Aurobindo 171 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 'O human image of the deathless word, Line 442 to O immortal, to felicity arise.'Line 516 'I am the hushed search of the jealous gods Pursuing my wisdom's vast mysterious work' 'I am the beauty of the unveiled ray Drawing through the deep roads of the infinite night' 'I am the inviolable Ecstasy; They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.' 'The eyes that live in night shall see my form.' 'you two shall serve the dual law Which only now the scouts of vision glimpse Who pressing through the forest of their thoughts Have found the narrow bridges of the gods. Making division your delightful means Of happy oneness rapturously enhanced By attraction in the throbbing air between.' More caring serious that voice sayeth, harken.. 'Yet if thou wouldst abandon the vexed world, Careless of the dark moan of things below, Tread down the isthmus, overleap the flood, Cancel thy contract with the labouring Force; Renounce the tie that joins thee to earth-kind, Cast off thy sympathy with mortal hearts. Arise, vindicate thy spirit's conquered right: ' 'Here in the playground of the eternal Child Or in domains the wise Immortals tread 'Roam with thy comrade splendour under skies Spiritual lit by an unsetting sun, ' 'Cast off the ambiguous myth of earth's desire, O immortal, to felicity arise.' ............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 683 "O human image of the deathless word, How hast thou seen beyond the topaz walls The gleaming sisters of the divine gate, Summoned the genii of their wakeful sleep, Page 684 Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth, Earth in its sorrow dreams of perfect heaven. The two longing to join, yet walk apart, Idly divided by their vain conceits; They are kept from their oneness by enchanted fears; Sundered mysteriously by miles of thought, They gaze across the silent gulfs of sleep. On the pale shores of foaming steely straits That flow beneath a grey tormented sky, Two powers from one original ecstasy born Pace near but parted in the life of man; One leans to earth, the other yearns to the skies: