Aurobindo 47 Savitri Book 2
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Nine: The Paradise of the Life-Gods
Around him shone a great felicitous Day.
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'A favourite and intimate of the Gods
Obeying the divine command to joy,
It was the sovereign of its own delight
And master of the kingdoms of its force.'
Passed through the suffering domain
Patient traveller passing through illumed arena..
'It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God
And lay on the breast of universal love.'
'A silence of felicity wrapped the heavens,
A careless radiance smiled upon the heights;
A murmur of inarticulate ravishment
Trembled in the winds and touched the enchanted soil; '
'Advancing under an arch of glory and peace,
Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge, ...'
'He traversed scenes of an immortal joy'
In true words the real holy jaunt...
'Across the vibrant secrecies of Space
A dim and happy music sweetly stole, ..'
'A summit and core of all that marvellous world,
Apart stood high Elysian nameless hills, ..'
'Adoring blue heaven with their happy hymn, '
'The shining Edens of the vital gods
Received him in their deathless harmonies.'
Lucky traveller drowned in immortal bliss..
'All things were perfect there that flower in Time; '
'In that paradise of perfect heart and sense
No lower note could break the endless charm
Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate; '
'Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves..'
'Immortality captured Time and carried 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
poem by Indira Renganathan
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