Aurobindo 185 Savitri Book 12

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Twelve: Epilogue The Return to Earth Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Out of abysmal trance her spirit woke. Lain on the earth-mother's calm inconscient breast She saw the green-clad branches lean above Guarding her sleep with their enchanted life, 'And overhead a blue-winged ecstasy Fluttered from bough to bough with high-pitched call.' As if from the dark clouds escaped the sunshine Saving Satyavan from death's grip rose Savitri.. 'She pressed the living body of Satyavan: On her body's wordless joy to be and breathe She bore the blissful burden of his head Between her breasts' warm labour of delight, The waking gladness of her members felt The weight of heaven in his limbs, ......' 'And all her life was conscious of his life And all her being rejoiced enfolding his.' 'The immense remoteness of her trance had passed; 'All things in Time and Space she had taken for hers; ' 'But soon she leaned down over her loved to call His mind back to her with her travelling touch On his closed eyelids; settled was her still look Of strong delight, not yearning now, but large With limitless joy or sovereign last content, Pure, passionate with the passion of the gods.' 'Then sighing to her touch the soft-winged sleep Rose hovering from his flowerlike lids and flew Murmurous away. Awake, he found her eyes Waiting for his, and felt her hands, and saw The earth his home given back to him once more And her made his again, his passion's all.'.... ............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 12 Epilogue Page715 Into the magic secrecy of the woods Peering through an emerald lattice-window of leaves, In indolent skies reclined, the thinning day Turned to its slow fall into evening's peace. A power dwelt in her soul too great for earth, A bliss lived in her heart too large for heaven; Light too intense for thought and love too boundless For earth's emotions lit her skies of mind And spread through her deep and happy seas of soul. All that is sacred in the world drew near To her divine passivity of mood. A marvellous voice of silence breathed its thoughts. Page 716 Outwingings of a bird from its bright home, Her earthly morns were radiant flights of joy. Boundless she was, a form of infinity. Ever she held on the paradise of her breast Her lover charmed into a fathomless sleep, Lain like an infant spirit unaware Lulled on the verge of two consenting worlds. Page 716&717 Desire stirred not its wings; for all was made An overarching of celestial rays Like the absorbed control of sky on plain, Heaven's leaning down to embrace from all sides earth, A quiet rapture, a vast security.