Aurobindo 115 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Six: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
' A calm slow sun looked down from tranquil heavens.'
'And Savitri's life was glad, fulfilled like earth's;
She had found herself, she knew her being's aim.
Although her kingdom of marvellous change within
Remained unspoken in her secret breast,
All that lived round her felt its magic's charm: '
'This bright perfection of her inner state
Poured overflowing into her outward scene, '
'A light invaded all from her being's light; '
'Above the cherished head of Satyavan
She saw not now Fate's dark and lethal orb;
A golden circle round a mystic sun
Disclosed to her new-born predicting sight
The cyclic rondure of a sovereign life.'
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Aurobindo 72 Savitri Book 4
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Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto One: The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Amid the ambiguous stillness of the stars
She moved towards some undisclosed event'
'In ceaseless motion round the purple rim
Day after day sped by like coloured spokes, '
'from the gold eye of her paramour
Covered with packed cloud-veils the earth's brown face.'
Such must have it been well seasoned
Significant in thy words on Earth..
' Armies of revolution crossed the time-field,
The clouds' unending march besieged the world,
Tempests' pronunciamentos claimed the sky
And thunder drums announced the embattled gods.'
'Thick now the emissary javelins: '
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Aurobindo 74 Savitri Book 4
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Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto One: The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Arrived upon the strange and dubious globe
The child remembering inly a far home
Lived guarded in her spirit's luminous cell, '
'Harmoniously she impressed the earth with heaven.'
'Each minute was a throb of beauty's heart; '
'Near was her spirit to its parent Sun,
The Breath within to the eternal joy.'
Such was Savitri, such was fate's necessity..
'An occult godhead of this beauty is cause,
The spirit and intimate guest of all this charm, '
'Invisibly protected from our sense'
'This at a heavenlier height was shown in her.'
'An invisible sunlight ran within her veins
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Aurobindo 99 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Three: The Entry into the Inner Countries
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
So a method of expedition spiritually medicated
Thus commencing here for us to follow..
'At first out of the busy hum of mind
As if from a loud thronged market into a cave
By an inward moment's magic she had come.
A stark hushed emptiness became her self:
'Her mind unvisited by the voice of thought
Stared at a void deep's dumb infinity.'
'Her heights receded, her depths behind her closed;
All fled away from her and left her blank.
But when she came back to her self of thought,
Once more she was a human thing on earth, '
'Amazed like one unknowing she sought her way'
'Then a Voice spoke that dwelt on secret heights: '
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Aurobindo 69 Savitri Book 3
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Book 3-The Book of the Divine Mother
Canto Four: The Vision and the Boon
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
May king Aswapati continue for our hope...
'Where is the thunder of thy victory's wings?
Only we hear the feet of passing gods.'
'The aeons ever repeat their changeless round,
The cycles all rebuild and ever aspire.
All we have done is ever still to do.
All breaks and all renews and is the same.'
'Too little the strength that now with us is born, '
'In a brute world that knows not its own sense,
Thought-racked upon the wheel of birth we live,
The instruments of an impulse not our own
Moved to achieve with our heart's blood for price
Half-knowledge, half-creations that soon tire.'
'Annulled, frustrated, spent, we still survive.'
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Aurobindo-19-Savitri-Book -2
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Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto II The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'This fallen world became a nurse of souls
Inhabited by concealed divinity.'
...'fallen, inconscient, frustrate, dense, inert,
Sunk into inanimate and torpid drowse...'
'This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose,
From her blind unwilling substance must emerge
A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.'
Who will deny a wish so such blossomy
'A life living hardly in a field of death
Its portion claims of immortality; '
'A mighty kinship is this daring's cause.'
'Even in the littleness of our mortal state, ..'
'A brilliant passage for the infallible Flame
Is driven through gross walls of nerve and brain, ..'
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Aurobindo 141 Savitri Book 10
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Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight
Canto Two: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Thus is the ideal falsified in man's world;
Trivial or sombre, disillusion comes,
Life's harsh reality stares at the soul:
Heaven's hour adjourned flees into bodiless Time.
Death saves thee from this and saves Satyavan:
He now is safe, delivered from himself;
He travels to silence and felicity.
Call him not back to the treacheries of earth'
But Savitri replied to the dark Power:
'A dangerous music now thou findst, O Death, Line 201 to
I cherish God the Fire, not God the Dream.'Line 280
'But I forbid thy voice to slay my soul.
My love is not a hunger of the heart,
My love is not a craving of the flesh;
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Aurobindo 47 Savitri Book 2
Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Nine: The Paradise of the Life-Gods
Around him shone a great felicitous Day.
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'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.'
Passed through the suffering domain
Patient traveller passing through illumed arena..
'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,
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Perumaal 7-12
7 Curse relieved where Shiva in Thou domicile
Rid He where of the Brahmmakapalam
Thou presence where Agasthya visioned
Where with Kamalavalli Thee gracing
To Thou abode that of Thirukandiyur
That proclaims Thee in Alwar Thirumangai's heart
Hey Harasaapa Vimochana, vision, I surrender
8 Meaningful Thou incarnation where blessed Nandaka
All the Devas blessed where along with
Queen Mangamma where restituted Thou shrine
Padmasini where with Thee bestowing
To Thou abode that of Thirukoodaloor
That glorifies Thee in Thirumangai's verses
Hey, Vaiyamkatha Perumal, vision I surrender
9 Conferred on where Anjaneya title 'Chiranjeevi'
Salvaged Gajendra where from crocodile
All Thou mercy where sang Alwar Thirumangai
Where with RamamaniThee blessing
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Aurobindo 178 Savitri Book 11
'But not in the wide air where a greater Life
Uplifts its mystery and its miracle,
And not on the luminous peaks of summit Mind,
Or in the hold where subtle Matter's spirit
Hides in its light of shimmering secrecies,
Can there be heard the Eternal's firm command
That joins the head of destiny to its base.'
These only are the mediating links; '
Two are the Powers that hold the ends of Time;
Spirit foresees, Matter unfolds its thought,
The dumb executor of God's decrees,
Omitting no iota and no dot,
Agent unquestioning, inconscient, stark,
Evolving inevitably a charged content,
Intention of his force in Time and Space,
In animate beings and inanimate things; '
Marvelous elaboration on Matter and Spirit..
'Immutably it fulfils its ordered task,
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