Aurobindo 89 Savitri Book 6 Poem by Indira Renganathan

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.'
How wonderfullySavitri is portrayedin thy words! !

'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.'

Her tranquil spirit she called not to her aid,
But as a common man beneath his load
Grows faint and breathes his pain in ignorant words,
'So now she arraigned the world's impassive will: '
'What stealthy doom has crept across her path'Line 463 to
'To know is best, however hard to bear.'Line 518


............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 6 Canto 1

Page 426

Too heavy falls a Shadow on man's heart;
It dares not be too happy upon earth.
It dreads the blow dogging too vivid joys,
A lash unseen in Fate's extended hand,
The danger lurking in fortune's proud extremes,
An irony in life's indulgent smile,
And trembles at the laughter of the gods.

Page 426&427

A future knowledge is an added pain,
A torturing burden and a fruitless light
On the enormous scene that Fate has built.

Page 428

Here dreadfully entangled love and hate
Meet us blind wanderers mid the perils of Time.
Our days are links of a disastrous chain,
Necessity avenges casual steps;
Old cruelties come back unrecognised,
The gods make use of our forgotten deeds.

Page 428&429

We are not as the gods who know not grief
And look impassive on a suffering world,
Calm they gaze down on the little human scene
And the short-lived passion crossing mortal hearts.