Aurobindo 168 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 'The heart was a torch lit from infinity, The limbs were trembling densities of soul. These were the first domains, the outer courts' 'The slightest ecstasies of the undying gods.' 'Then on what seemed one crown of the ascent Where finite and the infinite are one, Immune she beheld the strong immortals' seats' 'The middle regions of the unfading Ray.' 'Great forms of deities sat in deathless tiers, Eyes of an unborn gaze towards her leaned Through a transparency of crystal fire.' 'Drawn by the cords of ecstasies unknown, Her human nature faint with heaven's delight, She beheld the clasp to earth denied and bore The imperishable eyes of veilless love.' More climbed above, level to level reached, ' 'Worlds of an infinite reach crowned Nature's stir. There was a greater tranquil sweetness there, A subtler and profounder ether's field And mightier scheme than heavenliest sense can give.' 'The high perfected sense illumined lived A happy vassal of the inner ray, Each feeling was the Eternal's mighty child And every thought was a sweet burning god.' 'All Nature's struggle was its easy price, The universe and its agony seemed worth while. As if the choric calyx of a flower Aerial, visible on music's waves, A lotus of light-petalled ecstasy Took shape out of the tremulous heart of things.' ............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 676 Feet glimmering upon the sunstone courts of mind, Heaven's cupbearers bore round the Eternal's wine. Page 676&677 The harmonious tread of lives for ever joined In the passionate oneness of a mystic joy As if sunbeams made living and divine, The golden-bosomed Apsara goddesses, In groves flooded from an argent disk of bliss That floated through a luminous sapphire dream, In a cloud of raiment lit with golden limbs And gleaming footfalls treading faery swards, Virgin motions of bacchant innocences Who know their riot for a dance of God, Whirled linked in moonlit revels of the heart. Page 677 Impeccable artists of unerring forms, Magician builders of sound and rhythmic words, Wind-haired Gandharvas chanted to the ear The odes that shape the universal thought, The lines that tear the veil from Deity's face, The rhythms that bring the sounds of wisdom's sea. There lightning-filled with glory and with flame, Melting in waves of sympathy and sight, Smitten like a lyre that throbs to others' bliss, Page 677&678 There breath carried a stream of seeing mind, Form was a tenuous raiment of the soul: Colour was a visible tone of ecstasy; Page 678 Air was a luminous feeling, sound a voice, Sunlight the soul's vision and moonlight its dream. Experience mounted on joy's coloured breast To inaccessible spheres in spiral flight. Page 679 Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. Fled was the error that arms the hands of grief, And lighted the ignorant gulf whose hollow deeps Had given to nothingness a dreadful voice.