Aurobindo 164 Savitri Book 10

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Ten:The Book of the Double Twilight Canto Four:The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Who then art thou hiding in human guise? Thy voice carries the sound of infinity, Knowledge is with thee, Truth speaks through thy words; The light of things beyond shines in thy eyes. 'Hast thou God's force to build heaven's values here? For truth and knowledge are an idle gleam If Knowledge brings not power to change the world, If Might comes not to give to Truth her right.' 'O human claimant to immortality, Reveal thy power, lay bare thy spirit's force, Then will I give back to thee Satyavan. Or if the Mighty Mother is with thee, Show me her face that I may worship her; 'Then can thy dead return to thee and live.' The prostrate earth perhaps shall lift her gaze And feel near her the secret body of God' So Death had none but to surrender it seems.. 'Almost it seemed as if in his symbol shape The world's darkness had consented to Heaven-light' 'A mighty transformation came on her. A halo of the indwelling Deity, The Immortal's lustre that had lit her face And tented its radiance in her body's house, Overflowing made the air a luminous sea.' 'In a flaming moment of apocalypse The Incarnation thrust aside its veil. A little figure in infinity Yet stood and seemed the Eternal's very house, As if the world's centre was her very soul And all wide space was but its outer robe.'..... ............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 4 Page 664 A blind Force, not Truth has made this ignorant world, A blind Force, not Truth orders the lives of men: By Power, not Light, the great Gods rule the world; Power is the arm of God, the seal of Fate.