Aurobindo 47 Savitri Book 2

Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto Nine: The Paradise of the Life-Gods Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's Around him shone a great felicitous Day. 'A favourite and intimate of the Gods Obeying the divine command to joy, It was the sovereign of its own delight And master of the kingdoms of its force.' It needed not to curb its passionate beats; 'It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God And lay on the breast of universal love.' 'A silence of felicity wrapped the heavens, A careless radiance smiled upon the heights; A murmur of inarticulate ravishment Trembled in the winds and touched the enchanted soil; ' 'Advancing under an arch of glory and peace, Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge, ...' 'He traversed scenes of an immortal joy' And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss.' 'Across the vibrant secrecies of Space A dim and happy music sweetly stole, ..' 'A summit and core of all that marvellous world, Apart stood high Elysian nameless hills, Burning like sunsets in a trance of eve.' 'Their peaks climbed towards a greatness beyond life.' 'The shining Edens of the vital gods Received him in their deathless harmonies. 'All things were perfect there that flower in Time; ' 'All life's high visions are embodied there' 'No lower note could break the endless charm Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate; ' 'He foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts: ' 'Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves..' ............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 9 Page 233 Thrilled by the clasp of the warm satisfied sense And the swift wonder-rush and flame and cry Of the life-impulses' red magnificent race, It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God And lay on the breast of universal love. Immune the unfettered Spirit of Delight Pastured his gleaming sun-herds and moon-flocks Along the lyric speed of griefless streams In fragrance of the unearthly asphodel. Page 234 Incessant in the arms of ecstasy Repeating its sweet involuntary note A sob of rapture flowed along the hours. Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge, As one who sees in the World-Magician's glass A miracled imagery of soul-scapes flee He traversed scenes of an immortal joy And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss. Below him lay like gleaming jewelled thoughts Rapt dreaming cities of Gandharva kings. And voices of unearthly melody Chanted the glory of eternal love In the white-blue-moonbeam air of Paradise. As if to some new unsearched profundity, Into a joyful stillness plunged their base; 17 Their slopes through a hurry of laughter and voices sank, Crossed by a throng of singing rivulets, Adoring blue heaven with their happy hymn, Down into woods of shadowy secrecy: Page 235 Dream walked along the highways of the stars; Her wandering hopes achieved, her aureate combs Caught by the honey-eater's darting tongue, Page 235&236 To music that can immortalise the mind And make the heart wide as infinity Listened, and captured the inaudible Cadences that awake the occult ear: Page 236 Thoughts whose desire new-makes the universe. A scale of sense that climbed with fiery feet To heights of unimagined happiness, Recast his being's aura in joy-glow, His body glimmered like a skiey shell; His gates to the world were swept with seas of light. Page 237 A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart, The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful, And hints leaped down of white beatitudes. Eternity drew close disguised as Love And laid its hand upon the body of Time. End of Book 2-Canto 9