Aurobindo 141 Savitri Book 10

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Ten:The Book of the Double Twilight Canto Two:The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Thus is the ideal falsified in man's world; Trivial or sombre, disillusion comes, Life's harsh reality stares at the soul: Heaven's hour adjourned flees into bodiless Time. Death saves thee from this and saves Satyavan: He now is safe, delivered from himself; He travels to silence and felicity. Call him not back to the treacheries of earth' But Savitri replied to the dark Power: 'A dangerous music now thou findst, O Death, Line 201 to I cherish God the Fire, not God the Dream.'Line 280 'But I forbid thy voice to slay my soul. My love is not a hunger of the heart, My love is not a craving of the flesh; It came to me from God, to God returns.' An honest reply true to Savitri's godly love 'A breath is felt from the eternal spheres. Allowed by Heaven and wonderful to man A sweet fire-rhythm of passion chants to love. There is a hope in its wild infinite cry; ' It rings with callings from forgotten heights, And when its strains are hushed to high-winged souls In their empyrean, its burning breath Survives beyond, the rapturous core of suns'... 'One who came love and lover and beloved Eternal, built himself a wondrous field And wove the measures of a marvellous dance.' 'He named himself for me, grew Satyavan.' 'For we were man and woman from the first, The twin souls born from one undying fire..... ............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 2 Page 613 One day I shall behold my great sweet world Put off the dire disguises of the gods, Unveil from terror and disrobe from sin. Then shall we clasp the ecstasy we chase, Then shall we shudder with the long-sought god, Then shall we find Heaven's unexpected strain. Ever he comes to us across the years Bearing a new sweet face that is the old. Page 614 His bliss laughs to us or it calls concealed Like a far-heard unseen entrancing flute From moonlit branches in the throbbing woods, Tempting our angry search and passionate pain. How has he through the thickets of the world Pursued me like a lion in the night And come upon me suddenly in the ways And seized me with his glorious golden leap! He rose like a wild wave out of the floods And dragged me helpless into seas of bliss. Out of my curtained past his arms arrive; They have touched me like the soft persuading wind, They have plucked me like a glad and trembling flower, And clasped me happily burned in ruthless flame.