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Aurobindo 72 Savitri Book 4
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto One: The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Amid the ambiguous stillness of the stars
She moved towards some undisclosed event'
'In ceaseless motion round the purple rim
Day after day sped by like coloured spokes, '
'from the gold eye of her paramour
Covered with packed cloud-veils the earth's brown face.'
Such must have it been well seasoned
Significant in thy words on Earth..
' Armies of revolution crossed the time-field,
The clouds' unending march besieged the world,
Tempests' pronunciamentos claimed the sky
And thunder drums announced the embattled gods.'
'Thick now the emissary javelins: '
Twixt and twixt those thy words I've left
Hitherto and hereafter done for space's sake
Pardon me o' picturesque verses...
'Then a last massive deluge thrashed dead mire
And a subsiding mutter left all still,
Or only the muddy creep of sinking floods
Or only a whisper and green toss of trees.'
' Earth's mood now changed; she lay in lulled repose,
The hours went by with slow contented tread: '
'A calmness neared as of the approach of God, '
Thy words enact the play on my vision's screen..
'Three thoughtful seasons passed with shining tread
And scanning one by one the pregnant hours
Watched for a flame that lurked in luminous depths,
The vigil of some mighty birth to come.'
'The sunlight was a great god's golden smile.
All Nature was at beauty's festival.'......
............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 thereso, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune
poem
by
Indira Renganathan
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