Aurobindo 42 Savitri Book 2

An appreciation on Savitri Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto Seven: The Descent into Night Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'A mind absolved from life, made calm to know, The seal of tears, the bond of ignorance, He turned to find that wide world-failure's cause.' 'Away he looked from Nature's visible face And sent his gaze into the viewless Vast, The formidable unknown Infinity, ' 'That carries the universe in its timeless breadths And the ripples of its being are our lives.' 'He saw the fount of the world's lasting pain And the mouth of the black pit of Ignorance; The evil guarded at the roots of life Raised up its head and looked into his eyes.' 'A vague and lurking Presence everywhere, ' 'A contrary Doom that threatens all things made, 'A Death figuring as the dark seed of life, Seemed to engender and to slay the world.' 'Then from the sombre mystery of the gulfs And from the hollow bosom of the Mask Something crept forth that seemed a shapeless Thought.' 'A fatal Influence upon creatures stole Whose lethal touch pursued the immortal spirit, ' 'Even Light and Love by that cloaked danger's spell Turned from the brilliant nature of the gods Became themselves a danger and a charm, ' 'Arrived the shadowy dreadful messengers, Invaders from a dangerous world of power, Ambassadors of evil's absolute.' 'Life looked at him with changed and sombre eyes: Her beauty he saw and the yearning heart in things' 'Answering to a small ray of truth or love; '.... ............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 7 Page 202 The worlds are built by its unconscious Breath And Matter and Mind are its figures or its powers, Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. The veil was rent that covers Nature's depths: Page 203 Interceptor of the listening of the soul, Afflicting knowledge with the hue of doubt It captured the oracles of the occult gods, Effaced the signposts of Life's pilgrimage, Cancelled the firm rock-edicts graved by Time, And on the foundations of the cosmic Law Erected its bronze pylons of misrule. The grey Mask whispered and, though no sound was heard, Yet in the ignorant heart a seed was sown That bore black fruit of suffering, death and bale. Page 204 Life looked at him with changed and sombre eyes: He saw her gold sunlight and her far blue sky, Her green of leaves and hue and scent of flowers And the charm of children and the love of friends And the beauty of women and kindly hearts of men, But saw too the dreadful Powers that drive her moods And the anguish she has strewn upon her ways, Fate waiting on the unseen steps of men And her evil and sorrow and last gift of death.