Aurobindo 59 Savitri Book 3 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto Two: The Adoration of the Divine Mother
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'A stillness absolute, incommunicable,
Meets the sheer self-discovery of the soul; '
'Self's vast spiritual silence occupies Space;
'Only the Inconceivable is left,
Only the Nameless without space and time:
Abolished is the burdening need of life: '
'O soul, it is too early to rejoice! '
'Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss; '

'But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power? '
'What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars? '
'Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes'
'The bridge between the rapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride, '
'The smile that saves, the golden peak of things? '

'There is a zero sign of the Supreme; '
'In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power.'
'Awaking, it can wake the trance-bound soul
'And in the ray reveal the parent sun: '
'To free the self is but one radiant pace;
Here to fulfil himself was God's desire.'
'Even while he stood on being's naked edge
'The Presence he yearned for suddenly drew close.'

A Mother Might brooded upon the world; '
'He felt a rapturous and unstumbling Force.'
The Mother of all godheads and all strengths
Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme.'
'Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.'
'Wrong could not come where all was light and love.....

............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 3 Canto 2

Page 310

Escape brings not the victory and the crown!
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.

Page 310&3111

Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,
And immortality in the secret heart,
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride,
The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,
The smile that saves, the golden peak of things?

Page 311

A high and blank negation is not all,
A huge extinction is not God's last word,
Life's ultimate sense, the close of being's course,
The meaning of this great mysterious world.

Page 312

A body of wonder and translucency
As if a sweet mystic summary of her self
Escaping into the original Bliss
Had come enlarged out of eternity,
Someone came infinite and absolute.

Abolishing the signless emptiness,
Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush,
Piercing the limitless Unknowable,
Into the liberty of the motionless depths
A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole.

A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful
Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.

Page 312&313

A love that bore the cross of pain with joy
Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,
Made happy the weight of long unending Time,
The secret caught of God's felicity.