Aurobindo 99 Savitri Book 7

An appreciation on Savitri Book Seven: The Book of Yoga Canto Three: The Entry into the Inner Countries Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's So a method of expedition spiritually medicated Thus commencing here for us to follow.. 'At first out of the busy hum of mind As if from a loud thronged market into a cave By an inward moment's magic she had come. A stark hushed emptiness became her self: 'Her mind unvisited by the voice of thought Stared at a void deep's dumb infinity.' 'Her heights receded, her depths behind her closed; All fled away from her and left her blank. But when she came back to her self of thought, Once more she was a human thing on earth, ' 'Amazed like one unknowing she sought her way' 'Then a Voice spoke that dwelt on secret heights: ' 'For man thou seekst, not for thyself alone...Line 19 ..Man, human, follows in God's human steps... Accepting his darkness thou must bring to him light, Accepting his sorrow thou must bring to him bliss. In Matter's body find thy heaven-born soul." to line 30 'Then Savitri surged out of her body's wall And stood a little span outside herself And looked into her subtle being's depths And in its heart as in a lotus-bud Divined her secret and mysterious soul.' 'At the dim portal of the inner life That bars out from our depths the body's mind And all that lives but by the body's breath, She knocked and pressed against the ebony gate. The living portal groaned with sullen hinge: ' Salvage o'Savitri down on Earh the mundane..... ............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 7 Canto 3 Page 488 Only if God assumes the human mind And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride, Can he help man to grow into the God. As man disguised the cosmic Greatness works And finds the mystic inaccessible gate And opens the Immortal's golden door. Man, human, follows in God's human steps.