Yogi Sri Aurobindo-03: The Wedding Poem by Subhas Chandra Chakra

The story of Satyavan's descending down
Upon the World of mortal grips,
Soul, the pious, with Truth divine
Death and ignorance play the whips.

Wedded to Savitri, the Divine Word,
Daughter of Sun is born on Earth,
Goddess of Truth Supreme, appeared
To save him from lethargic froth.

The lord of spiritual endeavours
King Aswapati, her human father.
A symbol of divine effort one needs
To transcend into the eternal-

From the subconscious slumber.
Sayavan's father, the fallen, divine mind
Dyumatsena, bereft of vision for ever
Lost the kingdom of glory being blind,

Neither the celestial vision he had
Nor his aspirations for glory, he clad
Incarnations were needed to discover
The path divine to immortal, life high

Above the mundane, mortal world
The soul to ride a concrete road
From murky, sluggish, lethargic floor
To awaken and rise up to divine door.

The epic story of conjugal love
As often told in Mahabharata, the great
The tale of Savitri and Satyavan-
Of love that conquered mundane death.