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’..
Whose ‘unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.’
‘A playmate in the mighty Mother’s game
One came upon the dubious whirling globe
To hide from her pursuit in force and form.’
‘A secret spirit in the Inconscient’s sleep,
‘He was here before the elements could emerge, ‘
‘ Accomplice of her 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’
‘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
‘He is the Maker and the world he made,
He is the vision and he is the Seer;
He is himself the actor and the act,
He is himself the knower and the known,
He is himself the dreamer and the dream.
There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes’ interchange; ‘
‘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
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