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Aurobindo 14-Savitri-Book -1

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book I The Book of Beginnings-
Canto V The Yoga of the King:
The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'As thus it rose, to meet him bare and pure
A strong Descent leaped down. A Might, a Flame,
A Beauty half-visible with deathless eyes,
A violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire,
Enveloped him with its stupendous limbs
And penetrated nerve and heart and brain
That thrilled and fainted with the epiphany:
His nature shuddered in the Unknown's grasp.'

'His wakened mind became an empty slate
On which the Universal and Sole could write.'
'Eternity's contact broke the moulds of sense.'
'The imprisoned deity rent its magic fence.'
'The python coils of the restricting Law
Could not restrain the swift arisen God:
Abolished were the scripts of destiny.'
'He saw unpathed, unwalled, his titan scope.'

'All once impossible deemed could now become
A natural limb of possibility,
A new domain of normalcy supreme.'
'All's miracle here and can by miracle change.
This is that secret Nature's edge of might.'
'Across the unfolding of the seas of self
Appeared the deathless countries of the One.'
And' He broke into another Space and Time.'

Like a child in primary class I touched this book
My curious eyes as passing through the pages
Bewared my heart my mind 'be wakeful'..
I became an alerted child not to misconstrue
Thou unsurpassable poetic beauty and Thine'reality'
I pursued bowing Thee with wonderment that further pursues

............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 thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune

End of book-1

poem by Indira Renganathan
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