Aurobindo 120 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 'Children of cosmic Nature from a far world, Idea's shapes in complete armour of words Posted like travellers in an alien space.' 'Then looking to know whence the intruders came She saw a spiritual immensity Pervading and encompassing the world-space As ether our transparent tangible air, And through it sailing tranquilly a thought.' 'As smoothly glides a ship nearing its port, Ignorant of embargo and blockade, Confident of entrance and the visa's seal, It came to the silent city of the brain Towards its accustomed and expectant quay, But met a barring will, a blow of Force And sank vanishing in the immensity.' Now I apprehend how thoughts swarm in and out... 'Then all grew still, nothing moved any more: Immobile, self-rapt, timeless, solitary A silent spirit pervaded silent Space.' Her spirit seemed the substance of a name, The world a pictured symbol drawn on self, A dream of images, a dream of sounds Built up the semblance of a universe Or lent to spirit the appearance of a world.' 'Nothing within answered an outside touch, No nerve was stirred and no reaction rose. Yet still her body saw and moved and spoke; ' 'It understood without the aid of thought, It said whatever needed to be said, It did whatever needed to be done.'....... ............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 ========================================== Note: Some more inspiring descriptive and informative lines from Book-7 Canto-6 Page 544 Even now some thoughts could cross her solitude; These surged not from the depths or from within Cast up from formlessness to seek a form, Spoke not the body's need nor voiced life's call. These seemed not born nor made in human Time: Out of some far expanse they seemed to come As if carried on vast wings like large white sails, And with easy access reached the inner ear As though they used a natural privileged right To the high royal entries of the soul. After a long vacant pause another appeared And others one by one suddenly emerged, Mind's unexpected visitors from the Unseen Like far-off sails upon a lonely sea. Page 545 In that absolute stillness bare and formidable There was glimpsed an all-negating Void Supreme That claimed its mystic Nihil's sovereign right To cancel Nature and deny the soul. Even the nude sense of self grew pale and thin: Impersonal, signless, featureless, void of forms A blank pure consciousness had replaced the mind. This was self-seeing; .... A sheer self-sight was there, no thought arose. Emotion slept deep down in the still heart Or lay buried in a cemetery of peace: