Aurobindo 49 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Ten: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Out of its rays our mind's full orb was born.'
'Proton and photon served the imager Eye
To change things subtle into a physical world
And the invisible appeared as shape
And the impalpable was felt as mass:
'Magic of percept joined with concept's art
And lent to each object an interpreting name: '
A way, identification-dilemma man got rid of...
'Still Knowledge could not come and firmly grasp
This huge invention seen as a universe.'
'None the true body found, its soul seemed dead:
None had the inner look which sees Truth's whole;
All glorified the glittering substitute.'
Here knowledge is to earn for the livelihood, the bond
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Aurobindo-4-Savitri-Book -1
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Book I The Book of Beginnings-canto-2-The Issue
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
The approaching end, who but Savitri could dare..
'Dying, it lived imperishably in her'
Future stood on the reviewing spectral Time
But rewinds were no wonder simultaneous
On childhood, youth and love and merry and all
Like any doomed mortal transient regardless of age
'Twelve passionate months led in a day of fate.'
Only'her will must cancel her body's destiny.'
'Our present fate, child of past energies..'
So was Savitri's'past, a block on the Immortal's road'
A mighty force as helping to settle karma's crops
Don't our selves all so battle for a new dawn
Alike must 'make a rased ground and shape anew her fate.
'She must plead her case upon extinction's verge'
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Aurobindo 175 Savitri Book 11
'There is the All-Truth and there the timeless bliss.
But hers are fragments of a star-lost gleam,
Hers are but careless visits of the gods.'
'Few are the silences in which Truth is heard,
Unveiling the timeless utterance in her deeps;
Few are the splendid moments of the seers.
Heaven's call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds;
The doors of light are sealed to common mind'
'My will, my call is there in men and things;
But the Inconscient lies at the world's grey back
And draws to its breast of Night and Death and Sleep.'
'The Inconscient could not read without man's mind
The mystery of the world its sleep has made:
Man is its key to unlock a conscious door.
But still it holds him dangled in its grasp: '
True, consciously in complete black-out.Hence weak
'He is barred out from his own inner depths;
He cannot look on the face of the Unknown.
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Aurobindo 57 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Fifteen: The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'After a measureless moment of the soul
Again returning to these surface fields
Out of the timeless depths where he had sunk,
He heard once more the slow tread of the hours.
All once perceived and lived was far away;
Himself was to himself his only scene.'
'He dwelt in his self's colourless purity.'
A silence in silent purity in deep divinity...
'Out of the neutral silence of his soul
He passed to its fields of puissance and of calm'
'Traversed the realms of the supreme Idea
And sought the summit of created things
And the almighty source of cosmic change.'
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Aurobindo 92 Savitri Book 6
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Book Six: The Book of Fate
Canto Two: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
To Aswapati 'Narad answered covering truth with truth: '
'O Aswapati, random seem the ways
Along whose banks your footsteps stray or run'
'A greatness in thy daughter's soul resides
That can transform herself and all around
But must cross on stones of suffering to its goal.'
'She too must share the human need of grief
And all her cause of joy transmute to pain.'
'A Magician's formulas have made Matter's laws
And while they last, all things by them are bound;
But the spirit's consent is needed for each act
And Freedom walks in the same pace with Law.
All here can change if the Magician choose.
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Aurobindo 159 Savitri Book 10
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Book Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight
Canto Four: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Because thou knowst the wisdom that transcends Line 337 to
Respect the calm of great established things.'Line 382
'If free thou hadst kept thy mind from life's fierce stress,
Thou mightst have been like them omniscient, calm.
But the violent and passionate heart forbids.'
'Hasteners to action, violators of God
Are these great spirits who have too much love, '
Words of wisdom carry still a long debate...
'The wise are tranquil; silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky,
Seated on their unchanging base, their heads
Dreamless in heaven's immutable domain.'
Wonderful example o' Death
'The wise think with the cycles, they hear the tread
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Aurobindo 181 Savitri Book 11
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Book Eleven: The Book of Everlasting Day
Canto One: The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice
and the Supreme Consummation
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Breaking the Silence with appeal and cry
A hymn of adoration tireless climbed, '
'Then all the woman yearningly replied:
'Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain,
Thy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe,
Thy magic flowing waters of deep love,
Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men.'
So much considerate you, Savitri...
'Then after silence a still blissful cry'
Began, ''O beautiful body of the incarnate Word, Line 965 to
This earthly life become the life divine.' Line 1430
A great strengthy explication on all
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Aurobindo 42 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Seven: The Descent into Night
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
A mind absolved from life, made calm to know,
The seal of tears, the bond of ignorance,
He turned to find that wide world-failure's cause.
'Away he looked from Nature's visible face
And sent his gaze into the viewless Vast, '
'That carries the universe in its timeless breadths
And the ripples of its being are our lives.'
Looking into the beyond beyond the beyond, audacious conquest..
'He saw the fount of the world's lasting pain
And the mouth of the black pit of Ignorance;
The evil guarded at the roots of life
Raised up its head and looked into his eyes.'
'A Death figuring as the dark seed of life,
Seemed to engender and to slay the world.'
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Aurobindo 123 Savitri Book 7
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Book Seven: The Book of Yoga
Canto Seven: The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit
and the Cosmic Consciousness
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'In its might of irresponsible sovereignty
It seized on speech to give those flamings shape,
Made beat the heart of wisdom in a word
And spoke immortal things through mortal lips.'
'A thought came through draped as an outer voice.'
'It came direct to the pure perception's seat,
An only centre now of consciousness,
If centre could be where all seemed only space; '
'In her the Unseen, the Unknown waited his hour.'
But now she sat by sleeping Satyavan,
Awake within, and the enormous Night
Surrounded her with the Unknowable's vast.
A voice began to speak from her own heart
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Perumaal 13-18
13 No salt, agreed where Thee to Markandeya
Wedded where Thee to Lakshmi by Thou heart
So to impart where Thou excellence matchless
where with Bhoomidevi, Tulasidevi Thee gracing
To Thou abode that of Thiruvinnagar(Oppiliappan koil)
That accolades Ennappan, Ponnappan, Maniappan, Muthappan
Hey Oppiliappa, Venkatappa, vision.I surrender
14 Ascetic Medhaavi's austerity where bore Mahalakshmi
Her damsel-beauty Where Thee captured in marriage
Beseen where Thee in split five personae
Vanjulavalli where with Thee bestowing
To Thou abode that of Thirunaraiyur(Naachiar Koil)
That bears highly weighty mighty Thou Garuda
Hey Thirunaraiyur Nambi, vision I surrender
15 His mud-pot for creation whence Brahma made
Kaveri's penance where gained Ganga's stature
Kaveri's wishful child where Thee improvised
Where with Saranayaki Thee blessing
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