Aurobindo 52 Savitri Book 2
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Eleven: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'For Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,
It is greater than its earthly instrument: '
'Origin of the little that we are,
Instinct with the endless more that we must be,
A prop of all that human strength enacts, ..'
'In its vast ambit of ideal Space..'
'The Spirit's truths take form as living Gods
And each can build a world in its own right.'
'We move by the rapid impulse of a will
That scorns the tardy trudge of mortal time.'
'These promptings come not from an alien sphere:
Ourselves are citizens of that mother State,
Adventurers, we have colonised Matter's night.'...
I can not speak on each line for I'm speechless
Like now on '...colonised Matter's night'
'Amidst earth's mist and fog and mud and stone'
'Where Knowledge is the leader of the act
And Matter is of thinking substance made,
Feeling, a heaven-bird poised on dreaming wings,
Answers Truth's call as to a parent's voice, ..'
'There runs in its flow honeying the bosom of Space'
'And the breath of an unseen Infinity.'
'Far-off he saw the joining hemispheres.'
I wish for the possibility for everyone....
'But though immortal, mighty and divine,
The first realms were close and kin to human mind; '
'Their deities shape our greater thinking's roads, '
Which 'were not too broad', ' not too high for human hope.'
' But wide the terrains were those levels serve.'
Ceasless thinking so high and wide, we grow accordingly....
............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
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
