Aurobindo 109 Savitri Book 7

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Seven: The Book of Yoga Canto Five: The Finding of the Soul Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Onward she passed seeking the soul's mystic cave. At first she stepped into a night of God. The light was quenched that helps the labouring world, The power that struggles and stumbles in our life; ' 'All knowledge failed and the Idea's forms And Wisdom screened in awe her lowly head Feeling a Truth too great for thought or speech, Formless, ineffable, for ever the same.' 'In a simple purity of emptiness Her mind knelt down before the unknowable.' 'There was no strength in her, no pride of force; ' 'A sacred darkness brooded now within, The world was a deep darkness great and nude.' 'In endless Time her soul reached a wide end, The spaceless Vast became her spirit's place. At last a change approached, the emptiness broke; A wave rippled within, the world had stirred; Once more her inner self became her space. 'She recognised in her prophetic mind The imperishable lustre of that sky, The tremulous sweetness of that happy air And, covered from mind's view and life's approach, The mystic cavern in the sacred hill And knew the dwelling of her secret soul.' 'Across the threshold's sleep she entered in And found herself amid great figures of gods Conscious in stone and living without breath, Watching with fixed regard the soul of man, Executive figures of the cosmic self, World-symbols of immutable potency...... ............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