Aurobindo 98 Savitri Book 7 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri
Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Two: The Parable of the Search for the Soul
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'This evil Nature housed in human hearts,
A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest: '
'A Manichean creator and destroyer,
This can abolish man, annul his world.
But there is a guardian power, there are Hands that save,
Calm eyes divine regard the human scene.'
'A vast subliminal is man's measureless part.
The dim subconscient is his cavern base.'

'Nothing is wholly dead that once had lived;
In dim tunnels of the world's being and in ours
The old rejected nature still survives; '
The corpses of its slain thoughts raise their heads
And visit mind's nocturnal walks in sleep,
Its stifled impulses breathe and move and rise;
All keeps a phantom immortality.'
'The evil cast from our hearts once more we face; '

'But this is only Matter's first self-view, '
'This is not all we are or all our world.'
Our greater self of knowledge waits for us,
A supreme light in the truth-conscious Vast:
It sees from summits beyond thinking mind,
It moves in a splendid air transcending life.
It shall descend and make earth's life divine.'
A goal every human should achive..

'All this the spirit concealed had done in her:
A portion of the mighty Mother came
Into her as into its own human part: '
'The inferior nature born into ignorance
Still took too large a place, it veiled her self
And must be pushed aside to find her soul.....

............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 7 Canto 2


Page 483

Abolished vainly in the walks of Time
Our past lives still in our unconscious selves
And by the weight of its hidden influences
Is shaped our future's self-discovery.
Thus all is an inevitable chain
And yet a series seems of accidents.

Page 484

Out of the inconscient and subliminal
Arisen, we live in mind's uncertain light
And strive to know and master a dubious world
Whose purpose and meaning are hidden from our sight.

Page 485

Our body's subtle self is throned within
In its viewless palace of veridical dreams
That are bright shadows of the thoughts of God.

Page 486&487

Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven
Or Heaven descend into earth's mortal state.
But for such vast spiritual change to be,
Out of the mystic cavern in man's heart
The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil
And step into common nature's crowded rooms
And stand uncovered in that nature's front
And rule its thoughts and fill the body and life.

End of Book-7 Canto-2