Aurobindo 176 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 'Pass back into the Power from which thou cam'st.' 'Break into eternity thy mortal mould; Melt, lightning, into thy invisible flame! ' 'Clasp, Ocean, deep into thyself thy wave, Happy for ever in the embosoming surge. Grow one with the still passion of the depths. Then shalt thou know the Lover and the Loved, Leaving the limits dividing him and thee.' 'Receive him into boundless Savitri, Lose thyself into infinite Satyavan. O miracle, where thou beganst, there cease! '' Oh, as much as she strives so much defied.. But already gone high, almost to His feet Her persuasive perseverence perpetuates.. Debated with Death, now this godhead Harken, how she answers... ' But Savitri answered to the radiant God: 'In vain thou temptst with solitary bliss Two spirits saved out of a suffering world; My soul and his indissolubly linked In the one task for which our lives were born, To raise the world to God in deathless Light, To bring God down to the world on earth we came, To change the earthly life to life divine.' 'If man lives bound by his humanity, If he is tied for ever to his pain, Let a greater being then arise from man, The superhuman with the Eternal mate And the Immortal shine through earthly forms.' So much power in her to utter words authentic.... ............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 692 I keep my will to save the world and man; ................................. I sacrifice not earth to happier worlds. Whence came this profitless wilderness of stars, This mighty barren wheeling of the suns? Who made the soul of futile life in Time, Planted a purpose and a hope in the heart, Set Nature to a huge and meaningless task Or planned her million-aeoned effort's waste? What force condemned to birth and death and tears These conscious creatures crawling on the globe? Page 692&693 If earth can look up to the light of heaven And hear an answer to her lonely cry, Not vain their meeting, nor heaven's touch a snare. If thou and I are true, the world is true; Although thou hide thyself behind thy works, To be is not a senseless paradox; Since God has made earth, earth must make in her God;