Aurobindo 28-Savitri-Book -2

An appreciation on Savitri Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto V The Godheads of the Little Life Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Luring to failure and meaningless success, All models they corrupt, all measures cheat, Make knowledge a poison, virtue a pattern dull And lead the endless cycles of desire Through semblances of sad or happy chance To an inescapable fatality.'... Whole gist of present life sparkles here And the concealed betterment still awaited 'A structure of unseeing thoughts is built And reason used by an irrational Force. This earth is not alone our teacher and nurse; The powers of all the worlds have entrance here'.. 'Into a creative chaos they are cast Where all asks order but is driven by Chance; ' 'But never can we know and truly live Till all have found their divine harmony.' 'But now the Light supreme is far away: ' 'This is our doom until our souls are free. A mighty Hand then rolls mind's firmaments back, Infinity takes up the finite's acts And Nature steps into the eternal Light. Then only ends this dream of nether life.' '...God sits impassive everywhere' 'Yet is all here his action and his will.' 'In this whirl and sprawl through infinite vacancy The Spirit became Matter and lay in the whirl, A body sleeping without sense or soul.' 'There was none there to see and none to feel; Only the miraculous Inconscient, A subtle wizard skilled, was at its task. ............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 5 Page 153 Wherever are soulless minds and guideless lives And in a small body self is all that counts, Wherever love and light and largeness lack, These crooked fashioners take up their task. To all half-conscious worlds they extend their reign. Here too these godlings drive our human hearts, Our nature's twilight is their lurking-place: Page 153&154 Our life's uncertain way winds circling on, Our mind's unquiet search asks always light, Till they have learned their secret in their source, In the light of the Timeless and its spaceless home, In the joy of the Eternal sole and one. Page 154 Even our mind's conquests wear a battered crown. A slowly changing order binds our will. At the outset of this enigmatic world Which seems at once an enormous brute machine And a slow unmasking of the spirit in things, In this revolving chamber without walls In which God sits impassive everywhere As if unknown to himself and by us unseen In a miracle of inconscient secrecy, Yet is all here his action and his will. Page 155 Being was an inert substance driven by Force.