Aurobindo-6-Savitri-Book -1 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book I The Book of Beginnings-canto-3-
The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

Yoga of king Aswapati(Father of Savitri)and
his yogic experiences.

'In hands sustained by a transfiguring Might
He caught up lightly like a giant's bow
Left slumbering in a sealed and secret cave
The powers that sleep unused in man within.'
'He made of miracle a normal act
And turned to a common part of divine works,
'The gifts of the spirit crowding came to him; '
'They were his life's pattern and his privilege.'

'Deceived no more by form he saw the soul.
'The world's thought-streams travelled into his ken; '
Tuned to 'ethereal symphonies' was the king's soul
'A world unseen, unknown by outward mind
Appeared in the silent spaces of the soul.'
'The inner planes uncovered their crystal doors;
Strange powers and influences touched his life'
His'mind leaned out to meet the hidden worlds: '

'Ambrosial 'honey of Paradise', aromatic celestial fragrance
'Heavenly hues', 'a channel of universal harmony'
All 'beneath the cosmic surfaces' by a 'secret sense.'
'In the unceasing drama carried by Time'
'A laughter of sleepless pleasure foamed and spumed'
''All was revealed there none can here express; '
'The gods of light and titans of the dark
Battled for his soul as for a costly prize'

'It was a region of wonder and delight'
'The Supreme's gaze looked out through human eyes
And saw all things and creatures as itself'
And knew all thought and word as its own voice.'
'There unity is too close for search and clasp
'And oneness is the soul of multitude.'

............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 linesfrom
Book-1 canto-3

page-26

A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase
The lines of safety Reason draws that bar
Mind's soar, soul's dive into the Infinite.

page27

Tissue and nerve were turned to sensitive chords,
Records of lustre and ecstasy; it made
The body's means the spirit's acolytes.

The soul's experience of its deeper sheaths
No more slept drugged by Matter's dominance.

In the dead wall closing us from wider self,
Into a secrecy of apparent sleep,
The mystic tract beyond our waking thoughts,
A door parted, built in by Matter's force,
Releasing things unseized by earthly sense:

page27&28

He saw the Perfect in their starry homes
Wearing the glory of a deathless form,
Lain in the arms of the Eternal's peace,
Rapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy.

page28

In the Witness's occult rooms with mind-built walls
On hidden interiors, lurking passages
Opened the windows of the inner sight.

He lived in the mystic space where thought is born
And will is nursed by an ethereal Power
And fed on the white milk of the Eternal's strengths
Till it grows into the likeness of a god.

He owned the house of undivided Time.

page30

Answer to that inarticulate questioning,
There stooped with lightning neck and thunder's wings
A radiant hymn to the Inexpressible
And the anthem of the superconscient light.

The ever-living whom we name as dead
Could leave their glory beyond death and birth
To utter the wisdom which exceeds all phrase:

In every hour loosed from the quiver of Time
There rose a song of new discovery,
A bow-twang's hum of young experiment.

page31

All now his bright clairaudience could receive;

And with a silver cry of opening gates
Sight's lightnings leaped into the invisible.