Aurobindo 79 Savitri Book 4
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto Four: The Quest
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'At first a strangeness of new brilliant scenes
Peopled her mind and kept her body's gaze.
But as she moved across the changing earth
A deeper consciousness welled up in her: '
'It took all clans and peoples for her own,
Till the whole destiny of mankind was hers.'
Till she havened in our lives
Where 'We reap the fruit of our forgotten deeds.'
'Upon her silent heights she was aware
Of a calm Presence throned above her brows'
'Driven from within she followed her long road,
Mute in the luminous cavern of her heart, '
'At first her path ran far through peopled tracts: '
'Away from this thinking creature's burdened hours
To free and griefless spaces now she turned
Not yet perturbed by human joys and fears.'
So a watcher on human life she just was
'Afar from the brute noise of clamorous needs
The quieted all-seeking mind could feel, '
'The unwearied clasp of her mute patient love
And know for a soul the mother of our forms.'
'Not yet was a world all occupied by care'..Line 130 to
'Some uncompanioned reached the Ineffable'..Line 258
Wonderful description on Earth's 'symbol mysteris'...
'The golden virgin in her carven car
Came gliding among meditation's seats.'
'But morn broke in reminding her of her quest
And from low rustic couch or mat she rose
And went impelled on her unfinished way
And followed the fateful orbit of her life'....
............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
End of Book Four
poem by Indira Renganathan
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