Aurobindo 117 Savitri Book 7 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Seven:The Book of Yoga
Canto Six:Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's


'O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe; 'Line 146 to
Annul thyself that only God may be.'Line 220
'Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme
That all in thee may reach its absolute.
Accept to be small and human on the earth,
Interrupting thy new-born divinity,
That man may find his utter self in God.'
A heavenly stroke of preaching to everyone..

'He who would save the world must share its pain.
If he knows not grief, how shall he find grief's cure?
If far he walks above mortality's head,
How shall the mortal reach that too high path?
If one of theirs they see scale heaven's peaks,
Men then can hope to learn that titan climb.'
So indulge in mortal running between birth and death
Take off with an uplift to heavenward.....

'And the miraculous world he has become
And the diviner miracle still to be
When Nature who is now unconscious God
Translucent grows to the Eternal's light,
Her seeing his sight, her walk his steps of power
And life is filled with a spiritual joy
And Matter is the Spirit's willing bride.
'Annul thyself that only God may be.'

'Thus following the complex human play
She heard the prompter's voice behind the scenes,
Perceived the original libretto's set
And the organ theme of the composer Force.'
'She saw the Powers that stare from the Abyss
And the wordless Light that liberates the soul.....

............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 there so, let Savitri in my self arise
Aroused there so be knowledge and fortune

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Note: More inspiring descriptive and
informative lines from Book-7, canto-6

Page 536

Hide whilst thou canst thy treasure of separate self
Behind the luminous rampart of thy depths
Till of a vaster empire it grows part.

Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all;

The day-bringer must walk in darkest night.

Page 537

God must be born on earth and be as man
That man being human may grow even as God.

Page 538

Aloof and standing back detached and calm,
A witness of the drama of herself,
A student of her own interior scene,
She watched the passion and the toil of life
And heard in the crowded thoroughfares of mind
The unceasing tread and passage of her thoughts.

All she beheld that surges from man's depths,
The animal instincts prowling mid life's trees,
The impulses that whisper to the heart
And passion's thunder-chase sweeping the nerves;