Aurobindo 149 Savitri Book 10

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Ten:The Book of the Double Twilight Canto Three - The Debate of Love and Death Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Even so men cheat the Truth with splendid thoughts. Thus wilt thou hire the glorious charlatan, Mind, To weave from his Ideal's gossamer air A fine raiment for thy body's nude desires And thy heart's clutching greedy passion clothe? Daub not the web of life with magic hues: ' A charlatan even in Savitri's era? unbelievable O'Death, had in mind this our kind even then? 'Thy words are large murmurs in a mystic dream. For how in the soiled heart of man could dwell The immaculate grandeur of thy dream-built God, ' 'O human face, put off mind-painted masks: ' 'Accept thy futile birth, thy narrow life. For truth is bare like stone and hard like death; Bare in the bareness, hard with truth's hardness live.' 'But Savitri replied to the dire God: ' 'Yes, my humanity is a mask of God: He dwells in me, the mover of my acts, Turning the great wheel of his cosmic work.' 'I am the thinking instrument of his power, I incarnate Wisdom in an earthly breast, I am his conquering and unslayable will. The formless Spirit drew in me its shape; In me are the Nameless and the secret Name.' Seemingly strenuous and challenging continual The debate of Love and Death along the dark Yet a pleasant stress for the presaged victory Their war of words battled fiery in spirited field For Savitri to light her soul in Satyavan 'Death from the incredulous Darkness sent its cry: '.. ............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 3 Page 634 Make rather thy thought a plain and faithful glass Reflecting Matter and mortality, who can see a face and form divine In the naked two-legged worm thou callest man?