Aurobindo 104 Savitri Book 7
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Four: The Triple Soul-Forces
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
So that was a visit to the inner countries
'Here from a low and prone and listless ground
The passion of the first ascent began; '
'A rugged and ragged soil was her bare seat,
Beneath her feet a sharp and wounding stone.'
'She looked out far and saw from inner mind
This questionable world of outward things,
Of false appearances and plausible shapes, '
'Accepting the universe as her body of woe,
The Mother of the seven sorrows bore
The seven stabs that pierced her bleeding heart:
The beauty of sadness lingered on her face,
Her eyes were dim with the ancient stain of tears.
Her heart was riven with the world's agony
And burdened with the sorrow and struggle in Time,
An anguished music trailed in her rapt voice.'
'Absorbed in a deep compassion's ecstasy, '
'In soft sweet training words slowly she spoke: '
'O Savitri, I am thy secret soul.Line 26 to
I know that one day he shall come at last.'Line 90
How true, how true all above said on a woman's soul
I go by'Mine is the prayer that climbs in vain from earth, '
AndI am the hope that looks towards my God,
My God who never came to me till now; '....
She ceased, and like an echo from below
Answering her pathos of divine complaint
A voice of wrath took up the dire refrain,
A growl of thunder or roar of angry beast,
The beast that crouching growls within man's depths, -
Voice of a tortured Titan once a God......
............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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