Aurobindo 111 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 'A house was there all made of flame and light And crossing a wall of doorless living fire There suddenly she met her secret soul. A being stood immortal in transience, Deathless dallying with momentary things, In whose wide eyes of tranquil happiness Which pity and sorrow could not abrogate Infinity turned its gaze on finite shapes: ' 'In the mystery of its selecting will, In the Divine Comedy a participant, The Spirit's conscious representative, God's delegate in our humanity, Comrade of the universe, the Transcendent's ray, She had come into the mortal body's room To play at ball with Time and Circumstance.' 'The passion of the game lighted her eyes: ' 'A smile on her lips welcomed earth's bliss and grief, ' 'All things she saw as a masquerade of Truth Disguised in the costumes of Ignorance, Crossing the years to immortality; ' I need to intervene here o'words...tell me Who can surpass your beauty-build than this Guru himself 'As a mother feels and shares her children's lives, She puts forth a small portion of herself, ' 'A being no bigger than the thumb of man Into a hidden region of the heart To face the pang and to forget the bliss, To share the suffering and endure earth's wounds And labour mid the labour of the stars.' 'This in us''Exults in victory, struggles for the crown; '... ............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