Aurobindo-10-Savitri-Book -1
An appreciation on Savitri-
Book I The Book of Beginnings-
canto-4-The Secret Knowledge
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'All here where each thing seems its lonely self
Are figures of the sole transcendent One'..
Yes, on whose breathing pace we breathe to tread
Whose 'unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.'
'A playmate in the mighty Mother's game..'
'A secret spirit in the Inconscient's sleep,
A shapeless Energy, a voiceless Word'
And 'Accomplice of' Mother's' cosmic huge pretence'
'His semblances he turns to real shapes'
'He gives to his timeless thoughts a form in Time.
He is the substance, he the self of things'
He is all in all finites as infinite
'She has forged from him her works of skill and might:
She wraps him in the magic of her moods
And makes of his myriad truths her countless dreams'
Her secret knowledge such in Her secret vast of Him
'Ever he repeats in them his ceaseless births.'
The 'maker and the world', the 'vision and the seer'
'The actor and the act', the 'knower and the known'
The 'dreamer and the dream' all Him and Him alone
His secret magic such in Her secret vast of Him
'Knowledge and Ignorance', 'light and darkness'
'pleasure and pain', 'wrestle and embrace, 'deeds, hopes'
All in their secret play is the secret of our lives
'Although possessor of the earth and heavens,
He leaves to her the cosmic management
And watches all, the Witness of her scene'
'He makes the hours pivot around her will,
Makes all reflect her whims; all is their play:
This whole wide world is only he and she.'..
............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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