Aurobindo 149 Savitri Book 10 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Aurobindo 149 Savitri Book 10

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An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Ten:The Book of the Double Twilight
Canto Three - The Debate of Love and Death
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'Even so men cheat the Truth with splendid thoughts.
Thus wilt thou hire the glorious charlatan, Mind,
To weave from his Ideal's gossamer air
A fine raiment for thy body's nude desires
And thy heart's clutching greedy passion clothe?
Daub not the web of life with magic hues: '
A charlatan even in Savitri's era? unbelievable
O'Death, had in mind this our kind even then?

'Thy words are large murmurs in a mystic dream.
For how in the soiled heart of man could dwell
The immaculate grandeur of thy dream-built God, '
'O human face, put off mind-painted masks: '
'Accept thy futile birth, thy narrow life.
For truth is bare like stone and hard like death;
Bare in the bareness, hard with truth's hardness live.'
'But Savitri replied to the dire God: '

'Yes, my humanity is a mask of God:
He dwells in me, the mover of my acts,
Turning the great wheel of his cosmic work.'
'I am the thinking instrument of his power,
I incarnate Wisdom in an earthly breast,
I am his conquering and unslayable will.
The formless Spirit drew in me its shape;
In me are the Nameless and the secret Name.'

Seemingly strenuous and challenging continual
The debate of Love and Death along the dark
Yet a pleasant stress for the presaged victory
Their war of words battled fiery in spirited field
For Savitri to light her soul in Satyavan
'Death from the incredulous Darkness sent its cry: '..

............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 10 Canto 3

Page 634

Make rather thy thought a plain and faithful glass
Reflecting Matter and mortality,

who can see a face and form divine
In the naked two-legged worm thou callest man?

Saturday, June 11, 2011
Topic(s) of this poem: prayer
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Bharati Nayak 11 August 2017

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 - - - - - - -A great write- - - - -Let Savitri in myself arise- - -aroused there so be knowledge and fortune- - - -Savitri , a character from the epic Mahabharat is most revered by Hindu religious women because she could bring back the life of her husband Satyaban from the death God Ýama'. be her purity, love, devotion for her husband.It is a story of love winning over death.Sri Aurobindo, the nationalist leader, Yogi, Guru and poet of India wrote an epic poem on Savitri and regarded as a great philosophical write where he visualized men attaining spiritual height and can conquer death.Savitri attained that height. Your poem is a befitting tribute to Sri Aurobindo and endorsement of his philosophy.

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Indira Renganathan 11 August 2017

Thank you Bharati...after a long time I got a comment on this series..and that be yours a laudable poet's, I'm extremely happy...thank you very much and God bless you

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