Aurobindo 112 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 'Here in this chamber of flame and light they met; They looked upon each other, knew themselves, The secret deity and its human part, The calm immortal and the struggling soul. Then with a magic transformation's speed They rushed into each other and grew one.' 'Once more she was human upon earthly soil' 'And the rude cottage where she sat in trance: ' 'That subtle world withdrew deeply within Behind the sun-veil of the inner sight. But now the half-opened lotus bud of her heart Had bloomed and stood disclosed to the earthly ray; 'In its deep lotus home her being sat As if on concentration's marble seat, Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds To make this earthly tenement her house.' 'As in a flash from a supernal light, A living image of the original Power, A face, a form came down into her heart And made of it its temple and pure abode. But when its feet had touched the quivering bloom, A mighty movement rocked the inner space As if a world were shaken and found its soul: ' Indeed a weighty inward journey of a mighty mortal.. 'Out of the Inconscient's soulless mindless night A flaming Serpent rose released from sleep. It rose billowing its coils and stood erect And climbing mightily, stormily on its way It touched her centres with its flaming mouth; Is this the spiritual power by name 'Kundalini'... ............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