Aurobindo 75 Savitri Book 4 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto Two: The Growth of the Flame
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's


'A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains'
'Where Nature seemed a dream of the Divine
And beauty and grace and grandeur had their home,
'Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.'
'Over her watched millennial influences
And the deep godheads of a grandiose past
Looked on her and saw the future's godheads come
As if this magnet drew their powers unseen.'

'Mounting from mind's last peaks to mate with gods'
'The knowledge of the thinker and the seer
Saw the unseen and thought the unthinkable,
Opened the enormous doors of the unknown, '
'The harmony of a rich culture's tones
Refined the sense and magnified its reach
To hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible
And taught the soul to soar beyond things known'

''Adept of truth, initiate of bliss,
A mystic acolyte trained in Nature's school, '
She laid the secrecies of her heart's deep muse
Upon the altar of the Wonderful; '
'She wished to make all one immense embrace
That she might house in it all living things
Raised into a splendid point of seeing light'
And make them one with God and world and her.'

'To see her was a summons to adore,
To be near her drew a high communion's force.'
So men worship a god too great to know,
Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape; '
'Opened to the breath is a new diviner air,
Opened to man is a freer, happier world: '

............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 and
informative lines from Book 4 Canto 2

Page 359

A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains
And giant rivers pacing to vast seas,
A field of creation and spiritual hush,
Silence swallowing life's acts into the deeps,
Of thought's transcendent climb and heavenward leap,
A brooding world of reverie and trance,
Filled with the mightiest works of God and man,

A shoreless sweep was lent to the mortal's acts,
And art and beauty sprang from the human depths;
Nature and soul vied in nobility.
Ethics the human keyed to imitate heaven;

Page 360

Her hours were a ritual in a timeless fane;
Her acts became gestures of sacrifice.

Page 360&361

The architecture of the Infinite
Discovered here its inward-musing shapes
Captured into wide breadths of soaring stone:

Music brought down celestial yearnings, song
Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths,
Linking the human with the cosmic cry;

Page 361

It tapped the universe with testing knocks
Or stretched to find truth mind's divining rod;

Page 363

Yet forced to be the satellites of her sun
They moved unable to forego her light,
Desiring they clutched at her with outstretched hands
Or followed stumbling in the paths she made.

Page 364

Her measure they could not reach but bore her touch,
Answering with the flower's answer to the sun
They gave themselves to her and asked no more.