Aurobindo-18-Savitri-Book -2

An appreciation on Savitri- Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto II The Kingdom of Subtle Matter Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'In the clasp of a passion not yet unfortunate They join their strength and sweetness and delight And mingling make the high and low worlds one. Intruder from the formless Infinite Daring to break into the Inconscient's reign, The spirit's leap towards body touches ground.' After the falling of mortality's cloak Lightened is its weight to heighten its ascent; 'Refined to the touch of finer environments It drops old patterned palls of denser stuff, Cancels the grip of earth's descending pull And bears the soul from world to higher world, Till in the naked ether of the peaks The spirit's simplicity alone is left, The eternal being's first transparent robe.'.. Where there is no earthly cumbersome awkwardness 'This wonder-world with all its radiant boon Of vision and inviolate happiness, Only for expression cares and perfect form; ' 'Fair on its peaks, it has dangerous nether planes; ' 'Its light draws towards the verge of Nature's lapse; ' 'This medium serves a greater Consciousness: ' 'It guards the deathless type of perishing things: Its lowered potencies found our fallen strengths; ' 'A heaven of creative truths above, A cosmos of harmonious dreams between, A chaos of dissolving forms below, It plunges lost in our inconscient base. Out of its fall our denser Matter came. Thus taken was God's plunge into the Night.'... ............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 2 canto 2 Page 105 As yet unwrapped in earthly lineaments, Already it wears outlasting death and birth, Convincing the abyss by heavenly form, A covering of its immortality Alive to the lustre of the wearer's rank, Fit to endure the rub of Change and Time. Page 106 For long before earth's solid vest was forged By the technique of the atomic Void, A lucent envelope of self-disguise Was woven round the secret spirit in things. The subtle realms from those bright sheaths are made. Page 106&107 Our secret breath of untried mightier force, The lurking sun of an instant's inner sight, Its fine suggestions are a covert fount For our iridescent rich imaginings Touching things common with transfiguring hues Till even earth's mud grows rich and warm with the skies And a glory gleams from the soul's decadence. Its knowledge is our error's starting-point;