Aurobindo 185 Savitri Book 12 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Aurobindo 185 Savitri Book 12



An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Twelve: Epilogue
The Return to Earth
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'Out of abysmal trance her spirit woke.
Lain on the earth-mother's calm inconscient breast
She saw the green-clad branches lean above
Guarding her sleep with their enchanted life,
'And overhead a blue-winged ecstasy
Fluttered from bough to bough with high-pitched call.'
As if from the dark clouds escaped the sunshine
Saving Satyavan from death's grip rose Savitri..

'She pressed the living body of Satyavan:
On her body's wordless joy to be and breathe
She bore the blissful burden of his head
Between her breasts' warm labour of delight,
The waking gladness of her members felt
The weight of heaven in his limbs, ......'
'And all her life was conscious of his life
And all her being rejoiced enfolding his.'

'The immense remoteness of her trance had passed;
'All things in Time and Space she had taken for hers; '
'But soon she leaned down over her loved to call
His mind back to her with her travelling touch
On his closed eyelids; settled was her still look
Of strong delight, not yearning now, but large
With limitless joy or sovereign last content,
Pure, passionate with the passion of the gods.'

'Then sighing to her touch the soft-winged sleep
Rose hovering from his flowerlike lids and flew
Murmurous away. Awake, he found her eyes
Waiting for his, and felt her hands, and saw
The earth his home given back to him once more
And her made his again, his passion's all.'....

............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 12 Epilogue

Page715

Into the magic secrecy of the woods
Peering through an emerald lattice-window of leaves,
In indolent skies reclined, the thinning day
Turned to its slow fall into evening's peace.

A power dwelt in her soul too great for earth,
A bliss lived in her heart too large for heaven;

Light too intense for thought and love too boundless
For earth's emotions lit her skies of mind
And spread through her deep and happy seas of soul.

All that is sacred in the world drew near
To her divine passivity of mood.
A marvellous voice of silence breathed its thoughts.

Page 716

Outwingings of a bird from its bright home,
Her earthly morns were radiant flights of joy.
Boundless she was, a form of infinity.

Ever she held on the paradise of her breast
Her lover charmed into a fathomless sleep,
Lain like an infant spirit unaware
Lulled on the verge of two consenting worlds.

Page 716&717

Desire stirred not its wings; for all was made
An overarching of celestial rays
Like the absorbed control of sky on plain,
Heaven's leaning down to embrace from all sides earth,
A quiet rapture, a vast security.

Thursday, August 4, 2011
Topic(s) of this poem: prayer
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