Aurobindo 27-Savitri-Book -2
An appreciation on Savitri
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto V The Godheads of the Little Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'A fixed and narrow power with rigid forms,
He saw the empire of the little life,
An unhappy corner in eternity.'
'Then, hoping to learn the secret of this world
He peered across its scanty fringe of sight, ..'
........'A busy restless uncouth populace
Teemed in their dusky unnoted thousands there.'
I bow, what an expression wonderful on 'uncouth populace'!
'In a mist of secrecy wrapping the world-scene
The little deities of Time's nether act
Who work remote from Heaven's controlling eye,
Plotted, unknown to the creatures whom they move,
The small conspiracies of this petty reign...'
Who can deny it's the heavenly plot..yet deny
In his wakeful ignorence man as all his
A sheer 'ignominy of creeping life.'
'Astonished by the unaccustomed glow,
As if immanent in the shadows started up
Imps with wry limbs and carved beast visages,
Sprite-prompters goblin-wizened or faery-small,
And genii fairer but unsouled and poor
And fallen beings, their heavenly portion lost,
And errant divinities trapped in Time's dust.'
..A strong dose to provoke a sleeping pious heart..
'Ignorant and dangerous wills but armed with power,
Half-animal, half-god their mood, their shape.'
'Out of the greyness of a dim background
Their whispers come, an inarticulate force, ..'
'And fill its powers and creatures with unease.'
And that uneasiness is at Thy disposal Guru...
............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
poem by Indira Renganathan
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