Aurobindo 166 Savitri Book 10 Poem by Indira Renganathan

(An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight
Canto Four: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's)

'She spoke; Death unconvinced resisted still,
Although he knew refusing still to know,
Although he saw refusing still to see.
Unshakable he stood claiming his right.
His spirit bowed; his will obeyed the law
Of its own nature binding even on Gods.
The Two opposed each other face to face.
His being like a huge fort of darkness towered; '

'Around it her light grew, an ocean's siege.
Awhile the Shade survived defying heaven:
Assailing in front, oppressing from above,
A concrete mass of conscious power, he bore
The tyranny of her divine desire.'
Miracles are by the Divine heavenly
So too with Savitri herself the divine daughter
Obey o'Death, stoop to the divine command..

'His darkness muttered perishing in her blaze.
Her mastering Word commanded every limb
And left no room for his enormous will'
'He called to Night but she fell shuddering back,
He called to Hell but sullenly it retired: '
He turned to the Inconscient for support, '
'It drew him back towards boundless vacancy'
'He called to his strength, but it refused his call.'

'At last he knew defeat inevitable'
'Afar he fled shunning her dreaded touch
And refuge took in the retreating Night.'
'And Satyavan and Savitri were alone.
But neither stirred: between those figures rose
A mute invisible and translucent wall.'....

............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 4

Page 667

A pressure of intolerable force
Weighed on his unbowed head and stubborn breast;
Light like a burning tongue licked up his thoughts,
Light was a luminous torture in his heart,
Light coursed, a splendid agony, through his nerves;

Page 668

In the dream twilight of that symbol world
The dire universal Shadow disappeared
Vanishing into the Void from which it came.

End of Canto 4
End of Book 10