An appreciation on Savitri- <br />Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds <br /> Canto II The Kingdom of Subtle Matter <br />Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's <br /> <br />'This fallen world became a nurse of souls <br />Inhabited by concealed divinity.' <br />...'fallen, inconscient, frustrate, dense, inert, <br />Sunk into inanimate and torpid drowse...' <br />'This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose, <br />From her blind unwilling substance must emerge <br />A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.' <br />Who will deny a wish so such blossomy <br /> <br />'A life living hardly in a field of death <br />Its portion claims of immortality; ' <br />'A mighty kinship is this daring's cause.' <br />'Even in the littleness of our mortal state, ..' <br />'A brilliant passage for the infallible Flame <br />Is driven through gross walls of nerve and brain, ..' <br />'Earth's great dull barrier is removed awhile, ..' <br />'And we grow vessels of creative might.' <br /> <br />'The enthusiasm of a divine surprise <br />Pervades our life, a mystic stir is felt, <br />A joyful anguish trembles in our limbs; <br />A dream of beauty dances through the heart, <br />A thought from the eternal Mind draws near, <br />Intimations cast from the Invisible <br />Awaking from Infinity's sleep come down, <br />Symbols of That which never yet was made.' <br /> <br />'Only when we have climbed above ourselves, <br />A line of the Transcendent meets our road <br />And joins us to the timeless and the true; '.. <br />Here I agree yet remain dubious on trendy today <br />And of that divine force, her choice of whose destiny.. <br />Destined even to ponder on climbing above.... <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-19-savitri-book-2/
