Aurobindo 37-Savitri-Book -2

An appreciation on Savitri Book IIThe Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto VIThe Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'A hierophant of the bodiless Secrecy Interned in an unseen spiritual sheath, The Will that pushes sense beyond its scope To feel the light and joy intangible, Half found its way into the Ineffable's peace, Half captured a sealed sweetness of desire That yearned from a bosom of mysterious Bliss, Half manifested veiled Reality.' ' This realm inspires us with our vaster hopes; Its forces have made landings on our globe, Its signs have traced their pattern in our lives: ' 'An Energy of perpetual transience makes The journey from which no return is sure, The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown.' A wholesome description..'pilgrimage of nature' I bow to your true spiritual diction Guru.. 'Her high procession moves from stage to stage, .. A progress leap from sight to greater sight, A process march from form to ampler form, A caravan of the inexhaustible Formations of a boundless Thought and Force.' Almost she nears what never can be attained; She shuts eternity into an hour 'The Immobile leans to the magic of her call; ' 'This is her secret and impossible task To catch the boundless in a net of birth, To cast the spirit into physical form, To lend speech and thought to the Ineffable; She is pushed to reveal the ever Unmanifest. Yet by her skill the impossible has been done: '... ............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 6 Page 176 A soul not wrapped into its cloak of mind Could glimpse the true sense of a world of forms; Illumined by a vision in the thought, Upbuoyed by the heart's understanding flame, It could hold in the conscious ether of the spirit The divinity of a symbol universe. Incarnate in the mystery of the days, Eternal in an unclosed Infinite, A mounting endless possibility Climbs high upon a topless ladder of dream For ever in the Being's conscious trance. All on that ladder mounts to an unseen end. An Energy of perpetual transience makes The journey from which no return is sure, Page 178 She has lured the Eternal into the arms of Time.