Aurobindo 140 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
'Then pealed the calm inexorable voice: '
'Abolishing hope, cancelling life's golden truths,
Fatal its accents smote the trembling air.'
'Prisoner of Nature, many-visioned spirit, Line 7 to
And souls emerged into mortality.'Line 199
'The subtle marvellous mind of man has feigned,
This is the world from which thy yearnings came.'
True, Truth here is awedome awfulness...
'This is the stuff from which the ideal is formed:
Its builder is thought, its base the heart's desire,
But nothing real answers to their call.
The ideal dwells not in heaven, nor on the earth,
A bright delirium of man's ardour of hope
Drunk with the wine of its own fantasy.
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Aurobindo-25-Savitri-Book -2
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Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto IV The Kingdoms of the Little Life
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'The gusts of Nature were the only law,
Force wrestled with force, but no result remained: '
'The first writhings of the cosmic serpent Force
Uncoiled from the mystic ring of Matter's trance;
It raised its head in the warm air of life.'
'It could not cast off yet Night's stiffening sleep'..
'Or stand erect in the blaze of spirit's sun.'
So was the signal of a 'Little Life'
'A heavenly process donned this grey disguise,
'To release the glory of God in Nature's mud.'
'His sight, spiritual in embodying orbs,
Could pierce through the grey phosphorescent haze'
'This too he tracked along its hidden stream
And traced its acts to a miraculous fount.'
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Aurobindo 131 Savitri Book 9
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Book Nine: The Book of Eternal Night
Canto One: Towards the Black Void
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Thought, time and death were absent from her grasp:
She knew not self, forgotten was Savitri.'
'Her aim, joy, origin, Satyavan alone.'
'Her sovereign prisoned in her being's core,
He beat there like a rhythmic heart, -herself'
'Around him nameless, infinite she surged,
Her spirit fulfilled in his spirit, rich with all Time, '
'Onward the three still moved in her soul-scene.'
'In voiceless regions they were travellers
Alone in a new world where souls were not,
But only living moods: a strange hushed weird
Country was round them, strange far skies above,
A doubting space where dreaming objects lived
Within themselves their one unchanged idea.'
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Aurobindo 52 Savitri Book 2
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Book Two: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Eleven: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'For Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,
It is greater than its earthly instrument: '
'Origin of the little that we are,
Instinct with the endless more that we must be,
A prop of all that human strength enacts, ..'
'In its vast ambit of ideal Space..'
'The Spirit's truths take form as living Gods
And each can build a world in its own right.'
'We move by the rapid impulse of a will
That scorns the tardy trudge of mortal time.'
'These promptings come not from an alien sphere:
Ourselves are citizens of that mother State,
Adventurers, we have colonised Matter's night.'...
I can not speak on each line for I'm speechless
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Aurobindo-7-Savitri-Book -1
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Book I The Book of Beginnings-canto-3-
The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
Yoga of Aswapati-
And wisdom 'sat uncompanioned in the eternal Calm,
All-seeing, motionless, sovereign and alone'
Thoughts wanting'only a little arc of God's vast sky.'
While there, one is one's own infinity'
His centre was no more in earthly mind; '
'His soul could sail beyond thought's luminous bar;
The voice that only by speech can move the mind
Became a silent knowledge in the soul; '
'All here must learn to obey a higher law,
Our body's cells must hold the Immortal's flame.
Else would the spirit reach alone its source
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Aurobindo-6-Savitri-Book -1
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Book I The Book of Beginnings-canto-3-
The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
Yoga of Aswapati-
'In hands sustained by a transfiguring Might
He caught up lightly like a giant's bow
Left slumbering in a sealed and secret cave
The powers that sleep unused in man within.'
Andthere, promoted pristine experience unfurled
A revelation the soul was offered
'The gifts of the spirit crowding came to him;
They were his life's pattern and his privilege'.
'The world's thought-streams travelled into his ken; '
Tuned to 'ethereal symphonies' was the king's soul
'A world unseen, unknown by outward mind
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Perumaal91-96
91 Penancing Dharmadev where visioned Thee
Thereon where built Thine abode Vishvakarma
Thine golden beauty where adores NoopuraGangai
Sundaravalli where with Thee gracing
To Thou abode that of Thirumaliruncholai(Azhagar Malai)
That in appraisal versifies where Andaal handsome Thee
Hey Paramaswami, vision, I surrender
92Deceived Asuras where Thine Mohini
Nectar-droplets where fell to sanctify
Thine Matsya where retrieved Brahma's veda-codices
Where with Mohanavalli Thee favouring
To Thou abode that of ThiruMohoor
That staunch Brahma where worshipped Thee gratefully
Hey Kaalamega Perumaal, vision, I surrender
93 Kadamba Rishi penanced where to vision Thee
Brahma, Indra where gifted Kadamba Thine images
Mayan and Vishvakarma where built Thine abode
Thirumamagal where with Thee bestowing
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Perumaal 85-90
85 Leered that he lost his seeing, one-eyed
Kupera, Parvathi-cursed where penanced atoning
Lost wealth his where Thee blessed with a portion
Kumudavalli where with Thee bestowing
To Thou abode that of Thirukoloor
That praises Thine recline on 'Marakaal' Mathuravalli
Hey Vaithamaanidhi, vision, I surrender
86 Messenger where Durvasa played for Lakshmi
Disrespectful Bhoomidevi where Durvasa cursed
Whereon blessed Thine Makarakundala repenting Bhoomidevi
Where with Kuzhaikaaduvalli Thee blessing
To Thou abode that of Thenthiruperai
That retrieved Varuna his Paasa Thine blessing
Hey Makaranedunkuzhaikaada, vision, I surrender
87 Guided where Thee Brahma to penance
Casted untouchable where Thaandhan driven by brahmins
Thine Adinathan where blessed him respected
Kumudavalli where with Thee gracing
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Aurobindo 90 Savitri Book 6
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Book Six: The Book of Fate
Canto One: The Word of Fate
Words within inverted commas are Aurobindo's
'Then cried the sage piercing the mother's heart,
Forcing to steel the will of Savitri,
His words set free the spring of cosmic Fate.'
''The truth thou hast claimed; I give to thee the truth.'Line 531 to
'This day returning Satyavan must die.'Line 588
Fate of Satyavan revealed...
But the queen cried: 'Vain then can be heaven's grace! Line 590 to
A choice less rare may call a happier fate.'Line 608
'But Savitri answered from her violent heart, -
'Once my heart chose and chooses not again...
....I am stronger than death and greater than my fate;
My love shall outlast the world, doom falls from me
Helpless against my immortality.
Fate's law may change, but not my spirit's will.'
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Perumaal 97-102
97 Guiding Brahma where indicated of a falling wheel
Austere rishis where chose to do chatra yajna
Thee where from the holy fire rose to bless
Sriharilakshmi where with Thee bestowing
To Thou abode that of Naimisaranyam
That Vyasa, Sukabrahma where scripted Bharatam, Bhagavatam
Hey Devaraja, vision, I surrender
98 In concealment Thine divine play
Amid the serene clouded hills
Thine sylvan where befriending lake Manasarover
Where with Parimalavalli Thee blessing
To Thou abode that of Thirupirithi
That his first pasuram where Thirumangai debuted
Hey Paramapurusha, vision, I surrender
99 Indran where at Ganga-bank keeping a watch
Thine deluge-abode where immortal Banyan awaiting
His adoration ever Thee wherefor Brahma penanced
Pundarikavalli where with Thee gracing
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