Aurobindo 113 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 'As if a fiery kiss had broken their sleep, They bloomed and laughed surcharged with light and bliss. Then at the crown it joined the Eternal's space.' 'An image sat of the original Power Wearing the mighty Mother's form and face. Armed, bearer of the weapon and the sign Whose occult might no magic can imitate, Manifold yet one she sat, a guardian force: ' 'A saviour gesture stretched her lifted arm, And symbol of some native cosmic strength, A sacred beast lay prone below her feet, ' 'A silent flame-eyed mass of living force.' 'Breaking the black Inconscient's blind mute wall, Effacing the circles of the Ignorance, Powers and divinities burst flaming forth; ' 'A felt experience to be felt.... 'In the country of the lotus of the head Which thinking mind has made its busy space, In the castle of the lotus twixt the brows Whence it shoots the arrows of its sight and will, In the passage of the lotus of the throat Where speech must rise and the expressing mind And the heart's impulse run towards word and act, A glad uplift and a new working came.' 'All things now bore a deeper heavenlier sense.' 'A loose republic once of wants and needs, Then bowed to the uncertain sovereign mind, Life now obeyed to a diviner rule And every act became an act of God.' Indeed a lofty attempt upon a heavenlier search.. ............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