Aurobindo 61 Savitri Book 3 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Aurobindo 61 Savitri Book 3



An appreciation on Savitri-
Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto III: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'A mightier task remained than all he had done.'
'To That he turned from which all being comes,
A sign attending from the Secrecy
Which knows the Truth ungrasped behind our thoughts
And guards the world with its all-seeing gaze.'
'Patient he sat like an incarnate hope'
Motionless on a pedestal of prayer.'
'A neutral helpless void oppressed the years.'

'A veiled collaboration with the Night
Even in himself survived and hid from his view:
Still something in his earthly being kept
Its kinship with the Inconscient whence it came.'
'A shadowy unity with a vanished past'
'Still murmured at the mind's and spirit's choice.'
'Its treacherous elements spread like slippery grains
Hoping the incoming Truth might stumble and fall, '

'A last and mightiest transformation came.'
'His being, spread to embrace the universe,
United the within and the without
To make of life a cosmic harmony,
An empire of the immanent Divine.'
'He felt the joy of others as his joy,
He bore the grief of others as his grief; '
All lumped into the bliss of the soul...

'His universal sympathy upbore,
Immense like ocean, the creation's load
As earth upbears all beings' sacrifice,
Thrilled with the hidden Transcendent's joy and peace.'
'One grew the Spirit's secret unity,
All Nature felt again the single bliss.'....

............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 3

Page 317

But from the appalling heights there stooped no voice;
The timeless lids were closed; no opening came.
A neutral helpless void oppressed the years.

Page 318

His soul was all in front like a great sea
Flooding the mind and body with its waves;

Page 319

There was no cleavage between soul and soul,
There was no barrier between world and God.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Aniruddha Pathak 19 July 2019

Aurobindo's Savitree, someone presented me with this book and it has remained largely unread. The poetry is very rich, expressions lofty, but the narrative is so rambling, one can easily get lost, and I did every time I attempted to read.

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Yes Aniruddha...I admit... it is very difficult to follow the verses line by line...this is the fourth time I am reading Savitri and correcting my selection of lines...thanks for your visit and comment

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