Aurobindo 49 Savitri Book 2
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Ten: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Out of its rays our mind's full orb was born.'
'Proton and photon served the imager Eye
To change things subtle into a physical world
And the invisible appeared as shape
And the impalpable was felt as mass:
'Magic of percept joined with concept's art
And lent to each object an interpreting name: '
A way, identification-dilemma man got rid of...
'Still Knowledge could not come and firmly grasp
This huge invention seen as a universe.'
'None the true body found, its soul seemed dead:
None had the inner look which sees Truth's whole;
All glorified the glittering substitute.'
Here knowledge is to earn for the livelihood, the bond
Prime born is Matter's soul to thrive on this mud
And by what chance a sample me can be unfettered....
'Then from the secret heights a wave swept down,
A brilliant chaos of rebel light arose;
It looked above and saw the dazzling peaks,
It looked within and woke the sleeping god.'
'Its subtle craft withheld the full-orbed blaze,
Cherished the soul's childhood and on fictions fed'
'Thus streamed down from the realm of early Light
Ethereal thinkings into Matter's world; '
'In those bright realms are Mind's first forward steps.'
'Ignorant of all but eager to know all,
Its curious slow enquiry there begins; '
'All was a chaos of the true and false,
Mind sought amid deep mists of Nescience;
It looked within itself but saw not 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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