Aurobindo 188 Savitri Book 12
'Like a murmuring lute' Savitri spoke on (Lines 155-211)
'Our love has grown greater by that mighty touch
And learned its heavenly significance,
Yet nothing is lost of mortal love's delight.'
'Heaven's touch fulfils but cancels not our earth:
Our bodies need each other in the same last; '
'Still am I she who came to thee mid the murmur
Of sunlit leaves upon this forest verge; '
'I am thy kingdom even as thou art mine,
The sovereign and the slave of thy desire,
Thy prone possessor, sister of thy soul
And mother of thy wants; thou art my world'
'Our wedded walk through life begins anew, '
'We have each other found, O Satyavan,
In the great light of the discovered soul.'
Peak of enlightenment, they stayed as beacon together
'Lo, all these beings in this wonderful world!
Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.'
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Aurobindo 98 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Two: The Parable of the Search for the Soul
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'This evil Nature housed in human hearts,
A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest: '
'A Manichean creator and destroyer,
This can abolish man, annul his world.
But there is a guardian power, there are Hands that save,
Calm eyes divine regard the human scene.'
'A vast subliminal is man's measureless part.
The dim subconscient is his cavern base.'
'Nothing is wholly dead that once had lived;
In dim tunnels of the world's being and in ours
The old rejected nature still survives; '
The corpses of its slain thoughts raise their heads
And visit mind's nocturnal walks in sleep,
Its stifled impulses breathe and move and rise;
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Aurobindo 138 Savitri Book 10
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Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight
Canto One: The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'And deep anticipations of delight,
For ever eager to be grasped and held,
Were never grasped, yet breathed strange ecstasy.'
'A pearl-winged indistinctness fleeting swam, 'Line115 to
'Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun.'Line 135
Visuals of the dreaming night in feeble light
Highly colourful in descriptive words..
All worldly invisible beings visible in dim space...
'These fugitive beings, these elusive shapes
Were all that claimed the eye and met the soul,
The natural inhabitants of that world.'
'But nothing there was fixed or stayed for long; '
'In that fine chaos joy fled dancing past
And beauty evaded settled line and form
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Aurobindo 160 Savitri Book 10
'Impose not upon sentient minds and hearts
The dull fixity that binds inanimate things.'
'I trample on thy law with living feet;
For to arise in freedom I was born.
If I am mighty let my force be unveiled
Equal companion of the dateless powers,
Or else let my frustrated soul sink down
Unworthy of Godhead in the original sleep.'
'I claim from Time my will's eternity,
God from his moments.' Decisive indeed she was..
'Why should the noble and immortal will
Stoop to the petty works of transient earth,
Freedom forgotten and the Eternal's path? '
Despite her words earlier on the All-Pervading
How you utter dark words still o' Death?
How well on the word-stairs they go I wonder
'Child, hast thou trodden the gods beneath thy feet
Only to win poor shreds of earthly life
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Aurobindo 76 Savitri Book 4
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Book Four: The Book of Birth and Quest
Canto Two: The Growth of the Flame
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'She held their hands, she chose for them their paths: '
'They lived in her, they saw the world with her eyes.'
'Some turned to her against their nature's bent; '
'Some drawn unwillingly by her divine sway
Endured it like a sweet but alien spell; '
'But mid this world, these hearts that answered her call,
None could stand up her equal and her mate.'
For she was the goddess unbeatable...
'Her greater self lived sole, unclaimed, within.'
'Among the many who came drawn to her
Nowhere she found her partner of high tasks,
The comrade of her soul, her other self
Who was made with her, like God and Nature, one.'
Sweet and wonderful expression here like Savitri
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Aurobindo 86 Savitri Book 6
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Book Six: The Book of Fate
Canto One: The Word of Fate
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'In silent bounds bordering the mortal's plane
Crossing a wide expanse of brilliant peace
Narad the heavenly sage from Paradise
Came chanting through the large and lustrous air.'
'Across an intangible border of soul-space
He passed from Mind into material things'
'He felt a sap of life, a sap of death; '
Also a making of a new destiny by Savitri...
'He saw the eternal labour of the Gods,
And looked upon the life of beasts and men.'
'A change now fell upon the singer's mood,
A rapture and a pathos moved his voice; '
'He sang no more the deathless heart of Love,
His chant was a hymn of Ignorance and Fate.'
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Perumaal 67-72
67 Third foot Thine where measured Maavali's head
In haste where Maavali prayed for a boon
Moment then Thee granted where Maavali's wish
Perumselvanayaki where with Thee gracing
To Thou abode that of Thirukaatkarai
That festively accolades Maavali in Aavani-Thiruvonam
Hey Kaatkaraiappa, vision, I surrender
68 Haritha rishi penanced where for humans
Unto Thy feet sooner to salvage
And Thee thereby where preached Srisooktham
Where with MathuraveniThee favouring
To Thou abode that of Thirumoozhikkalam
That worshipped Thee where Lakshman and Bharata
Hey Srisookthanatha, vision, I surrender
69 A woman virtuous accustomed where to almsgiving
Every dvadasi-day whereon Tholakasuran troubled her
Her worship Thee where killed the asura
Vaatsalyadevi where with Thee bestowing
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Aurobindo 100 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
'A formidable voice cried from within:
'Back, creature of earth, lest tortured and torn thou die.'
'The Serpent of the threshold hissing rose,
A fatal guardian hood with monstrous coils,
The hounds of darkness growled with jaws agape,
And trolls and gnomes and goblins scowled and stared
And wild beast roarings thrilled the blood with fear
And menace muttered in a dangerous tongue.'
'Unshaken her will pressed on the rigid bars: '
'Her being entered into the inner worlds.
In a narrow passage, the subconscient's gate,
She breathed with difficulty and pain and strove
To find the inner self concealed in sense.'
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Aurobindo 103 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
'But to the too satisfied and confident sage
Savitri replied casting into his world'
'Happy are they who in this chaos of things,
This coming and going of the feet of Time,
Can find the single Truth, the eternal Law:
Untouched they live by hope and doubt and fear.'
Happy are men anchored on fixed belief
In this uncertain and ambiguous world, '
Or who have planted in the heart's rich soil
One small grain of spiritual certitude.
Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock.'
'But I must pass leaving the ended search,
Truth's rounded outcome firm, immutable
And this harmonic building of world-fact,
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Aurobindo 114 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Five: The Finding of the Soul
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'In the deep place where once the Serpent slept,
There came a grip on Matter's giant powers
For large utilities in life's little space; '
'Surrendered into the great World-Mother's hands
Only she obeyed her sole supreme behest
In the enigma of the Inconscient's world.'
'A secret soul behind supporting all'
'Admits the Person's look and Nature's role.'
'An inner law of beauty shapes our lives; '
'Then sin and virtue leave the cosmic lists;
Our acts chime with God's simple natural good
Or serve the rule of a supernal Right.'
'Then lifts the mind a cry of victory: '
'O soul, my soul, we have created Heaven,
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