Aurobindo 78 Savitri Book 4

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest Canto Three: The Call to the Quest Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'He spoke in sentences from the unseen Heights.' 'O spirit, traveller of...Line 174 to thy self beyond Time.'216..... Words powerful of a real call to the quest.. And magnanimously unimaginable and beautiful Those painted words colourful on Savitri 'O rubies of silence...Line 189 to... 'Depart where love and destiny call your charm.'194 'This word was seed of all the thing to be: A hand from some Greatness opened her heart's locked doors And showed the work for which her strength was born.' 'As when the mantra sinks in Yoga's ear, Its message enters stirring the blind brain' 'The hearer understands a form of words' 'Transmuted by the white spiritual ray' 'Sees the God-face and hears transcendent speech: ' 'An equal greatness in her life was sown.' 'She turned to vastnesses not yet her own; Allured her heart throbbed to unknown sweetnesses; The secrets of an unseen world were close.' Then the following words..Line245 to 251 Exquisite, godly should be read and felt To cite here one for my added salutation 'Night lit the watch-fires of eternity.' 'When the pale dawn slipped through Night's shadowy guard, Vainly the new-born light desired her face; ' 'Her moonbeam feet tinged not the lucent floors: The beauty and divinity were gone. Delight had fled to search the spacious world.' Earth back in its cycle of day and dark... ............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 3 Page 373 For the hidden prompters of our speech sometimes Can use the formulas of a moment's mood To weigh unconscious lips with words from Fate: A casual passing phrase can change our life. Page 374 To set thy conquering foot on Chance and Time, The moon shut in her halo dreams like thee. O living inscription of the beauty of love Missalled in aureate virginity, What message of heavenly strength and bliss in thee Is written with the Eternal's sun-white script, One shall discover and greaten with it his life To whom thou loosenest thy heart's jewelled strings. O rubies of silence, lips from which there stole Low laughter, music of tranquillity, Star-lustrous eyes awake in sweet large night And limbs like fine-linked poems made of gold Stanzaed to glimmering curves by artist gods, Depart where love and destiny call your charm. He who shall walk until thy body's end A close-bound traveller pacing with thy pace, The lyrist of thy soul's most intimate chords Who shall give voice to what in thee is mute. Then shall you grow like vibrant kindred harps, One in the beats of difference and delight, Responsive in divine and equal strains, Discovering new notes of the eternal theme. Page 374&375 One force shall be your mover and your guide, One light shall be around you and within; Hand in strong hand confront Heaven's question, life: Challenge the ordeal of the immense disguise. Ascend from Nature to divinity's heights; Face the high gods, crowned with felicity, Then meet a greater god, thy self beyond Time. Page 375&376 The morn went up into a smiling sky; Cast from its sapphire pinnacle of trance Day sank into the burning gold of eve; The moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven And sank below the oblivious edge of dream; Night lit the watch-fires of eternity. A darkness stooping on the heaven-bird's wings Sealed in her senses from external sight And opened the stupendous depths of sleep. Page 376 The palace woke to its own emptiness; The sovereign of its daily joys was far; End of Book 4 Canto 3