Aurobindo 54 Savitri Book 2
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Twelve: The Heavens of the Ideal
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Always the Ideal beckoned from afar.'
'Awakened by the touch of the Unseen,
'Aspired the strong discoverer, tireless Thought,
Revealing at each step a luminous world.'
'Across the covert air the spirit breathes, '
'Climbing from Nature's deep surrendered heart
It blooms for ever at the feet of God, ..'
Blissful unlike the rocket-era's mattered scary climbing
'Our hidden centres of celestial force
Open like flowers to a heavenly atmosphere;
Mind pauses thrilled with the supernal Ray, '
This in high realms touches immortal kind;
'There is the secrecy of the House of Flame, '
'The rapt idealism of heavenly sense; '
'Here upon earth are early awakenings, '
'Time's sun-flowers' gaze at gold Eternity'
'On the other side of the eternal stairs
The mighty kingdoms of the deathless Flame
Aspired to reach the Being's absolutes.'
'Once kindled, never can its flamings cease.'
'Its worlds are steps of an ascending Force: '
'Dreaming of a mysterious Beyond, ..'
'Towards some gold Infinite's apocalypse.'
Which is true to the trendy practicality...
'Far from our eager reach those summits live, '
'Only the Eternal's strength in us can dare
To attempt the immense adventure of that climb
And the sacrifice of all we cherish here.'
Yet to wish we have the right for the mundane
'On the wide spirit height where all are one.'...
............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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