Aurobindo 87 Savitri Book 6

An appreciation on Savitri- Book Six: The Book of Fate Canto One: The Word of Fate Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's 'Reveal, O winged with light, whence thou hast flown Hastening bright-hued through the green tangled earth, Thy body rhythmical with the spring-bird's call.' 'Thou comest like a silver deer through groves 'Or fleest like a wind-goddess through leaves, Or roamst, O ruby-eyed and snow-winged dove, Flitting through thickets of thy pure desires In the unwounded beauty of thy soul. 'He spoke but held his knowledge back from words.' 'As a cloud plays with lightnings' vivid laugh, But still holds back the thunder in its heart, Only he let bright images escape.' 'His speech like glimmering music veiled his thoughts; '' 'To those who hearkened to his celestial voice, The veil heaven's pity throws on future pain The Immortals' sanction seemed of endless joy.' 'But Aswapati answered to the seer; -' 'He answered covert thought with guarded speech: ' ''O deathless sage who knowest all things here, 'Line220 to 'Once let unwounded pass a mortal life.'Line 304 Should be read tofeel her godliness And her father's love for her...wonderful 'But Narad answered not; silent he sat, Knowing that words are vain and Fate is lord.' 'Like one who knows not, questioning, he cried: 'On what high mission went her hastening wheels? Whence came she with this glory in her heart And Paradise made visible in her eyes? What sudden God has met, what face supreme? ' Fate of misery sown that Narad could read...... ............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 6 Canto 1 Page 419 ........................and in thee glows A heavenly jar, thy firm deep-honied heart, New-brimming with a sweet and nectarous wine. Page 420 Life's perilous music rings yet to thy ear Far-melodied, rapid and grand, a Centaur's song, Or soft as water plashing mid the hills, Or mighty as a great chant of many winds. Moon-bright thou livest in thy inner bliss. Page 422 Behold this image cast by light and love, A stanza of the ardour of the gods Perfectly rhymed, a pillared ripple of gold! Her body like a brimmed pitcher of delight Shaped in a splendour of gold-coloured bronze As if to seize earth's truth of hidden bliss. Dream-made illumined mirrors are her eyes Draped subtly in a slumbrous fringe of jet, Retaining heaven's reflections in their depths. Even as her body, such is she within. Heaven's lustrous mornings gloriously recur, Like drops of fire upon a silver page, In her young spirit yet untouched with tears. The unchanging blue reveals its spacious thought; Marvellous the moon floats on through wondering skies; Earth's flowers spring up and laugh at time and death; The charmed mutations of the enchanter life Race like bright children past the smiling hours. Page 422&423 As grows the great and golden bounteous tree Flowering by Alacananda's murmuring waves, Where with enamoured speed the waters run Lisping and babbling to the splendour of morn And cling with lyric laughter round the knees Of heaven's daughters dripping magic rain Pearl-bright from moon-gold limbs and cloudy hair, So are her dawns like jewelled leaves of light, So casts she her felicity on men. A flame of radiant happiness she was born And surely will that flame set earth alight: Page 423 He looked into the unseen with seeing eyes,