Aurobindo 64 Savitri Book 3 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto III: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's

'The Powers that here betray our hearts and err,
Were there sovereign in truth, perfect in joy, '
'There Mind, a splendid sun of vision's rays,
Shaped substance by the glory of its thoughts
And moved amidst the grandeur of its dreams.'
'Its power that makes the unknowable near and true,
In the temple of the ideal shrined the One: '
'There was no gulf between the thought and fact, '

'A marriage with eternity divinised Time.'
'There Life pursued, unwearied of her sport,
Joy in her heart and laughter on her lips,
The bright adventure of God's game of chance.'
'There Matter is the Spirit's firm density, '
'The home of a perpetual happiness,
It lodged the hours as in a pleasant inn.'
'The senses there were outlets of the soul; '

'He saw a world that is from a world to be.
There he divined rather than saw or felt,
Far off upon the rim of consciousness,
Transient and frail this little whirling globe
And on it left like a lost dream's vain mould,
A fragile copy of the spirit's shell,
His body gathered into mystic sleep.
A foreign shape it seemed, a mythic shade.

'His heart lay somewhere conscious and alone
Far down below him like a lamp in night; '
'Absorbed in adoration mystical,
Turned to its far-off fount of light and love.'
'It sent its voiceless prayer to the Unknown; '
'It waited for the fiat of the Word'

............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 3 Canto 3

Page 327

Imagination's great ensorcelling rod ****
Summoned the unknown and gave to it a home,
Outspread luxuriantly in golden air
Truth's iris-coloured wings of fantasy,
Or sang to the intuitive heart of joy
Wonder's dream-notes that bring the Real close.

There was no gulf between the thought and fact,
Ever they replied like bird to calling bird;

Page 329

An architect hewing out self's living rock,
Phenomenon built Reality's summer-house
On the beaches of the sea of Infinity.

Page 330

A tongueless oracle shall speak at last,
The Superconscient conscious grow on earth,
The Eternal's wonders join the dance of Time.

End of Book 3 Canto 3