An appreciation on Savitri- <br />Book I The Book of Beginnings- <br />canto-4-The Secret Knowledge <br />Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's <br /> <br /> <br />Beyond, beyond amid the limitless a path lit <br />The king was so high on his eminent height <br />'On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights' <br />Inclined to transience 'a deathbound littleness' we are <br />'Immortal our forgotten vastnesses <br />Await discovery in our summit selves' <br />Aware and beware how many in us of that.. <br />Only 'a shapeless memory lingers' in our looking within <br /> <br />'In the oblivious field of mortal mind, <br />Revealed to the closed prophet eyes of trance <br />'The signals of eternity'in silent inward questing <br />'It is the origin and the master-clue, <br />A silence overhead, an inner voice, <br />A living image seated in the heart, <br />An unwalled wideness and a fathomless point, <br />'Truth of all these' is the 'secret grandiose meaning' <br /> <br />'Always we bear in us a magic key <br />Concealed in life's hermetic envelope.' <br />'It needs the intuitive heart, the inward turn, <br />It needs the power of a spiritual gaze.'... <br />Undeniably the way sages exemplified themselves <br />And so sadly exempted a huge unaware-flock today <br />'The dark Inconscient's signless mysteries <br />Stand up unsolved behind Fate's starting-line.' <br /> <br />'Along a path of aeons serpentine <br />In the coiled blackness of her nescient course <br />The Earth-Goddess toils across the sands of Time.' <br />'And conscious of the high things not yet won, <br />Ever she nurses in her sleepless breast <br />An inward urge that takes from her rest and peace.Wonderful! ! .. <br /> <br />............My consciousness this moment, <br />O'Guru, I'm in awe....in invincible heights <br />Ineffable Thee embellishing poetic creation <br />My inquisitive apprehension, erring Thee may opine <br />May thereso, let Savitri in my self arise <br />Aroused thereso be knowledge and fortune<br /><br />Indira Renganathan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/aurobindo-8-savitri-book-1/
