Aurobindo 45 Savitri Book 2 Poem by Indira Renganathan

The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds Canto Eight: The
World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil
and the Sons of Darkness

'Then could he see the hidden heart of Night: '
A spiritless blank Infinity was there;
'A Nature that denied the eternal Truth
In the vain braggart freedom of its thought
Hoped to abolish God and reign alone.
There was no sovereign Guest, no witness Light; '..
'Unhelped it would create its own bleak world.'
'Evil and pain begot a monstrous soul.'

'A shadow substance into emptiness came,
Dim forms were born in the unthinking Void
And eddies met and made an adverse Space
In whose black folds Being imagined Hell.'
'It was the gate of a false Infinite,
An eternity of disastrous absolutes,
An immense negation of spiritual things.'
'Being collapsed into a pointless void'

'All high things served their nether opposite:
The forms of Gods sustained a demon cult;
Heaven's face became a mask and snare of Hell.'
'There in the heart of vain phenomenon, '
'He saw a Shape illimitable and vague
Sitting on Death who swallows all things born.'
'But from the Night another answer came.'
'A seeking Mind replaced the seeing Soul: '

'Assuring God's self-cowled neutrality
A mighty opposition conquered Space.'
'Implanting error in the stuff of things
It made an Ignorance of the all-wise Law; '
'Obscured was the Truth-light in the cavern heart'
'Companioning the Godhead of the shrine.'....

............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 2 Canto 8


Page 220

Its large blind eyes looked out on demon acts,
Its deaf ears heard the untruth its dumb lips spoke;
Its huge misguided fancy took vast shapes,
Its mindless sentience quivered with fierce conceits;


Impatient architects of error's house,
Leaders of the cosmic ignorance and unrest
And sponsors of sorrow and mortality
Embodied the dark Ideas of the Abyss.

Page 221

Thought sat, a priestess of Perversity,
On her black tripod of the triune Snake
Reading by opposite signs the eternal script,
A sorceress reversing life's God-frame.

16 In darkling aisles with evil eyes for lamps
And fatal voices chanting from the apse,
In strange infernal dim basilicas
Intoning the magic of the unholy Word,
The ominous profound Initiate
Performed the ritual of her Mysteries.

Page 221&222

There Good, a faithless gardener of God,
Watered with virtue the world's upas-tree
And, careful of the outward word and act,
Engrafted his hypocrite blooms on native ill.

Page 222

A chill fixed face with dire and motionless eyes,
Her dreadful trident in her shadowy hand
Outstretched, she pierced all creatures with one fate.

Then in a fatal and stupendous hour
Something that sprang from the stark Inconscient's sleep
Unwillingly begotten by the mute Void,
Lifted its ominous head against the stars;