Aurobindo 47 Savitri Book 2 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Nine: The Paradise of the Life-Gods
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

Around him shone a great felicitous Day.
'A favourite and intimate of the Gods
Obeying the divine command to joy,
It was the sovereign of its own delight
And master of the kingdoms of its force.'
It needed not to curb its passionate beats;
'It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God
And lay on the breast of universal love.'

'A silence of felicity wrapped the heavens,
A careless radiance smiled upon the heights;
A murmur of inarticulate ravishment
Trembled in the winds and touched the enchanted soil; '
'Advancing under an arch of glory and peace,
Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge, ...'
'He traversed scenes of an immortal joy'
And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss.'

'Across the vibrant secrecies of Space
A dim and happy music sweetly stole, ..'
'A summit and core of all that marvellous world,
Apart stood high Elysian nameless hills,
Burning like sunsets in a trance of eve.'
'Their peaks climbed towards a greatness beyond life.'
'The shining Edens of the vital gods
Received him in their deathless harmonies.

'All things were perfect there that flower in Time; '
'All life's high visions are embodied there'
'No lower note could break the endless charm
Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate; '
'He foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts: '
'Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves..'

............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 9

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Thrilled by the clasp of the warm satisfied sense
And the swift wonder-rush and flame and cry
Of the life-impulses' red magnificent race,
It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God
And lay on the breast of universal love.

Immune the unfettered Spirit of Delight
Pastured his gleaming sun-herds and moon-flocks
Along the lyric speed of griefless streams
In fragrance of the unearthly asphodel.

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Incessant in the arms of ecstasy
Repeating its sweet involuntary note
A sob of rapture flowed along the hours.


Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge,
As one who sees in the World-Magician's glass
A miracled imagery of soul-scapes flee
He traversed scenes of an immortal joy
And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss.

Below him lay like gleaming jewelled thoughts
Rapt dreaming cities of Gandharva kings.

And voices of unearthly melody
Chanted the glory of eternal love
In the white-blue-moonbeam air of Paradise.

As if to some new unsearched profundity,
Into a joyful stillness plunged their base;

17 Their slopes through a hurry of laughter and voices sank,
Crossed by a throng of singing rivulets,
Adoring blue heaven with their happy hymn,
Down into woods of shadowy secrecy:

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Dream walked along the highways of the stars;

Her wandering hopes achieved, her aureate combs
Caught by the honey-eater's darting tongue,

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To music that can immortalise the mind
And make the heart wide as infinity
Listened, and captured the inaudible
Cadences that awake the occult ear:

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Thoughts whose desire new-makes the universe.

A scale of sense that climbed with fiery feet
To heights of unimagined happiness,
Recast his being's aura in joy-glow,
His body glimmered like a skiey shell;

His gates to the world were swept with seas of light.

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A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,
The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,
And hints leaped down of white beatitudes.

Eternity drew close disguised as Love
And laid its hand upon the body of Time.

End of Book 2-Canto 9