Aurobindo-16-Savitri-Book -2
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto I The World-Stair
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'If earth were all and this were not in her,
Thought could not be nor life-delight's response
Only material forms could then be her guests
Driven by an inanimate world-force.
Earth by this golden superfluity
Bore thinking man and more than man shall bear'
An exemplary thinker Thou art...I would dare say
A sample-server to Earth's load of thinking play
'This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate;
It calls out of our dense mortality
The conscious spirit nursed in Matter's house.'
True, but most Matter-houses are impinged by Maya
Albeit some are rented to vacate for conscience's entrance
'Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.'
'Our earth is a fragment and a residue; '
'An attempt, a drawing half-done is the world's life; '
'A Mystery's process is the universe.
At first was laid a strange anomalous base,
A void, a cipher of some secret Whole,
Where zero held infinity in its sum
And All and Nothing were a single term,
An eternal negative, a matrix Nought: '
'Into its forms the Child is ever born'
'A slow reversal's movement then took place'
'Upon earth's new-born soil God's tread was heard.'
'A formless Stillness called, a nameless Light'
'A figure sole on Nature's giant stair,
He mounted towards an indiscernible end
On the bare summit of created things.....
............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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