Aurobindo-21-Savitri-Book -2

An appreciation on Savitri- Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto III The Glory and the Fall of Life Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'This, once a star of bright remote idea Or imagination's comet trail of dream, Took now a close shape of reality. On a spiritual and mysterious peak Only a miracle's high transfiguring line Divided life from the formless Infinite And sheltered Time against eternity. Out of that formless stuff Time mints his shapes; 'The Eternal's quiet holds the cosmic act: ' 'Inverting the spirit's apex towards life, She spends the plastic liberties of the One To cast in acts the dreams of her caprice' At her will the inscrutable Supermind leans down To guide her force that feels but cannot know, Its breath of power controls her restless seas And life obeys the governing Idea.' 'Heaven's joys might have been earth's if earth were pure. There could have reached our divinised sense and heart Some natural felicity's bright extreme, Some thrill of Supernature's absolutes: ' All strengths could laugh and sport on earth's hard roads And never feel her cruel edge of pain, ' All love could play and nowhere Nature's shame. But she has stabled her dreams in Matter's courts' 'And still her doors are barred to things supreme. These worlds could feel God's breath visiting their tops; Some glimmer of the Transcendent's hem was there. Across the white aeonic silences Immortal figures of embodied joy Traversed wide spaces near to eternity's sleep.' ............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 3 Page 121 Our human ignorance moves towards the Truth That Nescience may become omniscient, Transmuted instincts shape to divine thoughts, Thoughts house infallible immortal sight And Nature climb towards God's identity. Page 122 Above was a monarchy of unfallen self, Beneath was the gloomy trance of the abyss, An opposite pole or dim antipodes. The light of God she has parted from his dark To test the savour of bare opposites. Page 123 Pure mystic voices in beatitude's hush Appealed to Love's immaculate sweetnesses, Calling his honeyed touch to thrill the worlds, Page 124 Beauty unimaginable moved heaven-bare Absolved from boundaries in the vasts of dream; The cry of the Birds of Wonder called from the skies To the deathless people of the shores of Light. Ignorance was a thin shade protecting light, Imagination the free-will of Truth, Pleasure a candidate for heaven's fire; The intellect was Beauty's worshipper, Strength was the slave of calm spiritual law, Power laid its head upon the breasts of Bliss. Page 125 There sat the oligarchies of natural Law, Proud violent heads served one calm monarch brow: All the soul's postures donned divinity. There met the ardent mutual intimacies Of mastery's joy and the joy of servitude Imposed by Love on Love's heart that obeys And Love's body held beneath a rapturous yoke. All was a game of meeting kinglinesses. For worship lifts the worshipper's bowed strength Close to the god's pride and bliss his soul adores: The ruler there is one with all he rules; To him who serves with a free equal heart Obedience is his princely training's school, His nobility's coronet and privilege, His faith is a high nature's idiom, His service a spiritual sovereignty.