Aurobindo 116 Savitri Book 7

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Seven: The Book of Yoga Canto Six: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Effacing heaven with its enormous stride It willed to expunge the choked and anguished air And end the fable of the joy of life.' 'It seemed to cry to her without thought or word The message of its dark eternity And the awful meaning of its silences: ' 'In her own depths she heard the unuttered thought That made unreal the world and all life meant.' 'Who art thou who claimst thy crown of separate birth, Line 102 to At last know thyself, from vain existence cease.'Line 132 'I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life, I am Kali black and naked in the world, I am Maya and the universe is my cheat.' 'For only the blank Eternal can be true.' 'O soul, inventor of man's thoughts and hopes, ' 'At last know thyself, from vain existence cease.'132 All well said here and me spellbound in silence Thine askesis has felt high such and I wonder.. 'A shadow of the negating Absolute, The intolerant Darkness travelled surging past And ebbed in her the formidable Voice. It left behind her inner world laid waste: A barren silence weighed upon her heart, Her kingdom of delight was there no more; ' 'Only her soul remained, its emptied stage, Awaiting the unknown eternal Will. Then from the heights a greater Voice came down, The voice of Light after the voice of Night: The cry of the Abyss drew Heaven's reply, A might of storm chased by the might of the Sun... ............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