Aurobindo 29-Savitri-Book -2 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri
Book IIThe Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto VThe Godheads of the Little Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's


'At first was only an etheric Space:
Its huge vibrations circled round and round
Housing some unconceived initiative:
Upheld by a supreme original Breath
Expansion and contraction's mystic act
Created touch and friction in the void,
Into abstract emptiness brought clash and clasp: '
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'Parent of an expanding universe
In a matrix of disintegrating force,
By spending it conserved an endless sum.
On the hearth of Space it kindled a viewless Fire
That, scattering worlds as one might scatter seeds,
Whirled out the luminous order of the stars.'
Poetic science and spirituality..
What an alignment of verses to enlighten...

'An ocean of electric Energy
Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles
Constructing by their dance this solid scheme,
Its mightiness in the atom shut to rest;
Masses were forged or feigned and visible shapes;
Light flung the photon's swift revealing spark
And showed, in the minuteness of its flash
Imaged, this cosmos of apparent things.'

'Thus has been made this real impossible world,
An obvious miracle or convincing show.
Or so it seems to man's audacious mind'
His personal vision as impersonal fact,
As witnesses of an objective world
His erring sense and his instruments' artifice.'..

............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