his myriad truths her countless dreams'
Her secret knowledge such in Her secret vast of Him
'Ever he repeats in them his ceaseless births.'
The 'maker and the world', the 'vision and the seer'
'The actor and the act', the 'knower and the known'
The 'dreamer and the dream' all Him and Him alone
His secret magic such in Her secret vast of Him
'Knowledge and Ignorance', 'light and darkness'
'pleasure and pain', 'wrestle and embrace, 'deeds, hopes'
All in their secret play is the secret of our lives
'Although possessor of the earth and heavens,
He leaves to her the cosmic management
And watches all, the Witness of her scene'
'He makes the hours pivot around her will,
Makes all reflect her whims; all is their play:
This whole wide world is only he and she.'..
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 51 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Ten: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'A sovereign worker through the centuries
Observing and remoulding all that is,
Confident she took up her stupendous charge.'
'A rigorous stare in her creative eyes
Coercing the plastic stuff of cosmic Mind, ..'
'For the world seen she weaves a world conceived: '
'This art, this artifice are her only stock.'
A mighty Goddess for our privilege to doubt alone..
'In her high works of pure intelligence, ..'
'There dawns no light of heavenly certitude.'
'A million faces wears her knowledge here
And every face is turbaned with a doubt.'
'An inconclusive play is Reason's toil.
Each strong idea can use her as its tool; '
'Absolute her judgments seem but none is sure; '
Our uncertainty is Her indefinite certitude I guess..
'An aided sense is her seeking's arbiter.
This now she uses as the assayer's stone.'
'As if she knew not facts are husks of truth,
The husks she keeps, the kernel throws aside.'
This pretext of hers is our illusion...
'Only she seeks mechanic Nature's keys.'
'A lifeless Energy irresistibly driven, '
'Then wonders why all was and whence it came.'
'The little Mind is tied to little things: '
'The Truth is known only when all is seen.'
'A fire shall come out of the infinitudes, ..'
'A timeless knowledge it shall bring to Mind,
Its aim to life, to Ignorance its close.'
'A power to uplift the laggard world, '....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 58 Savitri Book 3
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Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto One: The Pursuit of the Unknowable
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
' All is too little that the world can give:
Its power and knowledge are the gifts of Time
And cannot fill the spirit's sacred thirst.'
'The labour to know seemed a vain strife of Mind; '
'A trivial achievement scorned by Time,
All power retired into the Omnipotent.'
'A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light.
A silence settled on his striving heart; '
'Always a signless vague Immensity
Brooded, without approach, beyond response,
Condemning finite things to nothingness,
Fronting him with the incommensurable.'
'On a dizzy verge where all disguises fail'
'He stood compelled to a tremendous choice.'
Again and again it's a 'vain strife'and why..?
His supramacy is unknowable, unconquerable..
'In an abysmal lapse of all things built
Transcending every perishable support
And joining at last its mighty origin,
The separate self must melt or be reborn
Into a Truth beyond the mind's appeal.'
'A Vastness brooded free from sense of Space,
An Everlastingness cut off from Time; '
And 'Truth' was and 's been a continuous mystery...
'A pure existence safe from thought and mood,
A consciousness of unshared immortal bliss,
It dwelt aloof in its bare infinite,
One and unique, unutterably sole.'
'A silent Cause occult, impenetrable, -
Infinite, eternal, unthinkable, alone.....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 52 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Eleven: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'For Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,
It is greater than its earthly instrument: '
'Origin of the little that we are,
Instinct with the endless more that we must be,
A prop of all that human strength enacts, ..'
'In its vast ambit of ideal Space..'
'The Spirit's truths take form as living Gods
And each can build a world in its own right.'
'We move by the rapid impulse of a will
That scorns the tardy trudge of mortal time.'
'These promptings come not from an alien sphere:
Ourselves are citizens of that mother State,
Adventurers, we have colonised Matter's night.'...
I can not speak on each line for I'm speechless
Like now on '...colonised Matter's night'
'Amidst earth's mist and fog and mud and stone'
'Where Knowledge is the leader of the act
And Matter is of thinking substance made,
Feeling, a heaven-bird poised on dreaming wings,
Answers Truth's call as to a parent's voice, ..'
'There runs in its flow honeying the bosom of Space'
'And the breath of an unseen Infinity.'
'Far-off he saw the joining hemispheres.'
I wish for the possibility for everyone....
'But though immortal, mighty and divine,
The first realms were close and kin to human mind; '
'Their deities shape our greater thinking's roads, '
Which 'were not too broad', ' not too high for human hope.'
' But wide the terrains were those levels serve.'
Ceasless thinking so high and wide, we grow accordingly....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 122 Savitri Book 7
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Seven: The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit
and the Cosmic Consciousness
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'In the little hermitage in the forest's heart,
In the sunlight and the moonlight and the dark
The daily human life went plodding on
Even as before with its small unchanging works
And its spare outward body of routine
And happy quiet of ascetic peace.
The old beauty smiled of the terrestrial scene;
She too was her old gracious self to men.'
'Accustomed only to read outward signs
None saw aught new in her, none divined her state; '
'To all she was the same perfect Savitri: '
'An impersonal emptiness walked and spoke in her,
Something perhaps unfelt, unseen, unknown
Guarded the body for its future work,
Or Nature moved in her old stream of force.'
A preparatory mind alert inside...
'Thus was she lost within to separate self;
Her mortal ego perished in God's night.'
'There was some high surpassing Secrecy,
And when she sat alone with Satyavan,
Her moveless mind with his that searched and strove,
In the hush of the profound and intimate night
She turned to the face of a veiled voiceless Truth
Hid in the dumb recesses of the heart
'Something unknown, unreached, inscrutable
Sent down the messages of its bodiless Light,
Cast lightning flashes of a thought not ours
Crossing the immobile silence of her mind: '
If it is not the told mythology
'What's next? ' is my curiosity.........
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 119 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Six: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'For the Eternal's powers are like himself,
Timeless in the Timeless, in Time ever born.'
'This too she saw that all in outer mind
Is made, not born, a product perishable,
Forged in the body's factory by earth-force.
This mind is a dynamic small machine
Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out,
With raw material drawn from the outside world, '
'When least defaced, then is it most divine.
Although his ego claims the world for its use,
Man is a dynamo for the cosmic work;
Nature does most in him, God the high rest: '
'This independent, once a power supreme,
Self-born before the universe was made,
Accepting cosmos, binds himself Nature's serf
Till he becomes her freedman-or God's slave.'
'This is the appearance in our mortal front;
Our greater truth of being lies behind:
Our consciousness is cosmic and immense,
'But only when we break through Matter's wall
In that spiritual vastness can we stand
Where we can live the masters of our world
And mind is only a means and body a tool.'
How intense we should be to break through Matter's wall..!
'Our spirit's truth lives in the naked self
And from that height, unbound, surveys the world.
Out of the mind she rose to escape its law'
'High she attained and stood from Nature free'
'All now was a wide mighty vacancy, '
'For still was far the repose of the Absolute'.....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 57 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Fifteen: The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'After a measureless moment of the soul
Again returning to these surface fields
Out of the timeless depths where he had sunk,
He heard once more the slow tread of the hours.
All once perceived and lived was far away;
Himself was to himself his only scene.'
'He dwelt in his self's colourless purity.'
A silence in silent purity in deep divinity...
'Out of the neutral silence of his soul
He passed to its fields of puissance and of calm'
'Traversed the realms of the supreme Idea
And sought the summit of created things
And the almighty source of cosmic change.'
'There Knowledge called him to her mystic peaks'
'And vision climbs beyond the reach of Time.'
Indeed a travel through the mystic supra-mental bliss...
'Delivered from the fictions of the mind
Time's triple dividing step baffled no more; '
'All but the ultimate Mystery was his field,
Almost the Unknowable disclosed its rim.
His self's infinities began to emerge,
The hidden universes cried to him; '
'He came new-born, infant and limitless
And grew in the wisdom of the timeless Child; '
And one step up this little child of little life..
A childish toddler wishing to walk on cosmic ocean..
Widened my eyes efforting to widen an inlook
To vision Thine greater steps of supra-mental trance
But in vain this un-yogic mind; yet desirous heart
Pulsating memorizing 'forget the Matter, remember the Soul'...
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
Ebd Of Book Two
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Aurobindo 49 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Ten: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Out of its rays our mind's full orb was born.'
'Proton and photon served the imager Eye
To change things subtle into a physical world
And the invisible appeared as shape
And the impalpable was felt as mass:
'Magic of percept joined with concept's art
And lent to each object an interpreting name: '
A way, identification-dilemma man got rid of...
'Still Knowledge could not come and firmly grasp
This huge invention seen as a universe.'
'None the true body found, its soul seemed dead:
None had the inner look which sees Truth's whole;
All glorified the glittering substitute.'
Here knowledge is to earn for the livelihood, the bond
Prime born is Matter's soul to thrive on this mud
And by what chance a sample me can be unfettered....
'Then from the secret heights a wave swept down,
A brilliant chaos of rebel light arose;
It looked above and saw the dazzling peaks,
It looked within and woke the sleeping god.'
'Its subtle craft withheld the full-orbed blaze,
Cherished the soul's childhood and on fictions fed'
'Thus streamed down from the realm of early Light
Ethereal thinkings into Matter's world; '
'In those bright realms are Mind's first forward steps.'
'Ignorant of all but eager to know all,
Its curious slow enquiry there begins; '
'All was a chaos of the true and false,
Mind sought amid deep mists of Nescience;
It looked within itself but saw not God.'...
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 28-Savitri-Book -2
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Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto V The Godheads of the Little Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Luring to failure and meaningless success,
All models they corrupt, all measures cheat,
Make knowledge a poison, virtue a pattern dull
And lead the endless cycles of desire
Through semblances of sad or happy chance
To an inescapable fatality.'...
Whole gist of present life sparkles here
And the concealed betterment still awaited out
'A structure of unseeing thoughts is built
And reason used by an irrational Force.
This earth is not alone our teacher and nurse;
The powers of all the worlds have entrance here'..
'Into a creative chaos they are cast
Where all asks order but is driven by Chance; '
'But never can we know and truly live
Till all have found their divine harmony.'
'But now the Light supreme is far away: '
'This is our doom until our souls are free.
A mighty Hand then rolls mind's firmaments back,
Infinity takes up the finite's acts
And Nature steps into the eternal Light.
Then only ends this dream of nether life.'
'all here his action and his will.'
Truth is bonnie, aesthetic in Thine verbiage
'In this whirl and sprawl through infinite vacancy
The Spirit became Matter and lay in the whirl,
A body sleeping without sense or soul.'
'Still consciousness was hidden in Nature's womb,
Unfelt was the Bliss whose rapture dreamed the worlds.
Being was an inert substance driven by Force.'....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 48 Savitri Book 2
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Ten: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'This too must now be overpassed and left,
As all must be until the Highest is gained
In whom the world and self grow true and one:
Till That is reached our journeying cannot cease.'
'This breath of hundred-hued felicity'
'Its endless time-made world outfacing Time,
A little output of God's vast delight.'
Oh, really wonder at the possibility on the Vast Delight...
'A musing spirit looked out on the worlds'
'Passing through clarity to an unseen Light
Large lucent realms of Mind from stillness shone.'
'But first he met a silver-grey expanse'..
'A coalition of uncertainties
There exercised uneasy government'..
'A rendezvous of Knowledge with Ignorance.'
What an important suitability of words..none can deny..
'A mind that hardly saw and slowly found; '
'..looks from soil to sky and sky to soil
But knows not the below nor the beyond, '
'Here are devised the forms of an ignorant life'
'The slow process of a material mind
Which serves the body it should rule and use
And needs to lean upon an erring sense,
Was born in that luminous obscurity.'
'It reasons from the half-known to the unknown, '
'Ever undoing the web that it has spun.'
'At the glow-worm top of these pale glimmer-realms'
'Escaping over a wide and shimmering bridge,
He came into a realm of early Light
'And the regency of a half-risen sun.'...
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 177 Savitri Book 11
'I have felt a secret spirit stir in things
Carrying the body of the growing God:
It looks through veiling forms at veilless truth;
It pushes back the curtain of the gods;
It climbs towards its own eternity.'
'But the god answered to the woman's heart:
'O living power of the incarnate Word, Line 802 to
Choose destiny's curve and stamp thy will on Time.'Line858
'In the impetuous drive of thy heart of flame,
In thy passion to deliver man and earth,
Indignant at the impediments of Time
And the slow evolution's sluggard steps,
Lead not the spirit in an ignorant world
To dare too soon the adventure of the Light,
Pushing the bound and slumbering god in man
Awakened mid the ineffable silences'
'But if thou wilt not wait for Time and God,
Do then thy work and force thy will on Fate.'
Savitri was patient enough to pass in her venture
'As I have taken from thee my load of night
And taken from thee my twilight's doubts and dreams,
So now I take my light of utter Day.'
'These are my symbol kingdoms but not here'
Savitri has to up further for her goal...
'Can the great choice be made that fixes fate
Or uttered the sanction of the Voice supreme.
Arise upon a ladder of greater worlds
To the infinity where no world can be.'
Can there be any His touch without world?
Hurry up high o'Savitri if you say yes....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
(An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Eleven: The Book of Everlasting Day
Canto One: The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice
and the Supreme Consummation
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's)
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Aurobindo 37-Savitri-Book -2
An appreciation on Savitri
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto VI The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'The Will that pushes sense beyond its scope
To feel the light and joy intangible,
Half found its way into the Ineffable's peace,
Half captured a sealed sweetness of desire
That yearned from a bosom of mysterious Bliss,
Half manifested veiled Reality.'
'Beyond its scope'..'half found its way'
None can deny these words on practicality
' This realm inspires us with our vaster hopes;
Its forces have made landings on our globe,
Its signs have traced their pattern in our lives: '
'An Energy of perpetual transience makes
The journey from which no return is sure,
The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown.'
A wholesome description..'pilgrimage of nature'
I bow to your true spiritual diction Guru..
'Her high procession moves from stage to stage, ..
A progress leap from sight to greater sight,
A process march from form to ampler form,
A caravan of the inexhaustible
Formations of a boundless Thought and Force.'
'The Immobile leans to the magic of her call; '
Atlast, wins on spirit footed spmewhat
In the narrow streaks of the illimitable..
'This is her secret and impossible task
To catch the boundless in a net of birth,
To cast the spirit into physical form,
To lend speech and thought to the Ineffable;
She is pushed to reveal the ever Unmanifest.
Yet by her skill the impossible has been done: '...
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo-22-Savitri-Book -2
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto III The Glory and the Fall of Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'There were realms where Knowledge joined creative Power
In her high home and made her all his own: '
'She gave to mind's calm pace the motor's speed,
To thinking a need to live what the soul saw,
To living an impetus to know and see.
His splendour grasped her, her puissance to him clung; '
That beauty of wisdom entangling her He
His wisdom of beauty in her ilk shaped up...
'A flaming thunder, a creator flash,
His victor Light rode on her deathless Force;
A centaur's mighty gallop bore the god.'
Proud should be of Hayagreeva or wisdom-God
Bharat borne upon a mighty spirit
'Life throned with mind, a double majesty.'
'Life was an eternity of rapture's moods:
All applicable to a 'was' only....isn't it...
'Ideas were luminous comrades of the soul;
Mind played with speech, cast javelins of thought,
But needed not these instruments' toil to know;
Knowledge was Nature's pastime like the rest.'
Otherwise 'creation and destruction'was its routine..
'Investitured with the fresh heart's bright ray,
An early God-instinct's child inheritors, '
'steeped existence in their youth of soul.'
'There freedom was sole rule and highest law.'
'In fields of grandeur and of titan power,
Life played at ease with her immense desires.'
But'A dire duality is our way to be.'
So'Man dared and thought and met with his soul the world.'
Atlast'A dim and dreadful muteness fell on' Earth...
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 62 Savitri Book 3
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto III: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Overpowered were form and memory's limiting line;
The covering mind was seized and torn apart; '
'The one Consciousness that made the world was seen; '
'All now was luminosity and force.'
'The separate being could no more be felt; '
'Transcended was the human formula; '
'His seeking mind ceased in the Truth that knows; '
'Sense failed in that tremendous lucency; '
'The last movement died and all at once grew still.'
'A weight that was the unseen Transcendent's hand
Laid on his limbs the Spirit's measureless seal,
Infinity swallowed him into shoreless trance.'
'There is the stable force of all that moves; '
And that's the solatium spirit's all endeavour rests
'There only reigns the spirit's motionless power
Poised in itself through still eternity'
'A universal Force awaited, mute,
The veiled Transcendent's ultimate decree.
Then suddenly there came a downward look.'
'A Bliss, a Light, a Power, a flame-white Love
'Caught all into a sole immense embrace;
Existence found its truth on Oneness' breast
And each became the self and space of all.'
Bliss is that not to interrupt any word here....
'The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul,
To feel was a flame-discovery of God,
All mind was a single harp of many strings,
All life a song of many meeting lives;
For worlds were many, but the Self was one.
This knowledge now was made a cosmos' seed: '.....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 97 Savitri Book 7
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Two: The Parable of the Search for the Soul
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Then Savitri by her doomed husband sat, '
'Impassive mid the movement and the cry,
Witness of the thoughts of mind, the moods of life,
She looked into herself and sought for her soul.'
A dream disclosed to her the cosmic past,
The shadowy beginnings of world-fate:
A lamp of symbol lighting hidden truth
Imaged to her the world's significance.'
'A consciousness looked at the inconscient Vast
And pleasure and pain stirred in the insensible Void.
All was the deed of a blind World-Energy:
Unconscious of her own exploits she worked,
Shaping a universe out of the Inane.
In fragmentary beings she grew aware: '
'In fragmentary beings' like Savitri
Wish even we grow aware...
'A conscious soul in the Inconscient's world,
'Hidden behind our thoughts and hopes and dreams,
An indifferent Master signing Nature's acts
Leaves the vicegerent mind a seeming king.'
This is the little surface of man's life.
He is this and he is all the universe; '
'But all is there, even God's opposites; '
'A thinking outline of a cryptic Force.'
'Inferno surges into the human air
And touches all with a perverting breath.'
'He is bound and forced, a victim of the play,
Or, allured, joys in the mad and mighty din.
'Once quelled or wearing specious names and vests
Infernal elements, demon powers are there.'.......
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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Aurobindo 90 Savitri Book 6
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Six: The Book of Fate
Canto One: The Word of Fate
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Then cried the sage piercing the mother's heart,
Forcing to steel the will of Savitri,
His words set free the spring of cosmic Fate.'
''The truth thou hast claimed; I give to thee the truth.'Line 531 to
'This day returning Satyavan must die.'Line 588
Fate of Satyavan revealed...
But the queen cried: 'Vain then can be heaven's grace! Line 590 to
A choice less rare may call a happier fate.'Line 608
'But Savitri answered from her violent heart, -
'Once my heart chose and chooses not again...
....I am stronger than death and greater than my fate;
My love shall outlast the world, doom falls from me
Helpless against my immortality.
Fate's law may change, but not my spirit's will.'
How determined the words here like Savitri
How determined was Savitri that we still wonder at...
'But in the queen's mind listening her words
Rang like the voice of a self-chosen Doom
Denying every issue of escape.'
'O child, in the magnificence of thy soul..Line 638 to
It greatens slowly into timeless peace.'Line 717
A mother's exemplary advice in Thou colourful words
A mother's caring plea in Thou poetic deliverance...
'But Savitri replied with steadfast eyes: '
'My will is part of the eternal Will, Line 719 to
I have seen the Eternal in a human face.'Line 755
What else could a true love ever be than immortal
And not 'Only to live and love awhile and die.'
'Then none could answer to her words. Silent
They sat and looked into the eyes of Fate.'.........
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
End of Canto One
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Aurobindo 33-Savitri-Book -2
An appreciation on Savitri
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto V The Godheads of the Little Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Trivial amusements stimulate and waste
The energy given to him to grow and be.
His little hour is spent in little things.'
Lacking is realisation in unrealised life-feigning..
'If something great awakes, too frail his pitch
To reveal its zenith tension of delight,
His thought to eternise its ephemeral soar,
Art's brilliant gleam is a pastime for his eyes, '..
'His motion on too short an axis wheels; '
'Hardly a few can climb to greater life.
All tunes to a low scale and conscious pitch.
His knowledge dwells in the house of Ignorance; '
'Rare are his visits of heavenly ecstasy.'
Rare is man's bon trip en route to heaven, yes
Rare is he awake of living in His haven..
'He is satisfied with his common average kind; '
'In a narrow plot he has pitched his tent of life
Beneath the wide gaze of the starry Vast.
He is the crown of all that has been done:
Thus is creation's labour justified;
This is the world's result, Nature's last poise! '
Wonderful, a preaching sensible, senseful indeed..
'We seem to live in a fiction of our thoughts'..
'A figment or circumstance in cosmic sleep.'
'All here is dreamed or doubtfully exists,
But who the dreamer is and whence he looks
Is still unknown or only a shadowy guess.
'Or the world is real but ourselves too small,
Insufficient for the mightiness of our stage.'
I too doubt, is everything on our assumption alone....
............My consciousness this moment,
O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights
Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation
My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine
May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
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