Aurobindo 167 Savitri Book 11

(An appreciation on Savitri- Book Eleven:The Book of Everlasting Day Canto One: The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's) ' A marvellous sun looked down from ecstasy's skies' Capturing his secret heart-beats of delight.' 'God's everlasting day surrounded her, ' 'Infinity's finite fronts she lived in, new For ever to an everliving sight.' 'Twilight and mist were exiles from that air, Night was impossible to such radiant heavens.' A life divine winning over Death to deathless... 'Of all the beauty and the marvel here, Of all Time's intricate variety Eternity was the substance and the source; ' A Truth only to be felt and realised... 'Thought's wings climbed up towards heaven's vast repose Lost in blue deeps of immortality. A changed earth-nature felt the breath of peace.' 'All thrilled with the immanence of one divine.' 'Ecstatic voices smote at hearing's chords, Each movement found a music all its own; 'Songs thrilled of birds upon unfading boughs The colours of whose plumage had been caught From the rainbow of imagination's wings. Immortal fragrance packed the quivering breeze.' Oh, what a wonderful spec with word-beauty.. 'She saw all Nature marvellous without fault.' 'The mighty signs of which earth fears the stress, Trembling because she cannot understand, And must keep obscure in forms strange and sublime, Were here the first lexicon of an infinite mind Translating the language of eternal bliss.' 'The heart was a torch lit from infinity'.... ............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 11 Canto 1 Page 671 Immortal to the rapturous heart and eyes, In serene arches of translucent calm From Wonder's dream-vasts cloudless skies slid down An abyss of sapphire; sunlight visited eyes Which suffered without pain the absolute ray And saw immortal clarities of form. Page 672 Air seemed an ocean of felicity Or the couch of the unknown spiritual rest, A vast quiescence swallowing up all sound Into a voicelessness of utter bliss; Page 673 Eternal mountains ridge on gleaming ridge Whose lines were graved as on a sapphire plate And etched the borders of heaven's lustrous noon Climbed like piled temple stairs and from their heads Of topless meditation heard below The approach of a blue pilgrim multitude And listened to a great arriving voice Of the wide travel hymn of timeless seas. A chanting crowd from mountain bosoms slipped Past branches fragrant with a sigh of flowers Hurrying through sweetnesses with revel leaps; The murmurous rivers of felicity Divinely rippled honey-voiced desires, Mingling their sister eddies of delight, Then, widening to a pace of calm-lipped muse, Down many-glimmered estuaries of dream Went whispering into lakes of liquid peace. Page 674 In groves that seemed moved bosoms and trembling depths The million children of the undying spring Bloomed, pure unnumbered stars of hued delight Nestling for shelter in their emerald sky: Faery flower-masses looked with laughing eyes. A dancing chaos, an iridescent sea Eternised to Heaven's ever-wakeful sight The crowding petal-glow of marvel's tints Which float across the curtained lids of dream. Page 675 In those far-lapsing symphonies she could hear, Breaking through enchantments of the ravished sense, The lyric voyage of a divine soul Mid spume and laughter tempting with its prow The charm of innocent Circean isles, Adventures without danger beautiful In lands where siren Wonder sings its lures From rhythmic rocks in ever-foaming seas.