Aurobindo 189 Savitri Book 12
'Light slipped down to the brightly sleeping verge,
And the birds came back winging to their nests,
And day and night leaned to each other's arms.'
'Through the screened dusk it deepened still and there neared
Floating of many voices and the sound
Of many feet, till on their sight broke in
As if a coloured wave upon the eye
The brilliant strenuous crowded days of man.'
'Topped by a flaring multitude of lights
A great resplendent company arrived.'
'In front King Dyumatsena walked, no more
Blind, faltering-limbed, but his far-questing eyes
Restored to all their confidence in light
Took seeingly this imaged outer world; '
'By him that queen and mother's anxious face
Came changed from its habitual burdened look'
'Then tenderly Cried Dyumatsena chiding Satyavan:
'The fortunate gods have looked on me today,
A kingdom seeking came and heaven's rays.'
'Not like thyself was this done, Savitri,
Who ledst not back thy husband to our arms, '
'But Satyavan replied with smiling lips,
'Lay all on her; she is the cause of all.
With her enchantments she has twined me round.'
'What gleaming marvel of the earth or skies
Stands silently by human Satyavan
To mark a brilliance in the dusk of eve?
If this is she of whom the world has heard,
Wonder no more at any happy change.'
Yes it is she of whom the world still wonders....
............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
(An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Twelve: Epilogue
The Return to Earth
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's)
poem by Indira Renganathan
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