Aurobindo 75 Savitri Book 4

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest Canto Two: The Growth of the Flame Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains' 'Where Nature seemed a dream of the Divine And beauty and grace and grandeur had their home, 'Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.' 'Over her watched millennial influences And the deep godheads of a grandiose past Looked on her and saw the future's godheads come As if this magnet drew their powers unseen.' 'Mounting from mind's last peaks to mate with gods' 'The knowledge of the thinker and the seer Saw the unseen and thought the unthinkable, Opened the enormous doors of the unknown, ' 'The harmony of a rich culture's tones Refined the sense and magnified its reach To hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible And taught the soul to soar beyond things known' ''Adept of truth, initiate of bliss, A mystic acolyte trained in Nature's school, ' She laid the secrecies of her heart's deep muse Upon the altar of the Wonderful; ' 'She wished to make all one immense embrace That she might house in it all living things Raised into a splendid point of seeing light' And make them one with God and world and her.' 'To see her was a summons to adore, To be near her drew a high communion's force.' So men worship a god too great to know, Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape; ' 'Opened to the breath is a new diviner air, Opened to man is a freer, happier world: ' ............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 4 Canto 2 Page 359 A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains And giant rivers pacing to vast seas, A field of creation and spiritual hush, Silence swallowing life's acts into the deeps, Of thought's transcendent climb and heavenward leap, A brooding world of reverie and trance, Filled with the mightiest works of God and man, A shoreless sweep was lent to the mortal's acts, And art and beauty sprang from the human depths; Nature and soul vied in nobility. Ethics the human keyed to imitate heaven; Page 360 Her hours were a ritual in a timeless fane; Her acts became gestures of sacrifice. Page 360&361 The architecture of the Infinite Discovered here its inward-musing shapes Captured into wide breadths of soaring stone: Music brought down celestial yearnings, song Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths, Linking the human with the cosmic cry; Page 361 It tapped the universe with testing knocks Or stretched to find truth mind's divining rod; Page 363 Yet forced to be the satellites of her sun They moved unable to forego her light, Desiring they clutched at her with outstretched hands Or followed stumbling in the paths she made. Page 364 Her measure they could not reach but bore her touch, Answering with the flower's answer to the sun They gave themselves to her and asked no more.