Aurobindo 12-Savitri-Book -1 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book I The Book of Beginnings-
Canto V The Yoga of the King:
The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's


'This knowledge first he had of time-born men.'
'Admitted through a curtain of bright mind'
'He found the occult cave, the mystic door
Near to the well of vision in the soul,
And entered where the Wings of Glory brood
In the silent space where all is for ever known.'
'He shore the cord of mind that ties the earth-heart
And cast away the yoke of Matter's law.'

'Thus could he step into that magic place'
'There in a hidden chamber closed and mute'
'Record graphs of the cosmic scribe, 'tables of the sacred Law, '
'Book of Being's index page, ''text and glossary of the Vedic truth'
'Rhythms and metres of the stars significant of the movements of our fate'
'Symbol powers of number and of form', 'secret code of the history of the world'
'Nature's correspondence with the soul
Are written in the mystic heart of Life.'

'He could re-read now and interpret new
Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs,
Resolve its oracle and its paradox,
Its riddling phrases and its blindfold terms,
The deep oxymoron of its truth's repliques,
Its hard conditions for the mighty work, "
'law of the opposition of the gods,
Its list of inseparable contraries.'


'A conscious wideness filled the old dumb Space.
In the Void he saw throned the Omniscience supreme.'
'A Will, a hope immense now seized his heart,
And to discern the superhuman's form
He raised his eyes to unseen spiritual heights,
Aspiring to bring down a greater world.....

............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: Some more inspiring descriptive linesfrom
Book-1 canto-5

Page 74

The body's rules bound not the spirit's powers:
When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in;
He dared to live when breath and thought were still.

Page 75

The dumb great Mother in her cosmic trance
Exploiting for creation's joy and pain
Infinity's sanction to the birth of form,
Accepts indomitably to execute
The will to know in an inconscient world,
The will to live under a reign of death,
The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh,
And works out through the appearance of a soul
By a miraculous birth in plasm and gas
The mystery of God's covenant with the Night.

Page 75&76

Out of the depths the world's buried secret rose;
He read the original ukase kept back
In the locked archives of the spirit's crypt,
And saw the signature and fiery seal
Of Wisdom on the dim Power's hooded work
Who builds in Ignorance the steps of Light.
A sleeping deity opened deathless eyes:

Page 76

In the light flooding thought's blank vacancy,
Interpreting the universe by soul signs
He read from within the text of the without: