Aurobindo 138 Savitri Book 10

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Ten:The Book of the Double Twilight Canto One:The Dream Twilight of the Ideal Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'And deep anticipations of delight, For ever eager to be grasped and held, Were never grasped, yet breathed strange ecstasy.' 'A pearl-winged indistinctness fleeting swam, 'Line115 to 'Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun.'Line 135 Visuals of the dreaming night in feeble light Highly colourful in descriptive words.. All worldly invisible beings visible in dim space... 'These fugitive beings, these elusive shapes Were all that claimed the eye and met the soul, The natural inhabitants of that world.' 'But nothing there was fixed or stayed for long; ' 'In that fine chaos joy fled dancing past And beauty evaded settled line and form And hid its sense in mysteries of hue; ' Like this poem has its sense in Thou dictional beauty 'Yet gladness ever repeated the same notes And gave the sense of an enduring world; ' 'One touched incessantly things never seized, A skirt of worlds invisibly divine.' 'An adoration reigned in the yearning heart, A spirit of purity, an elusive presence' 'Much sweeter seemed than any rapture known Earth or all-conquering heaven can ever give.' 'Heaven ever young and earth too firm and old Delay the heart by immobility: ' 'Carved by an anguish of divine endeavour They stand up sculptured on the eternal hills, ' Or quarried from the living rocks of God Win immortality by perfect form.'........... ............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 10 Canto 1 Page 602 A pearl-winged indistinctness fleeting swam, An air that dared not suffer too much light. Vague fields were there, vague pastures gleamed, vague trees, Vague scenes dim-hearted in a drifting haze; Vague cattle white roamed glimmering through the mist; Vague spirits wandered with a bodiless cry, Vague melodies touched the soul and fled pursued Into harmonious distances unseized; A ripple of gleaming wings crossed the far sky; Birds like pale-bosomed imaginations flew With low disturbing voices of desire, And half-heard lowings drew the listening ear, As if the Sun-god's brilliant kine were there Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun. Page 603 And all renewed unendingly its charm Alluring ever the expectant heart Like music that one always waits to hear, Like the recurrence of a haunting rhyme. As if a trail of disappearing stars There showered upon the floating atmosphere Colours and lights and evanescent gleams That called to follow into a magic heaven,