Aurobindo 187 Savitri Book 12

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Twelve: Epilogue The Return to Earth Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's Like a new born celestial, look there The way Satyavan comprehends Savitri... 'What high change is in thee, O Savitri? Bright Ever thou wast, a goddess still and pure, Yet dearer to me by thy sweet human parts Earth gave thee making thee yet more divine.' 'A statue of silence in my templed spirit, A yearning godhead and a golden bride.' 'But now thou seemst almost too high and great For mortal worship; Time lies below thy feet And the whole world seems only a part of thee, Thy presence the hushed heaven I inhabit, ' 'Hast thou not taken my heart to treasure it In the secure environment of thy breast? Awakened from the silence and the sleep, I have consented for thy sake to be.' 'By thee I have greatened my mortal arc of life, But now far heavens, unmapped infinitudes Thou hast brought me, thy illimitable gift! If to fill these thou lift thy sacred flight, My human earth will still demand thy bliss. Make still my life through thee a song of joy And all my silence wide and deep with thee.' And that is the ilk of divine love.. 'All now is changed, yet all is still the same. Lo, we have looked upon the face of God, Our life has opened with divinity. We have borne identity with the Supreme And known his meaning in our mortal lives.' An epoch fresh and divine new began... ............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 Page 718 My life a whisper of thy dreaming thoughts, My morns a gleaming of thy spirit's wings, And day and night are of thy beauty part. A heavenly queen consenting to his will, She clasped his feet, by her enshrining hair Enveloped in a velvet cloak of love, And answered softly like a murmuring lute: