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Ñàâèòðè
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Ñîäåðæàíèå
×àñòü 1. ×òåíèå Ìàòåðè è ìóçûêà Ñóíèëà
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ñîïðîâîäèòåëüíûì òåêñòîì áåç ìóçûêè Ñóíèëà
(íåêîòîðûå çàïèñè íå âõîäÿò â 1-þ ÷àñòü!)
×àñòü 1
×òåíèå Ìàòåðè
è ìóçûêà Ñóíèëà
BOOK ONE. The Book of Beginnings |
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5. The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness |
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BOOK TWO. The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds |
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BOOK THREE. The Book of the Divine Mother |
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BOOK FOUR. The Book of Birth and Quest |
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BOOK FIVE. The Book of Love |
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BOOK SIX. The Book of Fate |
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BOOK SEVEN. The Book of Yoga |
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1. The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain |
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7. The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness |
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BOOK EIGHT. The Book of Death |
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BOOK NINE. The Book of Eternal Night |
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2. The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness |
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BOOK TEN. The Book of the Double Twilight |
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×òåíèå Ìàòåðè
ñ ñîïðîâîäèòåëüíûì òåêñòîì
áåç ìóçûêè Ñóíèëà
Ñòðîêè ñîïðîâîäèòåëüíîãî òåêñòà ïðîíóìåðîâàíû ñîîòâåòñòâåííî èõ ìåñòó â îðèãèíàëüíîì òåêñòå. Êàæäûé áëîê ñ àóäèîçàïèñüþ íà÷èíàåòñÿ ñî ñòðîêè òàêîãî âèäà:
1) ññûëêà äëÿ ïðîñëóøèâàíèÿ àóäèî îí-ëàéí
2) ññûëêà äëÿ ñîõðàíåíèÿ àóäèî-ôàéëà íà Âàø êîìïüþòåð
3) ìåòêà, åñëè äàííàÿ çàïèñü íå âêëþ÷åíà â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé Ñóíèëà
4) íîìåð áëîêà, êîòîðûé ñîäåðæèò:
1) íîìåð Êíèãè
2) íîìåð Ïåñíè
3) íîìåð çàïèñè âíóòðè òåêóùåé Ïåñíè
Ñîäåðæàíèå
2. The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
3. The Book of the Divine Mother
4. The Book of Birth and Quest
10. The Book of the Double Twilight
11. The Book of Everlasting Day
Book One. The Book of Beginnings
1.1–1 |
001 It was the hour before the Gods awake.
002 Across the path of the divine Event
003 The huge
foreboding mind of Night, alone
004 In her unlit temple of
eternity,
005 Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge.
006
Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable,
007 In the sombre symbol
of her eyeless muse
008 The abysm of the unbodied Infinite;
009 A fathomless zero occupied the world.
023 Athwart the vain enormous trance of
Space,
024 Its formless stupor without mind or life,
025
A shadow spinning through a soulless Void,
026 Thrown back once
more into unthinking dreams,
027 Earth wheeled abandoned in the
hollow gulfs
028 Forgetful of her spirit and her fate.
030 Then something in the inscrutable
darkness stirred;
031 A nameless movement, an unthought Idea
032 Insistent, dissatisfied, without an aim,
033
Something that wished but knew not how to be,
034 Teased the
Inconscient to wake Ignorance.
048 An unshaped consciousness desired light
049 And a blank prescience yearned towards distant change.
050
As if a childlike finger laid on a cheek
051 Reminded of the
endless need in things
052 The heedless Mother of the universe,
053 An infant longing clutched the sombre Vast.
058 Arrived from the other side of
boundlessness
059 An eye of deity peered through the dumb deeps;
060 A scout in a reconnaissance from the sun,
061 It
seemed amid a heavy cosmic rest,
062 The torpor of a sick and
weary world,
063 To seek for a spirit sole and desolate
064
Too fallen to recollect forgotten bliss.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
078. All can be done if the god-touch is there.
079.
A hope stole in that hardly dared to be
080. Amid the Night’s forlorn
indifference.
...
085. Into a far-off nook of heaven there came
086. A
slow miraculous gesture’s dim appeal.
...
090. A wandering hand of pale
enchanted light
091. That glowed along a fading moment’s brink,
092. Fixed
with gold panel and opalescent hinge
093. A gate of dreams ajar on mystery’s
verge.
094. One lucent corner windowing hidden things
095. Forced the
world’s blind immensity to sight.
096 The darkness failed and slipped like a
falling cloak
097 From the reclining body of a god.
102 A glamour from unreached transcendences
103 Iridescent with the glory of the Unseen,
104 A
message from the unknown immortal Light
105 Ablaze upon
creation’s quivering edge,
106 Dawn built her aura of magnificent
hues
107 And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
109. On life’s thin border awhile the Vision stood
110. And bent over earth’s pondering forehead curve.
...
120. Once more a
tread perturbed the vacant Vasts;
121. Infinity’s centre, a Face of rapturous
calm
122. Parted the eternal lids that open heaven;
123. A Form from far
beatitudes seemed to near.
124. Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,
125. The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths
126. That wrap the
fated journeyings of the stars
127. And saw the spaces ready for her feet.
130 Earth felt the Imperishable’s passage
close:
131 The waking ear of Nature heard her steps
132
And wideness turned to her its limitless eye,
133 And, scattered
on sealed depths, her luminous smile
134 Kindled to fire the
silence of the worlds.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
135. All grew a consecration and a rite.
136. Air was
a vibrant link between earth and heaven;
137. The wide-winged hymn of a great
priestly wind
138. Arose and failed upon the altar hills;
139. The high
boughs prayed in a revealing sky.
140 Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts
the gulfs
141 On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth,
142
Here where one knows not even the step in front
143 And Truth has
her throne on the shadowy back of doubt,
144 On this anguished
and precarious field of toil
145 Outspread beneath some large
indifferent gaze,
146 Impartial witness of our joy and bale,
147 Our prostrate soil bore the awakening ray.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
171. The excess of beauty natural to god-kind
172.
Could not uphold its claim on time-born eyes;
173. Too mystic-real for
space-tenancy
174. Her body of glory was expunged from heaven:
175. The
rarity and wonder lived no more.
176. There was the common light of earthly
day.
...
180. All sprang to their unvarying daily acts;
181. The
thousand peoples of the soil and tree
182. Obeyed the unforeseeing instant’s
urge,
183. And, leader here with his uncertain mind,
184. Alone who stares
at the future’s covered face,
185. Man lifted up the burden of his fate.
186 And Savitri too awoke among these tribes
187 That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner’s chant
. . .
205 A narrow movement on Time’s deep abysm,
206
Life’s fragile littleness denied the power,
207 The proud and
conscious wideness and the bliss
208 She had brought with her
into the human form,
209 The calm delight that weds one soul to
all,
210 The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
211. Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and
tears
212. Rejected the undying rapture’s boon:
213. Offered to the
daughter of infinity
214. Her passion-flower of love and doom she gave.
...
222. Mortality bears ill the eternal’s touch:
...
229. Inflicting
on the heights the abysm’s law,
230. It sullies with its mire heaven’s
messengers:
231. Its thorns of fallen nature are the defence
232. It turns
against the saviour hands of Grace;
233. It meets the sons of God with death
and pain.
247 Thus trapped in the gin of earthly
destinies,
248 Awaiting her ordeal’s hour abode,
249
Outcast from her inborn felicity,
250 Accepting life’s obscure
terrestrial robe,
251 Hiding herself even from those she loved,
252 The godhead greater by a human fate.
282 Against the evil at life’s afflicted
roots,
283 Her own calamity its private sign,
284
Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant sword.
307 At the summons of her body’s voiceless
call
308 Her strong far-winging spirit travelled back,
309
Back to the yoke of ignorance and fate,
310 Back to the labour
and stress of mortal days,
311 Lighting a pathway through strange
symbol dreams
312 Across the ebbing of the seas of sleep.
341 Immobile in herself, she gathered force.
342 This was the day when Satyavan must die.
025 An absolute supernatural darkness falls
026 On man sometimes when he draws near to God:
027
An hour arrives when fail all Nature’s means;
028 Forced out from
the protecting Ignorance
029 And flung back on his naked primal
need,
030 He at length must cast from him his surface soul
031
And be the ungarbed entity within:
032 That hour had fallen now
on Savitri.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
094. Around her were the austere sky-pointing hills,
095. And the green murmurous broad deep-thoughted woods
096. Muttered
incessantly their muffled spell.
097. A dense magnificent coloured
self-wrapped life
098. Draped in the leaves’ vivid emerald monotone
099.
And set with chequered sunbeams and blithe flowers
100. Immured her destiny’s
secluded scene.
101. There had she grown to the stature of her spirit:
112 And the mighty wildness of the primitive
earth
113 And the brooding multitude of patient trees
114
And the musing sapphire leisure of the sky
115 And the solemn
weight of the slowly-passing months
116 Had left in her deep room
for thought and God.
117 There was her drama’s radiant prologue
lived.
124 Here with the suddenness divine advents
have,
125 Repeating the marvel of the first descent,
126
Changing to rapture the dull earthly round,
127 Love came to her
hiding the shadow, Death.
128 Well might he find in her his
perfect shrine.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
134. All in her pointed to a nobler kind.
135. Near
to earth’s wideness, intimate with heaven,
136. Exalted and swift her young
large-visioned spirit
137. Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm
138. Overflew the ways of Thought to unborn things.
139. Ardent was her
self-poised unstumbling will;
140. Her mind, a sea of white sincerity,
141. Passionate in flow, had not one turbid wave.
142 As in a mystic and dynamic dance
143
A priestess of immaculate ecstasies
144 Inspired and ruled from
Truth’s revealing vault
145 Moves in some prophet cavern of the
gods,
146 A heart of silence in the hands of joy
147
Inhabited with rich creative beats
148 A body like a parable of
dawn
149 That seemed a niche for veiled divinity
150
Or golden temple-door to things beyond.
161 As might a soul fly like a hunted bird,
162 Escaping with tired wings from a world of storms,
163
And a quiet reach like a remembered breast,
164 In a haven of
safety and splendid soft repose
165 One could drink life back in
streams of honey-fire,
166 Recover the lost habit of happiness,
167 Feel her bright nature’s glorious ambience,
168
And preen joy in her warmth and colour’s rule.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
200. Almost they saw who lived within her light
201.
Her playmate in the sempiternal spheres
202. Descended from its unattainable
realms
203. In her attracting advent’s luminous wake,
204. The white-fire
dragon-bird of endless bliss
205. Drifting with burning wings above her days:
206. Heaven’s tranquil shield guarded the missioned child.
...
233.
Whether to bear with Ignorance and death
234. Or hew the ways of Immortality,
235. To win or lose the godlike game for man,
236. Was her soul’s issue
thrown with Destiny’s dice.
237. But not to submit and suffer was she born;
238. To lead, to deliver was her glorious part.
...
241. An image
fluttering on the screen of Fate,
242. Half-animated for a passing show,
243. Or a castaway on the ocean of Desire
244. Flung to the eddies in a
ruthless sport
245. And tossed along the gulfs of Circumstance,
246 A creature born to bend beneath the yoke,
247 A chattel and a plaything of Time’s lords,
248 Or
one more pawn who comes destined to be pushed
249 One slow move
forward on a measureless board
250 In the chess-play of the
earth-soul with Doom,—
251 Such is the human figure drawn by Time.
252 A conscious frame was here, a self-born Force.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
263. Across each road stands armed a stone-eyed Law,
264. At every gate the huge dim sentinels pace.
265 A grey tribunal of the Ignorance,
266
An Inquisition of the priests of Night
267 In judgment sit on the
adventurer soul,
268 And the dual tables and the Karmic norm
269 Restrain the Titan in us and the God:
269 Pain
with its lash, joy with its silver bribe
270 Guard the Wheel’s
circling immobility.
274 Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life.
327 A magic leverage suddenly is caught
328 That moves the veiled Ineffable’s timeless will:
329
A prayer, a master act, a king idea
330 Can link man’s strength
to a transcendent Force.
364 A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks
365 Empowered to force the door denied and closed
366
Smote from Death’s visage its dumb absolute
367 And burst the
bounds of consciousness and Time.
1.3. The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release
001 A world’s desire compelled her mortal birth.
002
One in the front of the immemorial quest,
. . .
007 A thinker
and toiler in the ideal’s air,
008 Brought down to earth’s dumb
need her radiant power.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
104. A Presence wrought behind the ambiguous screen:
...
112. Then came the abrupt transcendent miracle:
113. The masked
immaculate Grandeur could outline,
114. At travail in the occult womb of life,
115. His dreamed magnificence of things to be.
116. A crown of the
architecture of the worlds,
117. A mystery of married Earth and Heaven
...
119. A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time.
120. For him mind’s limiting
firmament ceased above.
...
124. The landmarks of the little person fell,
125. The island ego joined its continent.
126. Overpassed was this world of
rigid limiting forms:
127. Life’s barriers opened into the Unknown.
...
204. He sat in secret chambers looking out
205. Into the luminous countries
of the unborn
206. Where all things dreamed by the mind are seen and true
...
212. He lived in the mystic space where thought is born
213. And will
is nursed by an ethereal Power
214. And fed on the white milk of the
Eternal’s strengths
215. Till it grows into the likeness of a god.
220 Lifting the heavy curtain of the flesh
221 He stood upon a threshold serpent-watched,
222
And peered into gleaming endless corridors,
223 Silent and
listening in the silent heart
224 For the coming of the new and
the unknown.
225 He gazed across the empty stillnesses
226
And heard the footsteps of the undreamed Idea
227 In the far
avenues of the Beyond.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
306. The kings of evil and the kings of good,
307.
Appellants at the reason’s judgment seat,
308. Proclaimed the gospel of their
opposites,
309. And all believed themselves spokesmen of God:
310. The
gods of light and titans of the dark
311. Battled for his soul as for a
costly prize.
359 There knowing herself by her own
termless self,
360 Wisdom supernal, wordless, absolute
361
Sat uncompanioned in the eternal Calm,
362 All-seeing, motionless,
sovereign and alone.
451 An old pull of subconscious cords renews;
452 It draws the unwilling spirit from the heights,
453
Or a dull gravitation drags us down
454 To the blind driven
inertia of our base.
455 This too the supreme Diplomat can use,
456 He makes our fall a means for greater rise.
481 Always the power poured back like sudden
rain,
482 Or slowly in his breast a presence grew;
483
It clambered back to some remembered height
484 Or soared above
the peak from which it fell.
485 Each time he rose there was a
larger poise,
486 A dwelling on a higher spirit plane;
487
The Light remained in him a longer space.
534 Already in him was seen that task of
Power:
535 Life made its home on the high tops of self;
536
His soul, mind, heart became a single sun;
537 Only life’s lower
reaches remained dim.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
544. Lightnings of glory after glory burned,
545.
Experience was a tale of blaze and fire,
546. Air rippled round the argosies
of the Gods,
547. Strange riches sailed to him from the Unseen;
548.
Splendours of insight filled the blank of thought,
549. Knowledge spoke to
the inconscient stillnesses,
550. Rivers poured down of bliss and luminous
force,
551. Visits of beauty, storm-sweeps of delight
552. Rained from the
all-powerful Mystery above.
553 Thence stooped the eagles of Omniscience.
554 A dense veil was rent, a mighty whisper heard;
. . .
558
The voices that an inner listening hears
559 Conveyed to him
their prophet utterances,
560 And flame-wrapped outbursts of the
immortal Word
561 And flashes of an occult revealing Light
562
Approached him from the unreachable Secrecy.
575 Oft inspiration with her lightning feet,
576 A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,
577
Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind
578 Bringing her
rhythmic sense of hidden things.
. . .
596 All-vision gathered
into a single ray,
597 As when the eyes stare at an invisible
point
598 Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
599
An apocalypse of a world of images
600 Enters into the kingdom of
the seer.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
601. A great nude arm of splendour suddenly rose;
602. It rent the gauze opaque of Nescience:
603. Her lifted finger's keen
unthinkable tip
604. Bared with a stab of flame the closed Beyond.
615 Or she gathered the lost secrets dropped
by Time
616 In the dust and crannies of his mounting route
617
Mid old forsaken dreams of hastening Mind
618 And buried remnants
of forgotten space.
619 A traveller between summit and abyss,
620 She joined the distant ends, the viewless deeps
696 The inspiring goddess entered a mortal’s
breast,
697 Made there her study of divining thought
698
And sanctuary of prophetic speech
699 And sat upon the tripod
seat of mind:
700 All was made wide above, all lit below.
701
In darkness’ core she dug out wells of light,
702 On the
undiscovered depths imposed a form,
703 Lent a vibrant cry to the
unuttered vasts
809 A genius heightened in his body’s cells
810 That knew the meaning of his fate-hedged works
811
Akin to the march of unaccomplished Powers
812 Beyond life’s arc
in spirit’s immensities.
813 Apart he lived in his mind’s
solitude,
814 A demigod shaping the lives of men:
815
One soul’s ambition lifted up the race;
. . .
819 He drew the
energies that transmute an age.
001 On a height he stood that looked towards
greater heights.
002 Our early approaches to the Infinite
003
Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge
004 While lingers
yet unseen the glorious sun.
005 What now we see is a shadow of
what must come.
033 A shapeless memory lingers in us still
034 And sometimes, when our sight is turned within,
035
Earth’s ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes;
036 There is a
short miraculous escape.
040 Our souls can visit in great lonely
hours
041 Still regions of imperishable Light,
042
All-seeing eagle-peaks of silent Power
043 And moon-flame oceans
of swift fathomless Bliss
044 And calm immensities of spirit
space.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
065. In moments when the inner lamps are lit
066. And
the life’s cherished guests are left outside,
067. Our spirit sits alone and
speaks to its gulfs.
111 A treasure of honey in the combs of God,
112 A Splendour burning in a tenebrous cloak,
113 It
is our glory of the flame of God,
114 Our golden fountain of the
world’s delight,
115 An immortality cowled in the cape of death,
116 The shape of our unborn divinity.
160 Along a path of aeons serpentine
161
In the coiled blackness of her nescient course
162 The
Earth-Goddess toils across the sands of Time.
163 A Being is in her whom she hopes to know,
164 A Word speaks to her heart she cannot hear,
165 A
Fate compels whose form she cannot see.
166 In her unconscious
orbit through the Void
167 Out of her mindless depths she strives
to rise,
168 A perilous life her gain, a struggling joy;
178 Ignorant and weary and invincible,
179 She seeks through the soul’s war and quivering pain
180
The pure perfection her marred nature needs,
181 A breath of
Godhead on her stone and mire.
185 A light grows in her, she assumes a
voice,
186 Her state she learns to read and the act she has done,
187 But the one needed truth eludes her grasp,
188
Herself and all of which she is the sign.
199 A vision meets her of supernal Powers
200 That draw her as if mighty kinsmen lost
201
Approaching with estranged great luminous gaze.
202 Then is she
moved to all that she is not
203 And stretches arms to what was
never hers.
204 Outstretching arms to the unconscious
Void,
205 Passionate she prays to invisible forms of Gods
206
Soliciting from dumb Fate and toiling Time
207 What most she
needs, what most exceeds her scope,
208 A Mind unvisited by
illusion’s gleams,
209 A Will expressive of soul’s deity,
210
A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed,
211 A Joy that
drags not sorrow as its shade.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
280. Only the Immortals on their deathless heights
...
285. Can see the Idea, the Might that change Time’s course,
286. Come
maned with light from undiscovered worlds,
287. Hear, while the world toils
on with its deep blind heart,
288. The galloping hooves of the unforeseen
event,
289. Bearing the superhuman Rider, near
290. And, impassive to
earth’s din and startled cry,
291. Return to the silence of the hills of God;
292. As lightning leaps, as thunder sweeps, they pass
293. And leave their
mark on the trampled breast of Life.
294. Above the world the world-creators
stand,
295. In the phenomenon see its mystic source.
296. These heed not
the deceiving outward play,
297. They turn not to the moment’s busy tramp,
298. But listen with the still patience of the Unborn
299. For the slow
footsteps of far Destiny
...
320. Thus will the masked Transcendent mount
his throne.
321. When darkness deepens strangling the earth’s breast
322.
And man’s corporeal mind is the only lamp,
323. As a thief’s in the night
shall be the covert tread
324. Of one who steps unseen into his house.
332 In Matter shall be lit the spirit’s glow,
. . .
338 A few shall see what none yet understands;
339
God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;
340 For man
shall not know the coming till its hour
341 And belief shall be
not till the work is done.
394 In the wide signless ether of the Self,
395 In the unchanging Silence white and nude,
396
Aloof, resplendent like gold dazzling suns
397 Veiled by the ray
no mortal eye can bear,
398 The Spirit’s bare and absolute
potencies
399 Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God.
467 An outstretched Hand is felt upon our
lives.
468 It is near us in unnumbered bodies and births;
469
In its unslackening grasp it keeps for us safe
470 The one
inevitable supreme result
471 No will can take away and no doom
change,
472 The crown of conscious Immortality,
473
The godhead promised to our struggling souls
474 When first man’s
heart dared death and suffered life.
499 In the mystery of the deeps that God has
built
500 For his abode below the Thinker’s sight,
. . .
506 In this gold dome on a black dragon base,
507 The
conscious Force that acts in Nature’s breast,
508 A dark-robed
labourer in the cosmic scheme
509 Carrying clay images of unborn
gods,
. . .
513 Absolves from hour to hour her secret charge.
551 There are Two who are One and play in
many worlds;
552 In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and
met
553 And light and darkness are their eyes’ interchange;
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
568. Here on the earth where we must fill our parts,
569. We know not how shall run the drama’s course;
570. Our uttered sentences
veil in their thought.
571. Her mighty plan she holds back from our sight:
572. She has concealed her glory and her bliss
573. And disguised the Love
and Wisdom in her heart;
...
594. As one too great for him he worships her;
595. He adores her as his regent of desire,
596. He yields to her as the
mover of his will,
597. He burns the incense of his nights and days
598.
Offering his life, a splendour of sacrifice.
...
609. He leans on her for
all he does and is:
610. He builds on her largesses his proud fortunate days
611. And trails his peacock-plumaged joy of life
612. And suns in the glory
of her passing smile.
613. In a thousand ways he serves her royal needs;
...
622. Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
623. His breast he offers
for her cosmic dance
624. Of which our lives are the quivering theatre,
625. And none could bear but for his strength within,
626. Yet none would
leave because of his delight.
627 His works, his thoughts have been
devised by her,
628 His being is a mirror vast of hers:
629
Active, inspired by her he speaks and moves;
630 His deeds obey
her heart’s unspoken demands:
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
659. His consciousness is a babe upon her knees,
...
661. Her endless space is the playground of his thoughts;
...
689. To
reign she spurs him. He takes up her powers;
690. He has harnessed her to the
yoke of her own law.
691. His face of human thought puts on a crown.
...
696. To obey she feigns, she follows her creature’s lead:
697. For him she
was made, lives only for his use.
698. But conquering her, then is he most
her slave;
699. He is her dependent, all his means are hers;
700. Nothing
without her he can, she rules him still.
701. At last he wakes to a memory of
Self:
702. He sees within the face of deity,
703. The Godhead breaks out
through the human mould:
704. Her highest heights she unmasks and is his mate.
...
713. Obedient to World-Nature’s dumb control,
714. Driven by his own
formidable Power,
715. His chosen partner in a titan game,
716. Her will
he has made the master of his fate,
...
727. He revels in her, a swimmer
in her sea,
728. A tireless amateur of her world-delight,
729. He rejoices
in her every thought and act
730. And gives consent to all that she can wish;
736 The master of existence lurks in us
737 And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force;
738
In Nature’s instrument loiters secret God.
739 The Immanent lives
in man as in his house;
740 He has made the universe his
pastime’s field,
741 A vast gymnasium of his works of might.
771 Then in a figure of divinity
772
The Maker shall recast us and impose
773 A plan of godhead on the
mortal’s mould
774 Lifting our finite minds to his infinite,
775 Touching the moment with eternity.
776 This transfiguration is earth’s due to
heaven:
777 A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:
778
His nature we must put on as he put ours;
779 We are sons of God
and must be even as he:
780 His human portion, we must grow
divine.
781 Our life is a paradox with God for key.
786 For the key is hid and by the
Inconscient kept;
787 The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.
824 He is the explorer and the mariner
825 On a secret inner ocean without bourne:
826 He is
the adventurer and cosmologist
827 Of a magic earth’s obscure
geography.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
843. This is the sailor on the flow of Time,
...
856. He in a petty coastal traffic plies,
857. His pay doled out from port to
neighbour port,
858. Content with his safe round’s unchanging course,
859.
He hazards not the new and the unseen.
...
864. On a commissioned keel his
merchant hull
865. Serves the world’s commerce in the riches of Time
866.
Severing the foam of a great land-locked sea
867. To reach unknown harbour
lights in distant climes
868. And open markets for life’s opulent arts,
869. Rich bales, carved statuettes, hued canvases,
870. And jewelled toys
brought for an infant’s play
873 Or passing through a gate of
pillar-rocks,
. . .
884 He leaves the last lands, crosses the
ultimate seas,
885 He turns to eternal things his symbol quest;
886 Life changes for him its time-constructed scenes,
887
Its images veiling infinity.
888 Earth’s borders recede and the
terrestrial air
889 Hangs round him no longer its translucent
veil.
. . .
892 The eyes of mortal body plunge their gaze
893 Into Eyes that look upon eternity.
894 A greater world Time’s traveller must
explore.
895 At last he hears a chanting on the heights
896
And the far speaks and the unknown grows near:
897 He crosses the
boundaries of the unseen
898 And passes over the edge of mortal
sight
899 To a new vision of himself and things.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
900. He is a spirit in an unfinished world
901. That
knows him not and cannot know itself:
902. The surface symbol of his goalless
quest
903. Takes deeper meanings to his inner view;
904. His is a search
of darkness for the light,
905. Of mortal life for immortality.
906. In
the vessel of an earthly embodiment
907. Over the narrow rails of limiting
sense
908. He looks out on the magic waves of Time
909. Where mind like a
moon illumines the world’s dark.
910. There is limned ever retreating from
the eyes,
911. As if in a tenuous misty dream-light drawn,
912. The
outline of a dim mysterious shore.
913. A sailor on the Inconscient’s
fathomless sea,
914. He voyages through a starry world of thought
915. On
Matter’s deck to a spiritual sun.
916. Across the noise and multitudinous cry,
917. Across the rapt unknowable silences,
918. Through a strange mid-world
under supernal skies,
919. Beyond earth’s longitudes and latitudes,
920.
His goal is fixed outside all present maps.
921 But none learns whither through the
unknown he sails
922 Or what secret mission the great Mother gave.
923 In the hidden strength of her omnipotent Will,
924
Driven by her breath across life’s tossing deep,
925 Through the
thunder’s roar and through the windless hush,
926 Through fog and
mist where nothing more is seen,
927 He carries her sealed orders
in his breast.
928 Late will he know, opening the mystic
script,
929 Whether to a blank port in the Unseen
930
He goes or, armed with her fiat, to discover
931 A new mind and
body in the city of God
931 And enshrine the Immortal in his
glory’s house
932 And make the finite one with Infinity.
941 A power is on him from her occult force
942 That ties him to his own creation’s fate,
943 And
never can the mighty Traveller rest
944 And never can the mystic
voyage cease
945 Till the nescient dusk is lifted from man’s soul
946 And the morns of God have overtaken his night.
947 As long as Nature lasts, he too is there,
948 For this is sure that he and she are one;
957 This constant will she covered with her
sport,
958 To evoke a Person in the impersonal Void,
959
With the Truth-Light strike earth’s massive roots of trance,
960
Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths
961 And raise a lost
Power from its python sleep
962 That the eyes of the Timeless
might look out from Time
963 And the world manifest the unveiled
Divine.
964 For this he left his white infinity
965 And laid on the spirit the burden of the flesh,
966
That Godhead’s seed might flower in mindless Space.
1.5. The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness
001 This knowledge first he had of time-born
men.
002 Admitted through a curtain of bright mind
003
That hangs between our thoughts and absolute sight,
004 He found
the occult cave, the mystic door
005 Near to the well of vision
in the soul,
006 And entered where the Wings of Glory brood
007 In the silent space where all is for ever known.
020 There in a hidden chamber closed and
mute
021 Are kept the record graphs of the cosmic scribe,
022
And there the tables of the sacred Law,
. . .
027 The symbol
powers of number and of form,
028 And the secret code of the
history of the world
029 And Nature’s correspondence with the
soul
030 Are written in the mystic heart of Life.
031 In the glow of the spirit’s room of
memories
032 He could recover the luminous marginal notes
033
Dotting with light the crabbed ambiguous scroll,
071 He saw the unshaped thought in soulless
forms,
072 Knew Matter pregnant with spiritual sense,
073
Mind dare the study of the Unknowable,
074 Life its gestation of
the Golden Child.
079 A larger lustre lit the mighty page.
080 A purpose mingled with the whims of Time,
081 A
meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
082 And Fate revealed a
chain of seeing Will;
083 A conscious wideness filled the old
dumb Space.
084 In the Void he saw throned the Omniscience
supreme.
085 A Will, a hope immense now seized his
heart,
086 And to discern the superhuman’s form
087
He raised his eyes to unseen spiritual heights,
088 Aspiring to
bring down a greater world.
129 A packed assemblage of crude tentative
lives
130 Are pieced into a tessellated whole.
158 An animal with some instincts of a god,
159 His life a story too common to be told,
160 His
deeds a number summing up to nought,
161 His consciousness a
torch lit to be quenched,
162 His hope a star above a cradle and
grave.
174 Impassive he lived immune from earthly
hopes,
175 A figure in the ineffable Witness’ shrine
176
Pacing the vast cathedral of his thoughts
177 Under its arches
dim with infinity
178 And heavenward brooding of invisible wings.
184 A universal light was in his eyes,
185 A golden influx flowed through heart and brain;
186
A Force came down into his mortal limbs,
187 A current from
eternal seas of Bliss;
188 He felt the invasion and the nameless
joy.
207 One-pointed to the immaculate Delight,
208 Questing for God as for a splendid prey,
209 He
mounted burning like a cone of fire.
238 His spirit mingles with eternity’s heart
239 And bears the silence of the Infinite.
251 His nature shuddered in the Unknown’s
grasp.
. . .
256 In a whirlwind circuit of delight and force
257 Hurried into unimaginable depths,
258 Upborne
into immeasurable heights,
259 It was torn out from its mortality
260 And underwent a new and bourneless change.
267 As when a timeless Eye annuls the hours
268 Abolishing the agent and the act,
269 So now his
spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:
270 His wakened mind became
an empty slate
271 On which the Universal and Sole could write.
290 The little ego’s ring could join no more;
291 In the enormous spaces of the self
292 The body
now seemed only a wandering shell,
293 His mind the many-frescoed
outer court
294 Of an imperishable Inhabitant:
295
His spirit breathed a superhuman air.
319 There was no small death-hunted creature
more,
320 No fragile form of being to preserve
321
From an all-swallowing Immensity.
330 A secret Nature stripped of her defence,
. . .
333 Lay bare to the burning splendour of his will.
. . .
345 Her diagrams of geometric force,
346 Her
potencies of marvel-fraught design
347 Courted employment by an
earth-nursed might.
476 A border sovereign is the occult Force.
. . .
494 A magic porch of entry glimmering
495
Quivered in a penumbra of screened Light,
496 A court of the
mystical traffic of the worlds,
497 A balcony and miraculous fa‡ade.
524 Ascending and descending twixt life’s
poles
525 The seried kingdoms of the graded Law
526
Plunged from the Everlasting into Time,
. . .
530 Climbed back
from Time into undying Self,
531 Up a golden ladder carrying the
soul,
532 Tying with diamond threads the Spirit’s extremes.
619 Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of
delight
620 Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses
621
Beyond our indigent corporeal range.
Book Two
The Book
of the Traveller of the Worlds
103 There walled apart by its own innerness
104 In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
105 He saw
a lone immense high-curved world-pile
106 Erect like a
mountain-chariot of the Gods
107 Motionless under an inscrutable
sky.
163 Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
164 These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
165
The wide and prone leap of a godhead’s fall.
166 Our life is a
holocaust of the Supreme.
167 The great World-Mother by her
sacrifice
168 Has made her soul the body of our state;
196 The divine intention suddenly shall be
seen,
197 The end vindicate intuition’s sure technique.
202 This faint and fluid sketch of soul
called man
203 Shall stand out on the background of long Time
204 A glowing epitome of eternity,
205 A little point
reveal the infinitudes.
214 A slow reversal’s movement then took
place:
215 A gas belched out from some invisible Fire,
216
Of its dense rings were formed these million stars;
217 Upon
earth’s new-born soil God’s tread was heard.
234 A miracle of the Absolute was born;
235 Infinity put on a finite soul,
236 All ocean
lived within a wandering drop,
237 A time-made body housed the
Illimitable.
238 To live this Mystery out our souls came here.
254 A figure sole on Nature’s giant stair,
255 He mounted towards an indiscernible end
256 On
the bare summit of created things.
2.2. The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
004 He came into a magic crystal air
005
And found a life that lived not by the flesh,
006 A light that
made visible immaterial things.
007 A fine degree in wonder’s
hierarchy,
008 The kingdom of subtle Matter’s faery craft
009
Outlined against a sky of vivid hues,
010 Leaping out of a
splendour-trance and haze,
011 The wizard revelation of its front.
034 This brilliant roof of our descending
plane,
035 Intercepting the free boon of heaven’s air,
036
Admits small inrushes of a mighty breath
037 Or fragrant circuits
through gold lattices;
. . .
041 And bright dews drip from the
Immortal’s sky.
054 In rooms of the young divinity of power
055 And early play of the eternal Child
056 The
embodiments of his outwinging thoughts
057 Laved in a bright
everlasting wonder’s tints
058 And lulled by whispers of that
lucid air
059 Take dream-hued rest like birds on timeless trees
060 Before they dive to float on earth-time’s sea.
115 This wonder-world with all its radiant
boon
116 Of vision and inviolate happiness,
117
Only for expression cares and perfect form;
. . .
120 It lends
beauty to the terror of the gulfs
121 And fascinating eyes to
perilous Gods,
122 Invests with grace the demon and the snake.
145 A heaven of creative truths above,
146 A cosmos of harmonious dreams between,
147 A
chaos of dissolving forms below,
148 It plunges lost in our
inconscient base.
149 Out of its fall our denser Matter came.
163 This mire must harbour the orchid and
the rose,
164 From her blind unwilling substance must emerge
165 A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.
348 In us too the intuitive Fire can burn;
349 An agent Light, it is coiled in our folded hearts,
350
On the celestial levels is its home:
351 Descending, it can bring
those heavens here.
408 Admired for the bright finality of its
lines
409 A blue horizon limited the soul;
412 Life in its boundaries lingered
satisfied
. . .
421 The beautiful body of a soul at ease,
422 Like one who laughs in sweet and sunlit groves,
423
Childlike she swung in her gold cradle of joy.
2.3. The Glory and the Fall of Life
046 In a gallop of thunder-hooved
vicissitudes
047 She swept through the race-fields of
Circumstance,
048 Or, swaying, she tossed between her heights and
deeps,
049 Uplifted or broken on Time’s inconstant wheel.
104 Above him in a new celestial vault
105 Other than the heavens beheld by mortal eyes,
106
As on a fretted ceiling of the gods,
107 An archipelago of
laughter and fire,
108 Swam stars apart in a rippled sea of sky.
150 In a swift eternal moment fixed there
live
151 Or ever recalled come back to longing eyes
152
Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
153 Illumined continents of
violet peace,
154 Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God
155
And griefless countries under purple suns.
378 The nude god-children in their
play-fields ran
379 Smiting the winds with splendour and with
speed;
464 When earth was built in the unconscious
Void
465 And nothing was save a material scene,
466
Identified with sea and sky and stone
467 Her young gods yearned
for the release of souls
468 Asleep in objects, vague, inanimate.
496 Life heard the call and left her native
light.
497 Overflowing from her bright magnificent plane
498
On the rigid coil and sprawl of mortal Space,
499 Here too the
gracious great-winged Angel poured
500 Her splendour and her
swiftness and her bliss,
501 Hoping to fill a fair new world with
joy.
515 But while the magic breath was on its
way,
516 Before her gifts could reach our prisoned hearts,
517
A dark ambiguous Presence questioned all.
2.4. The Kingdoms of the Little Life
082 Adorer of a joy without a name,
083
In her obscure cathedral of delight
084 To dim dwarf gods she
offers secret rites.
085 But vain unending is the sacrifice,
086 The priest an ignorant mage who only makes
087
Futile mutations in the altar’s plan
088 And casts blind hopes
into a powerless flame.
107 Ascending slowly with unconscious steps,
108 A foundling of the Gods she wanders here
109 Like
a child-soul left near the gates of Hell
110 Fumbling through fog
in search of Paradise.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
202. As shines a solitary witness star
203. That
burns apart, Light’s lonely sentinel,
204. In the drift and teeming of a
mindless Night,
205. A single thinker in an aimless world
206. Awaiting
some tremendous dawn of God,
207. He saw the purpose in the works of Time.
290 The phantom of a dark and evil start
291 Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do.
. . .
297
This was the first cry of the awaking world.
298 It clings around
us still and clamps the god.
313 In the enigma of the darkened Vasts,
314 In the passion and self-loss of the Infinite
315
When all was plunged in the negating Void,
316 Non-Being’s night
could never have been saved
317 If Being had not plunged into the
dark
318 Carrying with it its triple mystic cross.
332 A blindfold search and wrestle and
fumbling clasp
333 Of a half-seen Nature and a hidden Soul,
334 A game of hide-and-seek in twilit rooms,
335 A
play of love and hate and fear and hope
336 Continues in the
nursery of mind
337 Its hard and heavy romp of self-born twins.
365 Huge armoured strengths shook a frail
quaking ground,
366 Great puissant creatures with a dwarfish
brain,
367 And pigmy tribes imposed their small life-drift.
396 Beings were there who wore a human form;
397 Absorbed they lived in the passion of the scene,
398
But knew not who they were or why they lived:
. . .
446 Ardent
from the sack of happy peaceful homes
447 And gorged with
slaughter, plunder, rape and fire,
448 They made of human selves
their helpless prey,
449 A drove of captives led to lifelong woe,
536 At first he saw a dim obscure mind-power
537 Moving concealed by Matter and dumb life.
. . .
542
In the deep midst of an insentient world
543 Its huddled waves
and foam of consciousness ran
544 Pressing and eddying through a
narrow strait,
545 Carrying experience in its crowded pace.
669 A little light in a great darkness born,
670 Life knew not where it went nor whence it came.
671
Around all floated still the nescient haze.
2.5. The Godheads of the Little Life
014 He plunged his gaze into the siege of
mist
. . .
018 As when a searchlight stabs the Night’s blind
breast
019 And dwellings and trees and figures of men appear
020 As if revealed to an eye in Nothingness,
021 All
lurking things were torn out of their veils
022 And held up in
his vision’s sun-white blaze.
038 Astonished by the unaccustomed glow,
039 As if immanent in the shadows started up
040 Imps
with wry limbs and carved beast visages,
041 Sprite-prompters
goblin-wizened or faery-small,
042 And genii fairer but unsouled
and poor
043 And fallen beings, their heavenly portion lost,
044 And errant divinities trapped in Time’s dust.
156 An ocean of electric Energy
157
Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles
158 Constructing by
their dance this solid scheme,
159 Its mightiness in the atom
shut to rest;
. . .
164 Thus has been made this real
impossible world,
165 An obvious miracle or convincing show.
231 At first she raised no voice, no motion
dared:
232 Charged with world-power, instinct with living force,
233 Only she clung with her roots to the safe earth,
234
Thrilled dumbly to the shocks of ray and breeze
235 And put out
tendril fingers of desire;
258 Then man was moulded from the original
brute.
259 A thinking mind had come to lift life’s moods,
260
The keen-edged tool of a Nature mixed and vague,
261 An
intelligence half-witness, half-machine.
296 A fragile human love that could not
last,
297 Ego’s moth-wings to lift the seraph soul,
298
Appeared, a surface glamour of brief date
299 Extinguished by a
scanty breath of Time;
. . .
303 Hopes that soon fade to drab
realities
304 And passions that crumble to ashes while they blaze
305 Kindled the common earth with their brief flame.
310 A spirit that perished not with the body
and breath
311 Was there like a shadow of the Unmanifest
312
And stood behind the little personal form
313 But claimed not yet
this earthly embodiment.
400 A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
401 Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
402
That know not their own birth and end and cause
. . .
421 Into
the actions mortals think their own
422 They bring the
incoherencies of Fate,
423 Or make a doom of Time’s slipshod
caprice
424 And toss the lives of men from hand to hand
425
In an inconsequent and devious game.
540 In a narrow plot he has pitched his tent
of life
541 Beneath the wide gaze of the starry Vast.
624 Our seekings are short-lived experiments
625 Made by a wordless and inscrutable Power
626
Testing its issues from inconscient Night
627 To meet its
luminous self of Truth and Bliss.
. . .
630 Amid the figures
of the Ignorance,
631 In the symbol pictures drawn by word and
thought,
632 It seeks the truth to which all figures point;
633 It looks for the source of Light with vision’s lamp;
634 It works to find the Doer of all works,
635 The unfelt Self within who is the guide,
636 The
unknown Self above who is the goal.
651 Across the cosmic field through narrow
lanes
652 Asking a scanty dole from Fortune’s hands
653
And garbed in beggar’s robes there walks the One.
677 A door is cut in the mud wall of self;
678 Across the lowly threshold with bowed heads
679
Angels of ecstasy and self-giving pass,
680 And lodged in an
inner sanctuary of dream
681 The makers of the image of deity
live.
721 This little being of Time, this shadow
soul,
722 This living dwarf-figurehead of darkened spirit
723
Out of its traffic in petty dreams shall rise.
. . .
726 Like
a clay troll kneaded into a god
727 New-made in the image of the
eternal Guest,
728 It shall be caught to the breast of a white
Force
740 But first the spirit’s ascent we must
achieve
741 Out of the chasm from which our nature rose.
. . .
746 Then kindling the gold tongue of sacrifice,
747
Calling the powers of a bright hemisphere,
748 We shall shed the
discredit of our mortal state,
749 Make the abysm a road for
Heaven’s descent,
750 Acquaint our depths with the supernal Ray
751 And cleave the darkness with the mystic Fire.
754 He through the astral chaos shore a way
755 Mid the grey faces of its demon gods,
. . .
767
The watching opacity multiplied as he moved
768 Its hostile mass
of dead and staring eyes;
769 The darkness glimmered like a dying
torch.
770 Around him an extinguished phantom glow
771
Peopled with shadowy and misleading shapes
772 The vague
Inconscient’s dark and measureless cave.
773 His only sunlight
was his spirit’s flame.
2.6. The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
010 Above there gleamed a pondering brow of
sky
011 Tormented, crossed by wings of doubtful haze
. . .
047 A magic flowed as if of moving scenes
048 That
kept awhile their fugitive delicacy
049 Of sparing lines limned
by an abstract art
050 In a rare scanted light with faint
dream-brush
051 On a silver background of incertitude.
087 A spirit was there that sought for its
own deep self,
088 Yet was content with fragments pushed in front
089 And parts of living that belied the whole
090
But, pieced together, might one day be true.
136 An Energy of perpetual transience makes
137 The journey from which no return is sure,
138 The
pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown.
. . .
205 A world she
made touched by truth’s fleeing hem,
. . .
213 It seized in
imagination and confined
214 A painted bird of paradise in a
cage.
278 She fashions godlike marvels out of mud;
279 In the plasm she sets her dumb immortal urge,
280
Helps the live tissue to think, the closed sense to feel,
281
Flashes through the frail nerves poignant messages,
282 In a
heart of flesh miraculously loves,
299 Her eternal Lover is her action’s cause;
. . .
310 Only to attract her veiled companion
311
And keep him close to her breast in her world-cloak
312 Lest from
her arms he turn to his formless peace,
313 Is her heart’s
business and her clinging care.
385 In all who have risen to a greater Life,
386 A voice of unborn things whispers to the ear,
387
To their eyes visited by some high sunlight
388 Aspiration shows
the image of a crown:
441 All powers of Life towards their godhead
tend
. . .
453 A mastering virtue statuesques the pose,
454
Or a Titan passion goads to a proud unrest:
455 At Wisdom’s altar
they are kings and priests
456 Or their life a sacrifice to an
idol of Power.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
559. Armed with a magical and haunted bow
560. She
aimed at a target kept invisible
561. And ever deemed remote though always
near.
671 A Sphinx whose eyes look up to a hidden Sun.
866 Our souls are dragged as with a hidden
leash,
867 Carried from birth to birth, from world to world,
960 These long far files of forward-striving
hopes
961 Lift worshipping eyes to the blue Void called heaven
137 A charm and sweetness sudden and
formidable,
138 Faces that raised alluring lips and eyes
139
Approached him armed with beauty like a snare,
140 But hid a
fatal meaning in each line
141 And could in a moment dangerously
change.
142 But he alone discerned that screened attack.
179 A Power that laughed at the mischiefs of
the world,
180 An irony that joined the world’s contraries
181
And flung them into each other’s arms to strive,
182 Put a
sardonic rictus on God’s face.
320 Only were safe who kept God in their
hearts:
321 Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must
walk,
322 The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
323
Casting a javelin regard in front,
324 Heroes and soldiers of the
army of Light.
575 Haled by a serpent-force from its warm
home
576 And dragged to extinction in bleak vacancy
577
Life clung to its seat with cords of gasping breath;
578 Lapped
was his body by a tenebrous tongue.
608 He mastered the tides of Nature with a
look:
609 He met with his bare spirit naked Hell.
2.9. The Paradise of the Life-Gods
056 A summit and core of all that marvellous
world,
057 Apart stood high Elysian nameless hills,
058
Burning like sunsets in a trance of eve.
. . .
061 Their
slopes through a hurry of laughter and voices sank,
062 Crossed
by a throng of singing rivulets,
063 Adoring blue heaven with
their happy hymn,
064 Down into woods of shadowy secrecy:
109 A scale of sense that climbed with fiery
feet
110 To heights of unimagined happiness,
111
Recast his being’s aura in joy-glow,
112 His body glimmered like
a skiey shell;
150 A giant drop of the Bliss unknowable
151 Overwhelmed his limbs and round his soul became
152
A fiery ocean of felicity;
. . .
155 The rapture that the gods
sustain he bore.
2.10. The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
042 But first he met a silver-grey expanse
043 Where Day and Night had wedded and were one:
. . .
104
Escaping over a wide and shimmering bridge,
105 He came into a
realm of early Light
106 And the regency of a half-risen sun.
107 Out of its rays our mind’s full orb was born.
185 Thus streamed down from the realm of
early Light
186 Ethereal thinkings into Matter’s world;
187
Its gold-horned herds trooped into earth’s cave-heart.
188 Its
morning rays illume our twilight’s eyes,
189 Its young formations
move the mind of earth
190 To labour and to dream and new-create,
191 To feel beauty’s touch and know the world and self:
192
The Golden Child began to think and see.
207 A small keen instrument the great
Puissance chose,
. . .
259 A dwarf three-bodied trinity was
her serf.
260 First, smallest of the three, but strong of limb,
261 A low-brow with a square and heavy jowl,
262 A
pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds
263 For ever stooped to
hammer fact and form.
264 Absorbed and cabined in external sight,
265 It takes its stand on Nature’s solid base.
330 A fiery spirit came, next of the three.
331 A hunchback rider of the red Wild-Ass,
332 A rash
Intelligence leaped down lion-maned
333 From the great mystic
Flame that rings the worlds
334 And with its dire edge eats at
being’s heart.
335 Thence sprang the burning vision of Desire.
407 Of all these Powers the greatest was the
last.
. . .
412 Came Reason, the squat godhead artisan,
413
To her narrow house upon a ridge in Time.
. . .
418 Armed with
her lens and measuring-rod and probe,
419 She looked upon an
object universe
735 Above in a high breathless stratosphere,
736 Overshadowing the dwarfish trinity,
737 Lived,
aspirants to a limitless Beyond,
. . .
742 Two sun-gaze
Daemons witnessing all that is.
743 A power to uplift the laggard
world,
744 Imperious rode a huge high-winged Life-Thought
. .
.
760 Beyond in wideness where
no footing is,
. . .
763 A pure Thought-Mind surveyed the
cosmic act.
764 Archangel of a white transcending realm,
765
It saw the world from solitary heights
2.11. The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
134 His privilege regained of shadowless
sight
135 The Thinker entered the immortals’ air
136
And drank again his pure and mighty source.
154 In gleaming clarities of amethyst air
155 The chainless and omnipotent Spirit of Mind
156
Brooded on the blue lotus of the Idea.
166 A triple realm of ordered thought came
first,
167 A small beginning of immense ascent:
. . .
185
The mighty wardens of the ascending stair
186 Who intercede with
the all-creating Word,
187 There waited for the pilgrim
heaven-bound soul;
188 Holding the thousand keys of the Beyond
189 They proffered their knowledge to the climbing mind
190
And filled the life with Thought’s immensities.
212 In front of the ascending epiphany
213 World-Time’s enjoyers, favourites of World-Bliss,
. . .
216 Creators of Matter by hid stress of Mind
217
Whose subtle thoughts support unconscious Life
218 And guide the
fantasy of brute events,
219 Stood there, a race of young
keen-visioned gods,
220 King-children born on Wisdom’s early
plane,
221 Taught in her school world-making’s mystic play.
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296. Above stood ranked a subtle archangel race
297.
With larger lids and looks that searched the unseen.
399 In a sublimer and more daring soar
400 To the wide summit of the triple stairs
401 Bare
steps climbed up like flaming rocks of gold
402 Burning their way
to a pure absolute sky.
2.12. The Heavens of the Ideal
011 At each pace of the journey marvellous
012 A new degree of wonder and of bliss,
013 A new
rung formed in Being’s mighty stair,
014 A great wide step
trembling with jewelled fire
015 As if a burning spirit quivered
there
016 Upholding with his flame the immortal hope,
024 On one side glimmered hue on floating
hue,
025 A glory of sunrise breaking on the soul,
026
In a tremulous rapture of the heart’s insight
027 And the
spontaneous bliss that beauty gives,
028 The lovely kingdoms of
the deathless Rose.
092 On the other side of the eternal stairs
093 The mighty kingdoms of the deathless Flame
094
Aspired to reach the Being’s absolutes.
095 Out of the sorrow and
darkness of the world,
096 Out of the depths where life and
thought are tombed,
097 Lonely mounts up to heaven the deathless
Flame.
152 He through the Ideal’s kingdoms moved at
will,
. . .
167 A glorious shining Angel of the Way
168
Presented to the seeking of the soul
169 The sweetness and the
might of an idea,
170 Each deemed Truth’s intimate fount and
summit force,
171 The heart of the meaning of the universe,
172 Perfection’s key, passport to Paradise.
010 He stood on a wide arc of summit Space
011 Alone with an enormous Self of Mind
012 Which
held all life in a corner of its vasts.
052 There he could stay, the Self, the
Silence won:
053 His soul had peace, it knew the cosmic Whole.
054 Then suddenly a luminous finger fell
055 On all
things seen or touched or heard or felt
056 And showed his mind
that nothing could be known;
057 That must be reached from which
all knowledge comes.
058 The sceptic Ray disrupted all that seems
059 And smote at the very roots of thought and sense.
158 A rumour and a movement and a call,
159 A foaming mass, a cry innumerable
160 Rolled ever
upon the ocean surge of Life
. . .
168 A huge creator Death, a
mystic Void,
169 For ever sustaining the irrational cry,
170
For ever excluding the supernal Word,
171 Motionless, refusing
question and response,
172 Reposed beneath the voices and the
march
173 The dim Inconscient’s dumb incertitude.
002 In a far shimmering background of
Mind-Space
003 A glowing mouth was seen, a luminous shaft;
004
A recluse gate it seemed, musing on joy,
005 A veiled retreat and
escape to mystery.
. . .
018 As if a message from the world’s
deep soul,
019 An intimation of a lurking joy
020
That flowed out from a cup of brooding bliss,
021 There shimmered
stealing out into the Mind
022 A mute and quivering ecstasy of
light,
023 A passion and delicacy of roseate fire.
209 Along a road of pure interior light,
210 Alone between tremendous Presences,
211 Under the
watching eyes of nameless Gods,
212 His soul passed on, a single
conscious power,
. . .
215 To the source of all things human
and divine.
216 There he beheld in their mighty union’s poise
217 The figure of the deathless Two-in-One,
218 A
single being in two bodies clasped,
219 A diarchy of two united
souls,
220 Seated absorbed in deep creative joy;
. . .
222
Behind them in a morning dusk One stood
223 Who brought them
forth from the Unknowable.
238 His spirit was made a vessel of her
force;
239 Mute in the fathomless passion of his will
240
He outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer.
258 He fell down at her feet unconscious, prone.
2.15. The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
103 On the last step to the supernal birth
104 He trod along extinction’s narrow edge
105 Near
the high verges of eternity,
106 And mounted the gold ridge of
the world-dream
107 Between the slayer and the saviour fires;
120 He had reached the top of all that can
be known:
. . .
134 All flowed immeasurably to one sea:
135
All living forms became its atom homes.
136 A Panergy that
harmonised all life
137 Held now existence in its vast control;
138 A portion of that majesty he was made.
139 At
will he lived in the unoblivious Ray.
Book Three
The Book
of the Divine Mother
3.1. The Pursuit of the Unknowable
094 The universe removed its coloured veil,
095 And at the unimaginable end
096 Of the huge
riddle of created things
097 Appeared the far-seen Godhead of the
whole,
098 His feet firm-based on Life’s stupendous wings,
099
Omnipotent, a lonely seer of Time,
100 Inward, inscrutable, with
diamond gaze.
3.2. The Adoration of the Divine Mother
015 O soul, it is too early to rejoice!
.
. .
026 Only the everlasting No has neared
027 And
stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
028 But where is the
Lover’s everlasting Yes,
029 And immortality in the secret heart,
030 The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
031
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
087 Abolishing the signless emptiness,
088 Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush,
089
Piercing the limitless Unknowable,
090 Into the liberty of the
motionless depths
091 A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole.
. . .
093 Imaged itself in a surprising beam
094
And built a golden passage to his heart
095 Touching through him
all longing sentient things.
138 A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and
bare,
139 A burning Love from white spiritual founts
140
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths;
141 Suffering was
lost in her immortal smile.
151 At the head she stands of birth and toil
and fate,
152 In their slow rounds the cycles turn to her call;
153 Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base.
154
Hers is the mystery the Night conceals;
155 The spirit’s
alchemist energy is hers;
156 She is the golden bridge, the
wonderful fire.
157 The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
158 A power of silence in the depths of God;
159 She
is the Force, the inevitable Word,
160 The magnet of our
difficult ascent,
161 The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
162 The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
163
The joy that beckons from the impossible,
164 The Might of all
that never yet came down.
165 All Nature dumbly calls to her
alone
166 To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
167
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
168 And kindle her
fire in the closed heart of things.
169 All here shall be one day
her sweetness’ home,
170 All contraries prepare her harmony;
171 Towards her our knowledge climbs, our passion gropes;
172
In her miraculous rapture we shall dwell,
173 Her clasp will turn
to ecstasy our pain.
174 Our self shall be one self with all
through her.
175 In her confirmed because transformed in
her,
176 Our life shall find in its fulfilled response
177
Above, the boundless hushed beatitudes,
178 Below, the wonder of
the embrace divine.
179 This known as in a thunder-flash of God,
180 The rapture of things eternal filled his limbs;
181
Amazement fell upon his ravished sense;
182 His spirit was caught
in her intolerant flame.
183 Once seen, his heart acknowledged
only her.
3.3. The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
213 The great world-rhythms were heart-beats
of one Soul,
214 To feel was a flame-discovery of God,
215
All mind was a single harp of many strings,
216 All life a song
of many meeting lives;
217 For worlds were many, but the Self was
one.
218 This knowledge now was made a cosmos’ seed:
219
This seed was cased in the safety of the Light,
222 It needed not
a sheath of Ignorance.
248 None was apart, none lived for himself
alone,
249 Each lived for God in him and God in all,
250
Each soleness inexpressibly held the whole.
300 In these new worlds projected he became
301 A portion of the universal gaze,
302 A station of
the all-inhabiting light,
303 A ripple on a single sea of peace.
407 Endlessly she unrolled her moving act,
408 A mystery drama of divine delight,
. . .
413
An ardent hunt of soul looking for soul,
414 A seeking and a
finding as of gods.
424 There substance was a resonant harp of
self,
425 A net for the constant lightnings of the spirit,
. .
.
432 Its bodies woven by a divine sense
433
Prolonged the nearness of soul’s clasp with soul;
528. All had not ceased in the unbounded hush.
529.
His heart lay somewhere conscious and alone
530. Far down below him like a
lamp in night;
. . .
539. In the centre of his vast and fateful trance
540. Half-way between his free and fallen selves,
541. Interceding twixt
God’s day and the mortal’s night,
542. Accepting worship as its single law,
. . .
546. To her it turned for whom it willed to be.
007 An Influence had approached the mortal
range,
008 A boundless Heart was near his longing heart,
009
A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape.
028 Flame-pure, ethereal-tressed, a mighty
Face
029 Appeared and lips moved by immortal words;
339 A giant dance of Shiva tore the past;
346. I saw the Omnipotent’s flaming pioneers
347.
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
348. Come crowding down the
amber stairs of birth;
349. Forerunners of a divine multitude,
350. Out of
the paths of the morning star they came
351. Into the little room of mortal
life.
429 “O strong forerunner, I have heard thy
cry.
430 One shall descend and break the iron Law,
431
Change Nature’s doom by the lone spirit’s power.
483 His soul drew back into the speed and
noise
484 Of the vast business of created things.
Book Four
The Book
of Birth and Quest
4.1. The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
020 Across the burning languor of the soil
021 Paced Summer with his pomp of violent noons
022
And stamped his tyranny of torrid light
023 And the blue seal of
a great burnished sky.
025 Rain-tide burst in upon torn wings of
heat,
026 Startled with lightnings air’s unquiet drowse,
027
Lashed with life-giving streams the torpid soil,
028 Overcast
with flare and sound and storm-winged dark
029 The star-defended
doors of heaven’s dim sleep,
030 Or from the gold eye of her
paramour
031 Covered with packed cloud-veils the earth’s brown
face.
068 Earth’s mood now changed; she lay in
lulled repose,
069 The hours went by with slow contented tread:
070 A wide and tranquil air remembered peace,
071
Earth was the comrade of a happy sun.
. . .
082 Three
thoughtful seasons passed with shining tread
083 And scanning one
by one the pregnant hours
084 Watched for a flame that lurked in
luminous depths,
085 The vigil of some mighty birth to come.
086 Autumn led in the glory of her moons
087 And dreamed in the splendour of her lotus pools
088 And Winter and Dew-time laid their calm
cool hands
089 On Nature’s bosom still in a half sleep
090
And deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease
091 The tranquil
beauty of the waning year.
092 Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped
through leaves
093 And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;
094 His advent was a fire of irised hues,
095 His
arms were a circle of the arrival of joy.
139 In this high signal moment of the gods
140 Answering earth’s yearning and her cry for bliss,
141
A greatness from our other countries came.
. . .
149 A spirit
of its celestial source aware
. . .
151 Descended into earth’s
imperfect mould
152 And wept not fallen to mortality,
153
But looked on all with large and tranquil eyes.
199 Outlined by the pressure of this new
descent
200 A lovelier body formed than earth had known.
201
As yet a prophecy only and a hint,
202 The glowing arc of a
charmed unseen whole,
203 It came into the sky of mortal life
204 Bright like the crescent horn of a gold moon
205
Returning in a faint illumined eve.
215 But soon the link of soul with form grew
sure;
216 Flooded was the dim cave with slow conscient light,
217 The seed grew into a delicate marvellous bud,
218
The bud disclosed a great and heavenly bloom.
219 At once she
seemed to found a mightier race.
. . .
229 Her nature dwelt in
a strong separate air
230 Like a strange bird with large
rich-coloured breast
231 That sojourns on a secret fruited bough,
232 Lost in the emerald glory of the woods
233 Or
flies above divine unreachable tops.
335 An image made of heaven’s transparent
light.
336 Its charm recalled things seen in vision’s hours,
337 A golden bridge spanning a faery flood,
338 A
moon-touched palm-tree single by a lake
339 Companion of the wide
and glimmering peace,
340 A murmur as of leaves in Paradise
341 Moving when feet of the Immortals pass,
342 A
fiery halo over sleeping hills,
343 A strange and starry head
alone in Night.
001 A land of mountains and wide sun-beat
plains
002 And giant rivers pacing to vast seas,
003
A field of creation and spiritual hush,
004 Silence swallowing
life’s acts into the deeps,
005 Of thought’s transcendent climb
and heavenward leap,
006 A brooding world of reverie and trance,
007 Filled with the mightiest works of God and man,
008
Where Nature seemed a dream of the Divine
009 And beauty and
grace and grandeur had their home,
010 Harboured the childhood of
the incarnate Flame.
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057. Intense philosophies pointed earth to heaven
...
062. Sculpture and painting concentrated sense
063. Upon an inner vision’s
motionless verge,
...
067. The architecture of the Infinite
068.
Discovered here its inward-musing shapes
069. Captured into wide breadths of
soaring stone:
070. Music brought down celestial yearnings, song
071. Held
the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths,
...
073. The
world-interpreting movements of the dance
074. Moulded idea and mood to a
rhythmic sway
152 A friend and yet too great wholly to
know,
153 She walked in their front towards a greater light,
154 Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls,
155
One close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.
205 They were moved by her towards great
unknown things,
. . .
208 Some turned to her against their
nature’s bent;
209 Divided between wonder and revolt,
. . .
212 Impatient subjects, their tied longing hearts
213
Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,
214
Murmured at a yoke they would have wept to lose,
215 The splendid
yoke of her beauty and her love:
265 The Force in her drew earth’s subhuman
broods;
266 And to her spirit’s large and free delight
267
She joined the ardent-hued magnificent lives
268 Of animal and
bird and flower and tree.
269 They answered to her with the
simple heart.
301 A key to a Light still kept in being’s
cave,
302 The sun-word of an ancient mystery’s sense,
303
Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men
312 No equal heart came close to join her
heart,
. . .
335 Midst those encircling lives her spirit
dwelt,
336 Apart in herself until her hour of fate.
001 A morn that seemed a new creation’s
front,
002 Bringing a greater sunlight, happier skies,
003
Came burdened with a beauty moved and strange
004 Out of the
changeless origin of things.
. . .
014 King Aswapati listened
through the ray
015 To other sounds than meet the sense-formed
ear.
109 The Voice withdrew into its hidden
skies.
110 But like a shining answer from the gods
111
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
165 An impromptu from the deeper sight
within,
166 Thoughts rose in him that knew not their own scope.
167 Then to those large and brooding depths whence Love
168
Regarded him across the straits of mind,
169 He spoke in
sentences from the unseen Heights.
239 Accustomed scenes were now an ended
play:
240 Moving in muse amid familiar powers,
241
Touched by new magnitudes and fiery signs,
242 She turned to
vastnesses not yet her own;
243 Allured her heart throbbed to
unknown sweetnesses;
244 The secrets of an unseen world were
close.
255 When the pale dawn slipped through
Night’s shadowy guard,
256 Vainly the new-born light desired her
face;
257 The palace woke to its own emptiness;
258
The sovereign of its daily joys was far;
259 Her moonbeam feet
tinged not the lucent floors:
260 The beauty and divinity were
gone.
261 Delight had fled to search the spacious world.
001 The world-ways opened before Savitri.
. . .
025 A guidance turned the dumb revolving wheels
026
And in the eager body of their speed
027 The dim-masked hooded
godheads rode who move
028 Assigned to man immutably from his
birth,
029 Receivers of the inner and outer law,
030
At once the agents of his spirit’s will
031 And witnesses and
executors of his fate.
079 Often from gilded dusk to argent dawn,
080 Where jewel-lamps flickered on frescoed walls
081
And the stone lattice stared at moonlit boughs,
082
Half-conscious of the tardy listening night
083 Dimly she glided
between banks of sleep
084 At rest in the slumbering palaces of
kings.
085 Hamlet and village saw the fate-wain
pass,
086 Homes of a life bent to the soil it ploughs
087
For sustenance of its short and passing days
088 That, transient,
keep their old repeated course,
089 Unchanging in the circle of a
sky
090 Which alters not above our mortal toil.
091 Away from this thinking creature’s
burdened hours
092 To free and griefless spaces now she turned
. . .
094 Here was the childhood of primaeval earth,
. . .
097 Imperial acres of the eternal sower
098 And
wind-stirred grass-lands winking in the sun:
099 Or mid green
musing of woods and rough-browed hills,
100 In the grove’s
murmurous bee-air humming wild
101 Or past the long lapsing voice
of silver floods
102 Like a swift hope journeying among its
dreams
103 Hastened the chariot of the golden bride.
131 The bosom of our mother kept for us
still
132 Her austere regions and her musing depths,
133
Her impersonal reaches lonely and inspired
134 And the
mightinesses of her rapture haunts.
. . .
147 August, exulting
in her Maker’s eye,
148 She felt her nearness to him in earth’s
breast,
149 Conversed still with a Light behind the veil,
150
Still communed with Eternity beyond.
190 The seers attuned to the universal Will,
191 Content in Him who smiles behind earth’s forms,
192
Abode ungrieved by the insistent days.
193 About them like green
trees girdling a hill
194 Young grave disciples fashioned by
their touch,
195 Trained to the simple act and conscious word,
196 Greatened within and grew to meet their heights.
259 As floats a sunbeam through a shady
place,
260 The golden virgin in her carven car
261
Came gliding among meditation’s seats.
. . .
277 Awake in
candid dawn or darkness mooned,
278 To the still touch inclined
the daughter of Flame
279 Drank in hushed splendour between
tranquil lids
280 And felt the kinship of eternal calm.
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281. But morn broke in reminding her of her quest
282. And from low rustic couch or mat she rose
283. And went impelled on her
unfinished way
284. And followed the fateful orbit of her life
315 Still unaccomplished was the fateful
quest;
316 Still she found not the one predestined face
317
For which she sought amid the sons of men.
5.1. The Destined Meeting-Place
001 But now the destined spot and hour were
close;
002 Unknowing she had neared her nameless goal.
. . .
028 Pale waters ran like glimmering threads of pearl.
029
A sigh was straying among happy leaves;
030 Cool-perfumed with
slow pleasure-burdened feet
031 Faint stumbling breezes faltered
among flowers.
032 The white crane stood, a vivid motionless
streak,
033 Peacock and parrot jewelled soil and tree,
034
The dove’s soft moan enriched the enamoured air
035 And
fire-winged wild-drakes swam in silvery pools.
067 A matted forest-head invaded heaven
068 As if a blue-throated ascetic peered
069 From the
stone fastness of his mountain cell
070 Regarding the brief
gladness of the days;
071 His vast extended spirit couched
behind.
034 As might a soul on Nature’s background
limned
035 Stand out for a moment in a house of dream
036
Created by the ardent breath of life,
037 So he appeared against
the forest verge
038 Inset twixt green relief and golden ray.
. . .
046 His look was a wide daybreak of the gods,
047
His head was a youthful Rishi’s touched with light,
048 His body
was a lover’s and a king’s.
085 At first her glance that took life’s
million shapes
086 Impartially to people its treasure-house
087 Along with sky and flower and hill and star,
088
Dwelt rather on the bright harmonious scene.
. . .
111 Her
vision settled, caught and all was changed.
112 Her mind at first
dwelt in ideal dreams,
. . .
115 And saw in him the genius of
the spot,
116 A symbol figure standing mid earth’s scenes,
117
A king of life outlined in delicate air.
118 Yet this was but a moment’s reverie;
119 For suddenly her heart looked out at him,
120 The
passionate seeing used thought cannot match,
121 And knew one
nearer than its own close strings.
. . .
145 Hooves trampling
fast, wheels largely stumbling ceased;
146 The chariot stood like
an arrested wind.
147 And Satyavan looked out from his soul’s
doors
148 And felt the enchantment of her liquid voice
149
Fill his youth’s purple ambience and endured
150 The haunting
miracle of a perfect face.
151 Mastered by the honey of a strange
flower-mouth,
152 Drawn to soul-spaces opening round a brow,
153 He turned to the vision like a sea to the moon
154
And suffered a dream of beauty and of change,
155 Discovered the
aureole round a mortal’s head,
156 Adored a new divinity in
things.
164 Marvelling he came across the golden
sward:
165 Gaze met close gaze and clung in sight’s embrace.
203 There is a Power within that knows
beyond
204 Our knowings; we are greater than our thoughts,
205
And sometimes earth unveils that vision here.
206 To live, to
love are signs of infinite things,
207 Love is a glory from
eternity’s spheres.
017 Thus Satyavan spoke first to Savitri:
. . .
023 How art thou named among the sons of men?
. . .
050 I have heard strange voices cross the ether’s waves,
051
The Centaur’s wizard song has thrilled my ear;
052 I have
glimpsed the Apsaras bathing in the pools,
053 I have seen the
wood-nymphs peering through the leaves;
054 The winds have shown
to me their trampling lords,
055 I have beheld the princes of the
Sun
056 Burning in thousand-pillared homes of light.
057
So now my mind could dream and my heart fear
. . .
060 Thou
drov’st thy horses from the Thunderer’s worlds.
100 Musing she answered, “I am Savitri,
101 Princess of Madra. Who art thou? What name
102
Musical on earth expresses thee to men?
103 What trunk of kings
watered by fortunate streams
104 Has flowered at last upon one
happy branch?
112 And Satyavan replied to Savitri:
113
“In days when yet his sight looked clear on life,
114 King
Dyumatsena once, the Shalwa, reigned
. . .
122 Heaven’s
brilliant gods recalled their careless gifts,
123 Took from blank
eyes their glad and helping ray
. . .
127 He sojourns in two
solitudes, within
128 And in the solemn rustle of the woods.
129 Son of that king, I, Satyavan, have lived
130
Contented, for not yet of thee aware,
131 In my high-peopled
loneliness of spirit
164 A visioned spell pursued my boyhood’s
hours,
. . .
173 The neighing pride of rapid life that roams
174 Wind-maned through our pastures, on my seeing mood
175
Cast shapes of swiftness; trooping spotted deer
176 Against the
vesper sky became a song
177 Of evening to the silence of my
soul.
178 I caught for some eternal eye the sudden
179
King-fisher flashing to a darkling pool;
180 A slow swan
silvering the azure lake,
181 A shape of magic whiteness, sailed
through dream;
. . .
183 Pranked butterflies, the conscious
flowers of air,
. . .
187 The brilliant long-bills in their
vivid dress,
188 The peacock scattering on the breeze his moons
189 Painted my memory like a frescoed wall.
209 I glimpsed the presence of the One in
all.
210 But still there lacked the last transcendent power
.
. .
216 I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
217
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.
223 “Speak more to me, speak more, O
Satyavan,
224 Speak of thyself and all thou art within;
. . .
227 Speak till a light shall come into my heart
228
And my moved mortal mind shall understand
229 What all the
deathless being in me feels.
230 It knows that thou art he my
spirit has sought
231 Amidst earth’s thronging visages and forms
232 Across the golden spaces of my life.”
233 And Satyavan like a replying harp
234
To the insistent calling of a flute
235 Answered her questioning
and let stream to her
236 His heart in many-coloured waves of
speech:
237 “O golden princess, perfect Savitri,
. . .
309
Wilt thou not make this mortal bliss thy sphere?
310 Descend, O
happiness, with thy moon-gold feet
311 Enrich earth’s floors upon
whose sleep we lie.
327 “O Satyavan, I have heard thee and I
know;
328 I know that thou and only thou art he.”
329
Then down she came from her high carven car
330 Descending with a
soft and faltering haste;
. . .
335 Her gleaming feet upon the
green-gold sward
336 Scattered a memory of wandering beams
337
And lightly pressed the unspoken desire of earth
338 Cherished in
her too brief passing by the soil.
339 Then flitting like pale-brilliant moths
her hands
340 Took from the sylvan verge’s sunlit arms
341
A load of their jewel-faces’ clustering swarms,
342 Companions of
the spring-time and the breeze.
343 A candid garland set with
simple forms
344 Her rapid fingers taught a flower song,
345
The stanzaed movement of a marriage hymn.
349 A sacrament of joy in treasuring palms
350 She brought, flower-symbol of her offered life,
351
Then with raised hands that trembled a little now
352 At the very
closeness that her soul desired,
353 This bond of sweetness,
their bright union’s sign,
354 She laid on the bosom coveted by
her love.
355 As if inclined before some gracious god
356 Who has out of his mist of greatness shone
357 To
fill with beauty his adorer’s hours,
358 She bowed and touched
his feet with worshipping hands;
. . .
360 And made her body
the room of his delight,
361 Her beating heart a remembrancer of
bliss.
362. He bent to her and took into his own
363. Their
married yearning joined like folded hopes;
364 As if a whole rich world suddenly
possessed,
365 Wedded to all he had been, became himself,
366
An inexhaustible joy made his alone,
367 He gathered all Savitri
into his clasp.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
408. Then down the narrow path where their lives had met
409. He led and showed to her her future world,
410. Love’s refuge and corner
of happy solitude.
...
433. Once more she mounted on the carven car
434. And under the ardour of a fiery noon
435. Less bright than the splendour
of her thoughts and dreams
436. She sped swift-reined, swift-hearted but
still saw
437. In still lucidities of sight’s inner world
001 In silent bounds bordering the mortal’s
plane
002 Crossing a wide expanse of brilliant peace
003
Narad the heavenly sage from Paradise
004 Came chanting through
the large and lustrous air.
077 As darts a lightning streak, a glory
fell
078 Nearing until the rapt eyes of the sage
079
Looked out from luminous cloud and, strangely limned,
080 His
face, a beautiful mask of antique joy,
081 Appearing in light
descended where arose
082 King Aswapati’s palace to the winds
083 In Madra, flowering up in delicate stone.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
084. There welcomed him the sage and thoughtful king,
085. At his side a creature beautiful, passionate, wise,
086. Aspiring like a
sacrificial flame
087. Skyward from its earth-seat through luminous air,
088. Queen-browed, the human mother of Savitri.
096 He sang to them of the lotus-heart of
love
097 With all its thousand luminous buds of truth,
098
Which quivering sleeps veiled by apparent things.
107 Even as he sang and rapture stole
through earth-time
108 And caught the heavens, came with a call
of hooves,
109 As of her swift heart hastening, Savitri;
110
Her radiant tread glimmered across the floor.
. . .
118 She
stood before her mighty father’s throne
. . .
123 He flung on
her his vast immortal look;
124 His inner gaze surrounded her
with its light
160 What feet of gods, what ravishing flutes
of heaven
161 Have thrilled high melodies round, from near and
far
162 Approaching through the soft and revelling air,
163
Which still surprised thou hearest? They have fed
164 Thy silence
on some red strange-ecstasied fruit
165 And thou hast trod the
dim moon-peaks of bliss.
166 Reveal, O winged with light, whence
thou hast flown
167 Hastening bright-hued through the green
tangled earth,
168 Thy body rhythmical with the spring-bird’s
call.
214 But Aswapati answered to the seer;—
280 As grows the great and golden bounteous tree
281
Flowering by Alacananda’s murmuring waves,
282 Where with
enamoured speed the waters run
283 Lisping and babbling to the
splendour of morn
284 And cling with lyric laughter round the
knees
285 Of heaven’s daughters dripping magic rain
286
Pearl-bright from moon-gold limbs and cloudy hair,
287 So are her
dawns like jewelled leaves of light,
288 So casts she her
felicity on men.
325 Virgin who comest perfected by joy,
326 Reveal the name thy sudden heart-beats learned.
327
Whom hast thou chosen, kingliest among men?”
328 And Savitri
answered with her still calm voice
329 As one who speaks beneath
the eyes of Fate:
330 “Father and king, I have carried out thy
will.
331 One whom I sought I found in distant lands;
332
I have obeyed my heart, I have heard its call.
. . .
339 My
father, I have chosen. This is done.”
340 Astonished, all sat silent for a space.
341 Then Aswapati looked within and saw
342 A heavy
shadow float above the name
343 Chased by a sudden and stupendous
light;
391 But now the queen alarmed lifted her
voice:
392 “O seer, thy bright arrival has been timed
393
To this high moment of a happy life;
. . .
512 Hide not from
us our doom, if doom is ours.
513 This is the worst, an unknown
face of Fate,
514 A terror ominous, mute, felt more than seen
515 Behind our seat by day, our couch by night,
516 A
Fate lurking in the shadow of our hearts,
517 The anguish of the
unseen that waits to strike.
518 To know is best, however hard to
bear.”
519 Then cried the sage piercing the
mother’s heart,
520 Forcing to steel the will of Savitri,
521
His words set free the spring of cosmic Fate.
. . .
531 “The
truth thou hast claimed; I give to thee the truth.
586 Heaven’s
greatness came, but was too great to stay.
587 Twelve
swift-winged months are given to him and her;
588 This day
returning Satyavan must die.”
590 But the queen cried: “Vain then can be
heaven’s grace!
. . .
596 Mounting thy car go forth, O
Savitri,
597 And travel once more through the peopled lands.
.
. .
605 Plead not thy choice, for death has made it vain.
. .
.
609 But Savitri answered from her violent heart,-
. . .
611 “Once my heart chose and chooses not again.
612
The word I have spoken can never be erased,
613 It is written in
the record book of God.
638 “O child, in the magnificence of thy
soul
639 Dwelling on the border of a greater world
640
And dazzled by thy superhuman thoughts,
641 Thou lendst eternity
to a mortal hope.
. . .
680 Thou who art human, think not like
a god.
681 For man, below the god, above the brute,
682
Is given the calm reason as his guide;
. . .
698 Leave not thy
goal to follow a beautiful face.
718 But Savitri replied with steadfast eyes:
. . .
748 If for a year, that year is all my life.
749
And yet I know this is not all my fate
750 Only to live and love
awhile and die.
751 For I know now why my spirit came on earth
752 And who I am and who he is I love.
753 I have
looked at him from my immortal Self,
754 I have seen God smile at
me in Satyavan;
755 I have seen the Eternal in a human face.”
6.2. The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
190 Then after a silence Narad made reply:
191 Tuning his lips to earthly sound he spoke,
. . .
273
Implacable in the passion of their will,
274 Lifting the hammers
of titanic toil
275 The demiurges of the universe work;
276
They shape with giant strokes their own; their sons
277 Are
marked with their enormous stamp of fire.
298 The Eternal suffers in a human form,
299 He has signed salvation’s testament with his blood:
300
He has opened the doors of his undying peace.
. . .
329 How
shall he cure the ills he never felt?
. . .
335 He carries the
suffering world in his own breast;
400 “Hard is the world-redeemer’s heavy
task;
. . .
489 He must enter the eternity of Night
490
And know God’s darkness as he knows his Sun.
491 For this he must
go down into the pit,
492 For this he must invade the dolorous
Vasts.
493 Imperishable and wise and infinite,
494
He still must travel Hell the world to save.
527 Haste not towards Godhead on a dangerous
road,
528 Open not thy doorways to a nameless Power,
529
Climb not to Godhead by the Titan’s road.
530 Against the Law he
pits his single will,
531 Across its way he throws his pride of
might.
532 Heavenward he clambers on a stair of storms
533
Aspiring to live near the deathless sun.
603 Bear; thou shalt find at last thy road
to bliss.
604 Bliss is the secret stuff of all that lives,
. .
.
613 Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
614
Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways,
615 Withhold from
thee the body of God’s bliss.
620 “O mortal who complainst of death and
fate,
. . .
623 Thou art thyself the author of thy pain.
624 Once in the immortal boundlessness of Self,
625
In a vast of Truth and Consciousness and Light
626 The soul
looked out from its felicity.
. . .
630 Then, curious of a
shadow thrown by Truth,
631 It strained towards some otherness of
self,
632 It was drawn to an unknown Face peering through night.
. . .
653 As one drawn by the grandeur of the Void
654
The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
677 A huge descent began, a giant fall:
678 For what the spirit sees, creates a truth
679 And
what the soul imagines is made a world.
689 Then Aswapati answered to the seer:
.
. .
694 I deemed a mighty Power had come with her;
695
Is not that Power the high compeer of Fate?”
696 But Narad
answered covering truth with truth:
. . .
856 A day may come
when she must stand unhelped
857 On a dangerous brink of the
world’s doom and hers,
858 Carrying the world’s future on her
lonely breast,
859 Carrying the human hope in a heart left sole
860 To conquer or fail on a last desperate verge,
898 He spoke and ceased and left the earthly
scene.
899 Away from the strife and suffering on our globe,
900 He turned towards his far-off blissful home.
901
A brilliant arrow pointing straight to heaven,
902 The luminous
body of the ethereal seer
903 Assailed the purple glory of the
noon
904 And disappeared like a receding star
905
Vanishing into the light of the Unseen.
7.1. The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain
021 Once more she sat behind loud hastening
hooves;
022 A speed of armoured squadrons and a voice
023
Far-heard of chariots bore her from her home.
024 A couchant
earth wakened in its dumb muse
025 Looked up at her from a vast
indolence:
074 Arrived in that rough-hewn homestead
they gave,
075 Questioning no more the strangeness of her fate,
076 Their pride and loved one to the great blind king,
077
A regal pillar of fallen mightiness
078 And the stately care-worn
woman once a queen
079 Who now hoped nothing for herself from
life,
080 But all things only hoped for her one child,
. . .
094 They parted from her with pain-fraught burdened hearts
. . .
098 Helpless against the choice of Savitri’s heart
099
They left her to her rapture and her doom
201 A worshipped empress all once vied to
serve,
202 She made herself the diligent serf of all,
203
Nor spared the labour of broom and jar and well,
204 Or close
gentle tending or to heap the fire
205 Of altar and kitchen, no
slight task allowed
206 To others that her woman’s strength might
do.
253 But Satyavan sometimes half understood,
. . .
256 The unplumbed abyss of her deep passionate want.
. .
.
288 Yet ever they grew into each other more
289
Until it seemed no power could rend apart,
290 Since even the
body’s walls could not divide.
291 For when he wandered in the
forest, oft
292 Her conscious spirit walked with him and knew
293 His actions as if in herself he moved;
294 He,
less aware, thrilled with her from afar.
7.2. The Parable of the Search for the Soul
008 Above her brows where will and knowledge
meet
009 A mighty Voice invaded mortal space.
. . .
015
As the Voice touched, her body became a stark
016 And rigid
golden statue of motionless trance,
017 A stone of God lit by an
amethyst soul.
. . .
019 Her heart listened to its slow
measured beats,
. . .
021 “Why camest thou to this dumb
deathbound earth,
. . .
024 O spirit, O immortal energy,
025 If ’twas to nurse grief in a helpless heart
026
Or with hard tearless eyes await thy doom?
027 Arise, O soul, and
vanquish Time and Death.”
028 But Savitri’s heart replied in the dim
night:
. . .
045 Why should I strive with earth’s unyielding
laws
046 Or stave off death’s inevitable hour?
047
This surely is best to pactise with my fate
048 And follow close
behind my lover’s steps
049 And pass through night from twilight
to the sun
050 Across the tenebrous river that divides
051
The adjoining parishes of earth and heaven.
. . .
056 The
Voice replied: “Is this enough, O spirit?
057 And what shall thy
soul say when it wakes and knows
058 The work was left undone for
which it came?
076 Then Savitri’s heart fell mute, it spoke
no word.
. . .
081 A Power within her answered the still
Voice:
082 “I am thy portion here charged with thy work,
083
As thou myself seated for ever above,
084 Speak to my depths, O
great and deathless Voice,
085 Command, for I am here to do thy
will.”
086 The Voice replied: “Remember why thou
cam’st:
087 Find out thy soul, recover thy hid self,
. . .
095 In the enormous emptiness of thy mind
096 Thou
shalt see the Eternal’s body in the world,
097 Know him in every
voice heard by thy soul,
. . .
103 Then shalt thou harbour my
force and conquer Death.”
104 Then Savitri by her doomed husband
sat,
105 Still rigid in her golden motionless pose,
106
A statue of the fire of the inner sun.
. . .
112 She looked
into herself and sought for her soul.
7.3. The Entry into the Inner Countries
031 Then Savitri surged out of her body’s
wall
032 And stood a little span outside herself
. . .
036
At the dim portal of the inner life
. . .
043 A formidable
voice cried from within:
044 “Back, creature of earth, lest
tortured and torn thou die.”
. . .
046 The Serpent of the
threshold hissing rose,
. . .
049 And trolls and gnomes and
goblins scowled and stared
050 And wild beast roarings thrilled
the blood with fear
051 And menace muttered in a dangerous
tongue.
052 Unshaken her will pressed on the rigid bars:
. . .
055 Her being entered into the inner worlds.
064 Across a perilous border line she passed
065 Where Life dips into the subconscient dusk
066 Or
struggles from Matter into chaos of mind,
067 Aswarm with
elemental entities
068 And fluttering shapes of vague half-bodied
thought
069 And crude beginnings of incontinent force.
. . .
114 This state now threatened, this she pushed from her.
130 Approaching loomed a giant head of Life
131 Ungoverned by mind or soul, subconscient, vast.
256 Then journeying forward through the
self’s wide hush
257 She came into a brilliant ordered Space.
258 There Life dwelt parked in an armed tranquillity;
259
A chain was on her strong insurgent heart.
. . .
371 There one
stood forth who bore authority
372 On an important brow and held
a rod;
. . .
375 His sentences savoured the oracle.
376
“Traveller or pilgrim of the inner world,
. . .
379 O aspirant
to the perfect way of life,
380 Here find it; rest from search
and live at peace.
397 Savitri replied casting into his world
398 Sight’s deep release, the heart’s questioning inner voice:
.
. .
401 “Happy are they who in this chaos of things,
402
This coming and going of the feet of Time,
403 Can find the
single Truth, the eternal Law:
. . .
409 Happiest who stand on
faith as on a rock.
410 But I must pass leaving the ended search,
411 Truth’s rounded outcome firm, immutable
412 And
this harmonic building of world-fact,
413 This ordered knowledge
of apparent things.
414 Here I can stay not, for I seek my soul.”
415 None answered in that bright contented
world,
. . .
419 But some murmured, passers-by from kindred
spheres:
420 Each by his credo judged the thought she spoke.
421 “Who then is this who knows not that the soul
422
Is a least gland or a secretion’s fault
. . .
429 But others,
“Nay, it is her spirit she seeks.
. . .
433 But none has
touched its limbs or seen its face.
. . .
440 Another with
mystic and unsatisfied eyes
441 Who loved his slain belief and
mourned its death,
442 “Is there one left who seeks for a Beyond?
443 Can still the path be found, opened the gate?”
444 So she fared on across her silent self.
445 To a road she came thronged with an ardent crowd
. . .
451
Guests from the cavern of the secret soul.
. . .
461 And
Savitri mingling in that glorious crowd,
. . .
463 Longed once
to hasten like them to save God’s world;
. . .
471
Outstretching her hands to stay the throng she cried:
472 “O
happy company of luminous gods,
473 Reveal, who know, the road
that I must tread,-
. . .
475 To find the birthplace of the
occult Fire
476 And the deep mansion of my secret soul.”
477 One answered pointing to a silence dim
478 On a remote extremity of sleep
479 In some far
background of the inner world.
480 “O Savitri, from thy hidden
soul we come.
. . .
491 Follow the world’s winding highway to
its source.
492 There in the silence few have ever reached,
493 Thou shalt see the Fire burning on the bare stone
494
And the deep cavern of thy secret soul.”
495 Then Savitri following the great winding
road
496 Came where it dwindled into a narrow path
497
Trod only by rare wounded pilgrim feet.
498 A few bright forms
emerged from unknown depths
499 And looked at her with calm
immortal eyes.
500 There was no sound to break the brooding hush;
501 One felt the silent nearness of the soul.
001 Here from a low and prone and listless
ground
002 The passion of the first ascent began;
. . .
004
A Woman sat in a pale lustrous robe.
. . .
016 The Mother of
the seven sorrows bore
017 The seven stabs that pierced her
bleeding heart:
. . .
025 In soft sweet training words slowly
she spoke:
026 “O Savitri, I am thy secret soul.
027
To share the suffering of the world I came,
028 I draw my
children’s pangs into my breast.
. . .
087 I am the hope that
looks towards my God,
088 My God who never came to me till now;
089 His voice I hear that ever says `I come’:
090 I
know that one day he shall come at last.”
091 She ceased, and like an echo from below
092 Answering her pathos of divine complaint
093 A
voice of wrath took up the dire refrain,
. . .
097 “I am the
Man of Sorrows, I am he
098 Who is nailed on the wide cross of
the universe;
099 To enjoy my agony God built the earth,
100
My passion he has made his drama’s theme.
. . .
153 I am the
doer of demoniac deeds;
154 I was made for evil, evil is my lot;
. . .
157 What Nature made me, that I must remain.
159 And Savitri heard the voice, the echo
heard
160 And turning to her being of pity spoke:
161
“Madonna of suffering, Mother of grief divine,
162 Thou art a
portion of my soul put forth
163 To bear the unbearable sorrow of
the world.
. . .
167 But thine is the power to solace, not to
save.
168 One day I will return, a bringer of strength,
169
And make thee drink from the Eternal’s cup;
178 On passed she in her spirit’s upward
route.
. . .
184 A Woman sat in gold and purple sheen,
185
Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt,
186 Her feet upon a
couchant lion’s back.
212 Aspired the harmony of her puissant
voice:
213 “O Savitri, I am thy secret soul.
. . .
236
I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong,
237 And Lakshmi,
queen of the fair and fortunate;
238 I wear the face of Kali when
I kill,
239 I trample the corpses of the demon hordes.
. . .
276 I shall hear the silver swing of heaven’s gates
277
When God comes out to meet the soul of the world.”
278 She spoke and from the lower human world
279 An answer, a warped echo met her speech;
. . .
305
The voice rose up and smote some inner sun.
306 “I am the heir of
the forces of the earth,
307 Slowly I make good my right to my
estate;
. . .
381 When earth is mastered, I shall conquer
heaven;
382 The gods shall be my aides or menial folk,
383
No wish I harbour unfulfilled shall die:
384 Omnipotence and
omniscience shall be mine.”
385 And Savitri heard the voice, the warped
echo heard
386 And turning to her being of power she spoke:
387 “Madonna of might, Mother of works and force,
388
Thou art a portion of my soul put forth
. . .
396 Thou hast
given men strength, wisdom thou couldst not give.
397 One day I
will return, a bringer of light;
398 Then will I give to thee the
mirror of God;
399 Thou shalt see self and world as by him they
are seen
400 Reflected in the bright pool of thy soul.
407 Ascending still her spirit’s upward
route
408 She came into a high and happy space,
. . .
419
Here, living centre of that vision of peace,
420 A Woman sat in
clear and crystal light:
. . .
425 A low music heard became
her floating voice:
426 “O Savitri, I am thy secret soul.
427
I have come down to the wounded desolate earth
428 To heal her
pangs and lull her heart to rest
. . .
491 I shall save earth,
if earth consents to be saved.
495 She spoke and from the ignorant nether
plane
496 A cry, a warped echo naked and shuddering came.
. .
.
536 “I am the mind of God’s great ignorant world
537
Ascending to knowledge by the steps he made;
. . .
575 If God
is at work, his secrets I have found.
576 But still the Cause of
things is left in doubt,
. . .
580 I know not and perhaps
shall never know.
. . .
616 Human I am, human let me remain
617 Till in the Inconscient I fall dumb and sleep.
625 And Savitri heard the voice, the warped
answer heard
626 And turning to her being of light she spoke:
627 “Madonna of light, Mother of joy and peace,
628
Thou art a portion of my self put forth
629 To raise the spirit
to its forgotten heights
630 And wake the soul by touches of the
heavens.
. . .
639 Even if thou rain down intuition’s rays,
640 The mind of man will think it earth’s own gleam,
. . .
644
His hunger for the eternal thou must nurse
. . .
646 And bring
God down into his body and life.
647 One day I will return, His
hand in mine,
648 And thou shalt see the face of the Absolute.
001 Onward she passed seeking the soul’s
mystic cave.
002 At first she stepped into a night of God.
. .
.
046 The face of Dawn out of mooned twilight grew.
047
Day came, priest of a sacrifice of joy
048 Into the worshipping
silence of her world;
049 He carried immortal lustre as his robe,
050 Trailed heaven like a purple scarf and wore
051
As his vermilion caste-mark a red sun.
067 An awful dimness wrapped the great
rock-doors
068 Carved in the massive stone of Matter’s trance.
069 Two golden serpents round the lintel curled,
070
Enveloping it with their pure and dreadful strength,
071 Looked
out with wisdom’s deep and luminous eyes.
072 An eagle covered it
with wide conquering wings:
073 Flames of self-lost immobile
reverie,
074 Doves crowded the grey musing cornices
075
Like sculptured postures of white-bosomed peace.
076 Across the threshold’s sleep she entered
in
077 And found herself amid great figures of gods
078
Conscious in stone and living without breath,
079 Watching with
fixed regard the soul of man,
080 Executive figures of the cosmic
self,
081 World-symbols of immutable potency.
102 There was no step of breathing men, no
sound,
103 Only the living nearness of the soul.
. . .
115
As thus she passed in that mysterious place
116 Through room and
room, through door and rock-hewn door,
117 She felt herself made
one with all she saw.
118 A sealed identity within her woke;
119 She knew herself the Beloved of the Supreme:
120
These Gods and Goddesses were he and she:
. . .
127 The Adorer
and Adored self-lost and one.
128 In the last chamber on a golden seat
129 One sat whose shape no vision could define;
130
Only one felt the world’s unattainable fount,
131 A Power of
which she was a straying Force,
132 An invisible Beauty, goal of
the world’s desire,
133 A Sun of which all knowledge is a beam,
134 A Greatness without whom no life could be.
135 Thence all departed into silent self,
136 And all became formless and pure and bare.
137
Then through a tunnel dug in the last rock
138 She came out where
there shone a deathless sun.
139 A house was there all made of
flame and light
140 And crossing a wall of doorless living fire
141 There suddenly she met her secret soul.
142 A being stood immortal in transience,
143 Deathless dallying with momentary things,
. . .
155
She had come into the mortal body’s room
. . .
165 But since
she knows the toil of mind and life
166 As a mother feels and
shares her children’s lives,
167 She puts forth a small portion
of herself,
168 A being no bigger than the thumb of man
169
Into a hidden region of the heart
170 To face the pang and to
forget the bliss,
171 To share the suffering and endure earth’s
wounds
172 And labour mid the labour of the stars.
196 Here in this chamber of flame and light
they met;
197 They looked upon each other, knew themselves,
198 The secret deity and its human part,
199 The calm
immortal and the struggling soul.
200 Then with a magic
transformation’s speed
201 They rushed into each other and grew
one.
202 Once more she was human upon earthly
soil
203 In the muttering night amid the rain-swept woods
204
And the rude cottage where she sat in trance:
. . .
207 But
now the half-opened lotus bud of her heart
208 Had bloomed and
stood disclosed to the earthly ray;
209 In an image shone
revealed her secret soul.
. . .
212 In its deep lotus home her
being sat
213 As if on concentration’s marble seat,
214
Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds
215 To make this earthly
tenement her house.
216 As in a flash from a supernal light,
217 A living image of the original Power,
218 A face,
a form came down into her heart
219 And made of it its temple and
pure abode.
. . .
223 Out of the Inconscient’s soulless
mindless night
224 A flaming Serpent rose released from sleep.
225 It rose billowing its coils and stood erect
226
And climbing mightily, stormily on its way
227 It touched her
centres with its flaming mouth;
228 As if a fiery kiss had broken
their sleep,
229 They bloomed and laughed surcharged with light
and bliss.
230 Then at the crown it joined the Eternal’s space.
247 All underwent a high celestial change:
248 Breaking the black Inconscient’s blind mute wall,
. . .
251 Each part of the being trembling with delight
252
Lay overwhelmed with tides of happiness
. . .
255 In the
country of the lotus of the head
. . .
257 In the castle of
the lotus twixt the brows
. . .
259 In the passage of the
lotus of the throat
. . .
278 In the kingdom of the lotus of
the heart
. . .
282 In the navel lotus’ broad imperial range
. . .
286 In the narrow nether centre’s petty parts
. . .
290 In the deep place where once the Serpent slept,
. . .
293
A firm ground was made for Heaven’s descending might.
7.6. Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
035 Above the cherished head of Satyavan
036 She saw not now Fate’s dark and lethal orb;
037 A
golden circle round a mystic sun
038 Disclosed to her new-born
predicting sight
039 The cyclic rondure of a sovereign life.
065 Once as she sat in deep felicitous muse,
. . .
068 An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart.
. . .
074 A formless Dread with shapeless endless wings
075
Filling the universe with its dangerous breath,
076 A denser
darkness than the Night could bear,
077 Enveloped the heavens and
possessed the earth.
141 Then from the heights a greater Voice
came down,
142 The Word that touches the heart and finds the
soul,
143 The voice of Light after the voice of Night:
. . .
146 “O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe;
. . .
159
That all in thee may reach its absolute.
. . .
184 God must be
born on earth and be as man
185 That man being human may grow
even as God.
. . .
219 Cast off thy mind, step back from form
and name.
220 Annul thyself that only God may be.”
221 Thus spoke the mighty and uplifting
Voice,
222 And Savitri heard; she bowed her head and mused
223
Plunging her deep regard into herself
224 In her soul’s privacy
in the silent Night.
289 Her body’s thoughts climbed from her
conscious limbs
290 And carried their yearnings to its mystic
crown
291 Where Nature’s murmurs meet the Ineffable.
405 Only sometimes small thoughts arose and
fell
406 Like quiet waves upon a silent sea
407 Or
ripples passing over a lonely pool
408 When a stray stone
disturbs its dreaming rest.
458 Then all grew still, nothing moved any
more:
459 Immobile, self-rapt, timeless, solitary
460
A silent spirit pervaded silent Space.
607 Unutterably effaced, no one and null,
608 A vanishing vestige like a violet trace,
609 A
faint record merely of a self now past,
610 She was a point in
the unknowable.
7.7. The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness
059 Yet all was not extinct in this deep
loss;
060 The being travelled not towards nothingness.
061
There was some high surpassing Secrecy,
062 And when she sat
alone with Satyavan,
063 Her moveless mind with his that searched
and strove,
064 In the hush of the profound and intimate night
065 She turned to the face of a veiled voiceless Truth
066
Hid in the dumb recesses of the heart
067 Or waiting beyond the
last peak climbed by Thought,-
127 But now she sat by sleeping Satyavan,
128 Awake within, and the enormous Night
129
Surrounded her with the Unknowable’s vast.
210 Out of the infinitudes all came to her,
211 Into the infinitudes sentient she spread,
212
Infinity was her own natural home.
213 Nowhere she dwelt, her
spirit was everywhere,
214 The distant constellations wheeled
round her;
215 Earth saw her born, all worlds were her colonies,
216 The greater worlds of life and mind were hers;
217
All Nature reproduced her in its lines,
218 Its movements were
large copies of her own.
219 She was the single self of all these
selves,
220 She was in them and they were all in her.
012 Then silently she rose and, service
done,
013 Bowed down to the great goddess simply carved
014
By Satyavan upon a forest stone.
015 What prayer she breathed her
soul and Durga knew.
016 Perhaps she felt in the dim forest huge
017 The infinite Mother watching over her child,
018
Perhaps the shrouded Voice spoke some still word.
019 At last she came to the pale mother
queen.
020 She spoke but with guarded lips and tranquil face
.
. .
027 And forced upon her speech an outward peace.
028
“One year that I have lived with Satyavan
. . .
032 I have not
gone into the silences
033 Of this great woodland that enringed
my thoughts
. . .
036 Now has a strong desire seized all my
heart
037 To go with Satyavan holding his hand
. . .
043
Release me now and let my heart have rest.”
044 She answered: “Do
as thy wise mind desires,
045 O calm child-sovereign with the
eyes that rule.
051 Then the doomed husband and the woman
who knew
052 Went with linked hands into that solemn world
053
Where beauty and grandeur and unspoken dream,
054 Where Nature’s
mystic silence could be felt
055 Communing with the secrecy of
God.
083 But Satyavan had paused. He meant to
finish
084 His labour here that happy, linked, uncaring
085
They two might wander free in the green deep
086 Primaeval
mystery of the forest’s heart.
. . .
092 Wordless but near she
watched, no turn to lose
093 Of the bright face and body which
she loved.
. . .
098 But Satyavan wielded a joyous axe.
099
He sang high snatches of a sage’s chant
105 But as he worked, his doom upon him
came.
. . .
114 . . . Now the great woodsman
115 Hewed at
him and his labour ceased: lifting
116 His arm he flung away the
poignant axe
117 Far from him like an instrument of pain.
118
She came to him in silent anguish and clasped,
119 And he cried
to her, “Savitri, a pang
120 Cleaves through my head and breast
as if the axe
121 Were piercing it and not the living branch.
127 Then Savitri sat under branches wide,
. . .
131 She guarded him in her bosom and strove to soothe
132 His anguished brow and body with her hands.
. . .
144
He cried out in a clinging last despair,
145 “Savitri, Savitri, O
Savitri,
146 Lean down, my soul, and kiss me while I die.”
147 And even as her pallid lips pressed his,
148 His failed, losing last sweetness of response;
149
His cheek pressed down her golden arm. She sought
150 His mouth
still with her living mouth, as if
151 She could persuade his
soul back with her kiss;
152 Then grew aware they were no more
alone.
153 Something had come there conscious, vast and dire.
. . .
176 She knew that visible Death was standing there
177
And Satyavan had passed from her embrace.
Book Nine
The Book
of Eternal Night
016 Then suddenly there came on her the
change
017 Which in tremendous moments of our lives
018
Can overtake sometimes the human soul
019 And hold it up towards
its luminous source.
020 The veil is torn, the thinker is no
more:
021 Only the spirit sees and all is known.
022
Then a calm Power seated above our brows
023 Is seen, unshaken by
our thoughts and deeds,
024 Its stillness bears the voices of the
world:
025 Immobile, it moves Nature, looks on life.
. . .
047 This in a moment’s depths was born in her.
054 Like one who looks up to far heights she
saw,
055 Ancient and strong as on a windless summit
056
Above her where she had worked in her lone mind
057 Labouring
apart in a sole tower of self,
058 The source of all which she
had seemed or wrought,
. . .
073 That mightiness assumed a
symbol form:
074 Her being’s spaces quivered with its touch,
075 It covered her as with immortal wings;
084 All in her mated with that mighty hour,
085 As if the last remnant had been slain by Death
086
Of the humanity that once was hers.
. . .
107 A moment yet she
lingered motionless
108 And looked down on the dead man at her
feet;
109 Then like a tree recovering from a wind
110 She raised her noble head; fronting her gaze
111
Something stood there, unearthly, sombre, grand,
112 A limitless
denial of all being
113 That wore the terror and wonder of a
shape.
130 The two opposed each other with their
eyes,
131 Woman and universal god: around her,
132
Piling their void unbearable loneliness
133 Upon her mighty
uncompanioned soul,
134 Many inhuman solitudes came close.
179 The dim and awful godhead rose erect
180 From his brief stooping to his touch on earth,
181
And, like a dream that wakes out of a dream,
182 Forsaking the
poor mould of that dead clay,
183 Another luminous Satyavan
arose,
184 Starting upright from the recumbent earth
185
As if someone over viewless borders stepped
186 Emerging on the
edge of unseen worlds.
202 Between two realms he stood, not
wavering,
203 But fixed in quiet strong expectancy,
204
Like one who, sightless, listens for a command.
205 So were they
immobile on that earthly field,
206 Powers not of earth, though
one in human clay.
. . .
212 Luminous he moved away; behind
him Death
261 Into a deep and unfamiliar air
262
Enormous, windless, without stir or sound
263 They seemed to
enlarge away, drawn by some wide
264 Pale distance, from the warm
control of earth
265 And her grown far: now, now they would
escape.
266 Then flaming from her body’s nest alarmed
267
Her violent spirit soared at Satyavan.
321 Enigma of the Inconscient’s sculptural
sleep,
322 Symbols of the approach to darkness old
323
And monuments of her titanic reign,
331 Then, to that chill sere heavy line
arrived
332 Where his feet touched the shadowy marches’ brink,
333 Turning arrested luminous Satyavan
334 Looked
back with his wonderful eyes at Savitri.
335 But Death pealed
forth his vast abysmal cry:
336 “O mortal, turn back to thy
transient kind;
337 Aspire not to accompany Death to his home,
338 As if thy breath could live where Time must die.
369 Still like a statue on its pedestal,
370 Lone in the silence and to vastness bared,
371
Against midnight’s dumb abysses piled in front
372 A columned
shaft of fire and light she rose.
9.2. The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness
016 The Woman first affronted the Abyss
017 Daring to journey through the eternal Night.
018
Armoured with light she advanced her foot to plunge
019 Into the
dread and hueless vacancy;
132 Once more she heard the treading of a
god,
133 And out of the dumb darkness Satyavan,
134
Her husband, grew into a luminous shade.
. . .
138 Death
missioned to the night his lethal call.
139 “This is my silent
dark immensity,
. . .
142 Entombing the vanity of life’s
desires.
143 Hast thou beheld thy source, O transient heart,
144 And known from what the dream thou art was made?
222 At last she spoke; her voice was heard
by Night:
223 “I bow not to thee, O huge mask of death,
224
Black lie of night to the cowed soul of man,
. . .
227
Conscious of immortality I walk.
. . .
247 First I demand
whatever Satyavan,
248 My husband, waking in the forest’s charm
249 Out of his long pure childhood’s lonely dreams,
250
Desired and had not for his beautiful life.
251 Give, if thou
must, or, if thou canst, refuse.”
252 Death bowed his head in scornful cold
assent,
. . .
255 Uplifting his disastrous voice he spoke:
. . .
257 I yield to his blind father’s longing heart
258
Kingdom and power and friends and greatness lost
259 And royal
trappings for his peaceful age,
260 The pallid pomps of man’s
declining days,
261 The silvered decadent glories of life’s fall.
275 But Savitri answered the disdainful
Shade:
276 “World-spirit, I was thy equal spirit born.
. . .
278 I am immortal in my mortality.
279 I tremble not
before the immobile gaze
280 Of the unchanging marble hierarchies
281 That look with the stone eyes of Law and Fate.
282
My soul can meet them with its living fire.
. . .
296 Wherever
thou leadst his soul I shall pursue.”
308 Against the Woman’s boundless heart
arose
309 The almighty cry of universal Death.
310
“Hast thou god-wings or feet that tread my stars,
311 Frail
creature with the courage that aspires,
312 Forgetting thy bounds
of thought, thy mortal role?
. . .
340 I will take from thee
the black eternal grip:
341 Clasping in thy heart thy fate’s
exiguous dole
342 Depart in peace, if peace for man is just.”
343 But Savitri answered meeting scorn with
scorn,
344 The mortal woman to the dreadful Lord:
345
“Who is this God imagined by thy night,
346 Contemptuously
creating worlds disdained,
347 Who made for vanity the brilliant
stars?
348 Not he who has reared his temple in my thoughts
349
And made his sacred floor my human heart.
350 My God is will and
triumphs in his paths,
351 My God is love and sweetly suffers
all.
. . .
360 Love’s golden wings have power to fan thy void:
361 The eyes of love gaze starlike through death’s night,
362
The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds.
371 Once more a Thought, a Word in the void
arose
372 And Death made answer to the human soul:
. . .
384 Wilt thou claim immortality, O heart,
385 Crying
against the eternal witnesses
386 That thou and he are endless
powers and last?
387 Death only lasts and the inconscient Void.
. . .
394 All from my depths are born, they live by death;
395
All to my depths return and are no more.
. . .
403 I, Death,
am the one refuge of thy soul.
439 But Savitri replied to the dread Voice:
440 “O Death, who reasonest, I reason not,
441 Reason
that scans and breaks, but cannot build
442 Or builds in vain
because she doubts her work.
443 I am, I love, I see, I act, I
will.”
444 Death answered her, one deep surrounding cry:
445
“Know also. Knowing, thou shalt cease to love
. . .
449 But
Savitri replied for man to Death:
450 “When I have loved for
ever, I shall know.
451 Love in me knows the truth all changings
mask.
466 Like one disdaining violent helpless
words
467 From victim lips Death answered not again.
468
He stood in silence and in darkness wrapped,
. . .
471
Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face;
472 Night’s dusk
tiara was his matted hair,
473 The ashes of the pyre his
forehead’s sign.
477 Around her rolled the shuddering waste
of gloom,
478 Its swallowing emptiness and joyless death
479
Resentful of her thought and life and love.
480 Through the long
fading night by her compelled,
481 Gliding half-seen on their
unearthly path,
482 Phantasmal in the dimness moved the three.
Book Ten
The Book of the Double Twilight
10.1. The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
071 Night is not our beginning nor our end;
072 She is the dark Mother in whose womb we have hid
073
Safe from too swift a waking to world-pain.
086 Assailed in the sovereign emptiness of
its reign
087 The intolerant Darkness paled and drew apart
088
Till only a few black remnants stained that Ray.
089 But on a
failing edge of dumb lost space
090 Still a great dragon body
sullenly loomed;
091 Adversary of the slow struggling Dawn
092
Defending its ground of tortured mystery,
093 It trailed its
coils through the dead martyred air
094 And curving fled down a
grey slope of Time.
095 There is a morning twilight of the gods;
096 Miraculous from sleep their forms arise
097 And
God’s long nights are justified by dawn.
. . .
109 Into a
happy misty twilit world
110 Where all ran after light and joy
and love
111 She slipped; there far-off raptures drew more close
252 Above, her spirit in its mighty trance
253 Saw all, but lived for its transcendent task,
254
Immutable like a fixed eternal star
10.2. The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
001 Then pealed the calm inexorable voice:
. . .
011 This is the world from which thy yearnings came.
10.3. The Debate of Love and Death
004 But Savitri answered to almighty Death:
. . .
432 “O Death, I have triumphed over thee within;
. . .
443 O Death, not for my heart’s sweet poignancy
444
Nor for my happy body’s bliss alone
445 I have claimed from thee
the living Satyavan,
446 But for his work and mine, our sacred
charge.
447 Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars;
448 To dwell under death’s shadow they have come
449
Tempting God’s light to earth for the ignorant race,
462 But to the woman Death the god replied,
. . .
480 O human face, put off mind-painted masks:
481
The animal be, the worm that Nature meant;
482 Accept thy futile
birth, thy narrow life.
. . .
523 But Savitri replied to
mighty Death:
524 “My heart is wiser than the Reason’s thoughts,
525 My heart is stronger than thy bonds, O Death.
526
It sees and feels the one Heart beat in all,
527 It feels the
high Transcendent’s sunlike hands,
567 Death bowed his sovereign head in cold
assent:
568 “I give to thee, saved from death and poignant fate
569 Whatever once the living Satyavan
570 Desired in
his heart for Savitri.
. . .
582 Return, O child, to thy
forsaken earth.”
583 But Savitri replied, “Thy gifts resist.
584 Earth cannot flower if lonely I return.”
585 Then Death sent forth once more his
angry cry,
. . .
587 “What knowst thou of earth’s rich and
changing life
588 Who thinkst that one man dead all joy must
cease?
. . .
597 But Savitri replied to the vague god,
598
“Give me back Satyavan, my only lord.
599 Thy thoughts are vacant
to my soul that feels
600 The deep eternal truth in transient
things.”
. . .
645 Thus with armed speech the great opponents
strove.
674 The mortal led, the god and spirit
obeyed
675 And she behind was leader of their march
676
And they in front were followers of her will.
. . .
685 Death walked in front of her and
Satyavan,
686 In the dark front of Death, a failing star.
687
Above was the unseen balance of his fate.
10.4. The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
083 Once more arose the great destroying
Voice:
. . .
087 “Behold the figures of this symbol realm,
088 Its solid outlines of creative dream
089
Inspiring the great concrete tasks of earth.
. . .
096 Where
Nature changes not, man cannot change:
. . .
121 Hope not to
call God down into his life.
122 How shalt thou bring the
Everlasting here?
123 There is no house for him in hurrying Time.
234 But Savitri answered to the sophist God:
. . .
290 If the chamber’s door is even a little ajar,
291
What then can hinder God from stealing in
292 Or who forbid his
kiss on the sleeping soul?
293 Already God is near, the Truth is
close:
. . .
305 A lonely freedom cannot satisfy
306
A heart that has grown one with every heart:
307 I am a deputy of
the aspiring world,
308 My spirit’s liberty I ask for all.”
309 Then rang again a deeper cry of Death.
. . .
378 Mighty art thou with the dread goddess filled,
379
To whom thou criedst at dawn in the dim woods.
380 Use not thy
strength like the wild Titan souls!
381 Touch not the seated
lines, the ancient laws,
382 Respect the calm of great
established things.”
383 But Savitri replied to the huge god:
384 “What is the calm thou vauntst, O Law, O Death?
. . .
401
I trample on thy law with living feet;
402 For to arise in
freedom I was born.
408 . . . Death replied to her,
409
“Why should the noble and immortal will
410 Stoop to the petty
works of transient earth,
411 Freedom forgotten and the Eternal’s
path?
. . .
424 She answered, “Straight I trample on the road
425 The strong hand hewed for me which planned our paths.
. . .
446 Freedom is this with ever seated soul,
447 Large
in life’s limits, strong in Matter’s knots,
448 Building great
stuff of action from the worlds
449 To make fine wisdom from
coarse, scattered strands
450 And love and beauty out of war and
night,
451 The wager wonderful, the game divine.
461 Immutable, Death’s denial met her cry:
. . .
496 All things hang here between God’s yes and no,
497
Two Powers real but to each other untrue,
498 Two consort stars
in the mooned night of mind
499 That towards two opposite
horizons gaze,
500 The white head and black tail of the mystic
drake,
501 The swift and the lame foot, wing strong, wing broken
502 Sustaining the body of the uncertain world,
503 A
great surreal dragon in the skies.
539 The Woman answered to the mighty Shade,
540 And as she spoke, mortality disappeared;
541 Her
Goddess self grew visible in her eyes,
542 Light came, a dream of
heaven, into her face.
666 On summit Mind are radiant altitudes
667 Exposed to the lustre of Infinity,
668 Outskirts
and dependencies of the house of Truth,
. . .
671 A cosmic
Thought spreads out its vastitudes;
672 Its smallest parts are
here philosophies
673 Challenging with their detailed immensity,
675 But higher still can climb the ascending
light;
676 There are vasts of vision and eternal suns,
677
Oceans of an immortal luminousness,
678 Flame-hills assaulting
heaven with their peaks,
684 A highest flight climbs to a deepest
view:
685 In a wide opening of its native sky
686
Intuition’s lightnings range in a bright pack
687 Hunting all
hidden truths out of their lairs,
. . .
695 Thought there has
revelation’s sun-bright eyes;
696 The Word, a mighty and
inspiring Voice,
697 Enters Truth’s inmost cabin of privacy
698 And tears away the veil from God and life.
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699. Then stretches the boundless finite’s last expanse,
700. The cosmic empire of the Overmind,
701. Time’s buffer state bordering Eternity,
702. Too vast for the experience of man’s soul:
703. All here gathers beneath one golden sky:
...
711. There is the Godhead’s universal gaze
712. And there the boundaries of immortal Mind:
...
716. In her glorious kingdom of eternal light
717. All-ruler, ruled by none, the Truth supreme,
718. Omnipotent, omniscient and alone,
719. In a golden country keeps her measureless house;
...
727. Transcending Time’s hours, transcending Timelessness,
728. The Mighty Mother sits in lucent calm
729. And holds the eternal Child upon her knees
730. Attending the day when he shall speak to Fate.
...
747. There in a world of everlasting Light,
748. In the realms of the immortal Supermind
...
800. O Death, if thou couldst touch the Truth supreme
801. Thou wouldst grow suddenly wise and cease to be.
...
806. Then Death the last time answered Savitri:
...
830. O human claimant to immortality,
831. Reveal thy power, lay bare thy spirit’s force,
832. Then will I give back to thee Satyavan.
833. Or if the Mighty Mother is with thee,
834. Show me her face that I may worship her;
835. Let deathless eyes look into the eyes of Death,
836. An imperishable Force touching brute things
837. Transform earth’s death into immortal life.
...
842. And Savitri looked on Death and answered not.
...
846. A mighty transformation came on her.
...
857. A curve of the calm hauteur of far heaven
858. Descending into earth’s humility,
859. Her forehead’s span vaulted the Omniscient’s gaze,
860. Her eyes were two stars that watched the universe.
861. The Power that from her being’s summit reigned,
862. The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy,
863. Came down and held the centre in her brow
...
871. It stirred in the lotus of her throat of song,
...
877. It glided into the lotus of her heart
...
879. It poured into her navel’s lotus depth,
...
883. Broke into the cave where coiled World-Energy sleeps
884. And smote the thousand-hooded serpent Force
885. That blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above,
...
888. Thus changed she waited for the Word to speak.
889. Eternity looked into the eyes of Death
890. And Darkness saw God’s living Reality.
891. Then a Voice was heard that seemed the stillness’ self
...
894. “I hail thee, almighty and victorious Death,
895. Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite.
...
905. Thou art my shadow and my instrument.
...
920. Relieve the radiant God from thy black mask:
921. Release the soul of the world called Satyavan
...
927. She spoke; Death unconvinced resisted still,
...
940. A pressure of intolerable force
941. Weighed on his unbowed head and stubborn breast;
942. Light like a burning tongue licked up his thoughts,
943. Light was a luminous torture in his heart,
944. Light coursed, a splendid agony, through his nerves;
945. His darkness muttered perishing in her blaze.
...
956. He called to his strength, but it refused his call.
957. His body was eaten by light, his spirit devoured.
...
962. Afar he fled shunning her dreaded touch
963. And refuge took in the retreating Night.
964. In the dream twilight of that symbol world
965. The dire universal Shadow disappeared
966. Vanishing into the Void from which it came.
967. As if deprived of its original cause,
968. The twilight realm passed fading from their souls,
969. And Satyavan and Savitri were alone.
970. But neither stirred: between those figures rose
971. A mute invisible and translucent wall.
972. In the long blank moment’s pause nothing could move:
973. All waited on the unknown inscrutable Will.
Book Eleven
The Book of Everlasting Day
11.1. The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation
Íèæå ðàçìåùåíû äâå ðàçëè÷àþùèåñÿ àóäèîçàïèñè îäíîãî è òîãî æå ôðàãìåíòà òåêñòà (ñòðîêè 898...1123). Ýòîò ôðàãìåíò âûäåëåí çåë¸íûì öâåòîì â ïåðâîé àóäèîçàïèñè (11.1-1). Îáðàòèòå âíèìàíèå íà òî, ÷òî ïîëíûé òåêñò ôðàãìåíòà Ìàòü çà÷èòûâàåò òîëüêî âî âòîðîé çàïèñè (11.1-2), òîãäà êàê ïåðâàÿ àóäèîçàïèñü ñîäåðæèò òîëüêî îòäåëüíûå åãî ôðàãìåíòû. (Çàïèñè, ÿâíî, ðàçíûå, ïîñêîëüêó ðàçëè÷àþòñÿ íå òîëüêî òåêñòîì, íî è äèêöèåé.).
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
Îòðûâêè, âûäåëåííûå çåëåíûì öâåòîì, ïîâòîðÿþòñÿ â ñëåäóþùåé àóäèîçàïèñè ïîëíîñòüþ (áåç ïðîïóñêîâ ìåæäó ñòðîêàìè)
001. A marvellous sun looked down from ecstasy’s skies
002. On worlds of deathless bliss, perfection’s home,
...
005. God’s
everlasting day surrounded her,
006. Domains appeared of sempiternal light
007. Invading all Nature with the
Absolute’s joy.
...
046. Arisen beneath a triple mystic heaven
047. The seven immortal earths
were seen, sublime:
048. Homes of the blest released from death and sleep
049. Where grief can
never come nor any pang
...
067. Eternal mountains ridge on gleaming ridge
068. Whose lines were graved
as on a sapphire plate
069. And etched the borders of heaven’s lustrous noon
070. Climbed like piled
temple stairs and from their heads
071. Of topless meditation heard below
072. The approach of a blue pilgrim
multitude
073. And listened to a great arriving voice
074. Of the wide travel hymn of
timeless seas.
...
095. In cities cut like gems of conscious stone
096. And wonderful pastures
and on gleaming coasts
097. Bright forms were seen, eternity’s luminous tribes.
098. Above her
rhythming godheads whirled the spheres,
099. Rapt mobile fixities here blindly sought
100. By the huge erring orbits
of our stars.
...
116. Immortal harmonies filled her listening ear;
117. A great spontaneous utterance of the heights
118. On Titan wings of
rhythmic grandeur borne
119. Poured from some deep spiritual heart of sound,
120. Strains trembling with the secrets of the gods.
...
148. In the
harmony of an original sight
...
152. She saw all Nature marvellous
without fault.
...
186. Endless aspired the climbing of those heavens;
187. Realm upon realm received her soaring view.
...
190. Immune she
beheld the strong immortals’ seats
191. Who live for a celestial joy and rule,
192. The middle regions of the unfading Ray.
193. Great forms of deities sat
in deathless tiers,
194. Eyes of an unborn gaze towards her leaned
195.
Through a transparency of crystal fire.
...
205. The golden-bosomed Apsara
goddesses,
...
212. Whirled linked in moonlit revels of the heart.
...
215. Wind-haired Gandharvas chanted to the ear
216. The odes that shape the
universal thought,
217. The lines that tear the veil from Deity’s face,
218. The rhythms that bring the sounds of wisdom’s sea.
...
239. Worlds of
an infinite reach crowned Nature’s stir.
...
254. Sunlight the soul’s
vision and moonlight its dream.
...
257. Into those heights her spirit
went floating up
...
286. A secret splendour rose revealed to sight
287. Where once the vast embodied Void had stood.
288. Night the dim mask had
grown a wonderful face.
289. The vague infinity was slain whose gloom
290.
Had outlined from the terrible unknown
291. The obscure disastrous figure of
a god,
...
303. As if the choric calyx of a flower
304. Aerial, visible
on music’s waves,
305. A lotus of light-petalled ecstasy
306. Took shape
out of the tremulous heart of things.
...
322. Death’s sombre cowl was
cast from Nature’s brow;
323. There lightened on her the godhead’s lurking
laugh.
324. All grace and glory and all divinity
325. Were here collected
in a single form;
326. All worshipped eyes looked through his from one face;
327. He bore all godheads in his grandiose limbs.
...
332. In him the
fourfold Being bore its crown
333. That wears the mystery of a nameless Name,
...
338. Spirit and seer and thinker of things seen,
339. Virat, who
lights his camp-fires in the suns
340. And the star-entangled ether is his
hold,
341. Expressed himself with Matter for his speech:
...
354. In
him shadows his form the Golden Child
355. Who in the Sun-capped Vast cradles
his birth:
356. Hiranyagarbha, author of thoughts and dreams,
...
365.
Armed with the golden speech, the diamond eye,
366. His is the vision and the
prophecy:
374. A third spirit stood behind, their hidden cause,
375. A
mass of superconscience closed in light,
376. Creator of things in his
all-knowing sleep.
...
390. His slumber is an Almightiness in things,
391. Awake, he is the Eternal and Supreme.
392. Above was the brooding bliss
of the Infinite,
393. Its omniscient and omnipotent repose,
394. Its
immobile silence absolute and alone.
...
434. He seemed the wideness of a
boundless sky,
435. He seemed the passion of a sorrowless earth,
436. He
seemed the burning of a world-wide sun.
437. Two looked upon each other, Soul
saw Soul.
438. Then like an anthem from the heart’s lucent cave
439. A
voice soared up whose magic sound could turn
440. The poignant weeping of the
earth to sobs
441. Of rapture and her cry to spirit song.
...
522. A
smile came rippling out in her wide eyes,
...
607. Then with a smile
august as noonday heavens
608. The godhead of the vision wonderful:
609.
“How shall earth-nature and man’s nature rise
610. To the celestial levels,
yet earth abide?
...
726. O flame, withdraw into thy luminous self.
727. Or else return to thy original might
728. On a seer-summit above thought
and world;
...
756. But Savitri answered to the radiant God:
757. “In
vain thou temptst with solitary bliss
758. Two spirits saved out of a
suffering world;
...
785. Since God has made earth, earth must make in her
God;
786. What hides within her breast she must reveal.
...
801. But
the god answered to the woman’s heart:
802. “O living power of the incarnate
Word,
...
828. Arise upon a ladder of greater worlds
829. To the
infinity where no world can be.
...
857. Ascend, O soul, into thy timeless
self;
858. Choose destiny’s curve and stamp thy will on Time.”
...
872. In an
ineffable world she lived fulfilled.
873. An energy of the triune Infinite,
874. In a measureless Reality she dwelt,
...
894. Around her some
tremendous spirit lived,
895. Mysterious flame around a melting pearl,
896. And in the phantom of abolished Space
897. There was a voice unheard by
ears that cried:
898. “Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again;
...
908. Accept, O music, weariness of thy notes,
909. O stream, wide breaking of thy channel banks.”
...
912. And silently
the woman’s heart replied:
913. “Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep
914. Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time
915. For the magnificent soul of man
on earth.
...
917. Limitless like ocean round a lonely isle
918. A
second time the eternal cry arose:
919. “Wide open are the ineffable gates in
front.
...
928. Immeasurably the woman’s nature spoke:
929. “Thy
oneness, Lord, in many approaching hearts,
...
932. A third time swelled
the great admonishing call:
933. “I spread abroad the refuge of my wings.
...
938. A sob of things was answer to the voice,
939. And passionately
the woman’s heart replied:
940. “Thy energy, Lord, to seize on woman and man,
941. To take all things and creatures in their grief
942. And gather them into a mother’s arms.”
943. Solemn and distant like a
seraph’s lyre
944. A last great time the warning sound was heard:
945. “I
open the wide eye of solitude
946. To uncover the voiceless rapture of my
bliss,
...
954. Then all the woman yearningly replied:
955. “Thy
embrace which rends the living knot of pain,
956. Thy joy, O Lord, in which
all creatures breathe,
957. Thy magic flowing waters of deep love,
958. Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men.”
959. Then after silence a
still blissful cry
...
965. “O beautiful body of the incarnate Word,
966. Thy thoughts are mine, I have spoken with thy voice.
967. My will is
thine, what thou hast chosen I choose:
968. All thou hast asked I give to
earth and men.
...
990. Now will I do in thee my marvellous works.
...
999. O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light
1000. And bring
down God into the lives of men;
...
1029. Summing in thy single soul my
mystic world
1030. I will possess in thee my universe,
1031. The universe
find all I am in thee.
...
1112. Who hunts and seizes me, my captive grows:
1113. This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats.
1114. For ever
love, O beautiful slave of God!
1115. O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose,
1116. Become my cord of universal love.
...
1124. “Descend to life with him thy heart desires.
1125. O Satyavan, O
luminous Savitri,
1126. I sent you forth of old beneath the stars,
1127. A
dual power of God in an ignorant world,
1128. In a hedged creation shut from
limitless self,
1129. Bringing down God to the insentient globe,
1130.
Lifting earth-beings to immortality.
...
1196. There is an infinite truth,
an absolute power.
1197. The Spirit’s mightiness shall cast off its mask;
1198. Its greatness shall be felt shaping the world’s course:
1199. It shall
be seen in its own veilless beams,
1200. A star rising from the Inconscient’s
night,
1201. A sun climbing to Supernature’s peak.
...
1277. All then
shall change, a magic order come
1278. Overtopping this mechanical universe.
1279. A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal’s world.
1280. On Nature’s
luminous tops, on the Spirit’s ground,
1281. The superman shall reign as king
of life,
...
1344. But first high Truth must set her feet on earth
1345. And man aspire to the Eternal’s light
1346. And all his members feel
the Spirit’s touch
1347. And all his life obey an inner Force.
1348. This
too shall be; for a new life shall come,
...
1428. Nature shall live to
manifest secret God,
1429. The Spirit shall take up the human play,
1430. This earthly life become the life divine.”
1431. The measure of that
subtle music ceased.
1432. Down with a hurried swimming floating lapse
1433. Through unseen worlds and bottomless spaces forced
1434. Sank like a
star the soul of Savitri.
...
1441. Pursuing her in her fall, implacably
sweet,
1442. A face was over her which seemed a youth’s,
1443. Symbol of
all the beauty eyes see not,
1444. Crowned as with peacock plumes of gorgeous
hue
1445. Framing a sapphire, whose heart-disturbing smile
1446.
Insatiably attracted to delight,
1447. Voluptuous to the embraces of her soul.
1448. Changed in its shape, yet rapturously the same,
1449. It grew a woman’s
dark and beautiful
1450. Like a mooned night with drifting star-gemmed clouds,
1451. A shadowy glory and a stormy depth,
1452. Turbulent in will and
terrible in love.
1453. Eyes in which Nature’s blind ecstatic life
1454.
Sprang from some spirit’s passionate content,
1455. Missioned her to the
whirling dance of earth.
...
1461. She kept within her strong embosoming
soul
1462. Like a flower hidden in the heart of spring
1463. The soul of
Satyavan drawn down by her
1464. Inextricably in that mighty lapse.
1465.
Invisible heavens in a thronging flight
1466. Soared past her as she fell.
Then all the blind
1467. And near attraction of the earth compelled
1468.
Fearful rapidities of downward bliss.
...
1477. Then from a timeless plane
that watches Time,
1478. A Spirit gazed out upon destiny,
...
1481. The
prophet moment covered limitless Space
1482. And cast into the heart of
hurrying Time
1483. A diamond light of the Eternal’s peace,
1484. A
crimson seed of God’s felicity;
1485. A glance from the gaze fell of undying
Love.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
898 “Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not
given again;
899 For now from my highest being looks at thee
900 The nameless formless peace where all things rest.
901 In a happy vast sublime cessation know,-
902 An immense extinction in eternity,
903 A point that disappears in the infinite,-
904 Felicity of the extinguished flame,
905 Last sinking of a wave in a boundless sea,
906 End of the trouble of thy wandering thoughts,
907 Close of the journeying of thy pilgrim soul.
908 Accept, O music, weariness of thy notes,
909 O stream, wide breaking of thy channel banks.”
910 The moments fell into eternity.
911 But someone yearned within a bosom unknown
912 And silently the woman’s heart replied:
913 “Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep
914 Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time
915 For the magnificent soul of man on earth.
916 Thy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy.”
917 Limitless like ocean round a lonely isle
918 A second time the eternal cry arose:
919 “Wide open are the ineffable gates in front.
920 My spirit leans down to break the knot of earth,
921 Amorous of oneness without thought or sign
922 To cast down wall and fence, to strip heaven bare,
923 See with the large eye of infinity,
924 Unweave the stars and into silence pass.”
925 In an immense and world-destroying pause
926 She heard a million creatures cry to her.
927 Through the tremendous stillness of her thoughts
928 Immeasurably the woman’s nature spoke:
929 “Thy oneness, Lord, in many approaching hearts,
930 My sweet infinity of thy numberless souls.”
931 Mightily retreating like a sea in ebb
932 A third time swelled the great admonishing call:
933 “I spread abroad the refuge of my wings.
934 Out of its incommunicable deeps
935 My power looks forth of mightiest splendour, stilled
936 Into its majesty of sleep, withdrawn
937 Above the dreadful whirlings of the world.”
938 A sob of things was answer to the voice,
939 And passionately the woman’s heart replied:
940 “Thy energy, Lord, to seize on woman and man,
941 To take all things and creatures in their grief
942 And gather them into a mother’s arms.”
943 Solemn and distant like a seraph’s lyre
944 A last great time the warning sound was heard:
945 “I open the wide eye of solitude
946 To uncover the voiceless rapture of my bliss,
947 Where in a pure and exquisite hush it lies
948 Motionless in its slumber of ecstasy,
949 Resting from the sweet madness of the dance
950 Out of whose beat the throb of hearts was born.”
951 Breaking the Silence with appeal and cry
952 A hymn of adoration tireless climbed,
953 A music beat of winged uniting souls,
954 Then all the woman yearningly replied:
955 “Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain,
956 Thy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe,
957 Thy magic flowing waters of deep love,
958 Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men.”
959 Then after silence a still blissful cry
960 Began, such as arose from the Infinite
961 When the first whisperings of a strange delight
962 Imagined in its deep the joy to seek,
963 The passion to discover and to touch,
964 The enamoured laugh which rhymed the chanting worlds:
965 “O beautiful body of the incarnate Word,
966 Thy thoughts are mine, I have spoken with thy voice.
967 My will is thine, what thou hast chosen I choose:
968 All thou hast asked I give to earth and men.
969 All shall be written out in destiny’s book
970 By my trustee of thought and plan and act,
971 The executor of my will, eternal Time.
972 But since thou hast refused my maimless Calm
973 And turned from my termless peace in which is expunged
974 The visage of Space and the shape of Time is lost,
975 And from happy extinction of thy separate self
976 In my uncompanioned lone eternity,-
977 For not for thee the nameless worldless Nought,
978 Annihilation of thy living soul
979 And the end of thought and hope and life and love
980 In the blank measureless Unknowable,-
Because thou hast obeyed my timeless
will,
981 I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame,
982 I lay my hands upon thy heart of love,
983 I yoke thee to my power of work in Time.
984 Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will,
985 Because thou hast chosen to share earth’s struggle and fate
986 And leaned in pity over earth-bound men
987 And turned aside to help and yearned to save,
988 I bind by thy heart’s passion thy heart to mine
989 And lay my splendid yoke upon thy soul.
990 Now will I do in thee my marvellous works.
991 I will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength,
992 Subdue to my delight thy spirit’s limbs
993 And make thee a vivid knot of all my bliss
994 And build in thee my proud and crystal home.
995 Thy days shall be my shafts of power and light,
996 Thy nights my starry mysteries of joy
997 And all my clouds lie tangled in thy hair
998 And all my springtides marry in thy mouth.
999 O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light
1000 And bring down God into the lives of men;
1001 Earth shall be my work-chamber and my house,
1002 My garden of life to plant a seed divine.
1003 When all thy work in human time is done
1004 The mind of earth shall be a home of light,
1005 The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven,
1006 The body of earth a tabernacle of God.
1007 Awakened from the mortal’s ignorance
1008 Men shall be lit with the Eternal’s ray
1009 And the glory of my sun-lift in their thoughts
1010 And feel in their hearts the sweetness of my love
1011 And in their acts my Power’s miraculous drive.
1012 My will shall be the meaning of their days;
1013 Living for me, by me, in me they shall live.
1014 In the heart of my creation’s mystery
1015 I will enact the drama of thy soul,
1016 Inscribe the long romance of Thee and Me.
1017 I will pursue thee across the centuries;
1018 Thou shalt be hunted through the world by love,
1019 Naked of ignorance’ protecting veil
1020 And without covert from my radiant gods.
1021 No shape shall screen thee from my divine desire,
1022 Nowhere shalt thou escape my living eyes.
1023 In the nudity of thy discovered self,
1024 In a bare identity with all that is,
1025 Disrobed of thy covering of humanity,
1026 Divested of the dense veil of human thought,
1027 Made one with every mind and body and heart,
1028 Made one with all Nature and with Self and God,
1029 Summing in thy single soul my mystic world
1030 I will possess in thee my universe,
1031 The universe find all I am in thee.
1032 Thou shalt bear all things that all things may change,
1033 Thou shalt fill all with my splendour and my bliss,
1034 Thou shalt meet all with thy transmuting soul.
1035 Assailed by my infinitudes above,
1036 And quivering in immensities below,
1037 Pursued by me through my mind’s wall-less vast,
1038 Oceanic with the surges of my life,
1039 A swimmer lost between two leaping seas
1040 By my outer pains and inner sweetnesses
1041 Finding my joy in my opposite mysteries
1042 Thou shalt respond to me from every nerve.
1043 A vision shall compel thy coursing breath,
1044 Thy heart shall drive thee on the wheel of works,
1045 Thy mind shall urge thee through the flames of thought,
1046 To meet me in the abyss and on the heights,
1047 To feel me in the tempest and the calm,
1048 And love me in the noble and the vile,
1049 In beautiful things and terrible desire.
1050 The pains of hell shall be to thee my kiss,
1051 The flowers of heaven persuade thee with my touch.
1052 My fiercest masks shall my attractions bring.
1053 Music shall find thee in the voice of swords,
1054 Beauty pursue thee through the core of flame.
1055 Thou shalt know me in the rolling of the spheres
1056 And cross me in the atoms of the whirl.
1057 The wheeling forces of my universe
1058 Shall cry to thee the summons of my name.
1059 Delight shall drop down from my nectarous moon,
1060 My fragrance seize thee in the jasmine’s snare,
1061 My eye shall look upon thee from the sun.
1062 Mirror of Nature’s secret spirit made,
1063 Thou shalt reflect my hidden heart of joy,
1064 Thou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed
1065 In my pure lotus-cup of starry brim.
1066 My dreadful hands laid on thy bosom shall force
1067 Thy being bathed in fiercest longing’s streams.
1068 Thou shalt discover the one and quivering note,
1069 And cry, the harp of all my melodies,
1070 And roll, my foaming wave in seas of love.
1071 Even my disasters’ clutch shall be to thee
1072 The ordeal of my rapture’s contrary shape:
1073 In pain’s self shall smile on thee my secret face:
1074 Thou shalt bear my ruthless beauty unabridged
1075 Amid the world’s intolerable wrongs,
1076 Trampled by the violent misdeeds of Time
1077 Cry out to the ecstasy of my rapture’s touch.
1078 All beings shall be to thy life my emissaries;
1079 Drawn to me on the bosom of thy friend,
1080 Compelled to meet me in thy enemy’s eyes,
1081 My creatures shall demand me from thy heart.
1082 Thou shalt not shrink from any brother soul.
1083 Thou shalt be attracted helplessly to all.
1084 Men seeing thee shall feel my hands of joy,
1085 In sorrow’s pangs feel steps of the world’s delight,
1086 Their life experience its tumultuous shock
1087 In the mutual craving of two opposites.
1088 Hearts touched by thy love shall answer to my call,
1089 Discover the ancient music of the spheres
1090 In the revealing accents of thy voice
1091 And nearer draw to me because thou art:
1092 Enamoured of thy spirit’s loveliness
1093 They shall embrace my body in thy soul,
1094 Hear in thy life the beauty of my laugh,
1095 Know the thrilled bliss with which I made the worlds.
1096 All that thou hast, shall be for others’ bliss,
1097 All that thou art, shall to my hands belong.
1098 I will pour delight from thee as from a jar,
1099 I will whirl thee as my chariot through the ways,
1100 I will use thee as my sword and as my lyre,
1101 I will play on thee my minstrelsies of thought.
1102 And when thou art vibrant with all ecstasy,
1103 And when thou liv’st one spirit with all things,
1104 Then will I spare thee not my living fires,
1105 But make thee a channel for my timeless force.
1106 My hidden presence led thee unknowing on
1107 From thy beginning in earth’s voiceless bosom
1108 Through life and pain and time and will and death,
1109 Through outer shocks and inner silences
1110 Along the mystic roads of Space and Time
1111 To the experience which all Nature hides.
1112 Who hunts and seizes me, my captive grows:
1113 This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats.
1114 For ever love, O beautiful slave of God!
1115 O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose,
1116 Become my cord of universal love.
1117 The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight
1118 Of creation’s oneness sweet and fathomless,
1119 Compelled to embrace my myriad unities
1120 And all my endless forms and divine souls.
1121 O Mind, grow full of the eternal peace;
1122 O Word, cry out the immortal litany:
1123. Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born.
ýòà çàïèñü íå âõîäèò â çàïèñè ñ ìóçûêîé |
001. Out of abysmal trance her spirit woke.
002. Lain on the earth-mother’s calm inconscient breast
003. She saw the green-clad branches lean above
004. Guarding her sleep with their enchanted life,
005. And overhead a blue-winged ecstasy
006. Fluttered from bough to bough with high-pitched call.
...
020. The immense remoteness of her trance had passed;
021. Human she was once more, earth’s Savitri,
022. Yet felt in her illimitable change.
...
058. But soon she leaned down over her loved to call
059. His mind back to her with her travelling touch
060. On his closed eyelids; settled was her still look
061. Of strong delight, not yearning now, but large
062. With limitless joy or sovereign last content,
063. Pure, passionate with the passion of the gods.
...
069. Then sighing to her touch the soft-winged sleep
070. Rose hovering from his flowerlike lids and flew
071. Murmurous away. Awake, he found her eyes
...
077. He murmured with hesitating lips her name,
078. And vaguely recollecting wonder cried,
079. “Whence hast thou brought me captive back, love-chained,
...
088. Where now has passed that formidable Shape
089. Which rose against us, the Spirit of the Void,
090. Claiming the world for Death and Nothingness,
091. Denying God and soul? Or was all a dream
092. Or a vision seen in a spiritual sleep,
...
101. But she replied, “Our parting was the dream;
102. We are together, we live, O Satyavan.
103. Look round thee and behold, glad and unchanged
104. Our home, this forest with its thousand cries
105. And the whisper of the wind among the leaves
106. And, through rifts in emerald scene, the evening sky,
...
119. But he with a new wonder in his heart
120. And a new flame of worship in his eyes:
121. “What high change is in thee, O Savitri? Bright
122. Ever thou wast, a goddess still and pure,
123. Yet dearer to me by thy sweet human parts
124. Earth gave thee making thee yet more divine.
...
131. But now thou seemst almost too high and great
132. For mortal worship; Time lies below thy feet
133. And the whole world seems only a part of thee,
...
148. My human earth will still demand thy bliss.
149. Make still my life through thee a song of joy
150. And all my silence wide and deep with thee.”
...
155. “All now is changed, yet all is still the same.
...
167. Still am I she who came to thee mid the murmur
168. Of sunlit leaves upon this forest verge;
169. I am the Madran, I am Savitri.
...
199. Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.
200. For not for ourselves alone our spirits came
201. Out of the veil of the Unmanifest,
...
205. Two fires that burn towards that parent Sun,
206. Two rays that travel to the original Light.
207. To lead man’s soul towards truth and God we are born,
208. To draw the chequered scheme of mortal life
209. Into some semblance of the Immortal’s plan,
...
219. Then hand in hand they left that solemn place
220. Full now of mute unusual memories,
221. To the green distance of their sylvan home
222. Returning slowly through the forest’s heart.
...
242. Topped by a flaring multitude of lights
243. A great resplendent company arrived.
...
253. In front King Dyumatsena walked, no more
254. Blind, faltering-limbed, but his far-questing eyes
255. Restored to all their confidence in light
256. Took seeingly this imaged outer world;
...
258. By him that queen and mother’s anxious face
259. Came changed from its habitual burdened look
...
272. And the swift parents hurrying to their child,-
273. Their cause of life now who had given him breath,-
274. Possessed him with their arms. Then tenderly
275. Cried Dyumatsena chiding Satyavan:
276. “The fortunate gods have looked on me today,
277. A kingdom seeking came and heaven’s rays.
278. But where wast thou? Thou hast tormented gladness
279. With fear’s dull shadow, O my child, my life.
...
284. Not like thyself was this done, Savitri,
285. Who ledst not back thy husband to our arms,
...
289. But Satyavan replied with smiling lips,
290. “Lay all on her; she is the cause of all.
291. With her enchantments she has twined me round.
292. Behold, at noon leaving this house of clay
293. I wandered in far-off eternities,
294. Yet still, a captive in her golden hands,
295. I tread your little hillock called green earth
...
309. Then one spoke there who seemed a priest and sage:
310. “O woman soul, what light, what power revealed,
311. Working the rapid marvels of this day,
312. Opens for us by thee a happier age?”
313. Her lashes fluttering upwards gathered in
314. To a vision which had scanned immortal things,
...
318. Then falling veiled the light. Low she replied,
319. “Awakened to the meaning of my heart
320. That to feel love and oneness is to live
321. And this the magic of our golden change,
322. Is all the truth I know or seek, O sage.”
323. Wondering at her and her too luminous words
324. Westward they turned in the fast-gathering night.
...
333. Drawn by white manes upon a high-roofed car
334. In flare of the unsteady torches went
335. With linked hands Satyavan and Savitri,
336. Hearing a marriage march and nuptial hymn,
337. Where waited them the many-voiced human world.
338. Numberless the stars swam on their shadowy field
339. Describing in the gloom the ways of light.
340. Then while they skirted yet the southward verge,
341. Lost in the halo of her musing brows
342. Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven
343. In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign.
344. She brooded through her stillness on a thought
345. Deep-guarded by her mystic folds of light,
346. And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn.
Âòîðàÿ ÷àñòü ñîäåðæèò 30 àóäèîçàïèñåé, êîòîðûå îòñóòñòâóþò â ôàéëàõ ñ ìóçûêîé Ñóíèëà. Ïðåäñòàâëåííûå íèæå ññûëêè ê ýòèì àóäèîçàïèñÿì ïðîíóìåðîâàíû ñëåäóþùèì îáðàçîì: ¹ êíèãè, ¹ ïåñíè, ¹ ñòðîêè òåêñòà:
01.01.078. All can be done if the god-touch is there...
01.01.109. On life’s thin border awhile the Vision stood...
01.01.135. All grew a consecration and a rite...
01.01.171. The excess of beauty natural to god-kind...
01.01.211. Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears...
01.02.094. Around her were the austere sky-pointing hills...
01.02.134. All in her pointed to a nobler kind...
01.02.200. Almost they saw who lived within her light...
01.02.263. Across each road stands armed a stone-eyed Law...
01.03.104. A Presence wrought behind the ambiguous screen...
01.03.306. The kings of evil and the kings of good...
01.03.544. Lightnings of glory after glory burned...
01.03.601. A great nude arm of splendour suddenly rose...
01.04.065. In moments when the inner lamps are lit...
01.04.280. Only the Immortals on their deathless heights...
01.04.568. Here on the earth where we must fill our parts...
01.04.659. His consciousness is a babe upon her knees...
01.04.843. This is the sailor on the flow of Time...
01.04.900. He is a spirit in an unfinished world...
02.04.202. As shines a solitary witness star...
02.06.559. Armed with a magical and haunted bow...
02.11.296. Above stood ranked a subtle archangel race...
04.02.057. Intense philosophies pointed earth to heaven...
04.04.281. But morn broke in reminding her of her quest...
05.03.408. Then down the narrow path where their lives had met...
06.01.084. There welcomed him the sage and thoughtful king...
10.04.699. Then stretches the boundless finite’s last expanse...
11.01.001. A marvellous sun looked down from ecstasy’s skies...
11.01.898 “Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again