Aurobindo 68 Savitri Book 3

Aurobindo 68 Savitri Book 3 - Poem by Indira Renganathan An appreciation on Savitri- Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother Canto Four: The Vision and the Boon Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'However man's mind may tire or fail his flesh, A will prevails cancelling his conscious choice: ' 'A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids; ' 'Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts: ' 'A strange and grandiose symbol was his birth' 'In him the Earth-Mother sees draw near the change' 'A godhead drawn from her transmuted limbs, An alchemy of Heaven on Nature's base.' 'Obey thy spirit's wide omnipotent urge.' 'To its omnipotence leave thy work's result. All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.' August and sweet sank hushed that mighty Voice.' 'But Aswapati's heart replied to her, A cry amid the silence of the Vasts: 'How shall I rest content with mortal days And the dull measure of terrestrial things, I who have seen behind the cosmic mask The glory and the beauty of thy face? Hard is the doom to which thou bindst thy sons! How long shall our spirits battle with the Night And bear defeat and the brute yoke of Death, We who are vessels of a deathless Force And builders of the godhead of the race? ' Ah, on our behalf Aswapati speaks.... 'Or if it is thy work I do below Amid the error and waste of human life In the vague light of man's half-conscious mind, Why breaks not in some distant gleam of thee? Ever the centuries and millenniums pass. Where in the greyness is thy coming's ray? .... ............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 3 Canto 4 Page 339 The goal recedes, a bourneless vastness calls Retreating into an immense Unknown; Ignorant, he forms the All-Conscient in his depths, Human, looks up to superhuman peaks: A borrower of Supernature's gold, He paves his road to Immortality. Page 340 His mind is crossed by strange discovering fires, Rare intimations lift his stumbling speech To a moment's kinship with the eternal Word; A masque of Wisdom circles through his brain Perturbing him with glimpses half divine. He lays his hands sometimes on the Unknown; He communes sometimes with Eternity Assent to thy high self, create, endure. Cease not from knowledge, let thy toil be vast. No more can earthly limits pen thy force; Equal thy work with long unending Time's. Page 341 My light shall be in thee, my strength thy force. Let not the impatient Titan drive thy heart, Ask not the imperfect fruit, the partial prize. ............................................... All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.