Aurobindo 68 Savitri Book 3 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Aurobindo 68 Savitri Book 3



Aurobindo 68 Savitri Book 3 - Poem by Indira Renganathan
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto Four: The Vision and the Boon
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'However man's mind may tire or fail his flesh,
A will prevails cancelling his conscious choice: '
'A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids; '
'Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts: '
'A strange and grandiose symbol was his birth'
'In him the Earth-Mother sees draw near the change'
'A godhead drawn from her transmuted limbs,
An alchemy of Heaven on Nature's base.'

'Obey thy spirit's wide omnipotent urge.'
'To its omnipotence leave thy work's result.
All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.'
August and sweet sank hushed that mighty Voice.'
'But Aswapati's heart replied to her,
A cry amid the silence of the Vasts:
'How shall I rest content with mortal days
And the dull measure of terrestrial things,

I who have seen behind the cosmic mask
The glory and the beauty of thy face?
Hard is the doom to which thou bindst thy sons!
How long shall our spirits battle with the Night
And bear defeat and the brute yoke of Death,
We who are vessels of a deathless Force
And builders of the godhead of the race? '
Ah, on our behalf Aswapati speaks....


'Or if it is thy work I do below
Amid the error and waste of human life
In the vague light of man's half-conscious mind,
Why breaks not in some distant gleam of thee?
Ever the centuries and millenniums pass.
Where in the greyness is thy coming's ray? ....

............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 4

Page 339

The goal recedes, a bourneless vastness calls
Retreating into an immense Unknown;

Ignorant, he forms the All-Conscient in his depths,
Human, looks up to superhuman peaks:
A borrower of Supernature's gold,
He paves his road to Immortality.

Page 340

His mind is crossed by strange discovering fires,
Rare intimations lift his stumbling speech
To a moment's kinship with the eternal Word;
A masque of Wisdom circles through his brain
Perturbing him with glimpses half divine.
He lays his hands sometimes on the Unknown;
He communes sometimes with Eternity

Assent to thy high self, create, endure.
Cease not from knowledge, let thy toil be vast.
No more can earthly limits pen thy force;
Equal thy work with long unending Time's.

Page 341

My light shall be in thee, my strength thy force.
Let not the impatient Titan drive thy heart,
Ask not the imperfect fruit, the partial prize.
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All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: prayer
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