Aurobindo 106 Savitri Book 7

An appreciation on Savitri Book Seven: The Book of Yoga Canto Four: The Triple Soul-Forces Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'A charm restoring hope in failing hearts Aspired the harmony of her puissant voice: ' 'O Savitri, I am thy secret soul. Line 213 to When God comes out to meet the soul of the world.'Line 277 I admit and go by 'I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, I trample the corpses of the demon hordes.' 'The voice rose up and smote some inner sun.' 'I am the heir of the forces of the earth, Line 306 to Omnipotence and omniscience shall be mine.'384 'Immortal spirit in the perishing clay, I am God still unevolved in human form; Even if he is not, he becomes in me.'... Treasurable Truth told in treasurable words Will He ever evolve like the said godliness herein... 'And Savitri heard the voice, the warped echo heard And turning to her being of power she spoke: ' 'Thou hast given men strength, wisdom thou couldst not give. One day I will return, a bringer of light; Then will I give to thee the mirror of God; Thou shalt see self and world as by him they are seen Reflected in the bright pool of thy soul. Thy wisdom shall be vast as vast thy power.' 'Ascending still her spirit's upward route She came into a high and happy space, A wide tower of vision whence all could be seen And all was centred in a single view As when by distance separate scenes grow one And a harmony is made of hues at war.'......... ............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 there so, let Savitri in my self arise Aroused there so be knowledge and fortune ============================================== Note: Some more inspiring, descriptive and informative lines from Book 7 Canto 4 Page 509 I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. I fear not for the angry frown of Heaven, I flinch not from the red assault of Hell; Page 510 I crush the opposition of the gods, Tread down a million goblin obstacles. I guide man to the path of the Divine And guard him from the red Wolf and the Snake. I set in his mortal hand my heavenly sword And put on him the breastplate of the gods. Page 511 "I am the heir of the forces of the earth, Slowly I make good my right to my estate; A growing godhead in her divinised mud, I climb, a claimant to the throne of heaven. The last-born of the earth I stand the first; Her slow millenniums waited for my birth. I am God still unevolved in human form; Even if he is not, he becomes in me. Page 512 The sun and moon are lights upon my path; Air was invented for my lungs to breathe, Conditioned as a wide and wall-less space For my winged chariot's wheels to cleave a road, The sea was made for me to swim and sail And bear my golden commerce on its back: It laughs cloven by my pleasure's gliding keel, I laugh at its black stare of fate and death. The earth is my floor, the sky my living's roof. I will make glass and raiment out of milk, Make iron velvet, water unbreakable stone, Like God in his astuce of artist skill, Mould from one primal plasm protean forms, In single Nature multitudinous lives, All that imagination can conceive In mind intangible, remould anew In Matter's plastic solid and concrete. Page 514 But without wisdom power is like a wind, It can breathe upon the heights and kiss the sky, It cannot build the extreme eternal things.