Aurobindo 138 Savitri Book 10 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Aurobindo 138 Savitri Book 10



An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Ten:The Book of the Double Twilight
Canto One:The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'And deep anticipations of delight,
For ever eager to be grasped and held,
Were never grasped, yet breathed strange ecstasy.'
'A pearl-winged indistinctness fleeting swam, 'Line115 to
'Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun.'Line 135
Visuals of the dreaming night in feeble light
Highly colourful in descriptive words..
All worldly invisible beings visible in dim space...

'These fugitive beings, these elusive shapes
Were all that claimed the eye and met the soul,
The natural inhabitants of that world.'
'But nothing there was fixed or stayed for long; '
'In that fine chaos joy fled dancing past
And beauty evaded settled line and form
And hid its sense in mysteries of hue; '
Like this poem has its sense in Thou dictional beauty


'Yet gladness ever repeated the same notes
And gave the sense of an enduring world; '
'One touched incessantly things never seized,
A skirt of worlds invisibly divine.'
'An adoration reigned in the yearning heart,
A spirit of purity, an elusive presence'
'Much sweeter seemed than any rapture known
Earth or all-conquering heaven can ever give.'

'Heaven ever young and earth too firm and old
Delay the heart by immobility: '
'Carved by an anguish of divine endeavour
They stand up sculptured on the eternal hills, '
Or quarried from the living rocks of God
Win immortality by perfect form.'...........

............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 and
informative lines from Book 10 Canto 1

Page 602

A pearl-winged indistinctness fleeting swam,
An air that dared not suffer too much light.
Vague fields were there, vague pastures gleamed, vague trees,
Vague scenes dim-hearted in a drifting haze;

Vague cattle white roamed glimmering through the mist;
Vague spirits wandered with a bodiless cry,
Vague melodies touched the soul and fled pursued
Into harmonious distances unseized;

A ripple of gleaming wings crossed the far sky;
Birds like pale-bosomed imaginations flew
With low disturbing voices of desire,
And half-heard lowings drew the listening ear,
As if the Sun-god's brilliant kine were there
Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun.

Page 603

And all renewed unendingly its charm
Alluring ever the expectant heart
Like music that one always waits to hear,
Like the recurrence of a haunting rhyme.

As if a trail of disappearing stars
There showered upon the floating atmosphere
Colours and lights and evanescent gleams
That called to follow into a magic heaven,

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