Aurobindo-15-Savitri-Book -2 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book IIThe Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto IThe World-Stair
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'In a deep oneness of all things that are,
The universe of the Unknown arose.
A self-creation without end or pause
Revealed the grandeurs of the Infinite:
It flung into the hazards of its play
A million moods, a myriad energies,
The world-shapes that are fancies of its Truth
And the formulas of the freedom of its Force.

'Here all experience was a single plan,
The thousandfold expression of the One.
All came at once into his single view; '
'He was one spirit with that immensity.'
'The voices of a thousand realms of Life
Missioned to him her mighty messages.'
'Tireless the heart's adventure of delight, '
'Unnumbered tones struck from one harmony's strings; '

'All was found there the Unique has dreamed..'
'Only was missing the sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound, '
..Perhaps OM it is, I guess and if wrong I'm
Means, in the grip of earthly dins illusioned
'In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile'
'Motionless under an inscrutable sky.'

'Alone it points us to our journey back
Out of our long self-loss in Nature's deeps'
'It is within, below, without, above.'
'Lifts mortal mind into a greater air,
Makes yearn this life of flesh to intangible aims,
Links the body's death with immortality's call: '...

............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 there so, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused there so be knowledge and fortune

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Note: Some more inspiring descriptive linesfrom
Book-2 canto-1


Page 95

There rose unborn into the Unchanging's surge
Thoughts that abide in their deathless consequence,
Words that immortal last though fallen mute,
Acts that brought out from Silence its dumb sense,
Lines that convey the inexpressible.

The Eternal's stillness saw in unmoved joy
His universal Power at work display
In plots of pain and dramas of delight
The wonder and beauty of her will to be.

Page 96

Aspects of being donned world-outline; forms
That open moving doors on things divine,
Became familiar to his hourly sight;

The exhaustless seeings of the unsleeping Mind,
Letterings of its contact with the invisible,
Surrounded him with countless pointing signs;

Page 97

All thought can know or widest sight perceive
And all that thought and sight can never know,
All things occult and rare, remote and strange
Were near to heart's contact, felt by spirit-sense.

Asking for entry at his nature's gates
They crowded the widened spaces of his mind
His self-discovery's flaming witnesses,
Offering their marvel and their multitude.

Page 98

As if from Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable;

So it towered up to heights intangible
And disappeared in the hushed conscious Vast
As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.

A summary of the stages of the spirit,
Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies
Refashioned in our secret air of self
A subtle pattern of the universe.
It is within, below, without, above.