Aurobindo 80 Savitri Book 5 Poem by Indira Renganathan

An appreciation on Savitri-
Book Five: The Book of Love
Canto One: The Destined Meeting-Place
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's


'But now the destined spot and hour were close;
Unknowing she had neared her nameless goal.'
'To a space she came of soft and delicate air'
'Where spring and summer lay together and strove
In indolent and amicable debate,
Inarmed, disputing with laughter who should rule.'
'And all that was in her felt a coming change'
'Was lifted to a beauty calm and pure'

'A crowd of mountainous heads assailed the sky'
'Earth prostrate lay beneath their feet of stone.'
'Below them crouched a dream of emerald woods'
'Pale waters ran like glimmering threads of pearl.'
'A sigh was straying among happy leaves; '
'Cool-perfumed with slow pleasure-burdened feet
Faint stumbling breezes faltered among flowers.'
Thy poetic beauty..I'm in awed wonder...

'The white crane stood, ..Line 32 to
'Life ran or hid in her delightful rooms; 'Line 48
O' Thy style of description, wonderment persists..
'The Mighty Mother lay outstretched at ease.
All was in line with her first satisfied plan; '
'At the end reclined a stern and giant tract
Of tangled depths and solemn questioning hills, '
'A matted forest-head invaded heaven'

'A stranger on the sorrowful roads of Time,
Immortal under the yoke of death and fate,
A sacrificant of the bliss and pain of the spheres,
Love in the wilderness met Savitri.'
So my anxiety grows for the furtherance thence
So is my anxiety how Thou words would delineate....

............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 5 Canto 1

Page 389

A crowd of mountainous heads assailed the sky
Pushing towards rival shoulders nearer heaven,
The armoured leaders of an iron line;
Earth prostrate lay beneath their feet of stone.
Below them crouched a dream of emerald woods
And gleaming borders solitary as sleep:
Pale waters ran like glimmering threads of pearl.

Page 390

Earth couched alone with her great lover Heaven,
Uncovered to her consort's azure eye.

A cry and leap and hurry was around,
The stealthy footfalls of her chasing things,
The shaggy emerald of her centaur mane,
The gold and sapphire of her warmth and blaze.
Magician of her rapt felicities,
Blithe, sensuous-hearted, careless and divine,
Life ran or hid in her delightful rooms;

Moved by a universal will of joy
The trees bloomed in their green felicity
And the wild children brooded not on pain.

Page 390&391

A matted forest-head invaded heaven
As if a blue-throated ascetic peered
From the stone fastness of his mountain cell
Regarding the brief gladness of the days;
His vast extended spirit couched behind.

End of Book 5 Canto 1