Aurobindo 45 Savitri Book 2
The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto Eight: The
World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil
and the Sons of Darkness
'Then could he see the hidden heart of Night: '
'A Nature that denied the eternal Truth
In the vain braggart freedom of its thought
Hoped to abolish God and reign alone.
There was no sovereign Guest, no witness Light; '..
Yes, man versus man in ceaseless armageddon is trendy
'Unhelped it would create its own bleak world.'
'Evil and pain begot a monstrous soul.'
'A shadow substance into emptiness came,
Dim forms were born in the unthinking Void'
'In whose black folds Being imagined Hell.'
'It was the gate of a false Infinite,
An eternity of disastrous absolutes,
An immense negation of spiritual things.'
'Immense negation...'an expression apropose
'Being collapsed into a pointless void'
'All high things served their nether opposite:
The forms of Gods sustained a demon cult;
Heaven's face became a mask and snare of Hell.'
'There in the heart of vain phenomenon, '
'He saw a Shape illimitable and vague
Sitting on Death who swallows all things born.'
'But from the Night another answer came.'
'A seeking Mind replaced the seeing Soul: '
'Assuring God's self-cowled neutrality
A mighty opposition conquered Space.'
'Implanting error in the stuff of things
It made an Ignorance of the all-wise Law; '
'Obscured was the Truth-light in the cavern heart'
'Companioning the Godhead of the shrine.'....
............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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