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: ‘
‘Arriving into his ken a wonder space
Of great and marvellous meetings called his steps,
Where Thought leaned on a Vision beyond thought
And shaped a world from the Unthinkable.’
‘The splendours of ideal Mind were seen
Outstretched across the boundaries of things known.’
Awake in a luminous sphere unbound by Thought,
Exposed to omniscient immensities,
It casts on our world its great crowned influences, …’
‘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.’
‘Far are those realms from our labour and yearning and call, …..
‘Remote from the turbid tread of mortal life.’
‘But since our secret selves are next of kin,
A breath of unattained divinity
Visits the imperfect earth on which we toil; ‘
‘Across a gleaming ether’s golden laugh
A light falls on our vexed unsatisfied lives ‘
‘The child of the secret soul’s forbidden desire
Born of its amour with eternity.’
‘Our spirits break free from their environment; ‘
‘But now our rights are barred, our passports void; ‘
‘An errant ray from the immortal Mind
Accepted the earth’s blindness and became
Our human thought, servant of Ignorance.
‘Far-off he saw the joining hemispheres.’
‘Above were bright ethereal skies of mind’
…………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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