An appreciation on Savitri
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto V The Godheads of the Little Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo’s
‘This is the sign of Matter’s infinite
This the weird purport of the picture shown
‘To Science the giantess, measurer of her field,
As she pores on the record of her close survey
And mathematises her huge external world,
To Reason bound within the circle of sense,
Or in Thought’s broad impalpable Exchange line 591 to
‘We know not with what firm values for its base.’line 594
‘Only religion in this bankruptcy
Presents its dubious riches to our hearts
Or signs unprovisioned cheques on the Beyond:
Our poverty shall there have its revenge.’
‘But knowledge ends not in these surface powers’
‘There is a deeper seeing from within’
‘At last there wakes in us a witness Soul
That looks at truths unseen and scans the Unknown; ‘
‘Life’s borders crumble and join infinity.’
‘A game, a work ambiguously divine.’
‘It peers at the Real through the apparent form;
It labours in our mortal mind and sense; ‘
‘All is not here a blinded Nature’s task:
A Word, a Wisdom watches us from on high’
‘An Eye unseen in the unseeing vast; ‘
‘There is an Influence from a Light above’
‘In our body’s cells there sits a hidden Power
That sees the unseen and plans eternity,
Our smallest parts have room for deepest needs; ‘
‘Lulled by Time’s beats eternity sleeps in us.’
‘Each part in us desires its absolute.’
‘Our very senses blindly seek for bliss.’
…………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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