Aurobindo 89 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
'And fortunate the forest hermitage
Where leaving her palace and riches and a throne
My Savitri will dwell and bring in heaven.'
'Or if crouches unseen a panther doom,
If wings of Evil brood above that house,
Then also speak, that we may turn aside
And rescue our lives from hazard of wayside doom
And chance entanglement of an alien fate.'
'And Narad slowly answered to the queen:
'What help is in prevision to the driven? '
'The eternal poet, universal Mind,
Has paged each line of his imperial act; '
'Her eyes are fixed upon her mighty aim;
No cry or prayer can turn her from her path.
She has leaped an arrow from the bow of God.'
I repeat Thy term 'The eternal poet'....
'His words were theirs who live unforced to grieve'
'As though her own bosom were pierced the mother saw
The ancient human sentence strike her child, '
'Though calm and wise and Aswapati's queen,
Human was she still and opened her doors to grief; '
A sample of human mother was Aswapati's queen..
'Her heart appealed against the impartial judge,
Taxed with perversity the impersonal One.'
'So now she arraigned the world's impassive will: '
'What stealthy doom has crept across her path'Line 463 to
'Our sympathies become our torturers.'
'An ancient tale of woe can move us still, '
'To know is best, however hard to bear.'Line 518
All compiled of human life in Thou words...
............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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