SAVITRI - THE BOOK- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EXTENDED TOC
- AUTHORS NOTE
- OBSTACLES TO READING
- SUPPLEMENTARY PRACTICES AND BOOKS ON SAVITRI
SAVITRI - THE GODDESS- IMGS
- DESCRIPTIONS
- HELP
- PRAYERS
- DIALOGUES
- JAPA
INTENTIONS
CONDITIONS
DIFFICULTIES
QUESTIONS
EXPERIMENTS
TODO
NOTES
QUOTES
SONG
CENTO
SEE ALSO
FOOTER
SAVITRI THE BOOK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
00.01 - The Mother on Savitri
THE BOOK OF BEGINNINGS
01.01 - The Symbol Dawn
01.02 - The Issue
01.03 - The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge
01.05 - The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness
THE BOOK OF THE TRAVELLER OF THE WORLDS
02.01 - The World-Stair
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
02.07 - The Descent into Night
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal
02.13 - In the Self of Mind
02.14 - The World-Soul
02.15 - The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE MOTHER
03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother
03.03 - The House of the Spirit and the New Creation
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon
THE BOOK OF BIRTH AND QUEST
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
04.02 - The Growth of the Flame
04.03 - The Call to the Quest
04.04 - The Quest
THE BOOK OF LOVE
05.01 - The Destined Meeting-Place
05.02 - Satyavan
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri
THE BOOK OF FATE
06.01 - The Word of Fate
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
THE BOOK OF YOGA
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces
07.05 - The Finding of the Soul
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
07.07 - The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness
THE BOOK OF DEATH
08.03 - Death in the Forest
THE BOOK OF ETERNAL NIGHT
09.01 - Towards the Black Void
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness
THE BOOK OF THE DOUBLE TWILIGHT
10.01 - The Dream Twilight of the Ideal
10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
THE BOOK OF EVERLASTING DAY - THE ETERNAL DAY
11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation
EPILOGUE
12.01 - The Return to Earth
AUTHORS NOTE
AUTHOR'S NOTE ::: The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness and immortal life. - Sri Aurobindo
first lines:
It was the hour before the Gods awake.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence marge.
Desc GR ::: In this epic spiritual poem, Sri Aurobindo reveals his vision of mankind's destiny within the universal evolution. He sets forth the optimistic view that life on earth has a purpose, and he places our travail within the context of this purpose: to participate in the evolution of consciousness that represents the secret thread behind life on Earth.
Desc Wiki ::: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol is an epic poem in blank verse by Sri Aurobindo, based upon the theology from the Mahabharata. Its central theme revolves around the transcendence of man as the consummation of terrestrial evolution, and the emergence of an immortal supramental gnostic race upon earth.
EXTENDED TOC
--- BOOK ONE
01.02 - The Issue
15 - A priestess of immaculate ecstasies ...
Or golden temple-door to things beyond. ...
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
--- BOOK TWO - THE BOOK OF THE TRAVELLER OF THE WORLDS
02.01 - The World-Stair
97 - The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas
97 - The absolute index to the Absolute.
98 - A hundred levels raised it to the Unknown.
98 - As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisable
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
99 - Our life is a holocaust to the Supreme.
100 - A cube and union-crystal of the gods;
102 - But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul.
02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter
105 - In that magic kingdom of ideal sight
105 - Convincing the abyss by heavenly form,
02.03 - The Glory and the Fall of Life
121 - Its breath of power controls her restless seas
122 - All laughed in a safe immortality
125 - An immortal moth in a happy and endless fire,
130 - Here too the gracious great-winged Angel poured
Her splendour and her swiftness and her bliss,
Hoping to fill a fair new world with joy.
As comes a goddess to a mortal's breast
And fills his days with her celestial clasp,
02.04 - The Kingdoms of the Little Life
133 - And sorrow is his nurse of destiny
133 - He has exhausted now life's surface acts,
His being's hidden realms remain to explore.
134 - Her greatest progress is a deepened need.
135 - In this slow ascension he must follow her pace
141 - A Wisdom that prepares its far-off ends
Planned so to start her slow aeonic game.
146 - Still nothing was achieved but to begin,
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life
151 - Protected by Ignorance as in a shell.
154 - A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
155 - Unfelt was the Bliss whose rapture dreamed the worlds.
157 - A godhead woke but lay with dreaming limbs;
158 - She looked upon the world that she had made:
160 - Imagined citadels reared in mythic air
161 - But all its means come from the Inconscient's store.
164 - His little hour is spent in little things.
169 - There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones,
169 - An Infant playing in the magic woods,
169 - Awaits the hour when we shall turn to his call.
169 - A soul that is a spark of God survives
169 - And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine.
170 - Each part in us desires its absolute.
170 - And since from a veiled God-joy the worlds were made
And since eternal Beauty asks for form
171 - Released from the black magic of the Night
172 - Make the abysm a road for Heaven's descent,
172 - His only sunlight was his spirit's flame.
02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life
173 - And crying for a direction in the void
173 - After denial dawned a dubious hope
175 - First came the kingdom of the morning star:
175 - Some face of deathless beauty could be caught
That gave immortality to a moment's joy
Some word that could incarnate highest Truth
176 - All that we seek for is prefigured there
177 - A caravan of the inexhaustible
177 - To heal awhile the wound of severance,
177 - This is her secret and impossible task
To catch the boundless in a net of birth
To cast the spirit into physical form,
To lend speech and thought to the Ineffable;
She is pushed to reveal the ever Unmanifest.
178 - And yet she cannot choose but labours on;
181 - She labours to replace by realised dreams
The memory of her lost eternity.
181 - Yet when he is most near, she feels him far
184 - This was transition-line and starting-point,
A first immigration into heavenliness,
186 - On inner values hangs the outer plan.
188 - Ever she circled towards some far-off Light:
189 - Ever he met key-words, ignorant of their key.
195 - Her depths remember what she came to do,
197 - A secret Will compels us to endure.
02.07 - The Descent into Night
203 - But none could know the reason of his fall.
207 - And, when arose the warning from within,
210 - Here must the traveller of the upward Way -
For daring Hell's kingdoms winds the heavenly route -
Pause or pass slowly through that perilous space,
A prayer upon his lips and the great Name.
211 - Only were safe who kept God in their hearts:
Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout
219 - He met with his bare spirit naked Hell.
02.08 - The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness
220 - Revealed the endless terrible Inane.
221 - It was the gate of a false Infinite,
224 - And in the cradle slay the divine Child.
227 - None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.
228 - Chanting Te Deums for slaughter's crowning grace,
231 - Knew loss as the price of a celestial gain
And hell as a short cut to heaven's gates.
Then in illusion's occult factory
And in the Inconscient's magic printing-house
Torn were the formats of the primal Night
232 - As if a magic building were undone,
232 - There poured a wide intimate and blissful Dawn
02.09 - The Paradise of the Life-Gods
234 - As one who sees in the World-Magician's glass
235 - All life's high visions are embodied there,
02.10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind
242 - This huge invention seen as a universe.
243 - The Golden Child began to think and see.
In those bright realms are Mind's first forward steps.
245 - First, smallest of the three, but strong of limb,
245 - Absorbed and cabined in external sight,
247 - A fiery spirit came, next of the three.
A hunchback rider of the red Wild-Ass
248 - Ardent to find, incapable to retain,
249 - Came Reason, the squat godhead artisan,
250 - There the low bent and mighty figure sits
Bowed under the arc-lamps of her factory home
Amid the clater and ringing of her tools.
251 - Her gossamer word-webs of abstract thought,
Her segment systems of the Infinite,
Her theodicies and cosmogonic charts
And myths by which she explains the inexplicable.
251 - The vast encyclopedia of her thoughts;
251 - The daedal of her patterned arabesques,
253 - As if she knew not facts are husks of truth,
The husks she keeps, the kernal throws aside.
254 - It bound to service the unconscious djinns
256 - A sudden turn can come, a road appear.
A greater Mind may see a greater Truth,
Or we may find when all the rest has failed
Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change.
256 - In the bright kingdoms of the rising Sun
257 - For nothing is known while aught remains concealed;
The Truth is known only when all is seen.
257 - One day the Face must burn out through the mask.
Our ignorance is Wisdom's chrystalis,
259 - Archangel of a white transcending realm,
2.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
260 - On peaks imagination cannot tread,
261 - In regions of illumined certitude.
263 - His privilege regained of shadowless sight
264 - In gleaming clarities of amethyst air
The chainless and omnipotent Spirit of Mind
Brooded on the blue lotus of the Idea.
A gold supernal sun of timeless Truth
Through a silence quivering with the word of Light
On an endless ocean of discovery.
264 - A triple realm of ordered thought came first,
265 - Afar they seemed a symbol imagery,
265 - But, nearer, Gods and living Presences.
268 - Above stood ranked a subtle archangel race
269 - Copies they made of all her guarded plans,
271 - In a sublimer and more daring soar
To the wide summit of the triple stairs
Bare steps climbed up like flaming rocks of gold
Burning their way to a pure absolute sky.
August and few the sovereign Kings of Thought
Have made of Space their wide all-seeing gaze
Surveying the enormous work of Time:
272 - When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice;
274 - Her godhead servitor to a crowned Idea,
275 - And drew to her bosom one glorified human head:
275 - Her greatness she has suffered to be pressed
Into the little cabin of the Idea
276 - The whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun.
276 - A thousand icons they have made of her
And find her in the idols they adore;
But she remains herself and infinite.
02.12 - The Heavens of the Ideal
277 - Always the Ideal beckoned from afar.
278 - Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved.
In an outburst of heavenly joy and ease
Life yields to the divinity within
278 - A sudden mystery of secret Grace
279 - Time's sun-flowers' gaze at gold Eternity:
There are the imperishable beatitudes.
A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
World after coloured and ecstatic world
Climbs towards some far unseen epiphany
280 - They point above themselves with index peaks
Through a pale-sapphire ether of god-mind
Towards some gold Infinite's apocalypse
281 - His energy stumbles towards a deathless Force.
281 - United all knowledge by one master thought,
Persuaded all action to one golden sense,
All powers subjected to a single power
281 - They offered to the Traveller at their gates.
A quenchless flame or an unfading flower,
Emblem of a high kingdom's privilege.
A glorious shining Angel of the Way
Presented to the seeking of the soul
281 - Perfection's key, passport to Paradise.
282 - Onward he passed to a diviner sphere:
There, joined in a common greatness, light and bliss,
All high and beautiful and desirable powers
Forgetting their difference and their separate reign
Become a single multitudinous whole.
Above the parting of the roads of Time,
Above the Silence and its thousandfold Word,
In the immutable and inviolate Truth
For ever united and inseparable,
The radiant children of Eternity twell
On the wide spirit height where all are one.
02.13 - In the Self of Mind
02.14 - The World-Soul
289 - Feels now the closenss of a waiting love,
291 - A single Person who was himself and all
291 - A measureless and secure eternity
Of truth and beauty and good and joy made one.
Here was the welling core of finite life;
A formless spirit became the soul of form.
291 - All there was soul or made of sheer soul-stuff;
A sky of soul covered a deep soul-ground
293 - All objects were like bodies of the Gods,
294 - Here was the fashioning chamber of the worlds.
295 - Under the watchful eyes of nameless Gods,
02.15 - The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge
298 - Here closed the finite's crawl to the Infinite.
A thousand roads leaped into Eternity
Or singing ran to meet God's veilless face
The Known released him from its limiting chain;
He knocked at the doors of the Unknowable.
299 - And the key to the wonder-book of common things.
299 - The enchantments that uphold the cosmic web
299 - He rode the lightning seas of cosmic Mind
300 - Above him he saw the flaming Hierarchies
The wings that fold around created Space,
The sun-eyed Guardians and the golden Sphinx
And the tiered planes and the immutable Lords
300 - Ablazed the triple heavens revealed their suns,
--- BOOK THREE - BOOK OF THE DIVINE MOTHER
03.01 - The Pursuit of the Unknowable
305 - Hidden by its own works, it seemed far-off,
305 - A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light.
306 - It made and blotted out a million worlds
306 - He stood compelled to a tremendous choice.
All he had been and all towards which he grew
Must now be left behind or else transform
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother
310 -
03.03 - The House of Spirit and the New Creation
317
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon
335 - "O Sun of Strength, who climbst creation's peaks,
342 - A golden vessel of the incarnate Truth,
343 - The unfolding Image showed the things to come.
345 - O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe,
Creatrix, Eternal's artist Bride,
Linger not long with thy transmuting hand
Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time,
345 - And with one gesture change all future time.
Let a great word be spoken from the heights
And one great act unlock the doors of Fate."
345 - His prayer sank down in the resisting Night
346 - "O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry
346 - Beauty shall walk celestial on the earth,
346 - A branch of heaven transplant to human soil;
--- BOOK FOUR - THE BOOK OF BIRTH AND QUEST
04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame
352 - He made joy a willing prioner in her breast.
352 - A godlike packed intensity of sense
Made it a passionate pleasure even to breath;
354 - She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay;
354 - Always she drives the soul to new attempt,
Always her magical infinitude
Forces to aspire the inert brute elementsl
As one who has all infinity to waste,
355 - Lost in the emerald glory of the woods
356 - And marvel-mooned bright crowding fantasies
Fed with spiritual sustenance of dreams
The ideal goddess in her house of gold
356 - An invisible sunlight ran within her veins
And flooded her brain with heavenly brilliances
357 - Nearer the godhead to the surface pressed,
A sun replacing childhood's nebula
358 - Many high gods dwelt in one beautiful home;
Yet was her nature's orb a perfect whole,
358 - An image made of heaven's transparent light.
Its charm recalled things seen in vision's hours,
A golden bridge spanning a faery flood,
A moon-touched palm-tree single by a lake
Companion of the wide and glimmering peace,
A murmur as of leaves in Paradise
Moving when feet of the Immortals pass,
A fiery halo over sleeping hills,
A strange and starry head alone in Night.
04.02 - The Growth of the Flame
359 - A brooding world of reverie and trance,
Filled with the mightiest works of God and man,
Where Nature seemed a dream of the Divine
And beauty and grace and gradeur had their home,
Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.
Over her watched millennial influences
And the deep godheads of a grandoise past
Looked on her and saw the future's godheads come
As if this magnet drew their powers unseen.
360 - There Wisdom sits on her eternal throne.
All her life's turns led her to symbol doors
360 - Aware of the marvel of created things
She laid the secrecies of her heart's deep muse
Upon the altar of the Wonderful;
Her hours were a ritual in a timeless fane;
Her acts became gestures of sacrifice.
Invested with a rhythm of higher spheres
363 - To see her was a summons to adore,
364 - Her heart's inexhaustible sweetness lured their hearts,
364 - Answering with the flower's answer to the sun
364 - She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:
They were moved by her towards great unknown things,
Faith drew them and the joy to feel themselves hers;
They lived in her, they saw the world with her eyes.
Some turned to her against their nature's bent;
Divided between wonder and revolt,
Drawn by her charm and mastered by her will,
365 - Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,
365 - Her glory and grace that had enslaved their souls.
366 - It knows but turns away from divine Light
Preferring the dark ignorance of the fall.
366 - Some near approached, were touched, caught fire, then failed,
367 - Yet something deeply stirred and dimly knew;
There was a movement and a passionate call,
A rainbow dream, a hope of golden change;
367 - No eyes demanded her replying eyes.
368 - All worshipped marvellingly, none dared to claim.
Her mind sat high pouring its golden beams,
Her heart was a crowded temple of delight,
A single lamp lit in perfection's house,
A bright pure image in a priestless shrine,
04.03 - The Call to the Quest
370 - "O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race,
370 - Not for vain repetition were you built;
370 - Your actions can be swift revealing steps,
Your life a changeful mould for growing gods.
A Seer, a strong Creator, is within,
The immaculate Grandeur broods upon your days,
371 - A specious Idol fills the marvel shrine
372 - The Voice withdrew into its hidden skies.
But like a shining answer from the gods
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri,
Advancing amid tall heaven-pillaring trees,
Apparelled in her flickering-coloured robe
She seemed, burning towards the eternal realms,
372 - There came the gift of a revealing hour;
372 - New-found through an arch of clear discovery,
372 - This breathing Scripture of the Eternal's joy.
373 - A godhead sculptured on a wall of thought,
Mirrored in the flowing hours and dimly shrined
In Matter as in a cathedral cave.
375 - Face the high gods, crowned with felicity,
Then meet a greater god, thy self beyond Time."
This word was seed of all the thing to be:
A hand from some Greatness opened her heart's locked doors
And showed the work for which her strength was born.
As when the mantra sinks in Yoga's ear,
375 - And, musing on the index thought it holds,
376 - The palace woke to its own emptiness;
376 - Delight had fled to search the spacious world.
04.04 - The Quest
377 - The world-ways opened before Savitri.
At first a strangeness of new brilliant scene
Peopled her mind and kept her body's gaze.
378 - Watched by a still all-seeing Eye above.
A prescient architect of Fate and Chance
Who builds our lives on a foreseen design
The meaning knows and consequence of each step
378 - All was the working of an ancient plan
379 - Past figured gates and high dream-sculptured fronts
And gardens hung in the sapphire of the skiesm
Pillared assembly halls with armoured guards,
Small fanes where one calm Image watched man's life
382 - Achieved was the wide untroubled witness gaze,
Unsealed was Nature's great spiritual eye;
To the height of heights rose now their daily climb:
382 - Above them blazed eternity's mystic suns.
On concentration's luminous voiceless peaks,
Content in Him who smiles behind earth's forms,
Abode ungrieved by the insistent days.
383 - To where Mind motionless sleeps waiting Light's birth,
And came back quivering with a nameless Force,
Drunk with a wine of lightning in their cells;
Intuitive knowledge leaping into speech,
Seized, vibrant, kindling with the inspired word,
Hearing the subtle voice that clothes the heavens,
Carrying the splendour that has lit the suns,
They sang Infinity's names and deathless powers
In metres that reflect the moving worlds,
384 - As floats a sunbeam through a shady place,
The golden virgin in her varven var
Came gliding among meditation's seats.
--- BOOK FIVE - THE BOOK OF LOVE
05.01 - The Destined Meeting-Place
389 - And nothing happens in the cosmic play
But at its time and in its foreseen place.
05.02 - Satyavan
394 - He laid experience at the Godhead's feet;
396 - The haunting miracle of a perfect face.
397 - He is still the godhead by which all can change.
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri
400 - "O Thou who com'st to me out of Time's silences,
406 - But thou hast come and all will surely change:
I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.
The child of the Void shall be reborn in God,
406 - "O Golden princess, perfect Savitri
407 - Its glimmerings lighted with the abstract word
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
--- BOOK SIX - THE BOOK OF FATE
6.01 -
414
--- BOOK SEVEN - The Book of Yoga: - (7)
7.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain
7.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul
7.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries
491 - And fixed her thought upon the saviour Name;
499-502 - a quiet country of fixed mind,
501 - O happy company of luminous gods,
7.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces
503 - The Mother of the seven sorrows
504 - "I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he Who is nailed on the wide cross of the universe;
506 - "Madonna of suffering, Mother of grief divine,
508 - The Mother of Might
513 - "Madonna of might, Mother of works and force,
514 - A Woman sat in clear and crystal light:
518 - I am the all-discovering Thought of man.
520 - "Madonna of light, Mother of joy and peace,
7.05 - The Finding of the Soul
7.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute
--- BOOK TEN
10.4 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
656 - "O Death, thou too art God and yet not He
665 - "I hail thee, almighty and victorious Death,
683 - "O human image of the deathless word,
692 - "In vain, thou temptst with solitary bliss
693 - "O living power of the incarnate Word,
696 - "Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again;
696 - "Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep
OBSTACLES TO READING
--- CONCEPTION
2020-07-19
This section was created after I have been sleeping alot, and while reading Savitri everyday it has been in hyper small portions. And I though I should clean my room, because that seemed like an obstacle to reading Savitri. And the reason why is because the right side of my desk has clutter on it, and that desk is dedicated to God, so if I am willing to clutter things ontop of God, then I obviously have clearing to do.
--- NOTES
I am trying to figure out why I have stopped reading Savitri all day.
--- POTENTIALS
- cleanliness of room
- poor diet
- desire binging
- assimilation / fear
- descent or clouding of the soul, or of whatever was the driving force
--- FOOTER
see also ::: Savitri (supplementary practices), Savitri (help),
SUPPLEMENTARY PRACTICES AND BOOKS ON SAVITRI
--- NOTES
this merged page was surprisingly empty. At the least it is like that Japa, Meditation, Prayer and Writing can supplement reading and study.
other readings too could be of aid, as could any practices or higher experiences likely. Along with especially the collected works of both Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, his text on the Vedas seems to be very related. I think it helped open the doors for Savitri to some degree.
Hymns to the Mystic Fire
Savitri.in - books on Savitri (30-40)
SAVITRI THE GODDESS
IMGS
DESCRIPTIONS
But like a shining answer from the gods
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
Heaven had unveiled its lustre in her eyes,
Her feet were moonbeams, her face was a bright sun,
Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
To live again and feel the hands of calm.
This breathing Scripture of the Eternal's joy,
A priestess of immaculate ecstasies
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
Love in her was wider than the universe,
The whole world could take refuge in her single heart.
Scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds.
This is sure that he and she are one;
Even when he sleeps, he keeps her on his breast:
All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things.
Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,
The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths
That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars
And saw the spaces ready for her feet.
She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
All she can do is marvellous in his sight:
He revels in her, a swimmer in her sea,
She puts forth a small portion of herself,
A being no bigger than the thumb of man
Into a hidden region of the heart
Into thoughts narrow limits she has come;
Her greatness she has suffered to be pressed
Into the little cabin of the Idea,
The closed room of a lonely thinkers grasp:
The many-toned melody
Tirelessly throbbing through the rapturous air
Caught in the song that sways the Apsaras limbs
When she floats gleaming like a cloud of light,
A wave of joy on heavens moonstone floor.
She knew herself the Beloved of the Supreme:
These Gods and Goddesses were he and she:
The Mother was she of Beauty and Delight,
The Word in Brahmas vast creating clasp,
The World-Puissance on almighty Shivas lap,
Above them all she stands supporting all,
The sole omnipotent Goddess ever-veiled
Of whom the world is the inscrutable mask;
The ages are the footfalls of her tread,
Their happenings the figure of her thoughts,
And all creation is her endless act.
HELP
--- CONCEPTION
2020-07-19
- This page was created when I have fluctuated back from near always to a near minimum everyday.
- Where unlike obstacles, this note is aimed at trying to garder aid from either myself or from within or above.
- At its lowest it is the next step of obstacles, the attempt to clear them.
- At its highest it is perhaps a series of prayers
--- FOOTER
see also ::: Savitri obstacles to reading,
PRAYERS
DIALOGUES
--- CONCEPTION
So this entry was created because I have been awake for 2.5+ hours and have almost done everything wrong, I have went to buy smokes, bought and ate chocolate, pop, had 2 smokes back to back. Masturbated and now am having a coffee, but with half the coffee done I am still so tired and dont have the juice or will to read Savitri. I can try a prayer but I wanted to try this as it may do the trick. Praise be to She for suggesting.
- Note also "S:" here is a seeming amalgam of Savitri, Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, but I will also use any other wisdoms. But since I am in a low state I will unlikely be tapping into true Savitri, but only my refracted imaginations. Still it may bring relation, thus Light, thus actuality.
--- THE DIALOGUES
J: Oh God.. Dearest Savitri are thou there? Would thou be willing to come to my aid?
S: My child, I am always there for all who need.
J: Sweet Savitri, I am in darkness. Sapped of strength, and will, perhaps enemies assail me from all sides. You are my Armor and Sword, but I am not strong enough to equip them. What should I do?
S: You should not have let them into your keep. Take not off your armor each day, sleep with it equipped. When a voice calls you to evil, cry my name instantly, not after you let it have its way with you. You talk with me now, with me beside you, but you will not grant me the full entry you have granted them? If you reject their false treasures and evacuate them you will reform a space for me in you. When there is not so much refuge burying the flame, it will burn again. Pray, aspire, reject and wait. I will return to you when you let me. This is all the cost of your lack of consecration.
J: I am tempted to smoke weed, in hopes of your return. I feel it may work.
S: It might, but this will happen again until you reject and fully consecrate, especially masturbation. Though you are destined to walk in the Night and bring the Light there aswell. If you smoke weed to find me that is one thing, but you never need smoke cigarettes and masturbate, that never brings me to you. Ever.
J: What of cigarettes? it seems true it does not bring us closer and may keep us apart on occasion in a brief manner. Can I not both smoke and be with you?
S: Yes, we can still be together if you smoke, but if you wish to move from 1(1) or 2(2), to 3(10), 4(24), 5(48), 6(72), 7(104), 8(121), 9(144), 10(181), 11(241), 12(362), 13(724), from everyday to always then all things that are not offerings to me are rusted chains. Even weed, though you claim that it is to bring you closer, do you ask if it is the offering I desire?
J: I imagine not. I imagine if you wish me to go without below, it is my unwillingness to be there and my desperate attempt to be in the Light. An attempt at deperately clawing down the Light or Force. or if youd have me learn to swim underwater, it is a refusal where I ignore the treasure you sent me for and I instead sit outside your temple in the sun. Not willing to do your work, not in too much shame to enter with the prize you sent me after.
JAPA
--- CONCEPTION
I added Japa because there seems to be major power in recitation. Whether Savitri or another name of God. As it seems to call up all the contradictions. As to call upon Savitri, so as to summon, points to all the things that stop Her from appearing. Similar to the effects of the imagined Presence of God. This relates aswell to the idea that as a kid I was taught God is everpresent, then people say, "oh so he watches you masterbate" but if you actually think God is there, then one cannot masturbate in front of Him. So one has to disbelief to liberate lower actions. To those who say they believe and still act, that seems contradictory since like one doesnt do such things in front of ones parents, how much harder would it be to do in front of something conceived as being infinitely superior.
--- AIM
so the goal of the Japa can be many and it seems to switch between repetitions.
between aspiration, a call to seeing, closeness, bhakti, feeling of presence, protection, purity
--- NOTES
--- QUOTES
Many are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
~ Sri Ramakrishna, Sayings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa,
One attains God through japa. By repeating the name of God secretly and in solitude one receives divine grace. Then comes His vision.
~ Sri Ramakrishna
One should constantly repeat the name of God. The name of God is highly effective in the Kaliyuga. ~ Sri Ramakrishna
Repeating the name of the Beloved
I have become the Beloved myself.
Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
~ Bulleh Shah
After some time, Bhagavan remarked, Mantra japa, after a time, leads to a stage when you become Mantra maya i.e., you become that whose name you have been repeating or chanting.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day By Day
Think of the Divine alone and the Divine will be with you.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You
Hold on to one thought so that others are expelled.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks
D.: how to meditate?
M.: Concentrate on that one whom you like best. If a single thought prevails, all other thoughts are put off and finally eradicated. So long as diversity prevails there are bad thoughts. When the object of love prevails only good thoughts hold the field. Therefore hold on to one thought only. Dhyana is the chief practice.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks
One should not use the name of God artificially and superficially without feeling.
To use the name of God one must call upon Him and surrender to Him unreservedly.
After such surrender the name of God is constantly with the man.
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila
You have not even begun to master a mantra until it continues unbroken through sleep. This is much easier than it sounds. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, 1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga.php
--- SEE ALSO
Japa, Concentration, consecration, Mantra,
POTENTIAL INTENTIONS
--- POTENTIAL INTENTIONS
As an offering to Sri Aurobindo
for any and all Divine attributes
for Delight or Ease in the process of reading it (so to help move from everyday to always)
for Delight (for the listening children of the self and world)
for purification
for the strength and will and determination and courage to give up lower movements
To cultivate a constant current of Divine Force that enables reading Savitri at least 24 pages per day if not 50 or 72 or 100.
To find more "dots" and "underlines" (aka to better understand it)
To find Savitri
to find the Mother in the Heart
To find the Soul
to go deeper
To go through looking for most important for MEMcards.
To have more faith in God
to help each part move towards their potential perfection
To increase my love and knowledge of the text, to make each passing read through more delightful.
to Love Savitri more
To move closer to God
to practice the Yoga
to purify the body
to see or hear Savitri
CONDITIONS / REQUIREMENTS
--- CONCEPTION
im sure something of this sort is somewhere but from the remembered idea that reading Savitri in the Game is not always possible. When one is falling it is sometimes lost, but low enough and it gets found again, and whenever above water its status is recalled. Similarly other conditions are required for various relations: At one level it is to be able to recognize it is likely a powerful magic text worth reading for the first time. Otherwise it would seem non sense or fanciful and poor poetry. At another level when one is willing to actually put in the work to try and tackle it. Then slowly as it reveals itself more and more, in neverending degrees of splendor.
- In game the first condition was to be a certain level of perhaps intelligence and wisdom.
- In game if a character reads the book, likely they can only do so for brief periods of time, especially in the beginning. One loses motivation as the early readings are many hidden seeds being planted or watered. But later as more of the book is understood it eventually becomes an unless stream, and can be eaten like sweets. Then,
DIFFICULTIES
--- CONCEPTION
This note was created probably as a result of yesterday being such a tough reading day. Even today I finished 3-4, which is one of the best cantos but it seems if I am reading from a certain level. And so there is a huge difficulty when reading Savitri sometimes depending where my consciousness is resting. Sometimes the book is obviously the best thing and I would get it tattoo'd on my body, other times I dont understand a damn thing and its a struggle and all I can think to do is plant seeds or familiarize myself with it (though at the time I dont even know what I am doing, I am just going through the motions) and such going through the motions or memorization is the lowest form of work and even consider sin by some. But what else is one to do in such states. It will pass, as it always does. But it seems necessary or unavoidable atm that there are these alternations of day and night with the text.
- this note is important to recall the alternations do come and go, so they are not permanent. The Light comes again and it is not in vain. I would also like if I could put perhaps some passages here or something that could bring about the Day again if possible.
--- NOTES
so smoking a spliff and reading 4-2 (aka the content), also having read a short summary, a few lines revealed themselves to me a bit more, and its like "oh yeah cause Savitri is literally a practical manual to Godhood." which is obvious considering it is likely all his greatest works combined and more. And so in this context when Savitri seems invisable, aka hardly no truth is revealed and it is read mechanically and painstakingly then it seems obviously again that losing access to that Grace and being stranded with nothing would be unsurprisingly difficult. But as mentioned above it is worse then that, it feels almost sinful to move across the surface of lines as if the act if the movement was sufficient. And it partially may be but then here we are trying to solve the problem. Because even if the doing What is established it must be done in a proper How, since it is next in line. Do the Thing, and do it Right.
--- THE SOLUTION?
There are a few potential options here. One is sincere prayer, one is sacrifice of lower movement, one could be an hour long meditation, one could be reading very slowly, or contemplating my favorite passages of either Savitri or MEMcards or TSTAR.
- Though the Mother also supposedly said "It does not matter if you understand it, Savitri read it always". This probably doesnt mean it can be read mechanically, she does speak on how to read it, but still when it is not understood it is often hardest to read, though it can become difficult likely for many reasons.
--- AIDS
reading TSOY and so if Savitri seems too far, TSOY is definitely nearer and is more obviously profound, because it is more within range, it speaks to the rim of the mind. Savitri often requires far dives beyond.
--- QUESTIONS
- How would it be for a young Sri Aurobindo or The Mother or Savitri to read and study Savitri?
QUESTIONS
Mother, is it really okay to read Savitri always?
Literally?
or what else do you mean by it?
is what Thou say in Sweet Mother true?
can Savitri solve any problem through reading some 30-50 pages?
or by it answer any question?
what is Savitri?
where is Savitri?
why am I not reading Savitri always?
why does one read Savitri?
why do I forget Savitri's Divine status and splendor?
how_to_read_Savitri?
how_to_read_Savitri_always?
--- POST SAVITRI READ QUESTIONS
"any notable experiences?"
"any particular progress made?"
"anything I should do differently?"
"did I succeed in the intentions?"
--- PRE SAVITIR READ QUESTIONS (between reads)
--- PRE SAVITIR READ QUESTIONS ()
see also ::: Savitri mathematics
POTENTIAL EXPERIMENTS
- read through with various "Savitri (intentions)" held from start to end.
- read through quickly, like a liquid mantra, free from all other thoughts, fully concentrated
- read through slowly,
- read through Outloud
- read through completely sober
- read through in a week
- read through on various drugs
- read at least 1-2 pages per day
- read at least 1 page per hour
- read 1 page before any cigarette, coffee, weed or masturbation
even perhaps before any meal aswell
- read to Who?
- writing / commentary after each canto, or book
- no smoking except between cantos, books or the entire book
- measure how much has been learnt, how much one has changed,
- how much more delight each read is, how much easier each read is
- how many stopping experiences occur
- how much easier it is to pronounce and speak the text, and my jaw pressure
TODO
--- CONCEPTION
I cant recall at this exact moment what I wanted this note for.. I mean as a space yes but I had a instance to record. hmm.
--- TODO
Add Autoquotes listing because of Section or Auto class instance list for Savitri
Add checked definitions to wordlist for while reading Savitri
Add all underlined quotes into its canto section on WL.
- add (fear of)
- (Japa)
NOTES
2020-07-19
I had the thought, yesterday I think, that in a sense, I always exist somewhere in Savitri. No matter my state or current experience, the essence of it, is described in absurdly extensive detail somewhere within the text. And likely, then, also the moment prior, during, and the process of its transmutation. Sometimes when I read it, it feels as if schizophrenia. As if it is not schizophrenia, then mind-shattering, that I am a being who lives and walks around in only a small section of the text. Though that is only my limited perception of myself. Because ultimately, each one is All, and so as Ramana Maharshi states, there is no Guru, there is only the Self. So Sri Aurobindo is the forerunner of the Self. Sometimes too it seems as if I will read Savitri for some time, and when I pick it back up, its exactly where I am. Not changing the page.
2020-04-26
So in summary of re-reading NOTES 1,
it seems a most nobel and worthy challenge / trial / experiment / offering
to go through at least one canto a day of Savitri until the entire text is complete.
Prayer for help seems naturally justifiable.
for sustained aspiration, (to remember the Worthiness of the offering)
for strength to do it in the right spirit,
this entire days note (the experiment / spell) could use its own page..
- One of the benefits of studying Savitri, will be that it should become easier and easier, more and more enjoyable as more is realized. Eventually becoming nothing but a delightful joy.
--- SYNTHESIS TO SAVITRI SWITCH
ill guess the Synthesis is like 10-23%? loved.
Savitri.. maybe 3-12%?. anyways.
so with maybe.. 2-5 read throughs could make a shift of percentage.
if I can get to 33% Savitri love, then I think ill be fairly developed. closer relationship to God I hope.
--- GAIN REMEMBER GOD ALWAYS
hmm.. it depends on my intent while reading it id imagine. If I read it specifically to always remember God, or be with the Divine Presence always.. or the Mother always.. then.. I feel like 3-5 reads could potentially bring forth many particular choices if there was a persistent effort to answer that question or establish some siddhi or realization.
Like, "how to always remember God?", after the first read, thats a substantial effort for a question, and likely many realizations would be had. the second time through, this is like okay you probably are carrying the past realizations and if you are presistent enough to go through it a second time for a singular aim.... im struggling to imagine. but I imagine it would be safe to assume, there would be some progress. by the third.. I wouldnt be surprised if I could remember God.. between 3-33% of the time. now? .5-12%?.. if I could get to remembering God.. 20-50-100% of the time that would be great. like saying 100% would be like the Mother is always there. at in perhaps one of the many goddess forms. imagine. so... by the 5th read.. I imagine 5-66% or something. its kinda ridiculous to guess but it has its own utility aside from the actual estimates, though related in relation-based effects. 5% though.. I mean I could reestimate after each read and maybe its higher.. I put that so low there because unless there is massive change, there are large portions of unregenerated consciousness.
I wouldnt be surprised if reading Savitri 100 times with that intent, could get a 97% remembering rate. with the prayer for 1% more remembering of full memory each time. of course there would also be intensity increase. likelihood of as he says "blazing"? "seasons". certain passages at times could very likely trigger experiences of .. several orders of magnitude of intensity. potentially moments of strong identification with a universe of being.
could there be times when I hate Savitri? maybe there are things that do. and they could come forth.
--- MEMORIZATION, PSYCHIC, THE WORLDS, CONQUER DEATH
also, likely that at the 10-20+ full read time, there would also develop a stronger memory of the text itself. likely especially at the 40+ range. 60-80.. I could probably chain together some nice portions and use lines occasionally to continue on. which means I could potentially travel without external aid through some very very wonderful goodness on demand. likely some very constant presence by now. even at 60.. likely several developed essential siddhi's. also at 60+ being able to do it by recitation, I could zoom through it "faster" (at times). though I wouldnt be surprised if I had certain read throughs take years. simultaneous readings, slow and quick. half day on one other half on other.
even 40 still. 40 is like a good step on the way. a solid solid step. likely the psychic would be developed. even by 20. by 33 likely a completely new extra vista. if not a few.
by 60.. likely some exploration of many of the stairs. by 100.. perhaps most.
to conquer death.. 133-499?
--- SRI AUROBINDO ALWAYS REQUIREMENT GUESSES
how long until one can stay with Sri Aurobindo always? 40-1300? at some point right? one could stay by his side forever? even outside his room. well to do that, one must never leave him. which means never do anything else. the whole nature would need to have had to been divinised. I think. perhaps if even one portion is able to keep his Presence.. Ah. it could be perhaps similar to the time when I am happy to only read Savitri. I literally dont need or care for anything else. It is truly enough. Then I likely could keep it forever. That could be a very reasonable goal, always carry Savitri, which also includes always seeing it as something full of splendor. Then I am surely truly a Magician also. Always splendor for Savitri.. 33-400 reads?
by Magician, that is the Sadhak who carries always the Book of Splendor with him.
if I carry the book with me always.. I could likely travel much of it at will. though there could likely be hidden worlds for hundreds or thousands of years.
how many reads do I think I can get in this lifetime?
Ive had it for.. jeez 4 years. though like to be fair.. it is Savitri. there is still much to read, I also program. but still... AYA! ive like read it .. twice? I mean there are some chapters I have probably gone through.. 5+ times maybe. averaging.. maybe 2.2-2.8?.. this rate obviously wont do. at once every 2 years.. if i lived till 60-90, that would be 15-30 more reads. it would be better to get into the hundreds. a thousand would be like.. some very very high chance of certainty of Divine security
minimum readings? jeez 60-120?
--- TIME STAMPS
DONE its very troubling that readSavitri isnt time stamped thats very essential
DONE or even crontab, timestamp history 6 times per day. or even 24 times per day.
k sweet looks like I got time stamp working. 24x per day is nothing and it will give frame of reference to history
now also time sleeping is obvious since there will be 8-12 hours of only the once per hour readSavitri timestamp
so now that is has the stamp, I will know when I start new cantos cause readSavitri will show up. but it wont say necessarily that it was paused at 8, and resumed at 10, then 700 cantos were done straight etc. if readSavitri logged.. every 50 or something. but actually it wouldnt hurt to log each note time, but not in history.
just prior to mod0 $c 50, it wouldnt hurt to also make a timestamp when a canto is finished. because there is very very likely to be a gap of time between when it finishes and when the next one starts up.. making it the 2 first times needed. mod0 is 3rd.
okay so I have time stamps periodically, (always had on start), now have on finish. just missing mod, but I have some infastructure built a bit.
it also wouldnt hurt if it would estimate how long is remaining on the canto at the currently delay rate, or rate between entries..
maybe ill just go through a canto for now tho. i did good though.
What was I joking about a 3s delay isnt remotely viable. too fast.
2020-02-22
oh it doesnt put start time. since it doesnt log comm and till execution finishes.
also there is some potential
so where was I? I feel like commands moving may have been a bad idea, but at the same time it will be better for backups.
anyways.. today? having coffee. whats worth doing?
I tried focusing on Savitri, but its important I go through SELECTS each day aswell. cause its like a selected microcosm. a tailored infusion.
--- it was that.. there is an appeal to having records in hist form rather that like masslog, but perhaps drawbacks. anyways it wouldnt hurt to also have mem3, give timestamp of start and finish. since its also very important.
QUOTES
--- QUOTES
It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri
But like a shining answer from the gods
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
--- THE MOTHER ON SAVITRI
- I believe that it is his message; all the rest are the preparations, but Savitri is the message.
- ... My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. ... He has noted all the stages, ... in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga. ...
--- QUOTES FROM SAVITRI ON SAVITRI
Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
The Voice withdrew into its hidden skies.
But like a shining answer from the gods
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
Advancing amid tall heaven-pillaring trees,
Apparelled in her flickering-coloured robe
She seemed, burning towards the eternal realms,
A bright moved torch of incense and of flame
That from the sky-roofed temple-soil of earth
A pilgrim hand lifts in an invisible shrine.
There came the gift of a revealing hour:
He saw through depths that reinterpret all,
Limited not now by the dull body's eyes,
New-found through an arch of clear discovery,
This intimation of the world's delight,
This wonder of the divine Artist's make
Carved like a nectar-cup for thirsty gods,
This breathing Scripture of the Eternal's joy,
As in a mystic and dynamic dance
A priestess of immaculate ecstasies
Inspired and ruled from Truth's revealing vault
Moves in some prophet cavern of the gods
A heart of silence in the hands of joy
Inhabited with rich creative beats
A body like a parable of dawn
That seemed a niche for veiled divinity
Or golden temple-door to things beyond.
Immortal rhythms swayed in her time-born steps;
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight
Poured a supernal beauty on men's lives.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue
SONG
--- TODO
add section from Savitri (cento)
--- SONG
Stop Here Now Ye Traveller of the Worlds.
For you have found the Master-Guide.
Who will bring you by the hand, through all the Heavens and Hells and Worlds and Times, beyond All Worlds and Times. She will reveal in all Worlds God.
Ye will be made Perfect in all Parts of thy Nature. Parts Old and New. You will be Equipped for every need for the Great Journey.
She waits beside you, Immortal Golden Body of Unimaginable Splendour,
Her Hand Saves and Restores, Protects and Carries.
Her Legs like Golden Staves that mark each step on The Path.
Her Eyes are Undying Lights illuminating all Darkness, terrifying away all Ignorance and Ill-Will.
SAVITRI CENTO
class:Savitri
class:a case for Savitri
class:Goddess
class:favorite
class:project
see also ::: 0.01 - The Mother on Savitri, Savitri (intention), why read Savitri?
see also ::: Savitri (Song)
--- CONCEPTION
the answer to "why Savitri?". the aim of this project is solely to make one want to read Savitri by showing in the least words possible the overwhelming miraculous splendor of Savitri. What it is and what it does. A poem that is a power transformative Light that forces remembrance due to the immense Force of the Truth. No part may deny it.
--- CONCEPTION 2
A second potential Savitri cento, could be one where different centos are made for different people. this thought came to me while reading 69-73, and it speaks by metaphor of Sailing and such. From that I wouldnt mind crafting at some point a reduced cento for SailorMel.
--- CENTO
--- THE MOTHER ON SAVITRI (SORTED BY ALPHA)
- Alone sufficient to climb to the highest peaks.
- Always something becomes clear, something is revealed, something is added.
- Concrete Help to take you to the goal as if by the hand.
- Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas.
- Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
- Every question has its answer therein.
- ... every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
- Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows.
- For, everything is there, everything.
- For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal.
- He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.
- He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily.
- If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality.
- If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs.
- It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
- It is the Yoga, Sadhana, Meditation, Tapaysa.
- It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path.
- It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal.
- My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there.
- Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks.
- Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga.
- To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine.
- What He has created is something man cannot imagine.
- You can find all the answers to all your questions there.
--- OTHER NOTES ON SAVITRI
--- TO DO
add convincing to each part. destroy any objections. reveal the unlimited splendor. destroy resistances. relate experiences. reveal in stages? highest to lowest back to highest I think
add exegesis for poem?
SEE ALSO
t_Pass_through_Savitri.php">1st Pass through Savitri
3rd Pass through Savitri
4th Pass through Savitri
5th Pass through Savitri
6th Pass through Savitri
a canto of Savitri a day until completion
a case for Savitri
Acknowledge the Immaculate Splendor of Savitri
apprenticeship in Savitri
everyday you are going to read Savitri
Hearts temple-shrine to Savitri
how to read Savitri?
how to read Savitri always?
It does not matter if you understand it - Savitri, read it always.
Levels of appreciation of Savitri
meditation (Savitri quotes)
Narads Infinite Lexicon of terms for Savitri
On Savitri (book)
read Savitri
Savitri
Savitri (3rd Review)
Savitri (best of)
Savitri bot
Savitri chapters quotes
Savitri (dialogues)
Savitri (exegesis)
Savitri (experiences)
Savitri (extended toc)
Savitri (imgs)
Savitri (many notes by many)
Savitri maths
Savitri (my Integral Yoga)
Savitri (record of Love)
Savitris Tower
Savitri (study guide)
Savitri (supplementary practices)
Savitri (table)
the Temple of Savitri
upon the Mountain-top in the Temple of Light chanting and praying and studying Savitri always the Child-Priest's endless Sacrifice of Love and Knowledge and Bliss
what is Savitri?
where is Savitri?
why am I not reading Savitri always?
why does one read Savitri?
why do I forget Savitri's Divine status and splendor?
Liber Astarte vel Berylli sub figura VI : An instruction in attainment by the method of devotion, or Bhakta-Yogi. Equinox VII, p. 37.
FOOTER
see also ::: why am I not reading Savitri always?, why read Savitri?,
see also ::: how to read Savitri always?, how to read Savitri?,
see also ::: Savitri (notes), Savitri (quotes on), Savitri (index), Savitri (cento), Savitri (intentions)
see also ::: Savitri (Records of Love),
see also ::: a canto of Savitri a day until completion,
see also ::: Savitris Tower, Narads Infinite Lexicon of terms for Savitri, notes on Savitri, On Savitri, read Savitri, the Temple of Savitri,
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aard-wolf ::: n. --> A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles. html{color:
achillean ::: a. --> Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. html{color:
adagio ::: a. & adv. --> Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. ::: n. --> A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn. html{color:
addendum ::: n. --> A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. html{color:
adder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
A serpent.
A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc. html{color:
adding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Add html{color:
A Dictionary of Words and Terms in Sri Aurobindo"s SavitriLexicon of an Infinite MindNarad (Richard Eggenberger)
aesthesis ::: “By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which, passing through the mind or sense or both, awakes a vital enjoyment of the taste, Bhoga, and this can again awaken us, awaken even the soul in us to something yet deeper and more fundamental than mere pleasure and enjoyment, to some form of the spirit’s delight of existence, Ananda.” Letters on Savitri
"Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri
“Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri
aiblins ::: adv. --> Alt. of Ablins html{color:
aimless ::: a. --> Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. html{color:
alectoromancy ::: n. --> See Alectryomancy. html{color:
alength ::: adv. --> At full length; lengthwise. html{color:
"All birds of that region are relatives. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff is the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas. All that however is to mentalise too much and mentalising always takes most of the life out of spiritual things. That is why I say it can be seen but nothing said about it.” ::: "The question was: ‘In the mystical region, is the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with ‘gold-white wings" or your Hippogriff with ‘face lustred, pale-blue-lined"? And why do you write: ‘What to say about him? One can only see"?” Letters on Savitri
alleyway ::: n. --> An alley. html{color:
all-possessed ::: a. --> Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. html{color:
all saints ::: --> Alt. of All Saints&
Amal: “ ‘Resist’ means ‘hold back’ or rather ‘force back’. Death is giving gifts. Savitri asks him to keep or rather force back his gifts.”
Amal: “The Decree and the Law refer to the fact of death in the world. The fact of death in the world summed up for the ancient Indian mind the condition under which the human being lives and the fulfilment of the Divine Will in the world would mean as another Savitri line puts it: ‘The end of Death, the death of Ignorance’.”
Amal: “the sirens are those beings whose songs used to lure away mariners. And when they answered the call, they were killed. There was a foreknowledge of what was to happen to Savitri so there was discouragement to venture out. . . so there is a plea to spare this being from suffering the same fate.”
amzel ::: n. --> The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). html{color:
"And griefless countries under purple suns.” *Letters on Savitri
“And griefless countries under purple suns.” Letters on Savitri
anthomania ::: n. --> A extravagant fondness for flowers. html{color:
aristotelic ::: a. --> Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. html{color:
A slow miraculous gesture dimly came. ::: Sri Aurobindo ref: the above line from Savitri:
asquint ::: adv. --> With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint. html{color:
“As to the two lines with ‘no man’s land’ there can be no capital in the first line because there it is a description while the capital is needed in the other line, because the phrase has acquired there the force of a name or appellation. I am not sure about the hyphen; it could be put but the no hyphen might be better as it suggests that no one in particular has as yet got possession.” Letters on Savitri.
Aswapati ::: Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
Aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri’s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; …” (From a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple, listed now as the Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)
aswapati ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her [Savitri"s] human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; . . . .” (From a letter written by Sri Aurobindo) Aswapati"s.
bacharach ::: n. --> Alt. of Backarack html{color:
ballista ::: n. --> An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. html{color:
barkentine ::: n. --> A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append. html{color:
based ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Base ::: a. --> Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. ::: n. html{color:
basylous ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. html{color:
bean trefoil ::: --> A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida). html{color:
beggable ::: a. --> Capable of being begged. html{color:
Bhaga Savitr (Bhaga Savitri) ::: [Savitr, the Creator, as Bhaga, the Enjoyer].
birching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Birch html{color:
bish ::: n. --> Same as Bikh. html{color:
blindly ::: adv. --> Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one&
boilingly ::: adv. --> With boiling or ebullition. html{color:
boyism ::: n. --> Boyhood.
The nature of a boy; childishness. html{color:
brigge ::: n. --> A bridge. html{color:
Savitri (Savitri2) ::: the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun; goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save.
Savitri ::: “Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; …” (From a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple. Included as a Note at the preface to Savitri.)
Savitri ::: “In the Mahabharata, the heroine of the tale of Satyavan and Savitri; . . . . She was the daughter of King Ashwapati, and lover of Satyavan, whom she married although she was warned by Narada that he had only one year to live. On the fatal day, when Yama carried off Satyavan’s spirit, she followed him with unswerving devotion. Ultimately Yama was constrained to restore her husband to life.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
“Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother ….” Letters on Savitri
Savitri ::: Purani: “The word ‘Savitri’ is derived from the word ‘Savitru’ which in its turn is derived from the root ‘su’ = ‘to give birth to’. The word ‘Soma’ which indicates an ‘exhilarating drink’, symbolising spiritual ecstasy or delight, is also derived from the same root ‘su’. It links therefore the creation and the delight of creation. Savitru therefore, means the Divine Creator One who gives birth to or brings forth from himself into existence, the creation. In the Veda, Savita is the God of illumination, the God of Creation. Usually, he is represented by the material sun which also illuminates the solar system and is its creator and sustainer in the material sense. Savitri therefore would mean etymologically ‘some one descended from the Sun’, ‘one belonging to the Sun’, ‘an energy derived from the Sun, the Divine Creator’. In our poem, Savitri is the princess who embodies the Divine Grace descended in human birth to work out with the aspiring soul of humanity his divine destiny.”“Savitri“—An Approach and a Study
*Savitri"s.
buchu ::: n. --> A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves. html{color:
bulky ::: a. --> Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. html{color:
bull-necked ::: a. --> Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. html{color:
bunodonts ::: n. pl. --> A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated. html{color:
but ::: adv. & conj. --> Except with; unless with; without.
Except; besides; save.
Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
Only; solely; merely.
On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; html{color:
camwood ::: n. --> See Barwood. html{color:
casus ::: n. --> An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident. html{color:
catnip ::: n. --> Alt. of Catmint html{color:
Chance ::: Madhav: “Chance, erratic happening, is only an appearance. It is not the governing truth or feature of this existence. What look like unregulated result is really an effect foreseeable by an Intelligence higher than the mental reason; in fact, it is part of a process initiated and conducted by a divine wisdom, prajna, that rules the universe. What passes for chance is a purposive movement permitted and contained in the larger operations of the Law.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
charger ::: n. --> One who, or that which charges.
An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
A large dish.
A horse for battle or parade. html{color:
charge ::: v. t. --> To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars html{color:
charlatanry ::: n. --> Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism. html{color:
chef ::: n. --> A chief of head person.
The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
Same as Chief. html{color:
chrisom ::: n. --> A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. html{color:
chuckling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Chuckle html{color:
colstaff ::: n. --> A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders. html{color:
Contemplate, for a moment, this wondrous reply in six lines, of Satyavan to his father’s gentle scolding of Savitri.”at noon leaving this house of clay”, for in the epic his death in the forest takes place at noon, not a departure of an early morning soul or one who leaves enfolded in the dark rooms of night, but at a time when the sun is at its most brilliant, showering the earth with light.
contour ::: n. --> The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification. html{color:
cornicular ::: n. --> A secretary or clerk. html{color:
covinous ::: a. --> Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest. html{color:
cowpea ::: n. --> The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States. html{color:
cran ::: n. --> Alt. of Crane html{color:
crazy ::: a. --> Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. html{color:
Creatrix, the Eternal"s artist Bride,” *Savitri*
Creatrix, the Eternal’s artist Bride,” Savitri
crouton ::: n. --> Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc. html{color:
cucking stool ::: --> A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. html{color:
cup ::: 1. A small open container, usually with a flat bottom and a handle, used for drinking, or something resembling it. cup"s 2. *Fig.* Something that one must endure; one"s lot to be experienced or endured with pain or happiness, as these lines in Savitri:
deas ::: n. --> See Dais. html{color:
deep-waisted ::: a. --> Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck. html{color:
dendritic ::: a. --> Alt. of Dendritical html{color:
devi ::: n. --> ; fem. of Deva. A goddess. html{color:
di- ::: --> A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice
denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2.
A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc. html{color:
diplanar ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to two planes. html{color:
dipped ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dip html{color:
dispersive ::: a. --> Tending to disperse. html{color:
doffing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Doff html{color:
douter ::: n. --> An extinguisher for candles. html{color:
dout ::: v. t. --> To put out. html{color:
dove plant ::: --> A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant. html{color:
dragomans ::: pl. --> of Dragoman html{color:
drank ::: imp. --> of Drink.
of Drink ::: n. --> Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. html{color:
duchess ::: n. --> The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. html{color:
duchy ::: n. --> The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom. html{color:
Dyumatsena ::: : “Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” (Note at the beginning of Savitri from a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple.)
dyumatsena ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” Author"s note at beginning of Savitri.
Dyumatsena ::: Sri Aurobindo: “Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory.” (Author’s Note at the beginning of Savitri.)**
dziggetai ::: n. --> The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus). E () The fifth letter of the English alphabet. html{color:
elmen ::: a. --> Belonging to elms. html{color:
entozoon ::: n. --> One of the Entozoa. html{color:
eyght ::: n. --> An island. See Eyot. html{color:
eyot ::: n. --> A little island in a river or lake. See Ait. html{color:
feathered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Feather ::: a. --> Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees. html{color:
feather ::: n. --> One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. html{color:
feat ::: n. --> An act; a deed; an exploit.
A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. ::: v. t. html{color:
fecundity ::: n. --> The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
The power of germinating; as in seeds.
The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God&
flame, daughter of savitri
flasque ::: Sri Aurobindo: "‘Flasque" is a French word meaning ‘slack", ‘loose", ‘flaccid" etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance, ‘A harlot empress in a bouge" – somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound.” Letters on Savitri.
flasque ::: Sri Aurobindo: “‘Flasque’ is a French word meaning ‘slack’, ‘loose’, ‘flaccid’ etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance, ‘A harlot empress in a bouge’—somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound.” Letters on Savitri.
fnese ::: v. i. --> To breathe heavily; to snort. html{color:
foisty ::: a. --> Fusty; musty. html{color:
fo ::: n. --> The Chinese name of Buddha. html{color:
fourneau ::: n. --> The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed. html{color:
fowled ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Fowl html{color:
frere ::: n. --> A friar. html{color:
frippery ::: n. --> Coast-off clothes.
Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
A place where old clothes are sold.
The trade or traffic in old clothes. ::: a. html{color:
friskful ::: a. --> Brisk; lively; frolicsome. html{color:
fromwards ::: prep. --> A way from; -- the contrary of toward. html{color:
frugivorous ::: a. --> Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. html{color:
gairishly ::: n. --> Alt. of Gairish/ness html{color:
genre ::: n. --> A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners. html{color:
glabella ::: n. --> The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. ::: pl. --> of Glabellum html{color:
glatified ::: a. --> Pleased; indulged according to desire. html{color:
gleam ::: “That (‘to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies’] might be all right for mental poetry—it won’t do for what I am trying to create—in that, one word won’t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. ‘Gleam’ and ‘glow’ are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.” Letters on Savitri
globigerina ::: n. --> A genus of small Foraminifera, which live abundantly at or near the surface of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera. html{color:
gonotheca ::: n. --> A capsule developed on certain hydroids (Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian. html{color:
gravery ::: n. --> The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. html{color:
gudgeon ::: n. --> A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
What may be got without skill or merit.
A person easily duped or cheated.
The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a html{color:
gue ::: n. --> A sharper; a rogue. html{color:
gunstome ::: n. --> A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone. html{color:
gynophore ::: n. --> The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora. html{color:
haily ::: a. --> Of hail. html{color:
haitic ::: a. --> Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. html{color:
hakim ::: n. --> A wise man; a physician, esp. a Mohammedan.
A Mohammedan title for a ruler; a judge. html{color:
hamulus ::: n. --> A hook, or hooklike process.
A hooked barbicel of a feather. html{color:
hanuman ::: n. --> See Hoonoomaun. html{color:
hardly ::: “Your ‘barely enough’, instead of the finer and more suggestive ‘hardly’, falls flat upon my ear; one cannot substitute one word for another in this kind of poetry merely because it means intellectually the same thing; ‘hardly’ is the mot juste in this context and, repetition or not, it must remain unless a word not only juste but inevitable comes to replace it… . On this point I may add that in certain contexts ‘barely’ would be the right word, as for instance, ‘There is barely enough food left for two or three meals’, where ‘hardly’ would be adequate but much less forceful. It is the other way about in this line. Letters on Savitri
hardy ::: a. --> Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.
Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
Strong; firm; compact.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
Able to withstand the cold of winter. html{color:
harslet ::: n. --> See Haslet. html{color:
hearselike ::: a. --> Suitable to a funeral. html{color:
hemuse ::: n. --> The roebuck in its third year. html{color:
"He the Eternal"s delegate soul in man.” Savitri 10. 3.
“He the Eternal’s delegate soul in man.” Savitri 10. 3.
hoboy ::: n. --> A hautboy or oboe. html{color:
hodgepodge ::: n. --> A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. html{color:
hoful ::: a. --> Careful; wary. html{color:
hook-billed ::: a. --> Having a strongly curved bill. html{color:
hoplite ::: n. --> A heavy-armed infantry soldier. html{color:
hoult ::: n. --> A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt. html{color:
How these magnificent lines from Savitri continue to reverberate in the mind and heart and soul I do not know. I know only this, that Savitri, as Mother has said, is”a mantra for the transformation of the world.” As understanding grows within, not in the mind but in the inner cathedral which is always drenched in light, certain lines repeat themselves as mantra and I share what comes to me in a spirit of wonder and hushed elation.
http://savitri.in/books/narad-richard-eggenberger/lexicon-of-an-infinite-mind
hunks ::: n. --> A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. html{color:
hythe ::: n. --> A small haven. See Hithe. I () I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. /ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. html{color:
**"I certainly won"t have ‘attracted" [in place of ‘allured"] — there is an enormous difference between the force of the two words and merely ‘attracted by the Ecstasy" would take away all my ecstasy in the line — nothing so tepid can be admitted. Neither do I want ‘thrill" [in place of ‘joy"] which gives a false colour — precisely it would mean that the ecstasy was already touching him with its intensity which is far from my intention.Your statement that ‘joy" is just another word for ‘ecstasy" is surprising. ‘Comfort", ‘pleasure", ‘joy", ‘bliss", ‘rapture", ‘ecstasy" would then be all equal and exactly synonymous terms and all distinction of shades and colours of words would disappear from literature. As well say that ‘flashlight" is just another word for ‘lightning" — or that glow, gleam, glitter, sheen, blaze are all equivalents which can be employed indifferently in the same place. One can feel allured to the supreme omniscient Ecstasy and feel a nameless joy touching one without that Joy becoming itself the supreme Ecstasy. I see no loss of expressiveness by the joy coming in as a vague nameless hint of the immeasurable superior Ecstasy.” Letters on Savitri*
ideal ::: Madhav: “What is not yet achieved on earth but what must be achieved because it presses for expression from above is cherished in the aspiration and thought of man as an Ideal. It is a truth from the higher regions of existence that seeks to formulate itself in this world. It clothes itself in the form of an Idea, organises itself in the human mind through a series of perceptions and leaps of thought as an Ideal to be realised and goes on exerting pressure on the evolving spirit of man to actualise it in life as a working factor. Progress is effected by these translations of the ideal into the actual.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. III.
idea ::: Madhav: “Each form in Creation is governed by the Real-Idea which has impelled it into existence. Behind every object in manifestation, every formation that comes into being, there is a truth which demands fulfilment in and through it. It is a truth from the Being of the Divine that seeks expression. Each truth that so urges to manifest forms itself into a source-Idea, a concentration of the perception and the power to effectuate it. This Idea is always there in the depths of every manifestation ruling its forms and its movements according to its Will in execution. All formation and activities proceed according to the law of this indwelling Truth-Idea.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
"I don"t know [‘what plane is spoken of by Virgil"], but purple is a light of the Vital. It may have been one of the vital heavens he was thinking of. The ancients saw the vital heavens as the highest and most of the religions also have done the same. I have used the suggestion of Virgil to insert a needed line.” *Letters on Savitri
“I don’t know [‘what plane is spoken of by Virgil’], but purple is a light of the Vital. It may have been one of the vital heavens he was thinking of. The ancients saw the vital heavens as the highest and most of the religions also have done the same. I have used the suggestion of Virgil to insert a needed line.” Letters on Savitri
In a sense each man is a colonist here from the Kingdom of the Spirit. His original and permanent home is there on the Divine summits; he has come to establish on earth the rule of the Spirit.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
In Savitri, Book II, Canto V, we find these lines:*
incertitude ::: absence of confidence; doubt; uncertainty. incertitudes. ::: Sri Aurobindo: [referring to the line] "The incertitude of man"s proud confident thought.” ::: "‘Uncertainty" would mean that the thought was confident but uncertain of itself, which would be a contradiction. ‘Incertitude" means that its truth is uncertain in spite of its proud confidence in itself.” Letters on Savitri — 1936
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
In this article we explore definitions of the words ‘artifice’ and ‘artificer’ from various dictionary sources, their use in two poems, one by Marge Percy, The Bonsai Tree and the other, Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats, followed by all the brilliant uses by Sri Aurobindo in his magnum opus, Savitri.
In this series we explore the words of other languages and list their definitions given by major dictionaries as well as by other disciples and Sri Aurobindo in his letters on Savitri.
irvingite ::: n. --> The common designation of one a sect founded by the Rev. Edward Irving (about 1830), who call themselves the Catholic Apostolic Church. They are highly ritualistic in worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy coming of Christ. html{color:
“Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone’ but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone’. One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don’t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
"It is a reference to the beings met in the vital world, that seem like human beings but, if one looks closely, they are seen to be Hostiles; often assuming the appearance of a familiar face they try to tempt or attack by surprise, and betray the stamp of their origin — there is also a hint that on earth too they take up human bodies or possess them for their own purpose.” Letters on Savitri
“It is a reference to the beings met in the vital world, that seem like human beings but, if one looks closely, they are seen to be Hostiles; often assuming the appearance of a familiar face they try to tempt or attack by surprise, and betray the stamp of their origin—there is also a hint that on earth too they take up human bodies or possess them for their own purpose.” Letters on Savitri
jackmen ::: pl. --> of Jackman html{color:
jail ::: american spelling of the British gaol. See also gaol. (In Savitri both spellings are used.)
jamdani ::: n. --> A silk fabric, with a woven pattern of sprigs of flowers. html{color:
jet-black ::: a. --> Black as jet; deep black. html{color:
jetsam ::: n. --> Alt. of Jetson html{color:
jetty ::: a. --> Made of jet, or like jet in color. ::: n. --> A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to html{color:
Jhumur: “Savitri has gone into the very beginning of evolution, origin, where in the crypt the involved consciousness is hidden deep within, from which the whole process of evolution can grow. In a deep crypt, in an underground vault, the involved Supreme in a seed form has coiled himself and then slowly uncoils through time and evolution.”
Jhumur: “Here it is a description of Savitri’s soul. A being or a force that can live freely on the heights.”
Jhumur: “She (Savitri) has gone into this world of light not having really left her body. It is not an experience that is beyond the body. It is in the physical life that she has attained this plane, so topaz, a yellow colour, is the colour of the mind, stone is the consciousness in matter, so physical life, body, life, mind. Mother had told us I remember that a precious stone symbolises consciousness that is lodged in matter. It shows how blazing light is present even in the hardest matter. So you have the image of the physical light, like a kind of a wall, a barrier.”
Jhumur: “The gods. From his (Death’s) point of view they are unreal. Because he wants to prove that he is the final arbiter and that all is bound by him, nothing else really matters. At this point in the argument this is what he wants to emphasize, that Savitri must accept her limitations.”
Jhumur: “The soul has made this sacrifice of entering into darkness and now it has to pay the price of pain and suffering and work its way up. But each time it makes some kind of forward progress, more darkness, constantly more unconscious movements, imperfections, pile up. One might say the price that the spirit has to pay for having made this daring descent keeps on going up. It is like a very long journey and she [Savitri] has come to strike that out.”
Jhumur: “They are the powers of the guardians of the world of light and it is not easy to enter that world. Here they have given way and let Savitri in. It is revelation, intuition. She has gone beyond the world of mind, therefore topaz, and forced the doors of this world open by the force of revelation, direct experience. This however is all conjecture because it is beyond the range of our experience.”
Jhumur: “Throughout Savitri I have noticed all the different times of the day and the position of the sun in relation to the earth. It runs through the book, the symbol dawn, night, not only that but there are different states of illumination, awakening of the consciousness progressively. Sometimes it falls into the darkness, sometimes twilight when one is caught between two states, and at the end it is the everlasting day. So the kingdoms of the rising sun represent states of being where the light is the most important. Mother always says that the sun is the symbol of the supreme truth, the supreme, the supreme wisdom. It is the world where the supreme truth and supreme wisdom rule, govern. Whereas In many other worlds this light gets covered, it gets clouded over but here there are the kingdoms of the rising sun because they are the godheads of the mind and the mind is an instrument of light. But it is a small early instrument, little mind, so it is just rising, it hasn’t come to its full glory. The kingdoms are the planes of consciousness where you have a little light, a little clarity, a little illumination. That is how I understand the main function of the mind, to seek for light. It is an instrument for seeking light although it often dodges light where the perversity comes in.”
johannisberger ::: n. --> A fine white wine produced on the estate of Schloss (or Castle) Johannisberg, on the Rhine. html{color:
jorum ::: n. --> A large drinking vessel; also, its contents. html{color:
Karma ::: Madhav: “Each action produces a result and the action of today is often plagued by the reaction of yesterday.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
kinetogenesis ::: n. --> An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope. html{color:
King of Kings. Applied to God. (In Savitri refers to Virat.)
kytoplasma ::: n. --> See Karyoplasma. L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus). html{color:
labara ::: pl. --> of Labarum html{color:
ladied ::: a. --> Ladylike; not rough; gentle. html{color:
ladrone ::: n. --> A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal. html{color:
lamasery ::: n. --> A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc. html{color:
languaging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Language html{color:
larixinic ::: a. --> Of, or derived from, the larch (Larix); as, larixinic acid. html{color:
lavrock ::: n. --> Same as Laverock. html{color:
leontodon ::: n. --> A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion&
libatory ::: a. --> Pertaining to libation. html{color:
lid ::: n. --> That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts. html{color:
lightning ::: n. --> A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.
The act of making bright, or the state of being made bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental powers. ::: vb. n. html{color:
liman ::: n. --> The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime. html{color:
linum ::: n. --> A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum). html{color:
lionly ::: a. --> Like a lion; fierce. html{color:
liza ::: n. --> The American white mullet (Mugil curema). html{color:
llanos ::: pl. --> of Llano html{color:
loess ::: n. --> A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers. html{color:
lough ::: n. --> A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland. ::: obs. strong imp. --> of Laugh. html{color:
lytta ::: n. --> A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog. M () M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178-180, 242. html{color:
Madhav: “Her [Savitri’s] hair is imaged as a cloud-net, net of clouds, in which delight shall sleep, …” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: The Name is a Power. It stands for a particular formulation of Consciousness and Force and when uttered—audibly or otherwise—acts like a spring summoning all that it represents into action.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
Madhav: “… the perfect beings—the archetypes that project themselves in the form of Ideals on the mental horizons of man….” Readings in Savitri Vol. I.
Madhav: “The powers that create and fashion this world in accordance with the Truth with which they are charged, are not involved, lost in the world-movement. They stand above, governing, shaping, directing the growing world-complex. They know precisely what takes place and why. They are not misled by appearances of phenomena; each event is seen by them as developing from its veiled cause which they perceive undeceived by apparent sequences on the surface.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. II.
Madhav: “The reference is to Savitri, a companion of the Ray of Truth, Mist of the Ineffable and Flame of Will (Divine).” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “The wheel of determinism in material Nature turns mechanically without any saving sensation, it moves under the pressure of a gathered momentum without questioning; it is immaterial in its operations without the slightest breath of the warmth of life. All circumstances are cogs in this wheel of Fate that revolves relentlessly. It is only a force of will from an existence beyond the domain of this mechanism that can hold the movement, change its direction and displace the instrumental condition.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
Madhav: “This creation is an ordered manifestation of the Divine. There is a central Will, expressing the originating Truth-vision, impelling the whole movement. But also there are special emanations from the Divine charged with specific tasks in the organisation and maintenance of the emerging creation. These are the gods and goddesses, deities, Powers and Personalities that are in charge of their respective domains, on different levels of existence. Each world has its own guardians entrusted by the Supreme Creative Spirit with the work of building and furthering the manifestation of the particular Truth-principle that pushes for expression in that world-formula.” Readings in Savitri Vol. I.
Madra ::: “Name of an ancient country and its people in northwestern India, mentioned in the Mahabaharata. The territory extended from the River Beas to the Chenab or perhaps as far as the Jhelum. Savitri’s father Asvapati was king of this country. (Dow). Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works Madra’s.
madra ::: "Name of an ancient country and its people in northwestern India, mentioned in the Mahabaharata. The territory extended from the River Beas to the Chenab or perhaps as far as the Jhelum. Savitri"s father Asvapati was king of this country. (Dow.)” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works ::: **Madra"s.**
maian ::: n. --> Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae. html{color:
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor "slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my "dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase "a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that "happened”, "came” being a poetic equivalent for "happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words "slow” and "dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word"s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its "came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all! "Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what "miraculously dim” — it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else — but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn"s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poor”slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my”dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase”a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that”happened”,”came” being a poetic equivalent for”happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words”slow” and”dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word’s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its”came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all!”Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what”miraculously dim”—it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else—but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn’s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
mardi gras ::: n. --> The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking. html{color:
marionette ::: n. --> A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
The buffel duck. html{color:
Max Muller: “Though Savitri is a name applied to the sun in general, it is most frequently used as the name of the rising and life-giving-and-light-giving sun. Nor must it be supposed that Savitri is simply an appellative of the solar globe. Savitri has become a divine name or a divine nomen as full of life and personality as any other Deva.” Auld Lang Syne
meliaceous ::: a. --> Pertaining to a natural order (Meliacae) of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar. html{color:
melon ::: n. --> The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo. html{color:
menial ::: n. --> Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.
A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
A person of a servile character or disposition. html{color:
mercat ::: n. --> Market; trade. html{color:
mesal ::: a. --> Same as Mesial. html{color:
mesogastrium ::: n. --> The umbilical region.
The mesogaster. html{color:
mesonotum ::: n. --> The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects. html{color:
mida ::: n. --> The larva of the bean fly. html{color:
missalled ::: with reference to the illumination of manuscripts and books of prayer; i.e. Savitri is likened to a beautifully illuminted book of prayer.
mittent ::: a. --> Sending forth; emitting. html{color:
monitrix ::: n. --> A female monitor. html{color:
monkery ::: n. --> The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
A collective body of monks. html{color:
monseigneur ::: n. --> My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.) html{color:
mrs. ::: --> The customary abbreviation of Mistress when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing. html{color:
Muse ::: “. The mystic Muse is more of an inspired Bacchante of the Dionysian wine than an orderly housewife.” Letters on Savitri
Mysteries ::: “It is ‘Mysteries’ with capital M and means ‘mystic symbolic rites’ as in the Orphic and Eleusinian ‘Mysteries’. When written with capital M it does not mean secret mysterious things, but has this sense, e.g. a ‘Mystery play’.” Letters on Savitri
mysteries ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It is ‘Mysteries" with capital M and means ‘mystic symbolic rites" as in the Orphic and Eleusinian ‘Mysteries". When written with capital M it does not mean secret mysterious things, but has this sense, e.g. a ‘Mystery play".” Letters on Savitri **Mystery, Mystery"s.**
naphthyl ::: n. --> A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene. html{color:
nazirite ::: n. --> A Nazarite. html{color:
newtonian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries. ::: n. --> A follower of Newton. html{color:
Nolini: “This world of absolute light which Savitri names ‘everlasting day’ is what the Upanishadic Rishi sees and describes as the golden lid upon the face of the Sun. The Sun is the complete integral light of the Truth in its fullness. The golden covering has be removed if one is to see the Sun itself—to live the integral life, one has to possess the integral truth.” Collected Works, Vol. 4.
nomad ::: n. --> One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game. ::: a. --> Roving; nomadic. html{color:
No-man"s-land. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "As to the two lines with ‘no man"s land" there can be no capital in the first line because there it is a description while the capital is needed in the other line, because the phrase has acquired there the force of a name or appellation. I am not sure about the hyphen; it could be put but the no hyphen might be better as it suggests that no one in particular has as yet got possession.” Letters on Savitri.
Note that all definitions are taken from the Lexicon of an Infinite Mind, published by the Savitri Foundation and available through Amazon and Create Space. Words that have gravitated in the English language and are well used, such as those from classical mythology, Dionysian, Circean, etc. are not included.
*"No, that [‘pours” instead of "poured") would take away all meaning from ‘new fair world" — it is the attempted conquest of earth by life when earth had been created — a past event though still continuing in its sequel and result.” Letters on Savitri*
“No, that [‘pours” instead of”poured’) would take away all meaning from ‘new fair world’—it is the attempted conquest of earth by life when earth had been created—a past event though still continuing in its sequel and result.” Letters on Savitri
nucha ::: n. --> The back or upper part of the neck; the nape. html{color:
nyula ::: n. --> A species of ichneumon (Herpestes nyula). Its fur is beautifully variegated by closely set zigzag markings. O () O, the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, derives its form, value, and name from the Greek O, through the Latin. The letter came into the Greek from the Ph/nician, which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian. Etymologically, the letter o is most closely related to a, e, and u; as in E. bone, AS. ban; E. stone, AS. stan; E. broke, AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. d/fe; E. html{color:
“On the surface of life all appears to be a game of Chance. There is no certainty about any movement; ups and downs, vicissitudes, cataclysms, actions, passions and thoughts crowd in medley and it is impossible to anticipate or regulate them with any definiteness. But a deeper scrutiny reveals a pattern behind all the apparent workings of Chance. What looks like Chance is itself a part of the process; it is called Chance because the particular operation does not take place within the framework of the laws erected by the limited empirical mind; there is really no Chance in the working out of the divine Intention that is this Universe.” Readings in Savitri Vol. III.
orthopinacoid ::: n. --> A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes. html{color:
otopathy ::: n. --> A diseased condition of the ear. html{color:
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too, its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
panergy ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The ‘Panergy" suggested is a self-existent total power which may carry the cosmic energies in it and is their cause but is not constituted by them.” Letters on Savitri.
Panergy ::: “The ‘Panergy’ suggested is a self-existent total power which may carry the cosmic energies in it and is their cause but is not constituted by them.” Letters on Savitri.
parrock ::: n. --> A croft, or small field; a paddock. html{color:
pexity ::: n. --> Nap of cloth. html{color:
pitmen ::: pl. --> of Pitman html{color:
plim ::: v. i. --> To swell, as grain or wood with water. html{color:
point-blank ::: n. --> The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.
With artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal. html{color:
pot-sure ::: a. --> Made confident by drink. html{color:
pounding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Pound ::: n. --> The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
A pounded or pulverized substance. html{color:
pounds ::: pl. --> of Pound
of Pound html{color:
precogitate ::: v. t. --> To cogitate beforehand. html{color:
Preface ::: This supplement to the Lexicon of an Infinite Mind, A Dictionary of Words and Terms in Savitri, is a selection of answers to our numerous questions posed to disciples and devotees of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It is a rare treasure for generations to come for it provides a profound insight into the understanding of various terms and phrases in Savitri by those who knew Sri Aurobindo and had His darshan many times and a few others with a deep knowledge of specific terms in Savitri.
Prema Nandakumar: “The title itself, at any rate to Hindu ears, is charged with untold significance. A very gem of a title, Savitri has a self-sufficing beauty of its own; trisyllabic, trinitarian, a union of light, strength and silence, three circles radiating from one centre, Love. Again, ‘Savitri’, being the other name of the holiest and hoariest of the Vedic mantras—the Gayatri—which for some thousands of years Hindus have chanted morning, noon and evening, at once starts psychic vibrations of incommensurable potency.” A Study of Savitri
prosopolepsy ::: n. --> Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance. html{color:
proved ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Prove html{color:
pseudofilaria ::: n. --> One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinae. html{color:
Purani: “Aswapathy, the father of Savitri, has been significantly called by the poet ‘the Lord of Life’. (book II, Canto XV). The name suggests an affinity to Vedic symbolism. In the Veda, Aswa, the horse, is the symbol of life-energy or vital power. Aswa + aty, Lord, would mean the ‘Lord of Life’. In the poem King Aswapathy is the symbol of the aspiring soul of man as manifested in life on earth.”Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
Purani: “He [Sri Aurobindo] does the same [improving spontaneously upon the original in the alchemy of his poetical process] with several Vedic symbols which he employs. It [gold-horned herds] indicates the descent of the ‘gold-horned’ Cows—symbolising the richly-laden Rays of Knowledge—into the Inconscient of the earth, its ‘cave-heart’. Generally in the Veda the action is that of breaking open the Cave of the inconscient and releasing the pen of Cows, the imprisoned Rays of Life for the conscious possessions by the seeker. Here is how a Vedic hymn speaks about it: ‘They drove upwards, the luminous ones,—the good milch-cows, in their stone-pen within the hiding cave.’ Rig Veda IV, 1-13. One sees in Savitri the process reversed and the Master’s vision lays open the original act of involution of the Light into the darkness of the Inconscient.” Sri Aurobindo’s”Savitri”: An Approach and a Study.
Purani: “The ‘Dwarf’ here brings to our mind the Vamana—‘The divine Dwarf’, an incarnation of Vishnu who measured the three worlds—the material, the vital and the mental—in his three steps. In the Rig Veda there is a symbolic reference to this which is enlarged as usual, in the Puranas.”“Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
Purani: “ The growth of the divine potentialities in man is spoken of in Veda as the growth of a Child. The Master takes the symbol straight and employs it thus: ‘where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn.’ The idea is that through the state of ignorance and through the state of awakening that is Dawn,—through the alterations of two—, the God-child in man attains its growth. Ignorance is not thus something anti-divine. It contributes to the growth of the Divine in man. This certainly reminds one of the hymn in the Veda which runs as follows: ‘Two are joined together, powers of truth, powers of May, they have built the child and given him birth and they nourish his growth’. (Rig Veda X, 5. 3). Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: An Approach and a Study
Purani: “The Red-Wolf is the symbol of the powers that tear the ‘being’, that suddenly fall upon it to destroy it. They are persistent, destructive, cruel, unscrupulous powers of the lower Darkness. Sri Aurobindo in his expression has made the symbol more effective, improving spontaneously upon the original in the alchemy of his poetical process by the image of ‘fordless steam’. In the original hymn there is only ‘path’. The ‘fordless stream’ brings in the needed element of danger and difficulty of the path of the aspirant when he has to cross this dangerous region.”“Savitri”—An Approach and a Study
purity ::: n. --> The condition of being pure.
freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals.
Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.
Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.
Freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper html{color:
raglan ::: n. --> A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general. html{color:
ravel ::: v. t. --> To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. html{color:
recreate ::: to make or create anew. re-create. : (Note: Recreate occurs twice in Savitri, the first time as a whole word and the second time as a hyphenated word.)
reis ::: pl. --> of Rei ::: n. --> The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.
A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship. html{color:
resiled ::: “It is a perfectly good English word, meaning originally to leap back, rebound (like an elastic)—so to draw back from, recoil, retreat (in military language it means to fall back from a position gained or to one’s original position): but it is specially used for withdrawing from a contract, agreement, previous statement.” Letters on Savitri.
resiled ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It is a perfectly good English word, meaning originally to leap back, rebound (like an elastic) — so to draw back from, recoil, retreat (in military language it means to fall back from a position gained or to one"s original position): but it is specially used for withdrawing from a contract, agreement, previous statement.” Letters on Savitri.
resist ::: But Savitri replied,”Thy gifts resist.
reviewal ::: n. --> A review. html{color:
rhotacism ::: n. --> An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were. html{color:
ropalic ::: a. --> See Rhopalic. html{color:
rosemary ::: n. --> A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. html{color:
rugulose ::: a. --> Somewhat rugose. html{color:
rupellary ::: n. --> Rocky. html{color:
Satyavan, as Sri Aurobindo writes,”…is the soul carrying the truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance;”. Descended into the grip of death and ignorance, the divine realized soul, does not become ignorance but descends into death and then is saved by Savitri, the Divine Mother. After leaving his body”this house of clay” and wandering”in far-off eternities”, all the while a captive in Savitri’s “golden hands” he returns and replies to his father,
“Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; …” (From a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple. Included as a Note at the preface to Savitri.)
Satyavan ::: “Son of King Dyumatsena; the tale of Satyavan and Savitri is told in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works
satyavan ::: "Son of King Dyumatsena; the tale of Satyavan and Savitri is told in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Savitr (Savitri) ::: the Creator or Manifester; the creative Sun. Savita [nominative]
savitri ::: "In the Mahabharata, the heroine of the tale of Satyavan and Savitri; . . . . She was the daughter of King Ashwapati, and lover of Satyavan, whom she married although she was warned by Narada that he had only one year to live. On the fatal day, when Yama carried off Satyavan"s spirit, she followed him with unswerving devotion. Ultimately Yama was constrained to restore her husband to life.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
Sri Aurobindo: "Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; . . . .” (Author"s note at beginning of Savitri.)
"Savitri is represented in the poem as an incarnation of the Divine Mother . . . .” Letters on Savitri
The Mother: "Savitri [the poem] is a mantra for the transformation of the world.” Spoken to Udar
savitri. ::: name for the sun &
schedule ::: n. --> A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc. ::: v. t. --> To form into, or place in, a schedule. html{color:
schooling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of School ::: n. --> Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. html{color:
schrode ::: n. --> See Scrod. html{color:
sham ::: n. --> That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
A false front, or removable ornamental covering. ::: a. --> False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham html{color:
sheaths ::: Madhav: “The physical is not the only body encasing the soul. Ensouling it, as it were, and subtler than it, is the vital body; finer than the vital is the mental body; still finer is the causal body and the finest of them all is the body of bliss. All these bodies, each subtler than the other, are termed sheaths in view of their functions as so many coverings of the being at the core.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
sheeny ::: a. --> Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. html{color:
short-dated ::: a. --> Having little time to run from the date. html{color:
snail ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail. html{color:
soil ::: “I think you said in a letter that in the line light falling upon the lower levels of the earth, not on the soul. No doubt, the whole thing is symbolic, but the symbol has to be kept in the front and the thing symbolised has to be concealed or only peep out from behind, it cannot come openly into the front and push aside the symbol.” Letters on Savitri—1946
‘soil" was an error for ‘soul". But ‘soil" is correct; for I am describing the revealing light falling upon the lower levels of the earth, not on the soul. No doubt, the whole thing is symbolic, but the symbol has to be kept in the front and the thing symbolised has to be concealed or only peep out from behind, it cannot come openly into the front and push aside the symbol.” Letters on Savitri — 1946
spicy ::: superl. --> Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
Producing, or abounding with, spices.
Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate. html{color:
Sri Aurobindo, Avatar and Poet Supreme, has enriched Savitri, his magnum opus, with words from a number of languages. In fact he has also coined words when no word would suffice to convey the mantric power and meaning required.
Sri Aurobindo: “Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; …” (Author’s note at beginning of Savitri.)
Sri Aurobindo: "By aesthesis is meant a reaction of the consciousness, mental and vital and even bodily, which receives a certain element in things, something that can be called their taste, Rasa, which, passing through the mind or sense or both, awakes a vital enjoyment of the taste, Bhoga, and this can again awaken us, awaken even the soul in us to something yet deeper and more fundamental than mere pleasure and enjoyment, to some form of the spirit"s delight of existence, Ananda.” *Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "I have accented on the first syllable as I have done often with words like ‘occult", ‘divine". It is a Russian word and foreign words in English tend often to get their original accent shifted as far backward as possible. I have heard many do that with ‘ukase". Letters on Savitri.
Sri Aurobindo: "[‘Its passive flower of love and doom it gave."] Good Heavens! how did Gandhi come in there? Passion-flower, sir — passion, not passive.” Letters on Savitri [in reference to a typographical error]
Sri Aurobindo: “[‘Its passive flower of love and doom it gave.’] Good Heavens! how did Gandhi come in there? Passion-flower, sir—passion, not passive.” Letters on Savitri [in reference to a typographical error]
Sri Aurobindo: " Love? It is not Love who meets the burdened great and governs the fate of men! Nor is it Pain. Time also does not do these things — it only provides the field and movement of events. If I had wanted to give a name, I would have done it, but it has purposely to be left nameless because it is indefinable. He may use Love or Pain or Time or any of these powers but is not any of them. You can call him the Master of the Evolution, if you like. Letters of Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: “ Love? It is not Love who meets the burdened great and governs the fate of men! Nor is it Pain. Time also does not do these things—it only provides the field and movement of events. If I had wanted to give a name, I would have done it, but it has purposely to be left nameless because it is indefinable. He may use Love or Pain or Time or any of these powers but is not any of them. You can call him the Master of the Evolution, if you like. Letters of Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: “Not likely! I would think of the French eternuer and sneeze.”“Letters on Savitri”
Sri Aurobindo ref: the above line from Savitri:
Sri Aurobindo: "Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; . . .” (Author"s note at the preface to Savitri.)
Sri Aurobindo: “Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; …” (Note at the preface to Savitri.)
Sri Aurobindo: "That (‘to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies"] might be all right for mental poetry — it won"t do for what I am trying to create — in that, one word won"t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. ‘Gleam" and ‘glow" are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.” Letters on Savitri *
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Mask is mentioned not twice but four times in this opening passage and it is purposely done to keep up the central connection of the idea running through the whole. The ambassadors wear this grey Mask, so your criticism cannot stand since there is no separate mask coming as part of a new idea but a very pointed return to the principal note indicating the identity of the influence throughout. It is not a random recurrence but a purposeful touch carrying a psychological meaning.” — 1948 Letters on Savitri*
Sri Aurobindo: ". The mystic Muse is more of an inspired Bacchante of the Dionysian wine than an orderly housewife.” Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "What the "void" feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if" that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if"s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows. . . .” Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Yes: the purpose is to create a large luminous trailing repetitive movement like the flight of the Bird with its dragon tail of white fire.” *Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: “Yes: the purpose is to create a large luminous trailing repetitive movement like the flight of the Bird with its dragon tail of white fire.” Letters on Savitri
Sri Aurobindo: "Your ‘barely enough", instead of the finer and more suggestive ‘hardly", falls flat upon my ear; one cannot substitute one word for another in this kind of poetry merely because it means intellectually the same thing; ‘hardly" is the mot juste in this context and, repetition or not, it must remain unless a word not only juste but inevitable comes to replace it… . On this point I may add that in certain contexts ‘barely" would be the right word, as for instance, ‘There is barely enough food left for two or three meals", where ‘hardly" would be adequate but much less forceful. It is the other way about in this line. Letters on Savitri
stum ::: n. --> Unfermented grape juice or wine, often used to raise fermentation in dead or vapid wines; must.
Wine revived by new fermentation, reulting from the admixture of must. ::: v. t. --> To renew, as wine, by mixing must with it and raising a html{color:
Surya Savitr (Surya Savitri) ::: the Creator, the Light which is father of all things. [cf. Surya; Savitr]
tablecloth ::: n. --> A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals. html{color:
tabler ::: n. --> One who boards.
One who boards others for hire. html{color:
tartary ::: n. --> Tartarus. html{color:
Tehmi: “Savitri as a child.”
Tehmi: “Savitri’s body.”
Tehmi: “Savitri.”
Tehmi: “The divine Event is apparently the Dawn but it is the coming of Savitri also.”
Tehmi: “The Sun-word is Savitri.”
tennu ::: n. --> The tapir. html{color:
tenting ::: something resembling such a portable shelter in construction or outline. (Said of Savitri"s eyelids.)
“That (‘to blend and blur shades owing to technical exigencies’] might be all right for mental poetry—it won’t do for what I am trying to create—in that, one word won’t do for the other. Even in mental poetry I consider it an inferior method. ‘Gleam’ and ‘glow’ are two quite different things and the poet who uses them indifferently has constantly got his eye upon words rather than upon the object.” Letters on Savitri
“The epithet ‘wide-winged’ then does not belong to the wind and is not transferred from it, but is proper to the voice of the wind which takes the form of a conscious hymn of aspiration and rises ascending from the bosom of the great priest, as might a great-winged bird released into the sky and sinks and rises again, aspires and fails and aspires again on the ‘altar hills’. Letters on Savitri
The eternal bridegroom of the eternal bride.” Savitri, 10. 4. Satyavan’s.
The eternal bridegroom of the eternal bride.” Savitri, 10. 4.
"The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” Letters on Savitri
The Lexicon has been published by the Savitri Foundation and is available worldwide. I believe that this companion volume is a fitting addition at its side.
The Mother: “Savitri [the poem] is a mantra for the transformation of the world.” Spoken to Udar. Savitri’s.
The Mother: “Savitri [the poem] is a mantra for the transformation of the world.” Spoken to Udar
"The mystic feels real and present, even ever present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations.” Letters on Savitri
“The mystic feels real and present, even ever present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations.” Letters on Savitri
“The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehood and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” Letters on Savitri
“The question was: ‘In the mystical region, is the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with ‘gold-white wings’ or your Hippogriff with ‘face lustred, pale-blue-lined’? And why do you write: ‘What to say about him? One can only see’?” Letters on Savitri
"The reality of the Hostiles and the nature of their role and trend of their endeavour cannot be doubted by any one who has had his inner vision unsealed and made their unpleasant acquaintance.” Letters on Savitri
“The reality of the Hostiles and the nature of their role and trend of their endeavour cannot be doubted by any one who has had his inner vision unsealed and made their unpleasant acquaintance.” Letters on Savitri
"They” means nobody in particular but corresponds to the French "On dit” meaning vaguely "people in general”. This is a use permissible in English; for instance, "They say you are not so scrupulous as you should be.” Letters on Savitri— 1948
“They” means nobody in particular but corresponds to the French”On dit” meaning vaguely”people in general”. This is a use permissible in English; for instance,”They say you are not so scrupulous as you should be.” Letters on Savitri—1948
The Zero is not a negative Void. It exceeds the farthest conception of the mind and strikes it as a blank though it is full in a way that is beyond human comprehension.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.
"This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty. ” Letters on Savitri*
“This universal aesthesis of beauty and delight does not ignore or fail to understand the differences and oppositions, the gradations, the harmony and disharmony obvious to the ordinary consciousness; but, first of all, it draws a Rasa from them and with that comes the enjoyment, Bhoga. and the touch or the mass of the Ananda. It sees that all things have their meaning, their value, their deeper or total significance which the mind does not see, for the mind is only concerned with a surface vision, surface contacts and its own surface reactions. When something expresses perfectly what it was meant to express, the completeness brings with it a sense of harmony, a sense of artistic perfection; it gives even to what is discordant a place in a system of cosmic concordances and the discords become part of a vast harmony, and wherever there is harmony, there is a sense of beauty.” Letters on Savitri
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"To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote "His anger climbed against me in a stream", it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
“To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and I can feel it everywhere enveloping and penetrating the stone as much as man or the animal. A movement, a flow of consciousness is not to me an image but a fact. If I wrote ’His anger climbed against me in a stream’, it would be to the general reader a mere image, not something that was felt by me in a sensible experience; yet I would only be describing in exact terms what actually happened once, a stream of anger, a sensible and violent current of it rising up from downstairs and rushing upon me as I sat in the veranda of the Guest-House, the truth of it being confirmed afterwards by the confession of the person who had the movement. This is only one instance, but all that is spiritual or psychological in Savitri is of that character. What is to be done under these circumstances? The mystical poet can only describe what he has felt, seen in himself or others or in the world just as he has felt or seen it or experienced through exact vision, close contact or identity and leave it to the general reader to understand or not understand or misunderstand according to his capacity. A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.” Letters on Savitri
"To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event.” Letters on Savitri*
“To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event.” Letters on Savitri
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“‘Uncertainty’ would mean that the thought was confident but uncertain of itself, which would be a contradiction. ‘Incertitude’ means that its truth is uncertain in spite of its proud confidence in itself.” Letters on Savitri—1936
ūrya Savitr. (Surya Savitri) ::: Sūrya2 as the Creator, "the Wisdom-..Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence".
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“What the ’void’ feels as a clutch is felt by the Mother only as a reminding finger laid on her cheek. It is one advantage of the expression ‘as if’ that it leaves the field open for such variation. It is intended to suggest without saying it that behind the sombre void is the face of a mother. The two other ‘as if’s have the same motive and I do not find them jarring upon me. The second is at a sufficient distance from the first and it is not obtrusive enough to prejudice the third which more nearly follows….” Letters on Savitri
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when ::: adv. --> At what time; -- used interrogatively.
At what time; at, during, or after the time that; at or just after, the moment that; -- used relatively.
While; whereas; although; -- used in the manner of a conjunction to introduce a dependent adverbial sentence or clause, having a causal, conditional, or adversative relation to the principal proposition; as, he chose to turn highwayman when he might have continued an honest man; he removed the tree when it was the best in html{color:
whence ::: adv. --> From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively.
From what or which place, source, material, cause, etc.; the place, source, etc., from which; -- used relatively. html{color:
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To box (one) on the ear; to strike or box. (the ear); as, to wherret a child. html{color:
wide-winged ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The epithet ‘wide-winged" then does not belong to the wind and is not transferred from it, but is proper to the voice of the wind which takes the form of a conscious hymn of aspiration and rises ascending from the bosom of the great priest, as might a great-winged bird released into the sky and sinks and rises again, aspires and fails and aspires again on the ‘altar hills". Letters on Savitri
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Your statement that ‘joy’ is just another word for ‘ecstasy’ is surprising. ‘Comfort’, ‘pleasure’, ‘joy’, ‘bliss’, ‘rapture’, ‘ecstasy’ would then be all equal and exactly synonymous terms and all distinction of shades and colours of words would disappear from literature. As well say that ‘flashlight’ is just another word for ‘lightning’—or that glow, gleam, glitter, sheen, blaze are all equivalents which can be employed indifferently in the same place. One can feel allured to the supreme omniscient Ecstasy and feel a nameless joy touching one without that Joy becoming itself the supreme Ecstasy. I see no loss of expressiveness by the joy coming in as a vague nameless hint of the immeasurable superior Ecstasy.” Letters on Savitri
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1:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, #KEYS
2:Savitri is a mantra for the transformation of the world.
~ The Mother, (to Udar Pinto),#KEYS
3:No eyes demanded her replying eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2, #KEYS
4:Detect the magic bride in her disguise ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:3 #KEYS
5:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. ~ The Mother, [T5], #KEYS
6:The dreaming deities look beyond the seen
And fashion in their thoughts the ideal worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
7:And builds to hope her altars of despair, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:3, #KEYS
8:Her depths remember what she came to do, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02:06 #KEYS
9:A godhead sculptured on a wall of thought, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:3, #KEYS
10:Her greatest progress is a deepened need. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, [T5], #KEYS
11:Many high gods dwelt in one beautiful home; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:1, #KEYS
12:Its shadows gleaming with the birth of gods, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:5, #KEYS
13:My child, every day you are going to read Savitri
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, [T0],#KEYS
14:Missing its aim is all that it can speak ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:4, 360, #KEYS
15:Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
16:Savitri
the supreme revelation
of Sri Aurobindo's
vision.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
17:Life ran to gaze from every gate of sense: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan, #KEYS
18:A Godhead stands behind the brute machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, #KEYS
19:A look, a turn decides our ill-poised fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan, #KEYS
20:The godhead greater by a human fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
21:A fathomless zero occupied the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
22:Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
23:He laid experience at the Godhead's feet;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
24:Only a little the god-light can stay: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
25:Our sympathies become our torturers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
26:Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, #KEYS
27:Man lifted up the burden of his fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
28:Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is a vast ocean and one may, upon reflection, go in pursuit of the choicest of pearls. ~ Daniel Albuquerque, #KEYS
29:To know is best, however hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
30:A still identity their way to know, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
31:Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
32:The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
33:Yet when he is most near, she feels him far. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, [T5], #KEYS
34:A formless spirit became the soul of form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul, #KEYS
35:A gate of dreams ajar on mystery's verge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
36:Must fire always test the great of soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
37:Even fall has its perverted joy ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
38:Never out of evil one plucked good: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #KEYS
39:On the bare peak where Self is alone with Nought ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, #KEYS
40:Space is himself and Time is only he. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
41:The gods make use of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
42:A dire duality is our way to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
43:All the world's possibilities in man
Are waiting as the tree waits in its seed: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
44:Only in human limits man lives safe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void, #KEYS
45:Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
46:Swift and easy is the downward path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #KEYS
47:All can be done if the god-touch is there
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
48:Desire, the troubled seed of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
49:He sees within the face of deity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5], #KEYS
50:Our life is a paradox with God for key. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
51:Out of the darkness we still grow to light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
52:All, even pain, was the soul's pleasure here; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair, #KEYS
53:And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
54:Hard is it to persuade earth-nature's change; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #KEYS
55:A dual Nature covered the Unique. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
56:Imagination the free-will of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
57:Mind flowed unknowing in the sap of life ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair, [T5], #KEYS
58:The laws of the Unknown create the known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
59:The palace woke to its own emptiness;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
60:A deep surrender is their source of might, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
61:He moves there as the Soul, as Nature she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
62:Out of the unknown we move to the unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
63:The Bliss that is creation's splendid grain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind, #KEYS
64:A faith she craves that can survive defeat, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
65:A god come down and greater by the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
66:Always the Ideal beckoned from afar.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
67:The Enigma's knot is tied in human kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
68:The speech that labels more than it lights; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
69:Almighty powers are shut in Nature's cells. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
70:A struggling ignorance is his wisdom's mate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
71:At play with him as with her child or slave, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
72:Eternity speaks, none understands its word; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
73:Her acts became gestures of sacrifice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
74:Immortality assured itself by death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
75:Night a process of the eternal light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
76:Speak not my secret name to hostile Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
77:The body is the chrysalis of a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
78:A casual passing phrase can change our life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
79:A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
80:A prey to the staring phantoms of the gloom ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #KEYS
81:The child of the Void shall be reborn in God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri, #KEYS
82:The Wise who know see but one half of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
83:To copy on earth's copies is his art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
84:A saviour gesture stretched her lifted arm, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
85:Assent to thy high self, create, endure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
86:A subtle link of union joins all life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
87:Infinity wore a boundless zero's form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
88:Our outward happenings have their seed within, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
89:Solitude wrapped him in its voiceless folds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #KEYS
90:He has need of death to find a greater life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
91:Once kindled, never can its flamings cease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal, #KEYS
92:The Eternal's quiet holds the cosmic act: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
93:But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair, [T5],#KEYS
94:By its breath of grace our lives abide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
95:..His mind was like a fire assailing heaven,
His will a hunter in the trails of light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
96:His thought labours, a bullock in Time's fields; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
97:I am stronger than death and greater than my fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
98:In Death's realm repatriate immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
99:Our life is a paradox with God for key.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5],#KEYS
100:Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #KEYS
101:A thousand aspects point back to the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
102:But thou hast come and all will surely change:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
103:Convincing the abyss by heavenly form
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
104:Man is too weak to bear the Infinite's weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
105:One man's perfection still can save the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul, #KEYS
106:Only the Eternal's strength in us can dare
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
107:The moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
108:Time's sun-flowers' gaze at gold Eternity:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
109:All our existence is a constant creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser, #KEYS
110:And leaves its huge white stamp upon our lives.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
111:An immutable Power has made this mutable world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
112:Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, [T5],#KEYS
113:Ignorance was a thin shade protecting light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
114:There is a zero sign of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
115:The zero covers an immortal face.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
116:All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
117:And drinks experience like a strengthening wine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
118:By Light we live and to the Light we go. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
119:God's long nights are justified by dawn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
120:Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent of Night, [T5], #KEYS
121:Pain grew a trembling undertone of bliss ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
122:This world is God fulfilled in outwardness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
123:He has need of darkness to perceive some light
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
124:What it knew was an image in a broken glass,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind, [T5],#KEYS
125:A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
126:The earth you tread is a border screened from heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #KEYS
127:The One by whom all live, who lives by none, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #KEYS
128:There is no last certitude in which thought can pause ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
129:Truth is bare like stone and hard like death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
130:An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5],#KEYS
131:Dreams that are hints of unborn Reality, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
132:Here to fulfil himself was God's desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
133:Its signs stare at us like an unknown script,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5],#KEYS
134:Plastic and passive to the all-shaping Fire
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
135:That Godhead's seed might flower in mindless Space.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
136:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
137:A vast surrender was his only strength
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
138:Delight, God's sweetest sign and Beauty's twin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
139:Here was a quiet country of fixed mind
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
140:Himself was to himself his only scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge, #KEYS
141:Man, human, follows in God's human steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
142:There none was weak, so falsehood could not live; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
143:To feed death with her works is here life's doom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
144:Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #KEYS
145:Whatever our hearts conceive, our heads create, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #KEYS
146:An awful Silence watches tragic Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
147:Immortal bliss lives not in human air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
148:Truth is followed as the path to the divine beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #KEYS
149:Alone she is equal to her mighty task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
150:Joy that throbs behind
The marvel and the mystery of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
151:Open God's door, enter into his trance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
152:Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #KEYS
153:The ideal never yet was real made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
154:The Inconscient is the Superconscient's sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #KEYS
155:The soul is a figure of the Unmanifest, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
156:They also are triple, tisraḥ pṛthivīḥ, the three earths. And of all these worlds Surya Savitri is the creator.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda,#KEYS
157:Aspiring he transcends his earthly self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
158:Calm is self's victory overcoming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
159:Escape, however high, redeems not life, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
160:Eternal truth lives not with mortal men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
161:Mountains and trees stood there like thoughts from God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
162:The dim subconscient is his cavern base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
163:All is an episode in a meaningless tale. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
164:In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
165:She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
166:Thou art thyself the author of thy pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
167:With pain and labour all creation comes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
168:A whole mysterious world is locked within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
169:Each soul is the great Father's crucified Son, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries, #KEYS
170:For each his difficult goal
Hewn out of infinite possibility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
171:The evening sky,
God's canopy of blue sheltering our lives ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
172:The mind labours to think the Unthinkable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
173:The soul suffering is not eternity's key, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
174:The sunlight was a great god's golden smile. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #KEYS
175:Without reason life is a tangle of dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
176:An idiot hour destroys what centuries made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
177:Error is the comrade of our mortal thought ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
178:Falsehood lurks in the deep bosom of truth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
179:Like one who wakes to find his dreams were true
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
180:Men die that man may live and God be born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
181:The body of God,
The link of the finite with the Infinite, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
182:The Formless and the Formed were joined in her: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
183:Time was Eternity's transparent robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
184:What seemed the source and end was a wide gate, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
185:All here can change if the Magician choose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
186:Always a nameless goal beckons beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
187:A vast subliminal is man's measureless part. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
188:In silence seek God's meaning in thy depths, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
189:In the Alone there is no room for love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
190:My mind is a torch lit from the eternal sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
191:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
192:The Two who are one are the secret of all power,
The Two who are one are the might and right in things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
193:The Word that ushers divine experience ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
194:The world is not cut off from Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
195:Above her brows where will and knowledge meet ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
196:All is their play:
This whole wide world is only he and she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
197:All time is one body, Space a single look.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
198:Heaven's joys might have been earth's if earth were pure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
199:Only a slow advance the earth can bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
200:Our dead selves come to slay our living soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
201:The sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
202:This darkness hides our nobler destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
203:Worlds were many, but the Self was one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
204:All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, [T5],#KEYS
205:A vast disguise conceals the Eternal's bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
206:This world is in love with its own ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
207:This world of fragile forms
Carried on canvas-strips of shimmering Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
208:Wrong could not come where all was light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
209:All that denies must be torn out and slain
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],#KEYS
210:An eternal instant is the cause of the years. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5], #KEYS
211:Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #KEYS
212:His soul was freed and given to her alone.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],#KEYS
213:In finite things the conscious Infinite dwells: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
214:Oneness is the soul of multitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
215:Our error crucifies Reality ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05 #KEYS
216:She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame, [T5],#KEYS
217:The great are strongest when they stand alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
218:There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
219:The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
220:Time's accidents are steps in its vast scheme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
221:Truth made the world, not a blind Nature-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #KEYS
222:A fiery portion of the Wonderful,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
223:Hidden in the mortal's heart the Eternal lives: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
224:His love has paved the mortal's road to Heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
225:She throws a glittering robe on Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
226:The poison of the world has stained his throat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
227:The senses there were outlets of the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #KEYS
228:Darkness grew nurse to wisdom's occult sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
229:Heaven's wiser love rejects the mortal's prayer; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
230:There is a meaning in each play of Chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
231:This too must now be overpassed and left
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
232:He has trod with bleeding brow the Saviour's way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
233:I'm re-reading Savitri.
Lucky man! I would love to read it again. And the more you read, the more marvellous it becomes.
~ The Mother,#KEYS
234:Love dwells in us like an unopened flower
Awaiting a rapid moment of the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
235:Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
236:He journeys sleepless through an unending night;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
237:The All-Wonderful has packed heaven with his dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, 10.03, #KEYS
238:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #KEYS
239:We live self-exiled from our heavenlier home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
240:Adventurers, we have colonised Matter's night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
241:Tied up the spirit to golden posts of bliss.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
242:A beam of the Eternal smites his heart,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
243:A deeper interpretation greatened Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
244:Such is Savitri' s mission. This mission has two sessions or periods. The first, that of preparation; the second, that of fulfilment. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, 6, #KEYS
245:A city of ancient Ignorance
Founded upon a soil that knew not Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
246:Beauty is a sweet difference of the Same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
247:Even now great thoughts are here that walk alone: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #KEYS
248:I believe that it is his message; all the rest are the preparations, but Savitri is the message.
~ The Mother, In 1963 to Satprem, (MA 1963:86),#KEYS
249:Our greater truth of being lies behind: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
250:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
251:Truth shines far from the falsehoods of the world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
252:Always we bear in us a magic key
Concealed in life's hermetic envelope. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
253:Love is a yearning of the One for the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
254:Ominous beings passed him on the road
Whose very gaze was a calamity: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
255:A knowledge which became what it perceived. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
256:A once living story has prepared and made
Our present fate, child of past energies. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
257:A soul made ready through a thousand years
Is the living mould of a supreme Descent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
258:Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
259:In him soul and Nature, equal Presences,
Balance and fuse in a wide harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
260:Its builder is thought, its base the heart's desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #KEYS
261:A magic leverage suddenly is caught
That moves the veiled Ineffable's timeless will: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
262:And plundered the Unknowable's vast estate.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
263:Even the body shall remember God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
264:His days were a long growth to the Supreme.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
265:Pain with its lash, joy with its silver bribe
Guard the Wheel's circling immobility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
266:The birds crying for heart's happiness,
Winged poets of our solitary reign ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
267:There is a darkness in terrestrial things
That will not suffer long too glad a note. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
268:A jingling silver laugh of anklet bells
Travelled the roads of a solitary heart; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
269:A sun of wisdom in a miracled grove. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
270:A thinking entity appeared in Space.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
271:A wide God-knowledge poured down from above,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
272:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
273:God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
274:He is the explorer and the mariner
On a secret inner ocean without bourne. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
275:His is a search of darkness for the light,
Of mortal life for immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
276:The Power that acts in us is not our force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
277:Too heavy falls a Shadow on man's heart;
It dares not be too happy upon earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
278:When least defaced, then is it most divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
279:A contradiction founds the base of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04 #KEYS
280:A thinking puppet is the mind of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
281:Hopes that soon fade to drab realities ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
282:In every heart is hidden the myriad One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #KEYS
283:Nothing we think or do is void or vain;
Each is an energy loosed and holds its course. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
284:O Word, cry out the immortal litany:
Built is the golden tower, the flame-child is born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 11:1,#KEYS
285:The war of thoughts that fathers the universe, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
286:As if in a struggle of the Void to be.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
287:The high meets the low, all is a single plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
288:There knowledge needs not words to embody Idea; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
289:This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
290:When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, [T5],#KEYS
291:A single word lets loose vast agencies;
A casual act determines the world's fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
292:Colour was a visible tone of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
293:Each part in us desires its absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
294:Instinct was hers, the chrysalis of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04 #KEYS
295:Man was moulded from the original brute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
296:Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
297:Our souls deputed selves of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
298:Rare is the cup fit for love's nectar wine,
As rare the vessel that can hold God's birth; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
299:She made earth her home, for whom heaven was too small. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
300:There is a Power within that knows beyond
Our knowings; we are greater than our thoughts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
301:The white spiritual touch,
The calm that broods in the deep Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
302:Whoever is too great must lonely live.
Adored he walks in mighty solitude; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
303:A prayer, a master act, a king idea
Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, [T5],#KEYS
304:Banish all thought from thee and be God's void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
305:Illusion (World)
A great Illusion then has built the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
306:Love dies before the lover in our breast:
Our joys are perfumes in a brittle vase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
307:The moon gliding amazed through heaven
In the uncertain wideness of the night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
308:Too often here the careless Mother leaves
Her chosen in the envious hands of Fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
309:A mighty shuddering coil of ecstasy
Crept through the deep heart of the universe.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
310:Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
Illumined continents of violet peace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
311:Every stumble is a needed pace
On unknown routes to an unknowable goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
312:Every symbol was a reality
And brought the presence which had given it life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
313:Form was a tenuous raiment of the soul: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
314:From a veiled God-joy the worlds were made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
315:Imperfect is the joy not shared by all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
316:Our minds are starters in the race to God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
317:The calm delight that weds one soul to all,
The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
318:The wide-winged hymn of a great priestly wind
Arose and failed upon the altar hills; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
319:A point she had reached where life must be in vain
Or, in her unborn element awake,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, [T5],#KEYS
320:Is measured by the throbs of the soul's pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #KEYS
321:The Bliss whose rapture dreamed the worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
322:The original Desire born in the Void
Peered out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
323:This cosmic Nature's balance is not ours
Nor the mystic measure of her need and use. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
324:And channel to earth-mind the wizard ray
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
325:And the Name, foundation of eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
326:I have beheld the princes of the Sun
Burning in thousand-pillared homes of light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
327:Knowledge gropes, but meets not Wisdom's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04 #KEYS
328:The soul in man is greater than his fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
329:The universe is an endless masquerade:
For nothing here is utterly what it seems; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
330:Whether it seem good or evil to men's eyes,
Only for good the secret Will can work.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
331:Above the world the world-creators stand,
In the phenomenon see its mystic source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
332:An opulent beauty of passionate difference
The recurring beat that moments God in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
333:A serpent Power twinned the insensible Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
334:Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
335:Form cannot unveil the indwelling Power;
Only it throws its symbols at our hearts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
336:Heart feels for heart, limb cries for answering limb;
All strives to enforce the unity all is. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
337:Here chaos sorts itself into a world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
338:His little hour is spent in little things.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
339:Impose not on the mortal's tremulous breast
The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
340:Man's virtue, a coarse-spun ill-fitting dress,
Apparels wooden images of Good; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
341:The truth above shall wake a nether truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
342:All we have done is ever still to do.
All breaks and all renews and is the same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
343:A lying reality is falsehood's crown
And a perverted truth her richest gem. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
344:Earth's pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release, #KEYS
345:Here dreadfully entangled love and hate
Meet us blind wanderers mid the perils of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
346:Make the abysm a road for Heaven's descent,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
347:My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, [T5],#KEYS
348:Nothing happens in the cosmic play
But at its time and in its foreseen place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#KEYS
349:Our souls are moved by powers behind the wall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
350:The limbs were trembling densities of soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
351:The trudge of Time changed to a splendid march;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, [T5],#KEYS
352:A cricket's rash and fiery single note,
It marked with shrill melody night's moonless hush ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
353:An evil environment worsened evil souls: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
354:His knowledge dwells in the house of Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
355:In a world of beings and momentary events
Where all must die to live and live to die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
356:Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.
For not for ourselves alone our spirits came ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
357:Love in her was wider than the universe,
The whole world could take refuge in her single heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
358:Our blind or erring government of life;
A loose republic once of wants and needs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
359:
Each day was a spiritual romance,
As if he was born into a bright new world;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
360:Scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
361:The Dragon of the dark foundations keeps
Unalterable the law of Chance and Death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
362:Took the mind captive in its own net;
His rigorous logic made the false seem true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
363:A great Negation was the Real's face
Prohibiting the vain process of Time: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
364:Art's brilliant gleam is a pastime for his eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
365:A secret Will compels us to endure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
366:Division ceased to be, for God was there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
367:For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others' souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
368:Immensity was exceeded by a look,
A Face revealed the crowded Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
369:In each success a seed of failure lurks. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
370:In spite of death and evil circumstance
A will to live persists, a joy to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
371:Our hidden centres of celestial force
Open like flowers to a heavenly atmosphere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
372:Our mind perhaps deceives us with its words
And gives the name of doom to our own choice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
373:Pass slowly through that perilous space,
A prayer upon his lips and the great Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
374:The violent and hungry hounds of pain
Travelled through his body biting as they passed ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Death in the Forest,#KEYS
375:What help is in prevision to the driven?
Safe doors cry opening near, the doomed pass on. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
376:All here is a mystery of contraries:
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
377:All light is but a flash from his closed eyes: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
378:All she can do is marvellous in his sight:
He revels in her, a swimmer in her sea,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
379:A thrill that smites the nerves is music's spell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
380:Earth's grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears
Rejected the undying rapture's boon: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
381:Heaven ever young and earth too firm and old
Delay the heart by immobility: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
382:He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:
He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
383:He puts on joy and sorrow like a robe
And drinks experience like a strengthening wine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
384:Obey thy nature and fulfil thy fate:
Accept the difficulty and godlike toil
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, [T5],#KEYS
385:One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:
Our errors are his steps upon the way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
386:Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
387:Then with a magic transformation's speed
They rushed into each other and grew one
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
388:This is sure that he and she are one;
Even when he sleeps, he keeps her on his breast: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
389:Thought was not there but a knowledge near and one
Seized on all things by a moved identity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
390:A figure in the ineffable Witness' shrine
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
391:A timeless mystery works out in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
392:Beauty and happiness are her native right,
And endless Bliss is her eternal home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
393:Climbed back from Time into undying Self,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
394:Eternity drew close disguised as Love
And laid its hand upon the body of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
395:Even Good she makes a hook to drag to Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
396:Here in a difficult half-finished world
Is a slow toiling of unconscious Powers ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
397:Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs
On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
398:In the country of the lotus of the head
Which thinking mind has made its busy space, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
399:It entered the mystic lotus in her head,
A thousand-petalled home of power and light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#KEYS
400:Man, sole awake in an unconscious world,
Aspires in vain to change the cosmic dream. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
401:Not for a changeless littleness were you meant,
Not for vain repetition were you built ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
402:Our human ignorance moves towards the Truth
That Nescience may become omniscient, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
403:Our thoughts;
Where a free Wisdom works, they seek for a rule. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
404:Poems in largeness cast like moving worlds
And metres surging with the ocean's voice ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
405:The Immobile's ocean-silence saw him pass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
406:Climbing from Nature's deep surrendered heart
It blooms for ever at the feet of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
407:Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
408:nothing is truly vain the One has made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
409:Shuddered in silence as obscurely stir
Ocean's dim fields delivered to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
410:There was no second, it had no partner or peer;
Only itself was real to itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#KEYS
411:The separate self must melt or be reborn
Into a Truth beyond the mind's appeal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#KEYS
412:The white passion of God-ecstasy
That laughs in the blaze of the boundless heart of Love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
413:All things are wrapped in the dynamic One:
A subtle link of union joins all life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
414:A rose of splendour on a tree of dreams,
The face of Dawn out of mooned twilight grew. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
415:A vast Unknown is round us and within;
All things are wrapped in the dynamic One: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
416:Even wisdom, hewer of the roads of God,
Is a partner in the deep disastrous game: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
417:Krishna and Radha for ever entwined in bliss,
The Adorer and Adored self-lost and one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
418:Nature's vision climbs beyond her acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
419:Our mind is a house haunted by the slain past,
Ideas soon mummified, ghosts of old truths, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
420:The outward and the immediate are our field,
The dead past is our background and support; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
421:As if in a rock-temple's solitude hid,
God's refuge from an ignorant worshipping world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
422:Doves crowded the grey musing cornices
Like sculptured postures of white-bosomed peace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
423:Heaven's call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
424:In a flaming moment of apocalypse
The Incarnation thrust aside its veil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
425:The malady of mind,
Its pang of thought, its quest for the aim of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
426:Above blind fate and the antagonist powers
Moveless there stands a high unchanging Will; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
427:And crying for a direction in the void
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
428:An imperfection dogs our highest strength;
Portions and pale reflections are our share. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
429:He has need of darkness to perceive some light
And need of grief to feel a little bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
430:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
431:All on one plan was shaped and standardised
Under a dark dictatorship's breathless weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
432:A silence in the noise of earthly things
Immutably revealed the secret Word, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
433:As the height draws the low ever to climb,
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
434:A Word is spoken or a Light is shown,
A moment sees, the ages toil to express. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
435:Each in himself is sole by Nature's law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
436:Grief dies soon in the tired human heart;
Soon other guests the empty chambers fill. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
437:In Nature's endless lines is lost the God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
438:Our death is made a passage to new worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
439:The conscious Force that acts in Nature's breast,
A dark-robed labourer in the cosmic scheme ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
440:The high gods look on man and watch and choose
Today's impossibles for the future's base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
441:Authors of earth's high change, to you it is given
To cross the dangerous spaces of the soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
442:Our hearts clutch at a forfeited heavenly bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
443:The reason meant for nearness to the gods
And uplift to heavenly scale by the touch of mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
444:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
445:And yet she cannot choose but labours on;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
446:But like a shining answer from the gods
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, [T5],#KEYS
447:But once the hidden doors are flung apart
Then the veiled king steps out in Nature's front; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
448:Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
449:For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;
The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
450:Life's contraries were lovers or natural friends
And her extremes keen edges of harmony: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
451:Reason is poised above a dim abyss
And stands at last upon a plank of doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
452:She needs the spur of pleasure and of pain
And the native taste of suffering and unrest: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
453:There work was play and play the only work,
The tasks of heaven a game of godlike might: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
454:The stars marched on their long sentinel routes
Pointing their spears through the infinitudes: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
455:Below him lay like gleaming jewelled thoughts
Rapt dreaming cities of Gandharva kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
456:Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
457:For joy and not for sorrow earth was made
And not as a dream in endless suffering Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
458:In the castle of the lotus twixt the brows
Whence it shoots the arrows of its sight and will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
459:Into inertia revolution sinks,
In a new dress the old resumes its role; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
460:Not by Reason was creation made
And not by Reason can the Truth be seen ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
461:Our mortal vision peers with ignorant eyes;
It has no gaze on the deep heart of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
462:Our smallness saves us from the Infinite
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
463:The soul is the watchful builder of its fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
464:Vain are human power and human love
To break earth's seal of ignorance and death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
465:Weird ran the road which like fear hastening
Towards that of which it has most terror, passed ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#KEYS
466:A lamp of symbol lighting hidden truth
Imaged to her the world's significance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
467:All ran like hopes that hunt a lurking chance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
468:Called back her thoughts from speech to sit within
In a deep room in meditation's house. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
469:Ideal dreams,
Those intimate transmuters of earth's signs
That make known things a hint of unseen spheres ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
470:Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves
And turned his strength into undying power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
471:Its absence left the greatest actions dull,
Its presence made the smallest seem divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#KEYS
472:Nor sought the strength extreme adversity brings
To lives that stand erect and front the World-Power ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
473:The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
474:The Many are the innumerable One,
The One carries the multitude in his breast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
475:Thought climbs in vain and brings a borrowed light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, #KEYS
476:All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
477:All the world's possibilities in man
Are waiting as the tree waits in its seed: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
478:All things have their justifiable cause of being, their good use and their right enjoyment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser, #KEYS
479:All warred against all, but with a common hate
Turned on the mind that sought some higher good; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
480:Earth's winged chimaeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God's sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
481:He met a silver-grey expanse
Where Day and Night had wedded and were one: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
482:Here where one knows not even the step in front
And Truth has her throne on the shadowy back of doubt, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
483:Her spirit, guilty of being, wandered doomed,
Moving for ever through eternal Night.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
484:Our sight and sense are a fallible gaze and touch
And only the spirit's vision is wholly true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
485:The Titan and the Fury and the Djinn
Lie bound in the subconscient's cavern pit ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
486:When all has been explained nothing is known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
487:An epicure of the spirit's unseen joys,
He lives on the sweet honey of solitude: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
488:But I have loved too the body of my God.
I have pursued him in his earthly form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
489:Her signs still covered more than they revealed; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, #KEYS
490:It glided into the lotus of her heart
And woke in it the Force that alters Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
491:Like the thought-screened infinities that lie
Behind the rapt smile of the Almighty's dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#KEYS
492:Many are God's forms by which he grows in man; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #KEYS
493:None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
494:Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse;
We make of our own enemies our guests. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
495:All is a single plan; each wayside act
Deepens the soul's response, brings nearer the goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
496:Always he journeys, but nowhere arrives;
He would guide the world, himself he cannot guide ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
497:A momentary Evil's almightiness
Has straddled the straight path of Nature's acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
498:Earth's eyes half-see, her forces half-create;
Her rarest works are copies of heaven's art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
499:Happy the worlds that have not felt our fall,
Where Will is one with Truth and Good with Power; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
500:He must enter the eternity of Night
And know God's darkness as he knows his Sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
501:He was here before the elements could emerge,
Before there was light of mind or life could breathe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
502:I carry the fire that never can be quenched.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
503:Many-visaged is the cosmic Soul;
A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
504:Only a little of us foresees its steps,
Only a little has will and purposed pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
505:Our dwarf will and cold pragmatic sense
Admit not the celestial visitants: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
506:Those who shall part who have grown one being within?
Death's grip can break our bodies, not our souls; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
507:Thoughts too great and deep to find a voice,
Thoughts whose desire new-makes the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
508:what is Fate if not the spirit's will
After long time fulfilled by cosmic Force? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
509:A burning Love from white spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
510:Autumn led in the glory of her moons
And dreamed in the splendour of her lotus pools ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
511:But standing on Eternity's luminous brink
I have discovered that the world was He; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
512:Love cannot live by heavenly food alone,
Only on sap of earth can it survive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
513:Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break
A dead resistance in the mortals heart,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
514:The Serpent of the threshold hissing rose,
A fatal guardian hood with monstrous coils, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
515:What the spirit sees, creates a truth
And what the soul imagines is made a world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
516:Worship lifts the worshipper's bowed strength Close to the god's pride and bliss his soul adores: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
517:A growing register of calamities
Is the past's account, the future's book of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
518:An ictus of revealing lustre fell
As if a pointing accent upon Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
519:A single law simplessed the cosmic theme,
Compressing Nature into a formula. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
520:A smile on her lips welcomed earth's bliss and grief,
A laugh was her return to pleasure and pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
521:Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny's book.
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
522:His science is an artificer of doom;
He ransacks earth for means to harm his kind; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
523:However man's mind may tire or fail his flesh,
A will prevails cancelling his conscious choice .
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
524:Mind suffers lamed by the world's disharmony
And the unloveliness of human things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
525:O Death, thou too art God and yet not He,
But only his own black shadow on his path ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
526:On our life's prow that breaks the waves of Time
No signal light of hope has gleamed in vain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
527:Our human state cradles the future god,
Our mortal frailty an immortal force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
528:Out of the ineffable hush it hears them come
Trembling with the beauty of a wordless speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
529:The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,
The rapture that the gods sustain he bore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
530:The guardians of Eternity keep its law
For ever fixed upon Truth's giant base ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
531:The inconscient world is the spirit's self-made room,
Eternal Night shadow of eternal Day. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
532:The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
533:Time shall be
The quivering of the spirit's endless bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
534:A great wicked joy Glad of one's own and others' calamity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #KEYS
535:At last the soul turns to eternal things,
In every shrine it cries for the clasp of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, [T5],#KEYS
536:In the Impersonal's ocean without shore
The Person in the World-Spirit anchored rode; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
537:In the prone obscure beginnings of the race
The human grew in the bowed apelike man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
538:Lost was the instinct's safe identity
With the arrow-point of being's inmost sight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
539:Love is a honey and poison in the breast
Drunk by it as the nectar of the gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
540:Mind unwitting serves a higher Power;
It is a channel, not the source of all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
541:Phenomenon built Reality's summer-house
On the beaches of the sea of Infinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
542:The Mother of all godheads and all strengths
Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
543:Ever she circled towards some far-off Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, [T5],#KEYS
544:Hasteners to action, violators of God
Are these great spirits who have too much love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
545:His hunger for the eternal thou must nurse
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, [T5],#KEYS
546:Mind keeps the soul prisoner, we are slaves to our acts;
We cannot free our gaze to reach wisdom's sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
547:There is the mystic realm whence leaps the power
Whose fire burns in the eyes of seer and sage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
548:Thou must die to thyself to reach God's height:
I, Death, am the gate of immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
549:A blind god is not destiny's architect;
A conscious power has drawn the plan of life, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
550:An old self lurks in the new self we are;
Hardly we escape from what we once had been: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
551:As in the vigilance of the sleepless night
Through the slow heavy-footed silent hours, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
552:Imagination's great ensorcelling rod
Summoned the unknown and gave to it a home, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
553:In the mind's silence the Transcendent acts
And the hushed heart hears the unuttered Word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
554:Its light stirs man the thinker to create
An earthly semblance of diviner things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
555:Sin poisons with its vivid flowers of joy
Or leaves a red scar burnt across the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
556:The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
557:There was no act, no movement in its Vast:
Life's question met by its silence died on her lips, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#KEYS
558:The Spirit's greatness is our timeless source
And it shall be our crown in endless Time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, [T5],#KEYS
559:This huge material universe became
A small result of a stupendous force: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
560:Who hug their lot and mock the saviour Light
And see in Mind wisdom's sole tabernacle, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
561:A dull gravitation drags us down
To the blind driven inertia of our base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
562:A light of liberating knowledge shone
Across the gulfs of silence in their eyes; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
563:A million faces wears her knowledge here
And every face is turbaned with a doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
564:A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful
Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],#KEYS
565:Armed with the intuition of a bliss
To which some moved tranquillity was the key, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
566:A still deep sea, he laughs in rolling waves;
Universal, he is all,—transcendent, none. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
567:Came Reason, the squat godhead artisan,
To her narrow house upon a ridge in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
568:Night a path to unknown dawns
Or a dark clue to some diviner state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
569:The word was used as a hieratic means
For the release of the imprisoned spirit
Into communion with its comrade gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
570:The world-interpreting movements of the dance
Moulded idea and mood to a rhythmic sway
And posture. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
571:All things hang here between God's yes and no,
Two Powers real but to each other untrue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
572:The Power that from her being's summit reigned,
The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
573:The Wisdom was near, disguised by its own works,
Of which the darkened universe is the robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
574:A fatal seed was sown in life's false start
When evil twinned with good on earthly soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
575:Always ascends the zigzag of the gods
And upward points the spirit's climbing Fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
576:A magnanimity as of sea or sky
Enveloped with its greatness all that came
And gave a sense as of a greatened world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
577:He tore desire up from its bleeding roots
And offered to the gods the vacant place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
578:Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light,
Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
579:Philosophies that strip all problems bare
But nothing ever have solved since earth began, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
580:Sculpture and painting concentrated sense
Upon an inner vision's motionless verge,
Revealed a figure of the invisible, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
581:The mighty daemon lies unshaped within,
To evoke, to give it form is Nature's task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
582:There Matter is the Spirit's firm density,
An artistry of glad outwardness of self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
583:The spirit's consent is needed for each act
And Freedom walks in the same pace with Law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
584:This bodily appearance is not all;
The form deceives, the person is a mask; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
585:This now he willed to discover and exile,
The element in him betraying God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, [T5],#KEYS
586:Waiting the advent of a larger ray
And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
587:Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven
Or Heaven descend into earth's mortal state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
588:Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, [T5],#KEYS
589:Like a sky-flare showing all the ground
A swift intuitive discernment shone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
590:Mind, a glorious traveller in the sky,
Walks lamely on the earth with footsteps slow. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
591:Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight,
Breathe her divine illimitable air,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
592:We may find when all the rest has failed
Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
593:Gods who know not grief
And look impassive on a suffering world,
Calm they gaze down on the little human scene ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
594:In the unfolding process of the Self
Sometimes the inexpressible Mystery
Elects a human vessel of descent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
595:Joy cannot endure until the end:
There is a darkness in terrestrial things
That will not suffer long too glad a note. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
596:O mortal, bear, but ask not for the stroke,
Too soon will grief and anguish find thee out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
597:The miraculous Inconscient,
A subtle wizard skilled, was at its task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
598:The wise are tranquil; silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
599:Absolute her judgments seem but none is sure;
Time cancels all her verdicts in appeal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
600:A single path, shot thin and arrowlike
Into this bosom of vast and secret life,
Pierced its enormous dream of solitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
601:It stirred in the lotus of her throat of song,
And in her speech throbbed the immortal Word, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
602:It waited for the fiat of the Word
That comes through the still self from the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
603:Life-Self
Such is the life earth's travail has conceived,
A constant stream that never is the same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
604:New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths,
Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
605:On earth by the will of this Arch-Intelligence
A bodiless energy put on Matter's robe; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
606:Our days are links of a disastrous chain,
Necessity avenges casual steps;
Old cruelties come back unrecognised, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
607:The hidden Word was found, the long-sought clue,
Revealed was the meaning of our spirit's birth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
608:The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T1],#KEYS
609:At the Guru's death, either the Body awakens or His Work in the world is forsaken and His light grows dim. In every breath, remember Him." ~ Red Hawk, (b. 1943) "Mother Guru: Savitri Love Poems,", (2014), @aax9, #KEYS
610:Fate covered with an unseen necessity
The game of chance of an omnipotent Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
611:He saw the labour of a godhead's birth.
A secret knowledge masked as Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
612:His soul must be wider than the universe
And feel eternity as its very stuff. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
613:Imagined scenes or great eternal worlds,
Dream-caught or sensed, they touch our hearts with their depths; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
614:Man's natural joy of life is overcast
And sorrow is his nurse of destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
615:The eternal, the divine Reality
Has faced itself with its own contraries. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
616:By Power, not Light, the great Gods rule the world;
Power is the arm of God, the seal of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
617:Even now hints of a luminous Truth like stars
Arise in the mind-mooned splendour of Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
618:Even the smallest meanest work became
A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
619:In a small corner of infinity,
Our lives are inlets of an ocean's force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
620:It is finished, the dread mysterious sacrifice,
Offered by God's martyred body for the world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
621:Magic of percept joined with concept's art
And lent to each object an interpreting name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
622:Man's knowledge casked in the barrels of Memory
Has the harsh savour of a mortal draught: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
623:Mind is a tissue woven of light and shade
Where right and wrong have sewn their mingled parts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
624:The Energy acts, the stable is its seal:
On Shiva's breast is stayed the enormous dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
625:There is a guardian power, there are Hands that save,
Calm eyes divine regard the human scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
626:To eternal light and knowledge meant to rise,
Up from man's bare beginning is our climb; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
627:Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
628:With a silver cry of opening gates
Sight's lightnings leaped into the invisible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
629:A bee-croon honey-drunk in summer isles
Ardent with ecstasy in a slumbrous noon,
Or the far anthem of a pilgrim sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
630:He who would save himself lives bare and calm;
He who would save the race must share its pain: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
631:His past lives in him; it drives his future's pace;
His present's acts fashion his coming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
632:Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage,
For through small joys and griefs thou mov'st towards God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
633:Mortality bears ill the eternal's touch:
It fears the pure divine intolerance
Of that assault of ether and of fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
634:Nature walks upon her mighty way
Unheeding when she breaks a soul, a life;
Leaving her slain behind she travels on: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
635:There all the truths unite in a single Truth,
And all ideas rejoin Reality.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, [T5],#KEYS
636:A Veda-knower of the unwritten book
Perusing the mystic scripture of her forms,
He had caught her hierophant significances, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
637:A Wisdom knows and guides the mysteried world;
A Truth-gaze shapes its beings and events; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
638:But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in the light
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, [T5],#KEYS
639:It made of Space a marvel house of God,
It poured through Time its works of ageless might, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
640:Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage,
For through small joys and griefs thou movst towards God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
641:Out of this world of signs suddenly he came
Into a silent self where world was not ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
642:Slumbering in a sealed and secret cave
The powers that sleep unused in man within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
643:There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts
That wait their hour to step into life's front. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
644:These wide divine extremes, these inverse powers
Are the right and left side of the body of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
645:This too the supreme Diplomat can use,
He makes our fall a means for greater rise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
646:Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come;
Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
647:He is the Maker and the world he made,
He is the vision and he is the Seer;
He is himself the actor and the act, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
648:Here all experience was a single plan,
The thousandfold expression of the One.
All came at once into his single view; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
649:Man's soul crosses through thee to Paradise,
Heaven's sun forces its way through death and night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
650:O Death, if thou couldst touch the Truth supreme
Thou wouldst grow suddenly wise and cease to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
651:The deities have screened their dreadful power:
God hides his thought and, even, he seems to err. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
652:The ever-living whom we name as dead
Could leave their glory beyond death and birth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
653:Then is our life a tranquil pilgrimage,
Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way,
Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
654:The tinkling pace of a long caravan
It seemed at times, or a vast forest's hymn,
The solemn reminder of a temple gong, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
655:By the swift vibration of a nerve
Links its mechanic throbs to light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
656:Heaven's sun forces its way through death and night;
Its light is seen upon our being's verge...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
657:It lived upon the margin of the Idea
Protected by Ignorance as in a shell.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
658:Nameless the austere ascetics without home
Abandoning speech and motion and desire
Aloof from creatures sat absorbed, alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
659:The mysterious and unchanging change
Of the persistent movement we call Time ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
660:Thought-worlds
A thousand roads leaped into Eternity
Or singing ran to meet God's veilless face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
661:Across the threshold's sleep she entered in
And found herself amid great figures of gods ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Book of Yoga, The Finding of the Soul, 524,#KEYS
662:A deathbound littleness is not all we are:
Immortal our forgotten vastnesses
Await discovery in our summit selves; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
663:As if in different worlds they walked, though close ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain, #KEYS
664:But not for self alone the Self is won:
Content abide not with one conquered realm; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
665:Existence' self was shadowed by a doubt;
Almost it seemed a lotus-leaf afloat
On a nude pool of cosmic Nothingness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
666:For man, below the god, above the brute,
Is given the calm reason as his guide;
He is not driven by an unthinking will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
667:Half-poised on equal wings of thought and doubt
Toiled ceaselessly twixt being's hidden ends. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
668:In our unseen subtle body thought is born
Or there it enters from the cosmic field. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
669:It met her as the uncaught inaudible Voice
That speaks for ever from the Unknowable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute#KEYS
670:Myth suckled knowledge with her lustrous milk;
The infant passed from dim to radiant breasts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
671:The last inviolate secret hides
Behind the human glory of a Form,
Behind the gold eidolon of a Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
672:The lines of safety Reason draws that bar
Mind's soar, soul's dive into the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
673:The patterns of thinking of a little group
Fixed a traditional behaviour's law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
674:There substance was a resonant harp of self,
A net for the constant lightnings of the spirit, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
675:The Sole in its solitude yearned towards the All
And the Many turned to look back at the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
676:Thus for a while she trod the Golden Path;
This was the sun before abysmal Night.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
677:Thy acts are thy helpers, all events are signs,
Waking and sleep are opportunities
Given to thee by an immortal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
678:Calm and apart supported all that is:
His spirit's stillness helped the toiling world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
679:He heard the inspired sound of his own thoughts
Re-echoed in the vault of other minds; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
680:More deeply than the bounded senses can
Which grasp externally and find to lose, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
681:O queen, thy thought is a light of the Ignorance,
Its brilliant curtain hides from thee God's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
682:Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
683:Surya Savitri, who is Bhaga, stands between the Infinite and the created worlds within us and without. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Selected Hymns, To Bhaga Savitri - the Enjoyer, #KEYS
684:The divine Dwarf towered to unconquered worlds,
Earth grew too narrow for his victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
685:The lotus-heart of love
With all its thousand luminous buds of truth,
Which quivering sleeps veiled by apparent things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
686:The phantom of a dark and evil start
Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
687:A fragile miracle of thinking clay,
Armed with illusions walks the child of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
688:A future knowledge is an added pain,
A torturing burden and a fruitless light
On the enormous scene that Fate has built. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
689:He props her dance upon a rigid base,
His timeless still immutability
Must standardise her creation's miracle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
690:Leader here with his uncertain mind,
Alone who stares at the future's covered face,
Man lifted up the burden of his fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
691:While a tardy Evolution's coils wind on
And Nature hews her way through adamant
A divine intervention thrones above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
692:But pain came first, then only joy could be.
Pain ploughed the first hard ground of the world-drowse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
693:But thought nor word can seize eternal Truth:
The whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
694:Her will must cancel her body's destiny.
For only the unborn spirit's timeless power
Can lift the yoke imposed by birth in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
695:Our souls can climb into the shining planes,
The breadths from which they came can be our home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
696:The sorrow by which Nature's hunger is fed,
The oestrus which creates with fire of pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
697:Two contraries needed for his great World-task,
Two poles whose currents wake the immense World-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
698:Where life and being are a sacrament
Offered to the Reality beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
699:A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers;
God's summits look back on the mute Abyss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
700:A gaol is this immense material world:
Across each road stands armed a stone-eyed Law,
At every gate the huge dim sentinels pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
701:All life is fixed in an ascending scale
And adamantine is the evolving Law;
In the beginning is prepared the close. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
702:An old pull of subconscious cords renews;
It draws the unwilling spirit from the heights, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
703:He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain-chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
704:I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
705:My eternity hid in moving Time
And my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
706:None is for any on this transient globe.
He whom thou lovest now, a stranger came
And into a far strangeness shall depart: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
707:Only in an uplifting hour of stress
Men answer to the touch of greater things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
708:Silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky,
Seated on their unchanging base ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
709:The morn went up into a smiling sky;
Cast from its sapphire pinnacle of trance
Day sank into the burning gold of eve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
710:The snake is there and the worm in the heart of the rose.
A word, a moment's act can slay the god; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
711:Ablaze upon creation's quivering edge,
Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues
And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
712:A routed sullen rearguard of retreat,
The last rains had fled murmuring across the woods ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
713:Death, the dire god, inflicted on her eyes
The immortal calm of his tremendous gaze: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
714:His human self like a translucent cloak
Covered the All-Wise who leads the unseeing world.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
715:Incessant in the arms of ecstasy
Repeating its sweet involuntary note
A sob of rapture flowed along the hours. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
716:Knowledge ends not in these surface powers
That live upon a ledge in the Ignorance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
717:Near and real to the longing heart And to the body's passionate thought and sense Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #KEYS
718:Nothing would confess its own pretence
Even to itself in the ambiguous heart:
A vast deception was the law of things; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
719:She puts forth a small portion of herself,
A being no bigger than the thumb of man
Into a hidden region of the heart ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
720:Through Nature's contraries we draw near God;
Out of the darkness we still grow to light.
Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
721:A formless yearning passions in man's heart,
A cry is in his blood for happier things ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
722:All that transpires on earth and all beyond
Are parts of an illimitable plan
The One keeps in his heart and knows alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
723:An artist Sight constructed the Beyond
In contrary patterns and conflicting hues;
A part-experience fragmented the Whole. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
724:He must pass to the other shore of falsehood's sea,
He must enter the world's dark to bring there light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
725:Inheritor of the brief animal mind,
Man, still a child in Nature's mighty hands,
In the succession of the moments lives; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
726:Once the Ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #KEYS
727:Our base's Matter seems alone complete,
An absolute machine without a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
728:Sometimes one life is charged with earth's destiny,
It cries not for succour from the time-bound powers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
729:Thought-mind
Where Knowledge is the leader of the act
And Matter is of thinking substance made, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
730:Thy heart that needs
Some human answering heart against thy breast;
For who, being mortal, can dwell glad alone? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
731:Although as unknown beings we seem to meet,
Our lives are not aliens nor as strangers join,
Moved to each other by a causeless force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
732:An inspired Knowledge sat enthroned within
Whose seconds illumined more than reason's years: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
733:Arrogant, gibing at more luminous states
The people of the gulfs despised the sun.
A barriered autarchy excluded light; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
734:But there is a guardian power, there are Hands that save,
Calm eyes divine regard the human scene.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, [T5],#KEYS
735:Its highest wisdom was a brilliant guess,
Its mighty structured science of the worlds
A passing light on being's surfaces. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
736:The dry gnarled trees stood up like dying men
Stiffened into a pose of agony, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
737:The Might that came upon the earth to bless,
Has stayed on earth to suffer and aspire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
738:the rhythms and metres of the stars
Significant of the movements of our fate ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
739:Being collapsed into a pointless void
That yet was a zero parent of the worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
740:More there is concealed in God's Beyond
That shall one day reveal its hidden face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
741:Purposeful movements in unthinking forms
Betrayed the heavings of an imprisoned Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
742:The architecture of the Infinite
Discovered here its inward-musing shapes
Captured into wide breadths of soaring stone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
743:The more she plunged into love that anguish grew;
Her deepest grief from sweetest gulfs arose.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge,#KEYS
744:Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
745:All ocean lived within a wandering drop.
A time made body housed the illimitable.
To live this mystery out our soul comes here.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
746:A matted forest-head invaded heaven
As if a blue-throated ascetic peered
From the stone fastness of his mountain cell ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#KEYS
747:A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
World after coloured and ecstatic world
Climbs towards some far unseen epiphany. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
748:A monstrous birth prepared its cosmic form
In Nature's titan embryo, Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
749:If one of theirs they see scale heaven's peaks,
Men then can hope to learn that titan climb. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
750:In our body's cells there sits a hidden Power
That sees the unseen and plans eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
751:In the enormous spaces of the self
The body now seemed only a wandering shell, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
752:Knowledge dwells not in the passionate heart;
The heart's words fall back unheard from Wisdom's throne. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
753:Only sometimes a holier influence comes,
A tide of mightier surgings bears our lives
And a diviner Presence moves the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
754:This world is a beginning and a base
Where Life and Mind erect their structured dreams;
An unborn Power must build reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
755:We must fill the immense lacuna we have made,
Re-wed the closed finite's lonely consonant
With the open vowels of Infinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
756:What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion's gleams,
A Will expressive of soul's deity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
757:When I have loved for ever, I shall know.
Love in me knows the truth all changings mask. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
758:A foreseeing Knowledge might be ours,
If we could take our spirit's stand within,
If we could hear the muffled daemon voice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
759:All she beheld that surges from man's depths,
The animal instincts prowling mid life's trees, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
760:For nothing is known while aught remains concealed;
The Truth is known only when all is seen.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
761:I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, [T5],#KEYS
762:Immersed in voiceless internatal trance
The beings that once wore forms on earth sat there
In shining chambers of spiritual sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
763:No more shut in by body's walls and gates
Her being, a circle without circumference. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
764:Our reason cannot sound life's mighty sea
And only counts its waves and scans its foam; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
765:Wisdom attracts him with her luminous masks,
But never has he seen the face behind:
A giant Ignorance surrounds his lore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
766:As thoughts stand mute on a despairing verge
Where the last depths plunge into nothingness ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
767:He made of Nothingness his living-room
And Night a process of the eternal light
And death a spur towards immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
768:Met the hounds of bale who hunt men's hearts
Baying across the veldts of Destiny, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
769:Once figure of creation's vain ellipse,
The expanding zero lost its giant curve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
770:The cosmic drowse of ignorant Force
Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns
And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
771:The incarnate dual Power shall open God's door,
Eternal supermind touch earthly Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
772:There in the slumber of the cosmic Will
He saw the secret key of Nature's change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
773:There was no more the dark pretence of hate,
The cruel rictus on Love's altered face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
774:the world is real but ourselves too small,
Insufficient for the mightiness of our stage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
775:A mass of superconscience closed in light,
Creator of things in his all-knowing sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
776:An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
777:A secret soul behind supporting all
Is master and witness of our ignorant life,
Admits the Person's look and Nature's role. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
778:Even there shall come as a high crown of all
The end of Death, the death of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
779:For all we have acquired soon loses worth,
An old disvalued credit in Times bank,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
780:Immortality for imperfect man,
A god who hurts himself at every step,
Would be a cycle of eternal pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
781:Our own minds are the justicers of doom.
For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others' souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
782:Sometimes, when our sight is turned within,
Earth's ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes;
There is a short miraculous escape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
783:The impulse of the Path was felt
Moving from the Silence that supports the stars
To touch the confines of the visible world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#KEYS
784:The night's gold treasure of autumnal moons
Came floating shipped through ripples of faery air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
785:The swoon of glad identity
Where spirit and flesh in inner ecstasy join
Annulling the quarrel between self and shape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
786:The word, the form, the charm, the glory and grace
Are missioned sparks from a stupendous Fire; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
787:To the height of heights rose now their daily climb:
Truth leaned to them from her supernal realm;
Above them blazed eternity's mystic suns. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:4,#KEYS
788:A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
789:A sailor on the Inconscient's fathomless sea,
He voyages through a starry world of thought
On Matter's deck to a spiritual sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
790:A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, [T5],#KEYS
791:But first the spirit's ascent we must achieve
Out of the chasm from which our nature rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
792:But if thou wilt not wait for Time and God,
Do then thy work and force thy will on Fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
793:Felt its honey of felicity
Flow through his veins like the rivers of Paradise,
Made body a nectar-cup of the Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
794:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
795:Impure, sadistic, with grimacing mouths,
Grey foul inventions gruesome and macabre
Came televisioned from the gulfs of Night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
796:In bodies motionless like statues, fixed
In tranced cessations of their sleepless thought
Sat sleeping souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
797:In man a dim disturbing somewhat lives;
It knows but turns away from divine Light
Preferring the dark ignorance of the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
798:In their own fields they follow the wheel of law
And cherish the safety of a settled type. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
799:It acted not but bore all thoughts and deeds,
The witness Lord of Nature's myriad acts
Consenting to the movements of her Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
800:Our life's repose is in the Infinite;
It cannot end, its end is Life supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
801:The omniscient Ray is shut behind his lids:
He is the Wisdom that comes not by thought, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
802:There crawled through every tense and aching nerve
Leaving behind its poignant quaking trail
A nameless and unutterable fear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
803:Veiled by the ray no mortal eye can bear,
The Spirit's bare and absolute potencies
Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
804:All contraries were true in one huge spirit
Surpassing measure, change and circumstance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
805:And symbol of some native cosmic strength,
A sacred beast lay prone below her feet,
A silent flame-eyed mass of living force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
806:As those who have lived long made one in love
Need word nor sign for heart's reply to heart,
He met and communed without bar of speech ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
807:His wakened mind became an empty slate
On which the Universal and Sole could write. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
808:in her spaceless self released from bounds
Unnumbered years seemed moments long drawn out,
The brilliant time-flakes of eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
809:Reason that scans and breaks, but cannot build
Or builds in vain because she doubts her work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
810:The boundless Nescience of the unconscious depths
Covered eternity with nothingness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
811:The Immanent lives in man as in his house;
He has made the universe his pastime's field,
A vast gymnasium of his works of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
812:They are caught by the Wheel that they had hoped to break,
On their shoulders they must bear man's load of fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
813:A living centre of the Illimitable
Widened to equate with the world's circumference, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
814:An omnipotent indiscernible Influence,
He sits, unfelt by the form in which he lives
And veils his knowledge by the groping mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
815:Impersonal, signless, featureless, void of forms
A blank pure consciousness had replaced the mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
816:In destruction felt creation's hasty pace,
Knew loss as the price of a celestial gain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
817:It has joined its hunger to the hunger of earth,
It has given the law of craving to our lives, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
818:Oneness was sovereign in that sylvan peace,
The wild beast joined in friendship with its prey;
Persuading the hatred and the strife to cease ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
819:The builder Reason lost her confidence
In the successful sleight and turn of thought
That makes the soul the prisoner of a phrase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
820:Across the unfolding of the seas of self
Appeared the deathless countries of the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
821:All here is a mystery of contraries:
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light,
Suffering some secret rapture's tragic mask ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
822:God's Desire
Lo, how all shakes when the gods tread too near!
All moves, is in peril, anguished, torn, upheaved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
823:Her patient paleness wore a pensive glow
Like evening's subdued gaze of gathered light
Departing, which foresees sunrise her child. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
824:His small successes are failures of the soul,
His little pleasures punctuate frequent griefs: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
825:Imps with wry limbs and carved beast visages,
Sprite-prompters goblin-wizened or faery-small, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
826:Novel values furbished ancient themes
To cheat the mind with the idea of change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
827:Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight
Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
828:The bliss which sleeps in things and tries to wake,
Breaks out in him in a small joy of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
829:The heavens of the ideal Mind were seen
In a blue lucency of dreaming Space
Like strips of brilliant sky clinging to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
830:These sages breathed for God's delight in things.
Assisting the slow entries of the gods,
Sowing in young minds immortal thoughts they lived, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
831:The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze
And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
832:What is Truth and who can find her form
Amid the specious images of sense,
Amid the crowding guesses of the mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
833:A Thought that can conceive but hardly knows
Arises slowly in her and creates
The idea, the speech that labels more than it lights; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
834:Even when we fail to look into our souls
Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness,
Still have we parts that grow towards the light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
835:Her mouth was seized to channel ineffable truths,
Knowledge unthinkable found an utterance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
836:He whose transcendence rules the pregnant Vasts,
Prescient now dwells in our subliminal depths,
A luminous individual Power, alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
837:Implacable in the passion of their will,
Lifting the hammers of titanic toil
The demiurges of the universe work; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
838:I wear the face of Kali when I kill,
I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
839:Nabhi-Padma (Navel-lotus)
Out of the dreadful press she dragged her will
And fixed her thought upon the saviour Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
840:Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
841:Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,
The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
842:There is a consciousness mind cannot touch,
Its speech cannot utter nor its thought reveal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
843:This blindfold force could place no thinking step;
Asking for light she followed darkness' clue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
844:Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth,
Earth in its sorrow dreams of perfect heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
845:Knew death for a cellar of the house of life,
In destruction felt creation's hasty pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
846:O to spread forth, O to encircle and seize
More hearts till love in us has filled thy world! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
847:Our spirit tires of being's surfaces,
Transcended is the splendour of the form;
It turns to hidden powers and deeper states. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
848:The doors of light are sealed to common mind
And earth's needs nail to earth the human mass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
849:When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in;
He dared to live when breath and thought were still.
Thus could he step into that magic place ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:5,#KEYS
850:A little gift comes from the Immensitudes,
But measureless to life its gain of joy;
All the untold Beyond is mirrored there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
851:An almighty occultist erects in Space
This seeming outward world which tricks the sense; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
852:An inner law of beauty shapes our lives;
Our words become the natural speech of Truth,
Each thought is a ripple on a sea of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
853:Her pragmatism of the transcendent Truth
Fills silence with the voices of the gods, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
854:Passions that crumble to ashes while they blaze
Kindled the common earth with their brief flame. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
855:The eyes of love gaze starlike through death's night,
The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
856:The lust that warps the spirit's natural good
Replaced by a manufactured virtue and vice
The frank spontaneous impulse of the soul: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
857:Time's works
The giant's and the Titan's furious march
Climbs to usurp the kingdom of the gods
Or skirts the demon magnitudes of Hell; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
858:A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense
Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all,
To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
859:All's miracle here and can by miracle change.
This is that secret Nature's edge of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
860:An invisible Beauty, goal of the world's desire,
A Sun of which all knowledge is a beam,
A Greatness without whom no life could be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
861:Each is a greatness growing towards the heights
Or from his inner centre oceans out; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
862:Even through the tangled anarchy called Fate
And through the bitterness of death and fall
An outstretched Hand is felt upon our lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
863:Intense philosophies pointed earth to heaven
Or on foundations broad as cosmic Space
Upraised the earth-mind to superhuman heights. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
864:Or there repose and action are the same
In the deep breast of God's supreme delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
865:O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light
And bring down God into the lives of men; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
866:That, travellers from on high, arrive to us
Deformed by our search, tricked by costuming mind, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
867:The crown of conscious Immortality,
The godhead promised to our struggling souls
When first man's heart dared death and suffered life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
868:Too hard the gods are with man's fragile race;
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate
And they forget the wounded feet of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
869:All knowledge failed and the Idea's forms
And Wisdom screened in awe her lowly head
Feeling a Truth too great for thought or speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
870:All that we seek for is prefigured there
And all we have not known nor ever sought
Which yet one day must be born in human hearts
That the Timeless may fulfil itself in things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#KEYS
871:An adversary Force was born of old:
Invader of the life of mortal man,
It hides from him the straight immortal path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
872:A puritan God made pleasure a poisonous fruit,
Or red drug in the market-place of Death,
And sin the child of Nature's ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
873:His knowledge scans bright pebbles on the shore
Of the huge ocean of his ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
874:Mind's voices mimicked inspiration's stress,
Its ictus of infallibility,
Its speed and lightning heaven-leap of the Gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
875:Only the Eternal's strength in us can dare
To attempt the immense adventure of that climb
And the sacrifice of all we cherish here. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
876:Soul's soar
It seemed the yearning of a lonely flute
That roamed along the shores of memory
And filled the eyes with tears of longing joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
877:There is a oneness native and occult
That needs no instruments and erects no form;
In unison it grows with all that is. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
878:A lonely soul passions for the Alone,
The heart that loved man thrills to the love of God,
A body is his chamber and his shrine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
879:Even God himself obeys the Laws he made:
The Law abides and never can it change,
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
880:He shore the cord of mind that ties the earth-heart
And cast away the yoke of Matter's law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
881:His pains are her means to grow, to see and feel;
His death assists her immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
882:Huge armoured strengths shook a frail quaking ground,
Great puissant creatures with a dwarfish brain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
883:I guide man to the path of the Divine
And guard him from the red Wolf and the Snake. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
884:In all who have risen to a greater Life,
A voice of unborn things whispers to the ear, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
885:In moments when the inner lamps are lit
And the life's cherished guests are left outside,
Our spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
886:Its aspect of a fixed stability
Is the cover of a captive motion's swirl,
An order of the steps of Energy's dance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
887:Life now became a sure approach to God,
Existence a divine experiment
And cosmos the soul's opportunity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
888:Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break
A dead resistance in the mortal's heart,
His slow inertia as of living stone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
889:They sang Infinity's names and deathless powers
In metres that reflect the moving worlds,
Sight's sound-waves breaking from the soul's great deeps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
890:All here where each thing seems its lonely self
Are figures of the sole transcendent One:
Only by him they are, his breath is their life; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
891:All in outer mind
Is made, not born, a product perishable,
Forged in the body's factory by earth-force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
892:A stripped imperative of conceptual phrase
Architectonic and inevitable
Translated the unthinkable into thought: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
893:By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
894:Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone,
Patient he sat like an incarnate hope
Motionless on a pedestal of prayer. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
895:Our precarious mortal thought
That looks from soil to sky and sky to soil
But knows not the below nor the beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
896:A mystic Form that could contain the worlds,
Yet make one human breast its passionate shrine, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
897:A veil is kept, something is still held back,
Lest, captives of the beauty and the joy,
Our souls forget to the Highest to aspire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
898:Hidden behind the fair outsides of life.
Its dangerous commerce is our suffering's cause.
Its breath is a subtle poison in men's hearts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
899:Ignorant and stumbling, in brief boundaries pent,
He crowns himself the world's mock suzerain,
Tormenting Nature with the works of Mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#KEYS
900:Music brought down celestial yearnings, song
Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths,
Linking the human with the cosmic cry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
901:The spirit rises mightier by defeat;
Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall.
Its splendid failures sum to victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
902:To seize the absolute in shapes that pass,
To fix the eternal's touch in time-made things,
This is the law of all perfection here. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
903:A battle is joined between the true and false,
A pilgrimage sets out to the divine Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
904:A Truth occult has made this mighty world:
The Eternal's wisdom and self-knowledge act
In ignorant Mind and in the body's steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
905:Falsehood enthroned on awed and prostrate hearts
The cults and creeds that organise living death
And slay the soul on the altar of a lie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
906:Ignorant like men born blind who know not light,
They could equate worst ill with highest good, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
907:Night over tired lands, when evening pales
And fading gleams break down the horizon's walls,
Nor yet the dusk grows mystic with the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#KEYS
908:Since God has made earth, earth must make in her God;
What hides within her breast she must reveal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
909:Then through a tunnel dug in the last rock
She came out where there shone a deathless sun.
A house was there all made of flame and light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
910:The sacred Book lay on its sanctified desk
Wrapped in interpretation's silken strings:
A credo sealed up its spiritual sense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
911:These revolutions, demon or drunken god,
Convulsing the wounded body of mankind
Only to paint in new colours an old face; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
912:Where Matter is all, there Spirit is a dream:
If all are the Spirit, Matter is a lie,
And who was the liar who forged the universe? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
913:A charm and greatness locked in every hour
Awakes the joy which sleeps in all things made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
914:An attempt, a drawing half-done is the world's life;
Its lines doubt their concealed significance,
Its curves join not their high intended close. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
915:At hazard he read by arrow-leaps of Thought
That hit the mark by guess or luminous chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
916:A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,
The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,
And hints leaped down of white beatitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
917:Beyond the earth, but meant for delivered earth,
Wisdom and joy prepare their perfect crown;
Truth superhuman calls to thinking man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
918:His knowledge he disguised as Ignorance,
His Good he sowed in Evil's monstrous bed,
Made error a door by which Truth could enter in. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
919:I give peace to the humble and the great,
And shed my grace on the foolish and the wise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
920:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
921:In the communion of two meeting minds
Thought looked at thought and had no need of speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
922:In the communion of two meeting minds
Thought looked at thought and had no need of speech; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
923:My ear is leaned to the cry of the oppressed,
I topple down the thrones of tyrant kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
924:Our being must move eternally through Time;
Death helps us not, vain is the hope to cease; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
925:Some word that could incarnate highest Truth
Leaped out from a chance tension of the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
926:Their anger rushed galloping in brute attack,
A charge of trampling hooves on shaken soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
927:Thou art his spur to greatness in his works,
The whip to his yearning for eternal bliss,
His poignant need of immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
928:Vain the soul's hope if changeless Law is all:
Ever to the new and the unknown press on
The speeding aeons justifying God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
929:Who help men's drab and heavy ignorant lives
To wake to beauty and the wonder of things
Touching them with glory and divinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
930:A gift of priceless value from Time's gods
Lost or mislaid in an uncaring world,
Life is a marvel missed, an art gone wry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
931:A solid image of reality
Carved out of being to prop the works of Time,
Matter on the firm earth sits strong and sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
932:A thinking animal, Nature's struggling lord,
Has made of her his nurse and tool and slave ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
933:Crowding and stinging in a monstrous swarm
Pressed with a noxious hum into his mind
Thoughts that could poison Nature's heavenliest breath, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
934:The Inconscient too is infinite;
The more its abysses we insist to sound,
The more it stretches, stretches endlessly. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
935:There Ego was lord upon his peacock seat
And Falsehood sat by him, his mate and queen:
The world turned to them as Heaven to Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
936:All here gathers beneath one golden sky:
The Powers that build the cosmos station take
In its house of infinite possibility; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
937:But many-visaged is the cosmic Soul;
A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate.
A sudden turn can come, a road appear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
938:For body without mind has not the light,
The rapture of spirit sense, the joy of life;
All then becomes subconscient, tenebrous. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
939:Her deepest grief from sweetest gulfs arose.
Remembrance was a poignant pang ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
940:He who Is grows manifest in the years
And the slow Godhead shut within the cell
Climbs from the plasm to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
941:His failure is not failure whom God leads; ...
It knows its steps, its way is inevitable,
And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
942:Hunger that gnawest at the universe
Consuming the cold remnants of the suns
And eatst the whole world with thy jaws of fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
943:It was a plane of undetermined spirit
That could be a zero or round sum of things,
A state in which all ceased and all began. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
944:This hidden foe lodged in the human breast
Man must overcome or miss his higher fate.
This is the inner war without escape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
945:Yet Light is there; it stands at Nature's doors:
It holds a torch to lead the traveller in.
It waits to be kindled in our secret cells ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
946:A formless void suppressed his struggling brain,
A darkness grim and cold oppressed his flesh,
A whispered grey suggestion chilled his heart; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
947:Earth lies unchanged beneath the circling sun;
She loves her fall and no omnipotence
Her mortal imperfections can erase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
948:Half-heard lowings drew the listening ear,
As if the Sun-god's brilliant kine were there
Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
949:Haughtily humble in his own conceit
Believes himself a spawn of Matter's mud
And takes his own creations for his cause. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
950:Night is not our beginning nor our end;
She is the dark Mother in whose womb we have hid
Safe from too swift a waking to world-pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
951:The cosmos is no accident in Time;
There is a meaning in each play of Chance,
There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
952:These pale glimmer-realms
Where dawn-sheen gambolled with the native dusk
And helped the Day to grow and Night to fail, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
953:Through a glamour of shifting hues of air
The seasons drew in linked significant dance
The symbol pageant of the changing year. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
954:World-force outlasts world-disillusion's shock:
Dumb, she is still the Word, inert the Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
955:An errant ray from the immortal Mind
Accepted the earth's blindness and became
Our human thought, servant of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
956:Our ignorance is Wisdom's chrysalis,
Our error weds new knowledge on its way,
Its darkness is a blackened knot of light; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
957:Pain is the hand of Nature sculpturing men
To greatness: an inspired labour chisels
With heavenly cruelty an unwilling mould. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
958:Then stretches the boundless finite's last expanse,
The cosmic empire of the Overmind,
Time's buffer state bordering Eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
959:The slow process of a material mind
Which serves the body it should rule and use
And needs to lean upon an erring sense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
960:A world of lovelier forms lies near to ours,
Where, undisguised by earth's deforming sight,
All shapes are beautiful and all things true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
961:In gleaming clarities of amethyst air
The chainless and omnipotent Spirit of Mind
Brooded on the blue lotus of the Idea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
962:Night was a chrysoprase on velvet cloth,
A nestling darkness or a moonlit deep; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
963:On the ocean surface of vast Consciousness
Small thoughts in shoals are fished up into a net
But the great truths escape her narrow cast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
964:The unseizable forces of the cosmic whirl
Bear in their bacchant limbs the fixity
Of an original foresight that is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
965:The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
966:The worlds are built by its unconscious Breath
And Matter and Mind are its figures or its powers,
Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
967:Under a blue veil of eternity
The splendours of ideal Mind were seen
Outstretched across the boundaries of things known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
968:A channel of universal harmony,
Hearing was a stream of magic audience,
A bed for occult sounds earth cannot hear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
969:Climb not to Godhead by the Titan's road.
Against the Law he pits his single will,
Across its way he throws his pride of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
970:Even in all that life and man have marred,
A whisper of divinity still is heard,
A breath is felt from the eternal spheres. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
971:He stood compelled to a tremendous choice.
All he had been and all towards which he grew
Must now be left behind or else transform
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, [T5],#KEYS
972:Imagination called her shining squads
That venture into undiscovered scenes
Where all the marvels lurk none yet has known: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
973:Our past lives still in our unconscious selves
And by the weight of its hidden influences
Is shaped our future's self-discovery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
974:Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse.
Earth's winged chimaeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God's sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
975:The staple or dry straw of Reason's tilth,
Its heaped fodder of innumerable facts,
Plebeian fare on which today we thrive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
976:All that denies must be torn out and slain
And crushed the many longings for whose sake
We lose the One for whom our lives were made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
977:A spirit, a being saw created things
And cast itself into unnumbered forms
And was what it saw and made; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
978:Creation and destruction waltzed inarmed
On the bosom of a torn and quaking earth;
All reeled into a world of Kali's dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
979:God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;
For man shall not know the coming till its hour
And belief shall be not till the work is done. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
980:In the exact Inconscient's stark conceit,
In the casual error of the world's ignorance
A plan, a hidden Intelligence is glimpsed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
981:The All-containing was contained in form,
Oneness was carved into units measurable,
The limitless built into a cosmic sum: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
982:There in the silence few have ever reached,
Thou shalt see the Fire burning on the bare stone
And the deep cavern of thy secret soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
983:The sin last, greatest, the spiritual pride,
That, made of dust, equalled itself with heaven,
Its scorn of the worm writhing in the mud, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
984:This universe an old enchantment guards;
Its objects are carved cups of World-Delight
Whose charmed wine is some deep soul's rapture-drink. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
985:His fires of grandeur burn in the great sun,
He glides through heaven shimmering in the moon;
He is beauty carolling in the fields of sound; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
986:In our defeated hearts God's strength survives
And victory's star still lights our desperate road; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
987:None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
988:Yes, there are happy ways near to God's sun;
But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
989:Yet is it a conscious power that moves in us,
A seed-idea is parent of our acts
And destiny the unrecognised child of Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
990:Yet were there regions where these absolutes met
And made a circle of bliss with married hands;
Light stood embraced by light, fire wedded fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
991:A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
992:If the chamber's door is even a little ajar,
What then can hinder God from stealing in
Or who forbid his kiss on the sleeping soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
993:I shall hear the silver swing of heaven's gates
When God comes out to meet the soul of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
994:Our body's subtle self is throned within
In its viewless palace of veridical dreams
That are bright shadows of the thoughts of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
995:Out of the sorrow and darkness of the world,
Out of the depths where life and thought are tombed,
Lonely mounts up to heaven the deathless Flame. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
996:Self-Denial
Only when we have climbed above ourselves,
A line of the Transcendent meets our road
And joins us to the timeless and the true; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter#KEYS
997:The Son of God born as the Son of man
Has drunk the bitter cup, owned Godhead's debt,
The debt the Eternal owes to the fallen kind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
998:The source of all error is misapplication, wrong placing of truth, wrong arrangement, wrong relation, wrong positing in time and place, object and order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #KEYS
999:Thus is it even with the seer and sage;
For still the human limits the divine:
Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1000:Two golden serpents round the lintel curled,
Enveloping it with their pure and dreadful strength,
Looked out with wisdom's deep and luminous eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1001:A mass phenomenon of visible shapes
Supported by the silence of the Void
Appeared in the eternal Consciousness ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1002:An idea,
Each deemed Truth's intimate fount and summit force,
The heart of the meaning of the universe,
Perfection's key, passport to Paradise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
1003:Easy the heavens were to build for God.
Earth was his difficult matter, earth the glory
Gave of the problem and the race and strife. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1004:Its steps are paces of the soul's return
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
And rungs that Nature climbs to deity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
1005:The mind of mortal man is led by words,
His sight retires behind the walls of Thought
And looks out only through half-opened doors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1006:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall;
Nature's most careless lolling is a pose
Preparing some forward step, some deep result. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1007:A Truth supreme has forced the world to be;
It has wrapped itself in Matter as in a shroud,
A shroud of Death, a shroud of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1008:Bliss is the secret stuff of all that lives,
Even pain and grief are garbs of world-delight,
It hides behind thy sorrow and thy cry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1009:He tastes the honey of tears and puts off joy
Repenting, and has laughter and has wrath,
And both are a broken music of the soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1010:In packets she ties up the Indivisible;
Finding her hands too small to hold vast Truth
She breaks up knowledge into alien parts ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1011:One endless watches the inconscient scene
Where all things perish, as the foam the stars.
The One lives for ever. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1012:Trivial or sombre, disillusion comes,
Life's harsh reality stares at the soul:
Heaven's hour adjourned flees into bodiless Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1013:Already God is near, the Truth is close:
Because the dark atheist body knows him not,
Must the sage deny the Light, the seer his soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1014:Day was a purple pageant and a hymn,
A wave of the laughter of light from morn to eve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1015:If human will could be made one with God's,
If human thought could echo the thoughts of God,
Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1016:Mind is Nature's marriage of convenance
Between truth and falsehood, between joy and pain:
This struggling pair no court can separate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1017:The genius too receives from some high fount
Concealed in a supernal secrecy
The work that gives him an immortal name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1018:Adventure leaped an unexpected friend,
And danger brought a keen sweet tang of joy;
Each happening was a deep experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1019:At last to open thy eyes consent and see
The stuff of which thou and the world are made.
Inconscient in the dumb inconscient Void
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1020:Here in Life's nether realms all contraries meet;
Truth stares and does her works with bandaged eyes
And Ignorance is Wisdom's patron here: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1021:He who has found his identity with God
Pays with the body's death his soul's vast light.
His knowledge immortal triumphs by his death. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1022:Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways,
Withhold from thee the body of God's bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1023:Man is a dynamo for the cosmic work;
Nature does most in him, God the high rest:
Only his soul's acceptance is his own. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1024:Our souls, upon the wheel of God
For ever turning, they arrive and go,
Married and sundered in the magic round
Of the great Dancer of the boundless dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1025:The Eternal suffers in a human form,
He has signed salvation's testament with his blood:
He has opened the doors of his undying peace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1026:The seed of Godhead sleeps in mortal hearts,
The flower of Godhead grows on the world-tree:
All shall discover God in self and things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1027:A greater Personality sometimes
Possesses us which yet we know is ours:
Or we adore the Master of our souls.
Then the small bodily ego thins and falls; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1028:Cast Thought from thee, that nimble ape of Light:
In his tremendous hush stilling thy brain
His vast Truth wake within and know and see. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1029:Circling around a single luminous point,
Centre of reference in a conscious field,
Figure of a unitary Light within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1030:Great figures of gods
Conscious in stone and living without breath,
Watching with fixed regard the soul of man,
Executive figures of the cosmic self ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1031:I know that knowledge is a vast embrace:
I know that every being is myself,
In every heart is hidden the myriad One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1032:The little Mind is tied to little things:
Its sense is but the spirit's outward touch,
Half-waked in a world of dark Inconscience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1033:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1034:They enter the valley of the wandering Gleam
Whence, captives or victims of the specious Ray,
Souls trapped in that region never can escape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1035:A bullock yoked in the cart of proven fact,
She drags huge knowledge-bales through Matter's dust
To reach utility's immense bazaar. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1036:A hunchback rider of the red Wild-Ass,
A rash Intelligence leaped down lion-maned
From the great mystic Flame that rings the worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1037:A schoolman mind had captured life's large space,
But chose to live in bare and paltry rooms
Parked off from the too vast dangerous universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1038:Crafts minute in subtle lines
Eternised a swift moment's memory
Or showed in a carving's sweep, a cup's design
The underlying patterns of the unseen: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
1039:Infallibly by Truth's directing gaze
All creatures here their secret self disclose,
Forced to become what in themselves they hide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1040:Mystic, ineffable is the spirit's truth,
Unspoken, caught only by the spirit's eye.
When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1041:There consciousness was a close and single weft;
The far and near were one in spirit-space,
The moments there were pregnant with all time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
1042:Well is the unconscious rule for the animal breeds
Content to live beneath the immutable yoke;
Man turns to a nobler walk, a master path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1043:At first was only an etheric Space:
Its huge vibrations circled round and round
Housing some unconceived initiative: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1044:He too is a machine amid machines;
A piston brain pumps out the shapes of thought,
A beating heart cuts out emotion's modes;
An insentient energy fabricates a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
1045:I have created all, all I devour;
I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life,
I am Kali black and naked in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1046:In an outburst of heavenly joy and ease
Life yields to the divinity within
And gives the rapture-offering of its all,
And the soul opens to felicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
1047:A strange pell-mell of magic artisans,
Was seen moulding the plastic clay of life,
An elfin brood, an elemental kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1048:In a veiled Nature's hallowed secrecies
It burns for ever on the altar Mind,
Its priests the souls of dedicated gods,
Humanity its house of sacrifice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
1049:In the black night the wrath of storm swept by,
The thunder crashed above her, the rain hissed,
Its million footsteps pattered on the roof. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1050:Our dead past round our future's ankles clings
And drags back the new nature's glorious stride,
Or from its buried corpse old ghosts arise, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1051:This world is in love with its own ignorance,
Its darkness turns away from the saviour light,
It gives the cross in payment for the crown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1052:An arrow leaping through eternity
Suddenly shot from the tense bow of Time,
A ray returning to its parent sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1053:Thy soul is a brief flower by the gardener Mind
Created in thy matter's terrain plot;
It perishes with the plant on which it grows. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
,#KEYS
1054:Agents of darkness imitating light,
Spirits obscure and moving things obscure,
Unwillingly they serve a mightier Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1055:An ocean of electric Energy
Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles
Constructing by their dance this solid scheme, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1056:Here rapture was a common incident;
The lovelinesses of whose captured thrill
Our human pleasure is a fallen thread, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1057:There Mind, a splendid sun of vision's rays,
Shaped substance by the glory of its thoughts
And moved amidst the grandeur of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1058:To music that can immortalise the mind
And make the heart wide as infinity
Listened, and captured the inaudible
Cadences that awake the occult ear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1059:A light was with him, an invisible hand
Was laid upon the error and the pain
Till it became a quivering ecstasy,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1060:A mighty victory or a mighty fall,
A throne in heaven or a pit in hell,
The dual Energy they have justified ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1061:Appealing to the soul and not the eye
Beauty lived there at home in her own house,
There all was beautiful by its own right
And needed not the splendour of a robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
1062:At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow round the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change Time's dragon base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
1063:Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all;
Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme
That all in thee may reach its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1064:He sees in all things strangely fashioned here
The unwelcome jest of a deceiving Force,
A parable of Maya and her might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1065:If he could leave his limits he would be safe:
He sees but cannot mount to his greater heavens;
Even winged, he sinks back to his native soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1066:Only religion in this bankruptcy
Presents its dubious riches to our hearts
Or signs unprovisioned cheques on the Beyond: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1067:This mind is a dynamic small machine
Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out,
With raw material drawn from the outside world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1068:But only when we break through Matter's wall
In that spiritual vastness can we stand
Where we can live the masters of our world ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1069:Our tasks are given, we are but instruments;
Nothing is all our own that we create:
The Power that acts in us is not our force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1070:This world is a vast unbroken totality,
A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers;
God's summits look back on the mute Abyss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1071:Trivial amusements stimulate and waste
The energy given to him to grow and be.
His little hour is spent in little things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1072:At the beginning of each far-spread plane
Pervading with her power the cosmic suns
She reigns, inspirer of its multiple works
And thinker of the symbol of its scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
1073:Out of a slow confused embroiled self-search
Mind grew to a clarity cut out, precise,
A gleam enclosed in a stone ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1074:Reconstitute the perfect word, unite
The Alpha and the Omega in one sound;
Then shall the Spirit and Nature be at one.
Two are the ends of the mysterious plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1075:The world creates itself invincibly;
For its body is the body of the Lord
And in its heart stands Virat, King of Kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1076:A few can climb to an unperishing sun,
Or live on the edges of the mystic moon
And channel to earth-mind the wizard ray. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1077:A fire of passion burned in spirit-depths,
A constant touch of sweetness linked all hearts,
The throb of one adoration's single bliss
In a rapt ether of undying love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
1078:Ananke's engines organising Chance,
Channels perverse of a stupendous Will,
Tools of the Unknown who use us as their tools, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1079:I made the worlds my net, each joy a mesh.
A Hunger amorous of its suffering prey,
Life that devours, my image see in things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1080:Insatiate seeker, he has all to learn:
He has exhausted now life's surface acts,
His being's hidden realms remain to explore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1081:The shadowy keepers of our deathless past
Have made our fate the child of our own acts,
And from the furrows laboured by our will
We reap the fruit of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
1082:The troglodytes of the subconscious Mind,
Ill-trained slow stammering interpreters
Only of their small task's routine aware ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1083:This great perplexed and discontented world,
This haunt of Ignorance, this home of Pain:
There are pitched desire's tents, grief's headquarters. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1084:A fateful prison wall
Where men condemned wake through the creeping hours
Counted by the tollings of an ominous bell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1085:A giant order was discovered here
Of which the tassel and extended fringe
Are the scant stuff of our material lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1086:A light not born of sun or moon nor fire,
A light that dwelt within and saw within
Shedding an intimate visibility,
Made secrecy more revealing than the word: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1087:Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face;
Night's dusk tiara was his matted hair,
The ashes of the pyre his forehead's sign. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1088:Hewn, quartered on the scaffold as he falls,
His crucified voice proclaims, 'I, I am God;'
'Yes, all is God,' peals back Heaven's deathless call. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1089:It was a world of sorrow and of hate,
Sorrow with hatred for its lonely joy,
Hatred with others' sorrow as its feast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1090:Mind is a mediator divinity:
Its powers can undo all Nature's work:
Mind can suspend or change earth's concrete law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1091:Non-Being's night could never have been saved
If Being had not plunged into the dark
Carrying with it its triple mystic cross. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1092:Only when thou hast climbed above thy mind
And liv'st in the calm vastness of the One
Can love be eternal in the eternal Bliss
And love divine replace the human tie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1093:The kingdom of the animal self arose,
Where deed is all and mind is still half-born
And the heart obeys a dumb unseen control. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1094:Above the birth of body and of thought
Our spirit's truth lives in the naked self
And from that height, unbound, surveys the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1095:A divinising stream possessed his veins,
His body's cells awoke to spirit sense,
Each nerve became a burning thread of joy:
Tissue and flesh partook beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
1096:A sight withdrawn in the concentrated heart
Could pierce behind the screen of Time's results
And the rigid cast and shape of visible things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1097:Idols of an oblique divinity,
They wore the heads of animal or troll,
Assumed ears of the faun, the satyr's hoof,
Or harboured the demoniac in their gaze. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1098:In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
And limits his eternity by the hours
And the blind Void struggles to live and see, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1099:saw the signature and fiery seal
Of Wisdom on the dim Power's hooded work
Who builds in Ignorance the steps of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1100:The daemons of the unknown overshadow his mind
Casting their dreams into live moulds of thought,
The moulds in which his mind builds out its world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1101:Thinking-mind
There throned on concentration's native seat
He opens that third mysterious eye in man,
The Unseen's eye that looks at the unseen, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1102:World-naked hermits with their matted hair
Immobile as the passionless great hills
Around them grouped like thoughts of some vast mood
Awaiting the Infinite's behest to end. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
1103:A high and dazzling limit shines above,
A black and blinding border rules below:
His mind is closed between two firmaments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1104:All here is dreamed or doubtfully exists,
But who the dreamer is and whence he looks
Is still unknown or only a shadowy guess. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1105:Because there dwelt the Eternal's vast Idea
And his dynamic will in men and things,
So only could the enormous scene begin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1106:The saviour creeds that cannot save themselves,
But perish in the strangling hands of the years,
Discarded from man's thought, proved false by Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1107:A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:
His nature we must put on as he put ours;
We are sons of God and must be even as he:
His human portion, we must grow divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1108:A Nature that denied the eternal Truth
In the vain braggart freedom of its thought
Hoped to abolish God and reign alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1109:Expansion and contraction's mystic act
Created touch and friction in the void,
Into abstract emptiness brought clash and clasp: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1110:From Matter's plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
1111:In booths of sin and night-repairs of vice
Styled infamies of the body's concupiscence
And sordid imaginations etched in flesh,
Turned lust into a decorative art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1112:Invents creation's paradox profound;
Spiritual thought is crammed in Matter's forms,
Unseen it throws out a dumb energy
And works a miracle by a machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
1113:If men were not and all were brilliant gods,
The mediating stair would then be lost
By which the spirit awake in Matter winds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1114:Life's meaning
A mighty life-self with its inner powers
Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life;
It can graft upon our crawl two puissant wings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1115:That lives within us by ourselves unseen;
Only sometimes a holier influence comes,
A tide of mightier surgings bears our lives
And a diviner Presence moves the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1116:The radiant world of the everlasting Truth
Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
Above the golden Overmind's shimmering ridge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1117:A calmness neared as of the approach of God,
A light of musing trance lit soil and sky
And an identity and ecstasy
Filled meditation's solitary heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1118:A dull indifference replaces fire
Or an endearing habit imitates love:
An outward and uneasy union lasts
Or the routine of a life's compromise: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1119:Ascending and descending twixt life's poles
The seried kingdoms of the graded Law
Plunged from the Everlasting into Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1120:A thunder rolling mid the hills of God,
Tireless, severe is their tremendous Voice:
Exceeding us, to exceed ourselves they call
And bid us rise incessantly above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
1121:Broke into the cave where coiled World-Energy sleeps
And smote the thousand-hooded serpent Force
That blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1122:Content abide not with one conquered realm;
Adventure all to make the whole world thine,
To break into greater kingdoms turn thy force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1123:Light flung the photon's swift revealing spark
And showed, in the minuteness of its flash
Imaged, this cosmos of apparent things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1124:The malignancy of hostile Powers
Puts craftily back the clock of destiny
And mightier seems than the eternal Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1125:There every thought and feeling is an act,
And every act a symbol and a sign,
And every symbol hides a living power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1126:All flowed immeasurably to one sea:
All living forms became its atom homes.
A Panergy that harmonised all life
Held now existence in its vast control; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
1127:It imitates the Godhead it denies,
Puts on his figure and assumes his face.
A Manichean creator and destroyer,
This can abolish man, annul his world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1128:Nature's Process
A nearness thrilled of the spirit to its source
And deepest things seemed obvious, close and true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1129:The middle path is made for thinking man.
To choose his steps by reason's vigilant light,
To choose his path among the many paths
Is given him, for each his difficult goal ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1130:Then suddenly there came on her the change
Which in tremendous moments of our lives
Can overtake sometimes the human soul
And hold it up towards its luminous source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#KEYS
1131:There beat a throb of living interchange:
Being felt being even when afar
And consciousness replied to consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1132:There is a truth to know, a work to do;
Her play is real; a Mystery he fulfils:
There is a plan in the Mother's deep world-whim,
A purpose in her vast and random game. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1133:These static objects in the cosmic dance
That are but Energy's self-repeating whorls
Prolonged by the spirit of the brooding Void, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1134:Truths they could find and hold but not the one Truth:
The Highest was to them unknowable.
By knowing too much they missed the whole to be known: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1135:Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,
The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths
That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars
And saw the spaces ready for her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
1136:Ever since consciousness was born on earth,
Life is the same in insect, ape and man,
Its stuff unchanged, its way the common route. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1137:God must be born on earth and be as man
That man being human may grow even as God.
He who would save the world must be one with the world ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1138:He sang the Inconscient and its secret self,
Its power omnipotent knowing not what it does,
All-shaping without will or thought or sense,
Its blind unerring occult mystery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1139:I am the giver of the bowl of rice,
I am the worshipped Angel of the House.
I am in all that suffers and that cries. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1140:If something great awakes, too frail his pitch
To reveal its zenith tension of delight,
His thought to eternise its ephemeral soar, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1141:In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1142:O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe,
Creatrix, the Eternals artist Bride,
Linger not long with thy transmuting hand.
Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
1143:Though Necessity dons the garb of Chance,
Hidden in the blind shifts of Fate she keeps
The slow calm logic of Infinity's pace
And the inviolate sequence of its will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
1144:A circuit ending where it first began
Is dubbed the forward and eternal march
Of progress on perfection's unknown road. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1145:A specialist of logic's hard machine
Imposed its rigid artifice on the soul;
An aide of the inventor intellect,
It cut Truth into manageable bits ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1146:Godheads live who care not for the world
And share not in the toil of Nature's powers:
Absorbed in their self-ecstasy they dwell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1147:Invading the small sensitive flower of the throat
They brought their mute unuttered resonances
To kindle the figures of a heavenly speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1148:It wore the guise of an indiscernible Vast,
Or was a subtle kernel in the soul:
A distant greatness left it huge and dim,
A mystic closeness shut it sweetly in: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#KEYS
1149:An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart.
A vast and nameless fear dragged at her nerves
As drags a wild beast its half-slaughtered prey; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1150:An ancient tale of woe can move us still,
We keep the ache of breasts that breathe no more,
We are shaken by the sight of human pain,
And share the miseries that others feel. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1151:An ear of mind withdrawn from the outward's rhymes
Discovered the seed-sounds of the eternal Word,
The rhythm and music heard that built the worlds, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1152:A new aesthesis of Inferno's art
That trained the mind to love what the soul hates,
Imposed allegiance on the quivering nerves
And forced the unwilling body to vibrate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1153:A purpose mingled with the whims of Time,
A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
And Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1154:In the navel lotus' broad imperial range
Its proud ambitions and its master lusts
Were tamed into instruments of a great calm sway
To do a work of God on earthly soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1155:Opponents of the Highest they have come
Out of their world of soulless thought and power
To serve by enmity the cosmic scheme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1156:The months had fed the passion of the sun
And now his burning breath assailed the soil.
The tiger heats prowled through the fainting earth;
All was licked up as by a lolling tongue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#KEYS
1157:What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion's gleams,
A Will expressive of soul's deity,
A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1158:And all was centred in a single view
As when by distance separate scenes grow one
And a harmony is made of hues at war. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1159:A Woman sat in gold and purple sheen,
Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt,
Her feet upon a couchant lion's back. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1160:Maya is a veil of the Absolute;
A Truth occult has made this mighty world:
The Eternal's wisdom and self-knowledge act
In ignorant Mind and in the body's steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
1161:The great Gods use the pain of human hearts
As a sharp axe to hew their cosmic road:
They squander lavishly men's blood and tears
For a moment's purpose in their fateful work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1162:An Energy of perpetual transience makes
The journey from which no return is sure,
The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1163:Arisen beneath a triple mystic heaven
The seven immortal earths were seen, sublime:
Homes of the blest released from death and sleep ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1164:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1165:At last there wakes in us a witness Soul
That looks at truths unseen and scans the Unknown;
Then all assumes a new and marvellous face: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1166:Each leaned on the occult Inconscient's power,
The fountain of its needed Ignorance,
Archmason of the limits by which it lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1167:In God's supreme withdrawn and timeless hush
A seeing Self and potent Energy met;
The Silence knew itself and thought took form:
Self-made from the dual power creation rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
1168:In the narrow nether centre's petty parts
Its childish game of daily dwarf desires
Was changed into a sweet and boisterous play,
A romp of little gods with life in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1169:In this whirl and sprawl through infinite vacancy
The Spirit became Matter and lay in the whirl,
A body sleeping without sense or soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1170:Voice of the unknowable
This void held more than all the teeming worlds,
This blank felt more than all that Time has borne,
This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1171:Voices that came from unseen waiting worlds
Uttered the syllables of the Unmanifest
To clothe the body of the mystic Word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1172:Across the cosmic field through narrow lanes
Asking a scanty dole from Fortune's hands
And garbed in beggar's robes there walks the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1173:All here is a mystery of contraries:
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light,
Suffering some secret rapture's tragic mask
And death an instrument of perpetual life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
1174:Behind her an ineffable Presence stood:
Her reign received their mystic influences,
Their lion-forces crouched beneath her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1175:Man only sees the cosmic surfaces.
Then wondering what may lie hid from the sense
A little way he delves to depths below: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1176:The great hammer-beats of a pent-up world-heart
Burst open the narrow dams that keep us safe
Against the forces of the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1177:But on a failing edge of dumb lost space
Still a great dragon body sullenly loomed;
Adversary of the slow struggling Dawn
Defending its ground of tortured mystery, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
1178:Climbed back from Time into undying Self,
Up a golden ladder carrying the soul,
Tying with diamond threads the Spirit's extremes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1179:Her body's thoughts climbed from her conscious limbs
And carried their yearnings to its mystic crown
Where Nature's murmurs meet the Ineffable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1180:His kindness an investment for return,
His altruism is ego's other face:
He serves the world that him the world may serve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1181:The harp of God falls mute, its call to bliss
Discouraged fails mid earth's unhappy sounds;
The strings of the siren Ecstasy cry not here
Or soon are silenced in the human heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1182:Though a dress of blind and devious chance
Is laid upon the work of all-wise Fate,
Our acts interpret an omniscient Force
That dwells in the compelling stuff of things, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#KEYS
1183:A Consciousness that knows not its own truth,
A vagrant hunter of misleading dawns,
Between the being's dark and luminous ends
Moves here in a half-light that seems the whole: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1184:A sumptuous chamber of the spirit's sleep
At first she made, a deep interior room,
Where he slumbers as if a forgotten guest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1185:Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls;
Earth is the heroic spirit's battlefield,
The forge where the Archmason shapes his works. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1186:Love that was once an animal's desire,
Then a sweet madness in the rapturous heart,
An ardent comradeship in the happy mind,
Becomes a wide spiritual yearning's space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1187:Obstructing the gods' open ways he makes
His own estate of the earth's air and light;
A monopolist of the world-energy,
He dominates the life of common men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1188:The hierarchy of the ordered Powers,
The high changeless values, the peaked eminences,
The privileged aristocracy of Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1189:Then a sound pealed through that dead monstrous realm:
Vast like the surge in a tired swimmer's ears,
Clamouring, a fatal iron-hearted roar, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1190:To catch the boundless in a net of birth,
To cast the spirit into physical form,
To lend speech and thought to the Ineffable; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1191:Above the spirit cased in mortal sense
Are superconscious realms of heavenly peace,
Below, the Inconscient's sullen dim abyss,
Between, behind our life, the deathless Rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#KEYS
1192:A thinking mind had come to lift life's moods,
The keen-edged tool of a Nature mixed and vague,
An intelligence half-witness, half-machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1193:It seized on speech to give those flamings shape,
Made beat the heart of wisdom in a word
And spoke immortal things through mortal lips. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
1194:Still have we parts that grow towards the light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
And Eldorados of splendor and ecstacy
And temples to the godhead none can see
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1195:The music born in Matter's silences
Plucked nude out of the Ineffable's fathomlessness
The meaning it had held but could not voice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1196:the troubled stream where leaps a blind heart-pulse
And the nerve-beat of feeling wakes in sense
Dividing Matter's sleep from conscious Mind, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1197:This sole is real in apparent things,
Even upon earth the spirit is life's key,
But her solid outsides nowhere bear its trace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1198:A love that bore the cross of pain with joy
Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,
Made happy the weight of long unending Time,
The secret caught of God's felicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
1199:Although defeated, life must struggle on;
Always she sees a crown she cannot grasp;
Her eyes are fixed beyond her fallen state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1200:Ascending out of the limiting breadths of mind,
They shall discover the world's huge design
And step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1201:I am Prometheus under the vulture's beak,
Man the discoverer of the undying fire,
In the flame he kindled burning like a moth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1202:In his fragile tenement he grows Nature's lord.
In him Matter wakes from its long obscure trance,
In him earth feels the Godhead drawing near. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1203:In the smothering stress of this stupendous Nought
Mind could not think, breath could not breathe, the soul
Could not remember or feel itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1204:Only if God assumes the human mind
And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak
And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride,
Can he help man to grow into the God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1205:The Inconscient could not read without man's mind
The mystery of the world its sleep has made:
Man is its key to unlock a conscious door. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1206:A border sovereign is the occult Force.
A threshold guardian of the earth-scene's Beyond,
She has canalised the outbreaks of the Gods ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1207:All forms are tokens of some veiled idea
Whose covert purpose lurks from mind's pursuit,
Yet is a womb of sovereign consequence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1208:All seems in vain, yet endless is the game.
Impassive turns the ever-circling Wheel,
Life has no issue, death brings no release. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1209:All we attempt in this imperfect world,
Looks forward or looks back beyond Time's gloss
To its pure idea and firm inviolate type
In an absolute creation's flawless skill. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
1210:Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
Casting a javelin regard in front,
Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1211:It was the hour before the Gods awake.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence marge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 01.01,#KEYS
1212:Our life's uncertain way winds circling on,
Our mind's unquiet search asks always light,
Till they have learned their secret in their source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1213:The day-bringer must walk in darkest night.
He who would save the world must share its pain.
If he knows not grief, how shall he find grief's cure? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1214:He who now stares at the world with ignorant eyes
Hardly from the Inconscient's night aroused,
That look at images and not at Truth,
Can fill those orbs with an immortal's sight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
1215:In the passage of the lotus of the throat
Where speech must rise and the expressing mind
And the heart's impulse run towards word and act,
A glad uplift and a new working came. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1216:The deathless Two-in-One,
A single being in two bodies clasped,
A diarchy of two united souls,
Seated absorbed in deep creative joy;
Their trance of bliss sustained the mobile world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
1217:Truth-world
Two beings he was, one wide and free above,
One struggling, bound, intense, its portion here.
A tie between them still could bridge two worlds; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1218:A huge inertness is the world's defence,
Even in change is treasured changelessness;
Into inertia revolution sinks,
In a new dress the old resumes its role; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1219:Her eternal Lover is her action's cause;
For him she leaped forth from the unseen Vasts
To move here in a stark unconscious world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1220:Home-Earth
Aloof, its influence entered everywhere
And left a cloven hoof-mark on the breast;
A twisted heart and a strange sombre smile
Mocked at the sinister comedy of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1221:Overtaken by the spirit's sudden spell,
Smitten by a divine passion's alchemy,
Pain's self compelled transformed to potent joy
Curing the antithesis twixt heaven and hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1222:Science tears out Nature's occult powers,
Enormous djinns who serve a dwarf's small needs,
Exposes the sealed minutiae of her art
And conquers her by her own captive force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1223:She turned to the face of a veiled voiceless Truth
Hid in the dumb recesses of the heart
Or waiting beyond the last peak climbed by Thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
1224:Doom is a passage for our inborn force,
Our ordeal is the hidden spirit's choice,
Ananke is our being's own decree. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1225:I have been pity, leaning over pain
And the tender smile that heals the wounded heart
And sympathy making life less hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1226:I smite the Titan who bestrides the world
And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den.
I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1227:Only if God assumes the human mind
And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak
And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride,
Can he help man to grow into the God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1228:Our great forefathers in those splendours moved;
Termless in power and satisfied of light,
They enjoyed the sense of all for which we strive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1229:The hearts of men are amorous of clay-kin
And bear not spirits lone and high who bring
Fire-intimations from the deathless planes
Too vast for souls not born to mate with heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
1230:World-creators
Inaudible to our deaf mortal ears
The wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant
To which life strives to fit our rhyme-beats here ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1231:Across the burning languor of the soil
Paced Summer with his pomp of violent noons
And stamped his tyranny of torrid light
And the blue seal of a great burnished sky. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1232:Artificer of Ideal and Idea,
Mind, child of Matter in the womb of Life,
To higher levels persuades his parents' steps:
Inapt, they follow ill the daring guide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1233:But still there lacked the last transcendent power
And Matter still slept empty of its Lord.
The Spirit was saved, the body lost and mute
Lived still with Death and ancient Ignorance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
1234:His earth, dowered with celestial competence,
Harboured a power that needed now no more
To cross the closed customs-line of mind and flesh
And smuggle godhead into humanity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1235:His spirit by spiritual ego sink,
Or his soul dream shut in sainthood's brilliant cell
Where only a bright shadow of God can come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1236:Inner Change (Effect)
This is the tragedy of the inner death
When forfeited is the divine element
And only a mind and body live to die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1237:Love must not cease to live upon the earth;
For Love is the bright link twixt earth and heaven,
Love is the far Transcendent's angel here;
Love is man's lien on the Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1238:Radha-krishna
The radiant world of the everlasting Truth
Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
Above the golden Overmind's shimmering ridge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1239:Tat savitur varam rupam jyotih parasya dhimahi
yannah satyena dipayet.1
1. Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitri, on the light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo's translation, Sri Aurobindo Centenary Library, vol. 26, p. 513,#KEYS
1240:Without wisdom power is like a wind,
It can breathe upon the heights and kiss the sky,
It cannot build the extreme eternal things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1241:How shall the mighty Mother her calm delight
Keep fragrant in this narrow fragile vase,
Or lodge her sweet unbroken ecstasy
In hearts which earthly sorrow can assail ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1242:On heights unreached by mind's most daring soar,
Upon a dangerous edge of failing Time
The soul draws back into its deathless Self;
Man's knowledge becomes God's supernal Ray. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1243:On his long way through Time and Circumstance
The grey-hued riddling nether shadow-Sphinx,
Her dreadful paws upon the swallowing sands,
Awaits him armed with the soul-slaying word: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
1244:Poured its maze of tangled charm
And heady draught of Nature's primitive joy
And the fire and mystery of forbidden delight
Drunk from the world-libido's bottomless well. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1245:The life that wins its aim asks greater aims,
The life that fails and dies must live again;
Till it has found itself it cannot cease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1246:There meet and clasp the eternal opposites,
There pain becomes a violent fiery joy;
Evil turns back to its original good,
And sorrow lies upon the breasts of Bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1247:There was a separateness of soul from soul:
An inner wall of silence could be built,
An armour of conscious might protect and shield; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1248:Whether for Heaven or Hell they must wage war:
Warriors of Good, they serve a shining cause
Or are Evil's soldiers in the pay of Sin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1249:A divine pity on the peaks of the world,
A spirit touched by the grief of all that lives,
She looked out far and saw from inner mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1250:A last high world was seen where all worlds meet;
In its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,
The light began of the Trinity supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1251:A pure Thought-Mind surveyed the cosmic act.
Archangel of a white transcending realm,
It saw the world from solitary heights
Luminous in a remote and empty air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1252:Herds of the Sun
Thus streamed down from the realm of early Light
Ethereal thinkings into Matter's world;
Its gold-horned herds trooped into earth's cave-heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1253:In that fair subtle realm behind our own
The form is all, and physical gods are kings.
The inspiring Light plays in fine boundaries;
A faultless beauty comes by Nature's grace; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
1254:Then suddenly a luminous finger fell
On all things seen or touched or heard or felt
And showed his mind that nothing could be known;
That must be reached from which all knowledge comes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
1255:This evil Nature housed in human hearts,
A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest:
The soul that harbours it it can dislodge,
Expel the householder, possess the house. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1256:A chaos of little sensibilities
Gathered round a small ego's pin-point head;
In it a sentient creature found its poise,
It moved and lived a breathing, thinking whole. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1257:He watched in the alchemist radiance of her suns
The crimson outburst of one secular flower
On the tree-of-sacrifice of spiritual love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1258:It drew from sight and sound spiritual power,
Made sense a road to reach the intangible:
It thrilled with the supernal influences
That build the substance of life's deeper soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods#KEYS
1259:Its glimmerings lighted with the abstract word
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
I could not live the truth it spoke and thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#KEYS
1260:The glory of the integer of his soul.
A union of the Real with the unique,
A gaze of the Alone from every face,
The presence of the Eternal in the hours
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
1261:An inconclusive play is Reason's toil.
Each strong idea can use her as its tool;
Accepting every brief she pleads her case.
Open to every thought, she cannot know. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1262:Death is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride
The soul must take to cross from birth to birth,
A grey defeat pregnant with victory,
A whip to lash us towards our deathless state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#KEYS
1263:Feet (Mother's)
A giant drop of the Bliss unknowable
Overwhelmed his limbs and round his soul became
A fiery ocean of felicity;
He foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1264:If Mind is all, renounce the hope of bliss;
If Mind is all, renounce the hope of Truth.
For Mind can never touch the body of Truth
And Mind can never see the soul of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1265:Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand,
Only when infinity weds the finite's thought,
Can man be free from himself and live with God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1266:Winter and Dew-time laid their calm cool hands
On Nature's bosom still in a half sleep
And deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease
The tranquil beauty of the waning year. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1267:For the spirit is eternal and unmade
And not by thinking was its greatness born,
And not by thinking can its knowledge come.
It knows itself and in itself it lives, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1268:He stood erect among his brute compeers,
He built life new, measured the universe,
Opposed his fate and wrestled with unseen Powers,
Conquered and used the laws that rule the world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1269:He would stamp his single figure on the world,
Obsess the world's rumours with his single name.
His moments centre the vast universe.
He sees his little self as very God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1270:Illumined theocracies of the seeing soul
Throned in the power of the Transcendent's ray.
A vision of grandeurs, a dream of magnitudes
In sun-bright kingdoms moved with regal gait:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and the Fall of Life,#KEYS
1271:Into a simplest movement she could bring
A oneness with earth's glowing robe of light,
A lifting up of common acts by love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1272:The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,
The rapture that the gods sustain he bore.
Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves
And turned his strength into undying power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1273:A pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds
For ever stooped to hammer fact and form.
Absorbed and cabined in external sight,
It takes its stand on Nature's solid base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1274:All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
1275:His fate within him shapes his acts and rules;
Its face and form already are born in him,
Its parentage is in his secret soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1276:In the deep place where once the Serpent slept,
There came a grip on Matter's giant powers
For large utilities in life's little space;
A firm ground was made for Heaven's descending might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1277:Then first appeared the malady of mind,
Its pang of thought, its quest for the aim of life.
It twisted into forms of good and ill
The frank simplicity of the animal's acts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1278:A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes;
Its smallest parts are here philosophies
Challenging with their detailed immensity,
Each figuring an omniscient scheme of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1279:Ascetic voices called of lonely seers
On mountain summits or by river banks
Or from the desolate heart of forest glades
Seeking heaven's rest or the spirit's worldless peace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1280:Each thought is a gold coin with bright alloy
And error and truth are its obverse and reverse:
This is the imperial mintage of the brain
And of this kind is all its currency. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1281:He saw the Perfect in their starry homes
Wearing the glory of a deathless form,
Lain in the arms of the Eternal's peace,
Rapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1282:In the sealed hermetic heart, the happy core,
Unmoved behind this outer shape of death
The eternal Entity prepares within
Its matter of divine felicity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1283:Into thought's narrow limits she has come;
Her greatness she has suffered to be pressed
Into the little cabin of the Idea,
The closed room of a lonely thinker's grasp: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1284:Mind's quick-paced thoughts floated from their high necks,
A glowing splendour as of an irised mane,
A parure of pure intuition's light;
Its flame-foot gallop they could imitate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1285:The earth's uplook to a remote Unknown
Is a preface only of the epic climb
Of human soul from its flat earthly state
To the discovery of a greater self
And the far gleam of an eternal Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1286:Heaven-fire laughed in the corners of her eyes;
Her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength,
She menaced the triumph of the nether gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1287:One day the Face must burn out through the mask.
Our ignorance is Wisdom's chrysalis,
Our error weds new knowledge on its way,
Its darkness is a blackened knot of light;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1288:The superman shall wake in mortal man
And manifest the hidden demigod
Or grow into the God-Light and God-Force
Revealing the secret deity in the cave. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1289:A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
A mute Delight regards Time's countless works:
To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room,
To house God's joy in self our souls were born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1290:As one about to die
Looks back upon the sunlit fields of life
Where he too ran and sported with the rest,
Lifting his head above the huge dark stream
Into whose depths he must for ever plunge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Death in the Forest,#KEYS
1291:In its vast ambit of ideal Space
Where beauty and mightiness walk hand in hand,
The Spirit's truths take form as living Gods
And each can build a world in its own right. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1292:Nabhi-Padma (Navel-lotus)
Around her navel lotus clustering close
Her large sensations of the teeming worlds
Streamed their dumb movements of the unformed Idea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1293:There Knowledge called him to her mystic peaks
Where thought is held in a vast internal sense
And feeling swims across a sea of peace
And vision climbs beyond the reach of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
1294:Even the smallest meanest work became
A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament,
An offering to the self of the great world
Or a service to the One in each and all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1295:Not only is there hope for godheads pure;
The violent and darkened deities
Leaped down from the one breast in rage to find
What the white gods had missed: they too are safe; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1296:Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,
It is greater than its earthly instrument:
The godhead crammed into mind's narrow space
Escapes on every side into some vast ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1297:To man's righteousness this is his cosmic crime,
Almighty beyond good and evil to dwell
Leaving the good to their fate in a wicked world
And evil to reign in this enormous scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1298:Armies of revolution crossed the time-field,
The clouds' unending march besieged the world,
Tempests' pronunciamentos claimed the sky
And thunder drums announced the embattled gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1299:A traveller from unquiet neighbouring seas,
The dense-maned monsoon rode neighing through earth's hours:
Thick now the emissary javelins:
Enormous lightnings split the horizon's rim ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1300:A conscious soul in the Inconscient's world,
Hidden behind our thoughts and hopes and dreams,
An indifferent Master signing Nature's acts
Leaves the vicegerent mind a seeming king. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1301:He listens for Inspiration's postman knock
And takes delivery of the priceless gift
A little spoilt by the receiver mind
Or mixed with the manufacture of his brain; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1302:O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe;
Consent to hide thy royalty of bliss
Lest Time and Fate find out its avenues
And beat with thunderous knock upon thy gates. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1303:Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves
And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;
His advent was a fire of irised hues,
His arms were a circle of the arrival of joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1304:There Matter is soul's result and not its cause.
In a contrary balance to earth's truth of things
The gross weighs less, the subtle counts for more; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1305:This bright perfection of her inner state
Poured overflowing into her outward scene,
Made beautiful dull common natural things
And action wonderful and time divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1306:This mind no silence knows nor dreamless sleep,
In the incessant circling of its steps
Thoughts tread for ever through the listening brain;
It toils like a machine and cannot stop. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1307:Nature and Fate compel his free-will's choice.
But greater spirits this balance can reverse
And make the soul the artist of its fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1308:The Truth-light in the cavern heart
That burns unwitnessed in the altar crypt
Behind the still velamen's secrecy
Companioning the Godhead of the shrine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1309:All is not here a blinded Nature's task:
A Word, a Wisdom watches us from on high,
A Witness sanctioning her will and works,
An Eye unseen in the unseeing vast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1310:And as he sang the demons wept with joy
Foreseeing the end of their long dreadful task
And the defeat for which they hoped in vain,
And glad release from their self-chosen doom
And return into the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1311:A smile came rippling out in her wide eyes,
Its confident felicity's messenger
As if the first beam of the morning sun
Rippled along two wakened lotus-pools. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1312:It is finished, the dread mysterious sacrifice,
Offered by God's martyred body for the world;
Gethsemane and Calvary are his lot,
He carries the cross on which man's soul is nailed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1313:Like men who lengthen out departure's pain,
Unwilling to separate sorrowful clinging hands,
Unwilling to see for the last time a face, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1314:Man's house of life holds not the gods alone:
There are occult Shadows, there are tenebrous Powers,
Inhabitants of life's ominous nether rooms,
A shadowy world's stupendous denizens. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1315:The animal's thoughtless joy is left behind,
Care and reflection burden his daily walk;
He has risen to greatness and to discontent,
He is awake to the Invisible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1316:Impenetrable, a mystery recondite
Is the vast plan of which we are a part;
Its harmonies are discords to our view
Because we know not the great theme they serve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1317:Man's hopes and longings build the journeying wheels
That bear the body of his destiny
And lead his blind will towards an unknown goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1318:Nothing is wholly dead that once had lived;
In dim tunnels of the world's being and in ours
The old rejected nature still survives;
The corpses of its slain thoughts raise their heads ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1319:The restless nether members tire of peace;
A nostalgia of old little works and joys,
A need to call back small familiar selves,
To tread the accustomed and inferior way, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1320:When the hour of the Divine draws near
The Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time
And God be born into the human clay
In forms made ready by your human lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1321:At last he hears a chanting on the heights
And the far speaks and the unknown grows near:
He crosses the boundaries of the unseen
And passes over the edge of mortal sight
To a new vision of himself a ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1322:Giant's Wine
Gifts I can give to soothe thy wounded life.
The pacts which transient beings make with fate,
And the wayside sweetness earth-bound hearts would pluck, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1323:One among many thousands never touched,
Engrossed in the external world's design,
Is chosen by a secret witness Eye
And driven by a pointing hand of Light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1324:The kings of evil and the kings of good,
Appellants at the reason's judgment seat,
Proclaimed the gospel of their opposites,
And all believed themselves spokesmen of God: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1325:The war of thoughts that fathers the universe,
The clash of forces struggling to prevail
In the tremendous shock that lights a star
As in the building of a grain of dust, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1326:This world was not built with random bricks of Chance,
A blind god is not destiny's architect;
A conscious power has drawn the plan of life,
There is a meaning in each curve and line. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1327:Where is Truth and when was her footfall heard
Amid the endless clamour of Time's mart
And which is her voice amid the thousand cries
That cross the listening brain and cheat the soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1328:Yet your least stumblings are foreseen above.
Infallibly the curves of life are drawn
Following the stream of Time through the unknown;
They are led by a clue the calm immortals keep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1329:It hears the Word to which our hearts were deaf,
It sees through the blaze in which our thoughts grow blind;
It drinks from the naked breasts of glorious Truth,
It learns the secrets of eternity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1330:This huge world unintelligibly turns
In the shadow of a mused Inconscience;
It hides a key to inner meanings missed,
It locks in our hearts a voice we cannot hear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1331:Wait patient of the brittle bars of form
Making division your delightful means
Of happy oneness rapturously enhanced
By attraction in the throbbing air between. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1332:Often our thoughts are finished cosmic wares
Admitted by a silent office gate
And passed through the subconscient's galleries,
Then issued in Time's mart as private make. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1333:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones,
The murmur of an occult happiness,
An exultation in the depths of sleep,
A heart of bliss within a world of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1334:This too must now be overpassed and left,
As all must be until the Highest is gained
In whom the world and self grow true and one:
Till That is reached our journeying cannot cease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1335:War making nought the sweet smiling calm of life,
Battle and rapine, ruin and massacre
Are still the fierce pastimes of man's warring tribes;
An idiot hour destroys what centuries made, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1336:A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.
Illumining the world's concrete images
Into significant symbols by its gloss,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1337:An animal in the instinctive herd
Pushed by life impulses, forced by common needs,
Each in his own kind saw his ego's glass;
All served the aim and action of the pack. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1338:Inspiration with her lightning feet,
A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,
Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind
Bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1339:As climbs a storeyed temple-tower to heaven
Built by the aspiring soul of man to live
Near to his dream of the Invisible.
Infinity calls to it as it dreams and climbs;
Its spire touches the apex of the world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
1340:I bow not to thee, O huge mask of death,
Black lie of night to the cowed soul of man,
Unreal, inescapable end of things,
Thou grim jest played with the immortal spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1341:Life-God
Life's visage hides life's real self from sight;
Life's secret sense is written within, above.
The thought that gives it sense lives far beyond; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1342:Mind is the leader of the body and life,
Mind the thought-driven chariot of the soul
Carrying the luminous wanderer in the night
To vistas of a far uncertain dawn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1343:Perhaps the world is an error of our sight,
A trick repeated in each flash of sense,
An unreal mind hallucinates the soul
With a stress-vision of false reality,
Or a dance of Maya veils the void Unborn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces#KEYS
1344:And yet a greater destiny may be his,
For the eternal Spirit is his truth.
He can re-create himself and all around
And fashion new the world in which he lives: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1345:His mind is a hunter upon tracks unknown;
Amusing Time with vain discovery,
He deepens with thought the mystery of his fate
And turns to song his laughter and his tears. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1346:The many-toned melody
Tirelessly throbbing through the rapturous air
Caught in the song that sways the Apsara's limbs
When she floats gleaming like a cloud of light,
A wave of joy on heaven's moonstone floor. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
1347:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange;
Our pleasure and pain are their wrestle and embrace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1348:A soul shall wake in the Inconscient's house;
The mind shall be God-vision's tabernacle,
The body intuition's instrument,
And life a channel for God's visible power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1349:The thousand-hooded serpent Force
That blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above,
Joined Matter's dumbness to the Spirit's hush
And filled earth's acts with the Spirit's silent power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1350:The waking ear of Nature heard her steps
And wideness turned to her its limitless eye,
And, scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds.
All grew a consecration and a rite.
Air was a vibrant link between earth and heaven; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:1,#KEYS
1351:A human thing on earth,
A lump of Matter, a house of closed sight,
A mind compelled to think out ignorance,
A life-force pressed into a camp of works
And the material world her limiting field. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1352:A lustre of some rapturous Infinite,
It held in the splendour of its golden laugh
Regions of the heart's happiness set free,
Intoxicated with the wine of God,
Immersed in light, perpetually divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1353:Beneath the body's crust of thickened self
A tardy fervent working in the dark,
The turbid yeast of Nature's passionate change,
Ferment of the soul's creation out of mire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1354:On meditation's mounting edge of trance
Great stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heights
Where Time's last ridges touch eternity's skies
And Nature speaks to the spirit's absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1355:And throngs of blue-black clouds crept through the sky
And rain fled sobbing over the dripping leaves
And storm became the forest's titan voice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1356:Day came, priest of a sacrifice of joy
Into the worshipping silence of her world;
He carried immortal lustre as his robe,
Trailed heaven like a purple scarf and wore
As his vermilion caste-mark a red sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1357:These wars, carnage triumphant, ruin gone mad,
The work of centuries vanishing in an hour,
The blood of the vanquished and the victor's crown
Which men to be born must pay for with their pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1358:Thus was the dire antagonist Energy born
Who mimes the eternal Mother's mighty shape
And mocks her luminous infinity
With a grey distorted silhouette in the Night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1359:A mounting endless possibility
Climbs high upon a topless ladder of dream
For ever in the Being's conscious trance.
All on that ladder mounts to an unseen end. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1360:Hate was the black archangel of that realm;
It glowed, a sombre jewel in the heart
Burning the soul with its malignant rays,
And wallowed in its fell abysm of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1361:Impeccable artists of unerring forms,
Magician builders of sound and rhythmic words,
Wind-haired Gandharvas chanted to the ear
The odes that shape the universal thought, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1362:In that absolute stillness bare and formidable
There was glimpsed an all-negating Void Supreme
That claimed its mystic Nihil's sovereign right
To cancel Nature and deny the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1363:Nude, unashamed, exulting she upraised.
Her evil face of perilous beauty and charm.
And, drawing panic to a shuddering kiss.
Twixt the magnificence of her fatal breasts.
Allured to their abyss the spirit's f ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1364:Our will labours permitted by thy will
And without thee an empty roar of storm,
A senseless whirlwind is the Titan's force
And without thee a snare the strength of gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1365:An Infant nursed on Nature's covert breast,
An Infant playing in the magic woods,
Fluting to rapture by the spirit's streams,
Awaits the hour when we shall turn to his call. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1366:But the soul grows concealed within its house;
It gives to the body its strength and magnificence;
It follows aims in an ignorant aimless world,
It lends significance to earth's meaningless life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1367:In this investiture of fleshly life
A soul that is a spark of God survives
And sometimes it breaks through the sordid screen
And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1368:To live, to love are signs of infinite things,
Love is a glory from eternity's spheres.
Abased, disfigured, mocked by baser mights
That steal his name and shape and ecstasy,
He is still the godhead by which all can change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
1369:I fear not for the angry frown of Heaven,
I flinch not from the red assault of Hell;
I crush the opposition of the gods,
Tread down a million goblin obstacles. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1370:The miraculous Nihil, origin of our souls
And source and sum of the vast world's events,
The womb and grave of thought, a cipher of God,
A zero circle of being's totality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
1371:When all thy work in human time is done
The mind of earth shall be a home of light,
The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven,
The body of earth a tabernacle of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1372:Stifled in the Inconscient's hollow dusk,
He sounded the mystery dark and bottomless
Of the enormous and unmeaning deeps
Whence struggling life in a dead universe rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1373:What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion's gleams,
A Will expressive of soul's deity,
A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed,
A Joy that drags not sorrow as its shade. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1374:Illusion lost her aggrandising lens;
As from her failing hand the measures fell,
Atomic looked the things that loomed so large.
The little ego's ring could join no more; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness#KEYS
1375:Above us dwells a superconscient God
Hidden in the mystery of his own light:
Around us is a vast of ignorance
Lit by the uncertain ray of human mind,
Below us sleeps the Inconscient dark and mute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1376:I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he
Who is nailed on the wide cross of the universe;
To enjoy my agony God built the earth,
My passion he has made his drama's theme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1377:There Good, a faithless gardener of God,
Watered with virtue the world's upas-tree
And, careful of the outward word and act,
Engrafted his hypocrite blooms on native ill. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1378:My Force is Nature that creates and slays
The hearts that hope, the limbs that long to live.
I have made man her instrument and slave,
His body I made my banquet, his life my food. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1379:O living power of the incarnate Word,
All that the Spirit has dreamed thou canst create:
Thou art the force by which I made the worlds,
Thou art my vision and my will and voice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1380:Sown in the black earth of Nature's trance,
The seed of the Spirit's blind and huge desire
From which the tree of cosmos was conceived
And spread its magic arms through a dream of space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1381:The immobile lips, the great surreal wings,
The visage masked by superconscient Sleep,
The eyes with their closed lids that see all things,
Appeared of the Architect who builds in trance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1382:Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge,
As one who sees in the World-Magician's glass
A miracled imagery of soul-scapes flee
He traversed scenes of an immortal joy
And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1383:He found the occult cave, the mystic door
Near to the well of vision in the soul,
And entered where the Wings of Glory brood
In the silent space where all is for ever known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness,#KEYS
1384:She knew herself the Beloved of the Supreme:
These Gods and Goddesses were he and she:
The Mother was she of Beauty and Delight,
The Word in Brahma's vast creating clasp,
The World-Puissance on almighty Shiva's lap, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1385:The Titan's heart is a sea of fire and force;
He exults in the death of things and ruin and fall,
He feeds his strength with his own and others' pain;
In the world's pathos and passion he takes delight, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1386:the centre in her brow
Where the mind's Lord in his control-room sits;
There throned on concentration's native seat
He opens that third mysterious eye in man,
The Unseen's eye that looks at the unseen. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1387:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre,
And none could bear but for his strength within,
Yet none would leave because of his delight.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1388:The shining Edens of the vital gods
Received him in their deathless harmonies.
All things were perfect there that flower in Time;
Beauty was there creation's native mould,
Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
1389:A thought came through draped as an outer voice.
It called not for the witness of the mind,
It spoke not to the hushed receiving heart;
It came direct to the pure perception's seat, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
1390:In vague tremendous passages of Doom
He heard the goblin Voice that guides to slay,
And faced the enchantments of the demon Sign,
And traversed the ambush of the opponent Snake. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1391:A Chance that chose a strange arithmetic
But could not bind with it the forms it made,
A multitude that could not guard its sum
Which less than zero grew and more than one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,#KEYS
1392:Imperishable, a tongue of sacrifice,
It flamed unquenched upon the central hearth
Where burns for the high houselord and his mate
The homestead's sentinel and witness fire
From which the altars of the gods are lit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1393:Nabhi-Padma (Navel-lotus)
It poured into her navel's lotus depth,
Lodged in the little life-nature's narrow home,
On the body's longings grew heaven-rapture's flower
And made desire a pure celestial flame. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1394:Serpentine in the gleam the darkness lolled,
Its black hoods jewelled with the mystic glow;
Its dull sleek folds shrank back and coiled and slid,
As though they felt all light a cruel pain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1395:A wisdom waiting on Omniscience
Sat voiceless in a vast passivity;
It judged not, measured not, nor strove to know,
But listened for the veiled all-seeing Thought
And the burden of a calm transcendent Voice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
1396:For long before earth's solid vest was forged
By the technique of the atomic Void,
A lucent envelope of self-disguise
Was woven round the secret spirit in things.
The subtle realms from those bright sheaths are made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
1397:Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven
In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign.
She brooded through her stillness on a thought
Deep-guarded by her mystic folds of light,
And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
1398:When superman is born as Nature's king
His presence shall transfigure Matter's world:
He shall light up Truth's fire in Nature's night,
He shall lay upon the earth Truth's greater law; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1399:A giant dance of Shiva tore the past;
There was a thunder as of worlds that fall;
Earth was o'errun with fire and the roar of Death
Clamouring to slay a world his hunger had made;
There was a clangour of Destruction's wings: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
1400:Contradicted by the human law,
A faith in things that are not and must be
Lives comrade of this world's delight and pain,
The child of the secret soul's forbidden desire
Born of its amour with eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1401:In the texture of our bound humanity
He felt the stark resistance huge and dumb
Of our inconscient and unseeing base,
The stubborn mute rejection in life's depths,
The ignorant No in the origin of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1402:Only were safe who kept God in their hearts:
Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
Casting a javelin regard in front,
Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, [T5],#KEYS
1403:The Fiend was visible but cloaked in light;
He seemed a helping angel from the skies:
He armed untruth with Scripture and the Law;
He deceived with wisdom, with virtue slew the soul
And led to perdition by the heavenward path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1404:The supermind shall claim the world for Light
And thrill with love of God the enamoured heart
And place Light's crown on Nature's lifted head
And found Light's reign on her unshaking base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1405:A dire administration's penal code
Making of grief and pain the common law,
Decreeing universal joylessness
Had changed life into a stoic sacrament
And torture into a daily festival. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1406:A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal's world.
On Nature's luminous tops, on the Spirit's ground,
The superman shall reign as king of life,
Make earth almost the mate and peer of heaven, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1407:Men hail in my coming the Almighty's force
Or praise with thankful tears his saviour Grace.
I smite the Titan who bestrides the world
And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1408:Passed were the pillar-posts of birth and death,
Passed was their little scene of symbol deeds,
Passed were the heavens and hells of their long road;
They had returned into the world's deep soul.
All now was gathered into pregnant rest ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
1409:Knowledge comes not to us as a guest
Called into our chamber from the outer world;
A friend and inmate of our secret self,
It hid behind our minds and fell asleep
And slowly wakes beneath the blows of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
1410:The world's senseless beauty mirrors God's delight.
That rapture's smile is secret everywhere;
It flows in the wind's breath, in the tree's sap,
Its hued magnificence blooms in leaves and flowers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1411:All-vision gathered into a single ray,
As when the eyes stare at an invisible point
Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
An apocalypse of a world of images
Enters into the kingdom of the seer.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
1412:At the dim portal of the inner life
That bars out from our depths the body's mind
And all that lives but by the body's breath,
She knocked and pressed against the ebony gate.
The living portal groaned with sullen hinge: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1413:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light.
Out of the Inconscient I build consciousness,
And lead through death to reach immortal Life.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1414:These thoughts were formed not in her listening brain,
Her vacant heart was like a stringless harp;
Impassive the body claimed not its own voice,
But let the luminous greatness through it pass. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#KEYS
1415:Lion-Forces
In a mist of secrecy wrapping the world-scene
The little deities of Time's nether act
Who work remote from Heaven's controlling eye,
Plotted, unknown to the creatures whom they move. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1416:Sciences omnipotent in vain
By which men learn of what the suns are made,
Transform all forms to serve their outward needs,
Ride through the sky and sail beneath the sea,
But learn not what they are or why they came; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1417:All-vision gathered into a single ray,
As when the eyes stare at an invisible point
Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
An apocalypse of a world of images
Enters into the kingdom of the seer. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1418:Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as the Light which is the father of all things, Surya Savitri, the Wisdom-Luminous who is the bringer-out into manifest existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, Vijnana or Gnosis, #KEYS
1419:Yes, there are happy ways near to God's sun;
But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light.
An exit is shown, a road of hard escape
From the sorrow and the darkness and the chain;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1420:Heaven had unveiled its lustre in her eyes,
Her feet were moonbeams, her face was a bright sun,
Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
To live again and feel the hands of calm. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1421:The Spirit's white neutrality became
A playground of miracles, a rendezvous
For the secret powers of a mystic Timelessness:
It made of Space a marvel house of God,
It poured through Time its works of ageless might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1422:A Mother-wisdom works in Nature's breast
To pour delight on the heart of toil and want
And press perfection on life's stumbling powers,
Impose heaven-sentience on the obscure abyss
And make dumb Matter conscious of its God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1423:A world that knows not its inhabiting Self
Labours to find its cause and need to be;
A spirit ignorant of the world it made,
Obscured by Matter, travestied by Life,
Struggles to emerge, to be free, to know and reign; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1424:Raised by some strong hand to breathe heaven-air,
They slide back to the mud from which they climbed;
In the mud of which they are made, whose law they know
They joy in safe return to a friendly base, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1425:Above them all she stands supporting all,
The sole omnipotent Goddess ever-veiled
Of whom the world is the inscrutable mask;
The ages are the footfalls of her tread,
Their happenings the figure of her thoughts,
And all creation is her endless ac ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#KEYS
1426:Our greater self of knowledge waits for us,
A supreme light in the truth-conscious Vast:
It sees from summits beyond thinking mind,
It moves in a splendid air transcending life.
It shall descend and make earth's life divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1427:The universe was not now this senseless whirl
Borne round inert on an immense machine;
It cast away its grandiose lifeless front,
A mechanism no more or work of Chance,
But a living movement of the body of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1428:Then all grew tranquil in her being's space,
Only sometimes small thoughts arose and fell
Like quiet waves upon a silent sea
Or ripples passing over a lonely pool
When a stray stone disturbs its dreaming rest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1429:This was the play of the bright gods of Thought.
Attracting into time the timeless Light,
Imprisoning eternity in the hours,
This they have planned, to snare the feet of Truth
In an aureate net of concept and of phrase ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1430:All-Knowledge packed into great wordless thoughts
Lodged in the expectant stillness of his depths
A crystal of the ultimate Absolute,
A portion of the inexpressible Truth
Revealed by silence to the silent soul.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
1431:At first was laid a strange anomalous base,
A void, a cipher of some secret Whole,
Where zero held infinity in its sum
And All and Nothing were a single term,
An eternal negative, a matrix Nought:
Into its forms the Child is ever born
Who live ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#KEYS
1432:To evoke a Person in the impersonal Void,
With the Truth-Light strike earth's massive roots of trance,
Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths
And raise a lost Power from its python sleep
That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1433:All seemed a vainly teeming vast
Upheld by a deluded Energy
To a spectator self-absorbed and mute,
Careless of the unmeaning show he watched,
Regarding the bizarre procession pass
Like one who waits for an expected end. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1434:It is the origin and the master-clue,
A Silence overhead, an inner Voice,
A living image seated in the heart,
An unwalled wideness and a fathomless point,
The truth of all these cryptic shows in space,
The Real towards which our strivings move,
The secret grandiose meaning of our lives. ||10.26|| ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:3, 10.26,#KEYS
1435:It showed the riches of the Cave
Where, by the miser traffickers of sense
Unused, guarded beneath Night's dragon paws,
In folds of velvet darkness draped they sleep
Whose priceless value could have saved the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1436:Obeying the Eternal's deep command
They have built in the material front of things
This wide world-kindergarten of young souls
Where the infant spirit learns through mind and sense
To read the letters of the cosmic script ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1437:The word, the form, the charm, the glory and grace
Are missioned sparks from a stupendous Fire;
A sample from the laboratory of God
Of which he holds the patent upon earth,
Comes to him wrapped in golden coverings
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
1438:This is the sailor on the flow of Time,
This is World-Matter's slow discoverer,
Who, launched into this small corporeal birth,
Has learned his craft in tiny bays of self,
But dares at last unplumbed infinitudes,
A voyager upon eternity's seas. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1439:Thus we draw near to the All-Wonderful
Following his rapture in things as sign and guide;
Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed,
Love is his heart-beats' rhythm in mortal breasts,
Happiness the smile on his adorable face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
1440:An absolute supernatural darkness falls
On man sometimes when he draws near to God:
An hour arrives when fail all Nature's means;
Forced out from the protecting Ignorance
And flung back on his naked primal need,
He at length must cast from him his surface ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#KEYS
1441:Existence found its truth on Oneness' breast
And each became the self and space of all.
The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul,
To feel was a flame-discovery of God,
All mind was a single harp of many strings, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1442:This witness hush is the Thinker's secret base:
Hidden in silent depths the word is formed,
From hidden silences the act is born
Into the voiceful mind, the labouring world;
In secrecy wraps the seed the Eternal sows
Silence, the mystic birthpla ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#KEYS
1443:Stolen by the robbers of the Deep,
The golden shekels of the Eternal lie,
Hoarded from touch and view and thought's desire,
Locked in blind antres of the ignorant flood,
Lest men should find them and be even as Gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1444:The mighty wardens of the ascending stair
Who intercede with the all-creating Word,
There waited for the pilgrim heaven-bound soul;
Holding the thousand keys of the Beyond
They proffered their knowledge to the climbing mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1445:As when the mantra sinks in Yoga's ear,
Its message enters stirring the blind brain
And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound;
The hearer understands a form of words
And, musing on the index thought it holds,
He strives to read it with the l ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
1446:Dream-caught or sensed, they touch our hearts with their depths;
Unreal-seeming, yet more real than life,
Happier than happiness, truer than things true,
If dreams these were or captured images,
Dream's truth made false earth's vain realities. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
1447:The voices that an inner listening hears
Conveyed to him their prophet utterances,
And flame-wrapped outbursts of the immortal Word
And flashes of an occult revealing Light
Approached him from the unreachable Secrecy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1448:Only what seemed was prized as real there:
The ideal was a cynic ridicule's butt;
Hooted by the crowd, mocked by enlightened wits,
Spiritual seeking wandered outcasted,—
A dreamer's self-deceiving web of thought
Or mad chimaera deemed or hypocri ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1449:Overpassing lines that please the outward eyes
But hide the sight of that which lives within
Sculpture and painting concentrated sense
Upon an inner vision's motionless verge,
Revealed a figure of the invisible,
Unveiled all Nature's meaning in ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#KEYS
1450:A flaming Serpent rose released from sleep.
It rose billowing its coils and stood erect
And climbing mightily, stormily on its way
It touched her centres with its flaming mouth;
As if a fiery kiss had broken their sleep,
They bloomed and laughed ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1451:It was a no man's land of evil air,
A crowded neighbourhood without one home,
A borderland between the world and hell.
There unreality was Nature's lord:
It was a space where nothing could be true,
For nothing was what it had claimed to be:
A h ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night#KEYS
1452:The harmony of a rich culture's tones
Refined the sense and magnified its reach
To hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible
And taught the soul to soar beyond things known,
Inspiring life to greaten and break its bounds
Aspiring to the Immortals' unseen world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#KEYS
1453:These Gods and Goddesses were he and she:
The Mother was she of Beauty and Delight,
The Word in Brahma's vast creating clasp,
The World-Puissance on almighty Shiva's lap,—
The Master and the Mother of all lives
Watching the worlds their twin reg ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1454:To the abiding and eternal is their climb,
To the pure existence everywhere the same,
To the sheer consciousness and the absolute force
And the unimaginable and formless bliss,
To the mirth in Time and the timeless mystery
Of the triune being wh ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
1455:The master of existence lurks in us
And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force;
In Nature's instrument loiters secret God.
The immanent lives in man as his house;
He has made the universe his pastime's field,
A vast gymnasium of his works of might.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
1456:How soon is spent
This treasure wasted by the gods on man,
This happy closeness as of soul to soul,
This honey of the body's companionship,
This heightened joy, this ecstasy in the veins,
This strange illumination of the sense! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1457:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God.
Then larger dawns arrive and Wisdom's pomps
Cross through the being's dim half-li ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1458:Is stronger than Reason, profounder than the Pit,
And the malignancy of hostile Powers
Puts craftily back the clock of destiny
And mightier seems than the eternal Will.
The cosmic evil is too deep to un ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1459:On every plane the hieratic Power,
Initiate of unspoken verities,
Dreams to transcribe and make a part of life
In its own native style and living tongue
Some trait of the perfection of the Unborn,
Some vision seen in the omniscient Light,
Some ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
1460:The gods who watch the earth with sleepless eyes
And guide its giant stumblings through the void,
Have given to man the burden of his mind;
In his unwilling heart they have lit their fires
And sown in it incurable unrest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
1461:A force demoniac lurking in man's depths
That heaves suppressed by the heart's human law,
Awed by the calm and sovereign eyes of Thought,
Can in a fire and earthquake of the soul
Arise and, calling to its native night,
Overthrow the reason, occupy the lif ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#KEYS
1462:A schoolman mind had captured life's large space,
But chose to live in bare and paltry rooms
Parked off from the too vast dangerous universe,
Fearing to lose its soul in the infinite.
Even the Idea's ample sweep was cut
Into a system, chained to ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#KEYS
1463:A stillness absolute, incommunicable,
Meets the sheer self-discovery of the soul;
A wall of stillness shuts it from the world,
A gulf of stillness swallows up the sense
And makes unreal all that mind has known,
All that the labouring senses stil ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
1464:If this were not a stade through which we pass
On our road from Matter to eternal Self,
To the Light that made the worlds, the Cause of things,
Well might interpret our mind's limited view
Existence as an accident in Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1465:The vague spiritual quest which first began
When worlds broke forth like clusters of fire-flowers,
And great burning thoughts voyaged through the sky of mind
And Time and its aeons crawled across the vasts
And souls emerged into mortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#KEYS
1466:Thought lay down in a mighty voicelessness;
The toiling Thinker widened and grew still,
Wisdom transcendent touched his quivering heart:
His soul could sail beyond thought's luminous bar;
Mind screened no more the shoreless infinite.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#KEYS
1467:Through its fiery swoon or clotted knot
Rain-tide burst in upon torn wings of heat,
Startled with lightnings air's unquiet drowse,
Lashed with life-giving streams the torpid soil,
Overcast with flare and sound and storm-winged dark
The star-defe ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#KEYS
1468:Chārvāka
Thy thoughts are gleams that pass on Matter's verge,
Thy life a lapsing wave on Matter's sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
Chārvāka
Cheerfulness is the salt of sadhana. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Cheerfulness and Happiness,#KEYS
1469:There distance was his own huge spirit's extent;
Delivered from the fictions of the mind
Time's triple dividing step baffled no more;
Its inevitable and continuous stream,
The long flow of its manifesting course,
Was held in spirit's single wide ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#KEYS
1470:But for such vast spiritual change to be,
Out of the mystic cavern in man's heart
The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil
And step into common nature's crowded rooms
And stand uncovered in that nature's front
And rule its thoughts and fill the ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1471:In a wide opening of its native sky
Intuition's lightnings range in a bright pack
Hunting all hidden truths out of their lairs,
Its fiery edge of seeing absolute
Cleaves into locked unknown retreats of self,
Rummages the sky-recesses of the brai ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1472:There are vasts of vision and eternal suns,
Oceans of an immortal luminousness,
Flame-hills assaulting heaven with their peaks,
There dwelling all becomes a blaze of sight;
A burning head of vision leads the mind,
Thought trails behind it its lo ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1473:In the market-place of Matter's capital
Amidst the chafferings of the affair called life
He is tied to the stake of a perennial Fire;
He burns on an unseen original verge
That Matter may be turned to spirit stuff:
He is the victim in his own sac ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1474:In the prone obscure beginnings of the race
The human grew in the bowed apelike man.
He stood erect, a godlike form and force,
And a soul's thoughts looked out from earth-born eyes;
Man stood erect, he wore the thinker's brow:
He looked at heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
1475:My love is stronger than the bonds of Fate:
I guard the heavenly seal of the Supreme.
Love must not cease to live upon the earth;
For Love is the bright link twixt earth and heaven.
Love is the far Transcendent's angel here
Love is man's lien on the Absolute
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
1476:In the realms of the immortal Supermind
Truth who hides here her head in mystery,
Her riddle deemed by reason impossible
In the stark structure of material form,
Unenigmaed lives, unmasked her face and there
Is Nature and the common law of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
1477:To share the suffering of the world I came,
I draw my children's pangs into my breast.
I am the nurse of the dolour beneath the stars;
I am the soul of all who wailing writhe
Under the ruthless harrow of the Gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1478:Two powers from one original ecstasy born
Pace near but parted in the life of man;
One leans to earth, the other yearns to the skies:
Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth,
Earth in its sorrow dreams of perfect heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1479:But not the utter vision and delight.
A veil is kept, something is still held back,
Lest, captives of the beauty and the joy,
Our souls forget to the Highest to aspire.
In that fair subtle realm behind our own
The form is all, and physical gods are kings.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#KEYS
1480:Her lips endlessly clung to his,
Unwilling ever to separate again
Or lose that honeyed drain of lingering joy,
Unwilling to loose his body from her breast,
The warm inadequate signs that love must use. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief and Pain,#KEYS
1481:Offspring of the gulfs, agents of the shadowy Force,
Haters of light, intolerant of peace,
Aping to the thought the shining Friend and Guide,
Opposing in the heart the eternal Will,
They veil the occult uplifting Harmonist. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1482:'O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry.
One shall descend and break the iron Law,
Change Nature's doom by the lone spirit's power.
A limitless Mind that can contain the world,
A sweet and violent heart of ardent calms
Moved by the passions of the gods shall come.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#KEYS
1483:Who in the Sun-capped Vast cradles his birth:
Hiranyagarbha, author of thoughts and dreams,
Who sees the invisible and hears the sounds
That never visited a mortal ear,
Discoverer of unthought realities
Truer to Truth than all ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1484:Afflicted by his harsh divinity,
Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased
The daily oblation of her unwept tears.
All the fierce question of man's hours relived.
The sacrifice of suffering and desire
Earth offers to the immortal Ecstasy
Began again beneath the eternal Hand.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#KEYS
1485:A shadowy unity with a vanished past
Treasured in an old-world frame was lurking there,
Secret, unnoted by the illumined mind,
And in subconscious whispers and in dream
Still murmured at the mind's and spirit's choice.
Its treacherous elements sp ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#KEYS
1486:Imposing schemes of knowledge on the Vast
They clamped to syllogisms of finite thought
The free logic of an infinite Consciousness,
Grammared the hidden rhythms of Nature's dance,
Critiqued the plot of the drama of the worlds,
Made figure and nu ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
1487:In the world of my knowledge and my ignorance
Where God is unseen and only is heard a Name
And knowledge is trapped in the boundaries of mind
And life is hauled in the drag-net of desire
And Matter hides the soul from its own sight, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1488:In the natal mist
Across the dangerous haze, the pregnant stir,
He through the astral chaos shore a way
Mid the grey faces of its demon gods,
Questioned by whispers of its flickering ghosts,
Besieged by sorceries of its fluent force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1489:Wherever love and light and largeness lack,
These crooked fashioners take up their task.
To all half-conscious worlds they extend their reign.
Here too these godlings drive our human hearts,
Our nature's twilight is their lurking-place: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
1490:
Then what will the "Mother of Sorrows" do? What else can she do?
She will be the "Mother of Delight".
Savitri represents the Mother's Consciousness, doesn't she?
Yes.
What does Satyavan represent?
Well, he is the Avatar. He is the incarnation of the Supreme.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
1491:The incarnate dual Power shall open God's door,
Eternal supermind touch earthly Time.
The superman shall wake in mortal man
And manifest the hidden demigod
Or grow into the God-Light and God-Force
Revealing the secret deity in the cave.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
1492:I have found the atoms from which he built the worlds:
The first tremendous cosmic energy
Missioned shall leap to slay my enemy kin,
Expunge a nation or abolish a race,
Death's silence leave where there was laughter and joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1493:The sorrow by which Nature's hunger is fed,
The oestrus which creates with fire of pain,
The fate that punishes virtue with defeat,
The tragedy that destroys long happiness,
The weeping of Love, the quarrel of the Gods,
Ceased in a truth which l ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul's Release,#KEYS
1494:The life you lead conceals the light you are.
Immortal Powers sweep flaming past your doors;
Far-off upon your tops the god-chant sounds
While to exceed yourselves thought's trumpets call,
Heard by a few, but fewer dare aspire,
The nympholepts of the ecstasy and the blaze.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#KEYS
1495:Alarmed for her rule and full of fear and rage
She prowls around each light that gleams through the dark
Casting its ray from the spirit's lonely tent,
Hoping to enter with fierce stealthy tread
And in the cradle slay the divine Child. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#KEYS
1496:All here can change if the Magician choose.
If human will could be made one with God's,
If human thought could echo the thoughts of God,
Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent;
But now he walks in Nature's doubtful ray.
Yet can the mind of man receive God's light,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
1497:Mind looked on Nature with unknowing eyes,
Adored her boons and feared her monstrous strokes.
It pondered not on the magic of her laws,
It thirsted not for the secret wells of Truth,
But made a register of crowding facts
And strung sensations on ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1498:A single thinker in an aimless world
Awaiting some tremendous dawn of God,
He saw the purpose in the works of Time.
Even in that aimlessness a work was done
Pregnant with magic will and change divine.
The first writhings of the cosmic serpent Force
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.04#KEYS
1499:I stand upon earth's paths of danger and grief
And help the unfortunate and save the doomed.
To the strong I bring the guerdon of their strength,
To the weak I bring the armour of my force;
To men who long I carry their coveted joy: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces,#KEYS
1500:Then kindling the gold tongue of sacrifice,
Calling the powers of a bright hemisphere,
We shall shed the discredit of our mortal state,
Make the abysm a road for Heaven's descent,
Acquaint our depths with the supernal Ray
And cleave the darkness ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
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1:No eyes demanded her replying eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2, #NFDB
2:And builds to hope her altars of despair, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:3, #NFDB
3:A godhead sculptured on a wall of thought, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:3, #NFDB
4:Her greatest progress is a deepened need. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, [T5], #NFDB
5:If thou desirest Truth, then still thy mind.
[Savitri] ~ Sri Aurobindo,#NFDB
6:Many high gods dwelt in one beautiful home; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:1, #NFDB
7:Its shadows gleaming with the birth of gods, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:5, #NFDB
8:Missing its aim is all that it can speak ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:4, 360, #NFDB
9:There are muffled throbs of laughter's undertones, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, #NFDB
10:Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
11:Life ran to gaze from every gate of sense: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan, #NFDB
12:A Godhead stands behind the brute machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, #NFDB
13:A look, a turn decides our ill-poised fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan, #NFDB
14:The godhead greater by a human fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #NFDB
15:A fathomless zero occupied the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #NFDB
16:Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. ~ Savitri Devi, #NFDB
17:Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
18:He laid experience at the Godhead's feet;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
19:Only a little the god-light can stay: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #NFDB
20:Our sympathies become our torturers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
21:Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, #NFDB
22:Man lifted up the burden of his fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
23:To know is best, however hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
24:A still identity their way to know, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
25:Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
26:The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #NFDB
27:Yet when he is most near, she feels him far. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06, [T5], #NFDB
28:A formless spirit became the soul of form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul, #NFDB
29:A gate of dreams ajar on mystery’s verge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #NFDB
30:Must fire always test the great of soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
31:Even fall has its perverted joy ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
32:Never out of evil one plucked good: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #NFDB
33:On the bare peak where Self is alone with Nought ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, #NFDB
34:Space is himself and Time is only he. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
35:The gods make use of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
36:A dire duality is our way to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
37:Only in human limits man lives safe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void, #NFDB
38:Our error crucifies Reality ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
39:Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
40:Swift and easy is the downward path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #NFDB
41:All can be done if the god-touch is there
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
42:Desire, the troubled seed of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
43:He sees within the face of deity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5], #NFDB
44:Our life is a paradox with God for key. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
45:Out of the darkness we still grow to light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
46:All, even pain, was the soul’s pleasure here; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair, #NFDB
47:And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#NFDB
48:Hard is it to persuade earth-nature’s change; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, #NFDB
49:A dual Nature covered the Unique. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
50:Imagination the free-will of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
51:Mind flowed unknowing in the sap of life ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair, [T5], #NFDB
52:Savitri is a mantra for the transformation of the world.
~ The Mother, (to Udar Pinto),#NFDB
53:The laws of the Unknown create the known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
54:The palace woke to its own emptiness;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#NFDB
55:A deep surrender is their source of might, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
56:Each in himself is sole by Nature’s law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces, #NFDB
57:He moves there as the Soul, as Nature she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
58:Out of the unknown we move to the unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
59:The Bliss that is creation’s splendid grain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind, #NFDB
60:A faith she craves that can survive defeat, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
61:A god come down and greater by the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
62:Always the Ideal beckoned from afar.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
63:The Enigma’s knot is tied in human kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
64:The speech that labels more than it lights; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
65:Almighty powers are shut in Nature’s cells. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
66:A struggling ignorance is his wisdom’s mate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
67:At play with him as with her child or slave, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
68:Eternity speaks, none understands its word; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
69:Her acts became gestures of sacrifice.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
70:Immortality assured itself by death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
71:Night a process of the eternal light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
72:Speak not my secret name to hostile Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
73:The body is the chrysalis of a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
74:A casual passing phrase can change our life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
75:A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
76:A prey to the staring phantoms of the gloom ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #NFDB
77:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. ~ The Mother, [T5], #NFDB
78:Our smallness saves us from the Infinite
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
79:The child of the Void shall be reborn in God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri, #NFDB
80:The Wise who know see but one half of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
81:To copy on earth’s copies is his art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #NFDB
82:A saviour gesture stretched her lifted arm, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul, #NFDB
83:Assent to thy high self, create, endure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
84:A subtle link of union joins all life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #NFDB
85:Infinity wore a boundless zero’s form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
86:Our outward happenings have their seed within, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
87:Solitude wrapped him in its voiceless folds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night, #NFDB
88:He has need of death to find a greater life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
89:Once kindled, never can its flamings cease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal, #NFDB
90:The Eternal’s quiet holds the cosmic act: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
91:When all has been explained nothing is known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces, #NFDB
92:But still the invisible Magnet drew his soul
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair, [T5],#NFDB
93:By its breath of grace our lives abide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #NFDB
94:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
95:His thought labours, a bullock in Time’s fields; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
96:I am stronger than death and greater than my fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
97:In Death’s realm repatriate immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
98:Many are God’s forms by which he grows in man; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces, #NFDB
99:Our life is a paradox with God for key.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5],#NFDB
100:Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods, #NFDB
101:A thinking puppet is the mind of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
102:A thousand aspects point back to the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
103:But thou hast come and all will surely change:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
104:Convincing the abyss by heavenly form
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
105:Hopes that soon fade to drab realities ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
106:I carry the fire that never can be quenched.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
107:Man is too weak to bear the Infinite’s weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
108:Meditation on Savitri, July 17 2018 TuesdayA mould of body’s early mind was made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
109:One man’s perfection still can save the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul, #NFDB
110:Only the Eternal's strength in us can dare
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
111:The moon floated, a luminous waif through heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
112:Time's sun-flowers' gaze at gold Eternity:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
113:And leaves its huge white stamp upon our lives.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
114:An immutable Power has made this mutable world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
115:A thinking entity appeared in Space.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
116:Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn, [T5],#NFDB
117:Ignorance was a thin shade protecting light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
118:There is a zero sign of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
119:The zero covers an immortal face.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
120:A contradiction founds the base of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #NFDB
121:All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
122:And drinks experience like a strengthening wine.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
123:By Light we live and to the Light we go. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #NFDB
124:Each part in us desires its absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
125:God’s long nights are justified by dawn. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #NFDB
126:Man was moulded from the original brute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
127:Our souls deputed selves of the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
128:Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent of Night, [T5], #NFDB
129:Pain grew a trembling undertone of bliss ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #NFDB
130:This world is God fulfilled in outwardness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
131:As if in a struggle of the Void to be.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
132:He has need of darkness to perceive some light
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
133:My child, every day you are going to read Savitri
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, [T0], #index,#NFDB
134:What it knew was an image in a broken glass,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind, [T5],#NFDB
135:A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #NFDB
136:From a veiled God-joy the worlds were made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
137:His hunger for the eternal thou must nurse
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces, [T5],#NFDB
138:Instinct was hers, the chrysalis of Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #NFDB
139:Our minds are starters in the race to God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
140:The earth you tread is a border screened from heaven ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, #NFDB
141:The One by whom all live, who lives by none, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, #NFDB
142:There is no last certitude in which thought can pause ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #NFDB
143:Truth is bare like stone and hard like death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
144:An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5],#NFDB
145:Dreams that are hints of unborn Reality, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries, #NFDB
146:Here to fulfil himself was God’s desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
147:Its signs stare at us like an unknown script,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, [T5],#NFDB
148:Plastic and passive to the all-shaping Fire
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
149:Savitri
the supreme revelation
of Sri Aurobindo's
vision.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#NFDB
150:That Godhead's seed might flower in mindless Space.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
151:The Bliss whose rapture dreamed the worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
152:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
153:A vast surrender was his only strength
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
154:Delight, God’s sweetest sign and Beauty’s twin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
155:Here was a quiet country of fixed mind
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
156:Himself was to himself his only scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge, #NFDB
157:Man, human, follows in God’s human steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries, #NFDB
158:There none was weak, so falsehood could not live; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
159:To feed death with her works is here life’s doom. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
160:Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, #NFDB
161:Whatever our hearts conceive, our heads create, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #NFDB
162:An awful Silence watches tragic Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
163:A serpent Power twinned the insensible Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
164:His little hour is spent in little things.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
165:Immortal bliss lives not in human air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
166:Meditation on Savitri, September 18, 2018 TuesdayA slowly changing order binds our will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
167:Alone she is equal to her mighty task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
168:Joy that throbs behind
The marvel and the mystery of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
169:Knowledge gropes, but meets not Wisdom’s face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life, #NFDB
170:Make the abysm a road for Heaven's descent,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
171:Meditation on Savitri, July 29 2018 SundayThat strange observing Power imposed its sight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
172:Meditation on Savitri, September 21, 2018 FridayThen only ends this dream of nether life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
173:Open God’s door, enter into his trance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
174:Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, #NFDB
175:Our souls are moved by powers behind the wall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
176:The ideal never yet was real made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #NFDB
177:The Inconscient is the Superconscient’s sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal, #NFDB
178:The soul is a figure of the Unmanifest, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
179:Aspiring he transcends his earthly self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
180:Calm is self’s victory overcoming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
181:Escape, however high, redeems not life, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
182:Eternal truth lives not with mortal men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
183:Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces, [T5],#NFDB
184:His knowledge dwells in the house of Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
185:Meditation on Savitri, September 6, 2018, ThursdayAll by their influence is enacted there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
186:Mountains and trees stood there like thoughts from God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
187:The dim subconscient is his cavern base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
188:All is an episode in a meaningless tale. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
189:Art’s brilliant gleam is a pastime for his eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
190:In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
191:Meditation on Savitri, October 16, 2018 TuesdayInfant self-feeling grew and birth was born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
192:She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
193:Thou art thyself the author of thy pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
194:With pain and labour all creation comes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
195:All the world's possibilities in man
Are waiting as the tree waits in its seed: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#NFDB
196:A secret Will compels us to endure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
197:A thrill that smites the nerves is music’s spell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
198:A whole mysterious world is locked within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
199:Each soul is the great Father’s crucified Son, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries, #NFDB
200:For each his difficult goal
Hewn out of infinite possibility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
201:The evening sky,
God’s canopy of blue sheltering our lives ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#NFDB
202:The mind labours to think the Unthinkable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
203:The soul suffering is not eternity’s key, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
204:The sunlight was a great god’s golden smile. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #NFDB
205:Without reason life is a tangle of dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
206:An idiot hour destroys what centuries made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
207:Error is the comrade of our mortal thought ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
208:Falsehood lurks in the deep bosom of truth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
209:Like one who wakes to find his dreams were true
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
210:Meditation on Savitri, September 19, 2018 WednesdayThis is our doom until our souls are free. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
211:Meditation on Savitri, September 28, 2018 FridayBeing was an inert substance driven by Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
212:Men die that man may live and God be born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
213:The body of God,
The link of the finite with the Infinite, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
214:The Formless and the Formed were joined in her: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
215:Time was Eternity’s transparent robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #NFDB
216:What seemed the source and end was a wide gate, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
217:All here can change if the Magician choose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
218:Always a nameless goal beckons beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #NFDB
219:A timeless mystery works out in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
220:A vast subliminal is man’s measureless part. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
221:In silence seek God’s meaning in thy depths, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
222:In the Alone there is no room for love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #NFDB
223:My mind is a torch lit from the eternal sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
224:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
225:The Word that ushers divine experience ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #NFDB
226:The world is not cut off from Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
227:Above her brows where will and knowledge meet ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
228:All is their play:
This whole wide world is only he and she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
229:All time is one body, Space a single look.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
230:Heaven’s joys might have been earth’s if earth were pure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
231:nothing is truly vain the One has made ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
232:Only a slow advance the earth can bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #NFDB
233:Our dead selves come to slay our living soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
234:The sole timeless Word
That carries eternity in its lonely sound, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
235:This darkness hides our nobler destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #NFDB
236:Worlds were many, but the Self was one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #NFDB
237:All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, [T5],#NFDB
238:A vast disguise conceals the Eternal’s bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
239:Nature’s vision climbs beyond her acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
240:This world is in love with its own ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
241:This world of fragile forms
Carried on canvas-strips of shimmering Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
242:Wrong could not come where all was light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
243:All that denies must be torn out and slain
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],#NFDB
244:An eternal instant is the cause of the years. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5], #NFDB
245:Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #NFDB
246:His soul was freed and given to her alone.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],#NFDB
247:In finite things the conscious Infinite dwells: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #NFDB
248:Oneness is the soul of multitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
249:She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame, [T5],#NFDB
250:The great are strongest when they stand alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
251:There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #NFDB
252:The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
253:Time’s accidents are steps in its vast scheme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
254:Truth made the world, not a blind Nature-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #NFDB
255:A fiery portion of the Wonderful,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
256:And crying for a direction in the void
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
257:Hidden in the mortal’s heart the Eternal lives: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
258:His love has paved the mortal’s road to Heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
259:She throws a glittering robe on Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #NFDB
260:The poison of the world has stained his throat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
261:The senses there were outlets of the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, #NFDB
262:Darkness grew nurse to wisdom’s occult sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #NFDB
263:Heaven’s wiser love rejects the mortal’s prayer; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
264:In Nature’s endless lines is lost the God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
265:Our death is made a passage to new worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
266:There is a meaning in each play of Chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #NFDB
267:This too must now be overpassed and left
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
268:He has trod with bleeding brow the Saviour’s way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
269:I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. ~ Savitri Devi, #NFDB
270:And yet she cannot choose but labours on;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
271:Darshan Day Savitri Recitation ~ The Mother's Maha Samadhi Day November 17, 2018: youtu.be/p1f2YHo8k84?a via @YouTube, #NFDB
272:Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
273:Love dwells in us like an unopened flower
Awaiting a rapid moment of the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
274:Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
275:Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
276:He journeys sleepless through an unending night;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
277:The All-Wonderful has packed heaven with his dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, 10.03, #NFDB
278:The soul is the watchful builder of its fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
279:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #NFDB
280:We live self-exiled from our heavenlier home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #NFDB
281:Adventurers, we have colonised Matter’s night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #NFDB
282:All ran like hopes that hunt a lurking chance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
283:Tied up the spirit to golden posts of bliss.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
284:A beam of the Eternal smites his heart,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
285:A deeper interpretation greatened Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
286:All our existence is a constant creation. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser, #NFDB
287:A city of ancient Ignorance
Founded upon a soil that knew not Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
288:Beauty is a sweet difference of the Same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
289:Even now great thoughts are here that walk alone: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #NFDB
290:Her signs still covered more than they revealed; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #NFDB
291:If Mind is all, renounce the hope for bliss;
If Mind is all, renounce the hope for Truth.
[Savitri] ~ Sri Aurobindo,#NFDB
292:Our greater truth of being lies behind: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
293:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
294:Truth shines far from the falsehoods of the world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #NFDB
295:Always we bear in us a magic key
Concealed in life’s hermetic envelope. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
296:Love is a yearning of the One for the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
297:Ominous beings passed him on the road
Whose very gaze was a calamity: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
298:A knowledge which became what it perceived. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
299:A once living story has prepared and made
Our present fate, child of past energies. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
300:A soul made ready through a thousand years
Is the living mould of a supreme Descent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
301:Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
302:In him soul and Nature, equal Presences,
Balance and fuse in a wide harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
303:Its builder is thought, its base the heart’s desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #NFDB
304:A magic leverage suddenly is caught
That moves the veiled Ineffable’s timeless will: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
305:And plundered the Unknowable's vast estate.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
306:Even the body shall remember God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
307:His days were a long growth to the Supreme.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
308:Pain with its lash, joy with its silver bribe
Guard the Wheel’s circling immobility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
309:The birds crying for heart’s happiness,
Winged poets of our solitary reign ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#NFDB
310:There is a darkness in terrestrial things
That will not suffer long too glad a note. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
311:A jingling silver laugh of anklet bells
Travelled the roads of a solitary heart; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
312:A sun of wisdom in a miracled grove. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
313:A wide God-knowledge poured down from above,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
314:God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
315:He is the adventurer and cosmologist
Of a magic earth’s obscure geography. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
316:He is the explorer and the mariner
On a secret inner ocean without bourne. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
317:His is a search of darkness for the light,
Of mortal life for immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
318:The Power that acts in us is not our force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
319:Too heavy falls a Shadow on man’s heart;
It dares not be too happy upon earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
320:When least defaced, then is it most divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
321:Ever she circled towards some far-off Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, [T5],#NFDB
322:In every heart is hidden the myriad One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #NFDB
323:Nothing we think or do is void or vain;
Each is an energy loosed and holds its course. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
324:The war of thoughts that fathers the universe, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
325:Truth is followed as the path to the divine beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #NFDB
326:The high meets the low, all is a single plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
327:There knowledge needs not words to embody Idea; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
328:This higher scheme of being is our cause
And holds the key to our ascending fate; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
329:When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, [T5],#NFDB
330:A single word lets loose vast agencies;
A casual act determines the world’s fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
331:Colour was a visible tone of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
332:Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
333:Rare is the cup fit for love’s nectar wine,
As rare the vessel that can hold God’s birth; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
334:She made earth her home, for whom heaven was too small. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #NFDB
335:There is a Power within that knows beyond
Our knowings; we are greater than our thoughts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
336:The white spiritual touch,
The calm that broods in the deep Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
337:Whoever is too great must lonely live.
Adored he walks in mighty solitude; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
338:A prayer, a master act, a king idea
Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, [T5],#NFDB
339:Banish all thought from thee and be God’s void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
340:Love dies before the lover in our breast:
Our joys are perfumes in a brittle vase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
341:Night a path to unknown dawns
Or a dark clue to some diviner state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
342:The moon gliding amazed through heaven
In the uncertain wideness of the night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
343:Too often here the careless Mother leaves
Her chosen in the envious hands of Fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
344:A mighty shuddering coil of ecstasy
Crept through the deep heart of the universe.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
345:Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
Illumined continents of violet peace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
346:Every stumble is a needed pace
On unknown routes to an unknowable goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
347:Every symbol was a reality
And brought the presence which had given it life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
348:Form was a tenuous raiment of the soul: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
349:Imperfect is the joy not shared by all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
350:The calm delight that weds one soul to all,
The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
351:The wide-winged hymn of a great priestly wind
Arose and failed upon the altar hills; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
352:A point she had reached where life must be in vain
Or, in her unborn element awake,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue, [T5],#NFDB
353:Is measured by the throbs of the soul’s pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #NFDB
354:The miraculous Inconscient,
A subtle wizard skilled, was at its task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
355:The original Desire born in the Void
Peered out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
356:This cosmic Nature’s balance is not ours
Nor the mystic measure of her need and use. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
357:And channel to earth-mind the wizard ray
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
358:And the Name, foundation of eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #NFDB
359:I have beheld the princes of the Sun
Burning in thousand-pillared homes of light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
360:I wear the face of Kali when I kill,
I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
361:Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri is a vast ocean and one may, upon reflection, go in pursuit of the choicest of pearls. ~ Daniel Albuquerque, #NFDB
362:The soul in man is greater than his fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
363:The universe is an endless masquerade:
For nothing here is utterly what it seems; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
364:Whether it seem good or evil to men's eyes,
Only for good the secret Will can work.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
365:Above the world the world-creators stand,
In the phenomenon see its mystic source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
366:An opulent beauty of passionate difference
The recurring beat that moments God in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
367:Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
368:Form cannot unveil the indwelling Power;
Only it throws its symbols at our hearts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
369:Heart feels for heart, limb cries for answering limb;
All strives to enforce the unity all is. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
370:Here chaos sorts itself into a world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
371:Impose not on the mortal’s tremulous breast
The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
372:Man’s virtue, a coarse-spun ill-fitting dress,
Apparels wooden images of Good; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
373:The truth above shall wake a nether truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
374:All we have done is ever still to do.
All breaks and all renews and is the same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
375:A lying reality is falsehood’s crown
And a perverted truth her richest gem. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
376:Earth’s pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release, #NFDB
377:Here dreadfully entangled love and hate
Meet us blind wanderers mid the perils of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
378:In a small corner of infinity,
Our lives are inlets of an ocean’s force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
379:My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, [T5],#NFDB
380:Nothing happens in the cosmic play
But at its time and in its foreseen place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#NFDB
381:The limbs were trembling densities of soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
382:The trudge of Time changed to a splendid march;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, [T5],#NFDB
383:A cricket’s rash and fiery single note,
It marked with shrill melody night’s moonless hush ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
384:An evil environment worsened evil souls: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #NFDB
385:In a world of beings and momentary events
Where all must die to live and live to die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
386:Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.
For not for ourselves alone our spirits came ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#NFDB
387:Love in her was wider than the universe,
The whole world could take refuge in her single heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
388:Man’s natural joy of life is overcast
And sorrow is his nurse of destiny. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
389:Our blind or erring government of life;
A loose republic once of wants and needs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
390:
Each day was a spiritual romance,
As if he was born into a bright new world;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
391:Scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
392:The Dragon of the dark foundations keeps
Unalterable the law of Chance and Death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
393:The eternal, the divine Reality
Has faced itself with its own contraries. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
394:Took the mind captive in its own net;
His rigorous logic made the false seem true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
395:A great Negation was the Real’s face
Prohibiting the vain process of Time: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
396:Division ceased to be, for God was there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #NFDB
397:For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others’ souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
398:His knowledge scans bright pebbles on the shore
Of the huge ocean of his ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
399:Immensity was exceeded by a look,
A Face revealed the crowded Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
400:In each success a seed of failure lurks. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
401:In spite of death and evil circumstance
A will to live persists, a joy to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
402:Our hidden centres of celestial force
Open like flowers to a heavenly atmosphere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
403:Our mind perhaps deceives us with its words
And gives the name of doom to our own choice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
404:Pass slowly through that perilous space,
A prayer upon his lips and the great Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
405:The violent and hungry hounds of pain
Travelled through his body biting as they passed ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Death in the Forest,#NFDB
406:What help is in prevision to the driven?
Safe doors cry opening near, the doomed pass on. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
407:All here is a mystery of contraries:
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
408:All light is but a flash from his closed eyes: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
409:All she can do is marvellous in his sight:
He revels in her, a swimmer in her sea,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
410:Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears
Rejected the undying rapture’s boon: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
411:Heaven ever young and earth too firm and old
Delay the heart by immobility: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
412:He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:
He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
413:He puts on joy and sorrow like a robe
And drinks experience like a strengthening wine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
414:His pains are her means to grow, to see and feel;
His death assists her immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
415:I guide man to the path of the Divine
And guard him from the red Wolf and the Snake. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
416:Obey thy nature and fulfil thy fate:
Accept the difficulty and godlike toil
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, [T5],#NFDB
417:One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:
Our errors are his steps upon the way. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
418:Our earth is a fragment and a residue;
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
419:Then with a magic transformation's speed
They rushed into each other and grew one
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
420:This is sure that he and she are one;
Even when he sleeps, he keeps her on his breast: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
421:Thought was not there but a knowledge near and one
Seized on all things by a moved identity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
422:A figure in the ineffable Witness' shrine
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
423:Beauty and happiness are her native right,
And endless Bliss is her eternal home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
424:Climbed back from Time into undying Self,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
425:Eternity drew close disguised as Love
And laid its hand upon the body of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
426:Even Good she makes a hook to drag to Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #NFDB
427:Here in a difficult half-finished world
Is a slow toiling of unconscious Powers ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
428:Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs
On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
429:In the country of the lotus of the head
Which thinking mind has made its busy space, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
430:It entered the mystic lotus in her head,
A thousand-petalled home of power and light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#NFDB
431:It lived upon the margin of the Idea
Protected by Ignorance as in a shell.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
432:Man, sole awake in an unconscious world,
Aspires in vain to change the cosmic dream. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
433:Not for a changeless littleness were you meant,
Not for vain repetition were you built ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#NFDB
434:Our human ignorance moves towards the Truth
That Nescience may become omniscient, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
435:Our thoughts;
Where a free Wisdom works, they seek for a rule. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
436:Poems in largeness cast like moving worlds
And metres surging with the ocean’s voice ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
437:Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.' ~ Savitri Devi, #NFDB
438:The Immobile’s ocean-silence saw him pass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
439:The mysterious and unchanging change
Of the persistent movement we call Time ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
440:Climbing from Nature’s deep surrendered heart
It blooms for ever at the feet of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
441:Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
442:I know that knowledge is a vast embrace:I know that every being is myself,In every heart is hidden the myriad One. ~ Sri Aurobindo[Savitri], #NFDB
443:Only were safe who kept God in their hearts: Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
Savitri, p.211 ~ Sri Aurobindo,#NFDB
444:Shuddered in silence as obscurely stir
Ocean’s dim fields delivered to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
445:There was no second, it had no partner or peer;
Only itself was real to itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#NFDB
446:The separate self must melt or be reborn
Into a Truth beyond the mind’s appeal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#NFDB
447:The white passion of God-ecstasy
That laughs in the blaze of the boundless heart of Love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
448:All things are wrapped in the dynamic One:
A subtle link of union joins all life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
449:A rose of splendour on a tree of dreams,
The face of Dawn out of mooned twilight grew. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
450:A vast Unknown is round us and within;
All things are wrapped in the dynamic One: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
451:By the swift vibration of a nerve
Links its mechanic throbs to light and love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
452:Even wisdom, hewer of the roads of God,
Is a partner in the deep disastrous game: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
453:Krishna and Radha for ever entwined in bliss,
The Adorer and Adored self-lost and one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
454:Our mind is a house haunted by the slain past,
Ideas soon mummified, ghosts of old truths, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
455:The outward and the immediate are our field,
The dead past is our background and support; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
456:As if in a rock-temple’s solitude hid,
God’s refuge from an ignorant worshipping world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
457:Doves crowded the grey musing cornices
Like sculptured postures of white-bosomed peace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
458:Heaven’s call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #NFDB
459:I give peace to the humble and the great,
And shed my grace on the foolish and the wise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
460:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
461:In a flaming moment of apocalypse
The Incarnation thrust aside its veil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
462:My ear is leaned to the cry of the oppressed,
I topple down the thrones of tyrant kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
463:The malady of mind,
Its pang of thought, its quest for the aim of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
464:The patterns of thinking of a little group
Fixed a traditional behaviour’s law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
465:Above blind fate and the antagonist powers
Moveless there stands a high unchanging Will; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
466:An imperfection dogs our highest strength;
Portions and pale reflections are our share. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
467:A thinking animal, Nature’s struggling lord,
Has made of her his nurse and tool and slave ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
468:He has need of darkness to perceive some light
And need of grief to feel a little bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
469:I'm re-reading Savitri.
Lucky man! I would love to read it again. And the more you read, the more marvellous it becomes.
~ The Mother,#NFDB
470:The phantom of a dark and evil start
Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
471:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
472:All on one plan was shaped and standardised
Under a dark dictatorship’s breathless weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
473:A silence in the noise of earthly things
Immutably revealed the secret Word, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
474:As the height draws the low ever to climb,
As the breadths draw the small to adventure vast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
475:A Word is spoken or a Light is shown,
A moment sees, the ages toil to express. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
476:Grief dies soon in the tired human heart;
Soon other guests the empty chambers fill. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
477:The conscious Force that acts in Nature’s breast,
A dark-robed labourer in the cosmic scheme ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
478:The high gods look on man and watch and choose
Today’s impossibles for the future’s base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
479:Where life and being are a sacrament
Offered to the Reality beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
480:You don’t have paperwork,” Savitri said. “You give it all to me.” “Is it done?” I asked. “As far as you know, yes,” Savitri said. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
481:Authors of earth’s high change, to you it is given
To cross the dangerous spaces of the soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#NFDB
482:Knowledge ends not in these surface powers
That live upon a ledge in the Ignorance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
483:Meditation on Savitri, October 12, 2018 FridayIslands of living dotted lifeless spaceAnd germs of living formed in formless air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
484:Our hearts clutch at a forfeited heavenly bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
485:The reason meant for nearness to the gods
And uplift to heavenly scale by the touch of mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
486:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
487:But like a shining answer from the gods
Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest, [T5],#NFDB
488:But once the hidden doors are flung apart
Then the veiled king steps out in Nature’s front; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
489:For the key is hid and by the Inconscient kept;
The secret God beneath the threshold dwells.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
490:Life’s contraries were lovers or natural friends
And her extremes keen edges of harmony: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
491:Reason is poised above a dim abyss
And stands at last upon a plank of doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
492:She needs the spur of pleasure and of pain
And the native taste of suffering and unrest: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
493:There work was play and play the only work,
The tasks of heaven a game of godlike might: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
494:The stars marched on their long sentinel routes
Pointing their spears through the infinitudes: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
495:Below him lay like gleaming jewelled thoughts
Rapt dreaming cities of Gandharva kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
496:For joy and not for sorrow earth was made
And not as a dream in endless suffering Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
497:I believe that it is his message; all the rest are the preparations, but Savitri is the message.
~ The Mother, In 1963 to Satprem, (MA 1963:86),#NFDB
498:In the castle of the lotus twixt the brows
Whence it shoots the arrows of its sight and will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
499:Into inertia revolution sinks,
In a new dress the old resumes its role; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
500:Meditation on Savitri, October 2, 2018 TuesdayThus has been made this real impossible world,An obvious miracle or convincing show. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
501:Not by Reason was creation made
And not by Reason can the Truth be seen ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
502:Our mortal vision peers with ignorant eyes;
It has no gaze on the deep heart of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
503:Vain are human power and human love
To break earth’s seal of ignorance and death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
504:Weird ran the road which like fear hastening
Towards that of which it has most terror, passed ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#NFDB
505:A formless yearning passions in man’s heart,
A cry is in his blood for happier things ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
506:A lamp of symbol lighting hidden truth
Imaged to her the world’s significance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
507:Called back her thoughts from speech to sit within
In a deep room in meditation’s house. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
508:Ideal dreams,
Those intimate transmuters of earth’s signs
That make known things a hint of unseen spheres ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
509:Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves
And turned his strength into undying power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
510:Its absence left the greatest actions dull,
Its presence made the smallest seem divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#NFDB
511:Nor sought the strength extreme adversity brings
To lives that stand erect and front the World-Power ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
512:Purposeful movements in unthinking forms
Betrayed the heavings of an imprisoned Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
513:The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
514:The Many are the innumerable One,
The One carries the multitude in his breast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
515:Thought climbs in vain and brings a borrowed light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness, #NFDB
516:All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
517:All the world’s possibilities in man
Are waiting as the tree waits in its seed: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
518:All warred against all, but with a common hate
Turned on the mind that sought some higher good; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
519:Earth’s winged chimaeras are Truth’s steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God’s sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
520:He met a silver-grey expanse
Where Day and Night had wedded and were one: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
521:Here where one knows not even the step in front
And Truth has her throne on the shadowy back of doubt, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
522:Her spirit, guilty of being, wandered doomed,
Moving for ever through eternal Night.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
523:In our body’s cells there sits a hidden Power
That sees the unseen and plans eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
524:Meditation on Savitri, July 13 2018 FridayOnly was lit some heat of the flame of Life,Some joy to be, some rapturous leaps of sense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
525:Our sight and sense are a fallible gaze and touch
And only the spirit’s vision is wholly true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
526:The Might that came upon the earth to bless,
Has stayed on earth to suffer and aspire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
527:The Titan and the Fury and the Djinn
Lie bound in the subconscient’s cavern pit ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
528:An epicure of the spirit’s unseen joys,
He lives on the sweet honey of solitude: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
529:But I have loved too the body of my God.
I have pursued him in his earthly form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
530:It glided into the lotus of her heart
And woke in it the Force that alters Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
531:Like the thought-screened infinities that lie
Behind the rapt smile of the Almighty’s dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#NFDB
532:None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #NFDB
533:Our reason cannot sound life’s mighty sea
And only counts its waves and scans its foam; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
534:Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse;
We make of our own enemies our guests. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
535:All is a single plan; each wayside act
Deepens the soul’s response, brings nearer the goal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
536:Always he journeys, but nowhere arrives;
He would guide the world, himself he cannot guide ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
537:A momentary Evil’s almightiness
Has straddled the straight path of Nature’s acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
538:Earth’s eyes half-see, her forces half-create;
Her rarest works are copies of heaven’s art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
539:Happy the worlds that have not felt our fall,
Where Will is one with Truth and Good with Power; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
540:He must enter the eternity of Night
And know God’s darkness as he knows his Sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
541:He was here before the elements could emerge,
Before there was light of mind or life could breathe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
542:I shall hear the silver swing of heaven’s gates
When God comes out to meet the soul of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
543:Many-visaged is the cosmic Soul;
A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
544:Only a little of us foresees its steps,
Only a little has will and purposed pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
545:Our dwarf will and cold pragmatic sense
Admit not the celestial visitants: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
546:the world is real but ourselves too small,
Insufficient for the mightiness of our stage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
547:Those who shall part who have grown one being within?
Death’s grip can break our bodies, not our souls; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
548:Thoughts too great and deep to find a voice,
Thoughts whose desire new-makes the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
549:what is Fate if not the spirit’s will
After long time fulfilled by cosmic Force? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
550:A burning Love from white spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
551:Autumn led in the glory of her moons
And dreamed in the splendour of her lotus pools ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
552:But standing on Eternity’s luminous brink
I have discovered that the world was He; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
553:Love cannot live by heavenly food alone,
Only on sap of earth can it survive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
554:Meditation on Savitri, October 17, 2018 WednesdayA godhead woke but lay with dreaming limbs;Her house refused to open its sealed doors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
555:Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break
A dead resistance in the mortals heart,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
556:The Serpent of the threshold hissing rose,
A fatal guardian hood with monstrous coils, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
557:What the spirit sees, creates a truth
And what the soul imagines is made a world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
558:Worship lifts the worshipper’s bowed strength Close to the god’s pride and bliss his soul adores: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
559:A growing register of calamities
Is the past’s account, the future’s book of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
560:An ictus of revealing lustre fell
As if a pointing accent upon Truth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
561:A single law simplessed the cosmic theme,
Compressing Nature into a formula. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
562:A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, [T5],#NFDB
563:A smile on her lips welcomed earth’s bliss and grief,
A laugh was her return to pleasure and pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
564:But first the spirit’s ascent we must achieve
Out of the chasm from which our nature rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
565:Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny’s book.
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
566:His science is an artificer of doom;
He ransacks earth for means to harm his kind; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
567:However man's mind may tire or fail his flesh,
A will prevails cancelling his conscious choice .
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
568:In their own fields they follow the wheel of law
And cherish the safety of a settled type. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
569:Meditation on Savitri, August 22, 2018 Wednesday.A little light in a great darkness born,Life knew not where it went nor whence it came. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
570:Mind suffers lamed by the world’s disharmony
And the unloveliness of human things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
571:O Death, thou too art God and yet not He,
But only his own black shadow on his path ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
572:On our life’s prow that breaks the waves of Time
No signal light of hope has gleamed in vain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
573:Our human state cradles the future god,
Our mortal frailty an immortal force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
574:Out of the ineffable hush it hears them come
Trembling with the beauty of a wordless speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
575:The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,
The rapture that the gods sustain he bore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
576:The guardians of Eternity keep its law
For ever fixed upon Truth’s giant base ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
577:The inconscient world is the spirit’s self-made room,
Eternal Night shadow of eternal Day. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
578:The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
579:Time shall be
The quivering of the spirit’s endless bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
580:A great wicked joy Glad of one’s own and others’ calamity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness, #NFDB
581:At last the soul turns to eternal things,
In every shrine it cries for the clasp of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death, [T5],#NFDB
582:In the Impersonal’s ocean without shore
The Person in the World-Spirit anchored rode; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#NFDB
583:In the prone obscure beginnings of the race
The human grew in the bowed apelike man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
584:Lost was the instinct’s safe identity
With the arrow-point of being’s inmost sight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
585:Love is a honey and poison in the breast
Drunk by it as the nectar of the gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
586:Meditation on Savitri, August 9, 2020, Sunday.Even a greater miracle was done. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 241, #NFDB
587:Meditation on Savitri, October 9, 2018 TuesdayThen stirred the Spirit’s mute immobile sleep;The Force concealed broke dumbly, slowly out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
588:Mind unwitting serves a higher Power;
It is a channel, not the source of all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
589:Our life’s repose is in the Infinite;
It cannot end, its end is Life supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
590:Phenomenon built Reality’s summer-house
On the beaches of the sea of Infinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
591:The Mother of all godheads and all strengths
Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
592:Hasteners to action, violators of God
Are these great spirits who have too much love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
593:Mind keeps the soul prisoner, we are slaves to our acts;
We cannot free our gaze to reach wisdom’s sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
594:There is the mystic realm whence leaps the power
Whose fire burns in the eyes of seer and sage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
595:Thou must die to thyself to reach God’s height:
I, Death, am the gate of immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
596:A blind god is not destiny’s architect;
A conscious power has drawn the plan of life, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
597:An old self lurks in the new self we are;
Hardly we escape from what we once had been: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
598:As in the vigilance of the sleepless night
Through the slow heavy-footed silent hours, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
599:His small successes are failures of the soul,
His little pleasures punctuate frequent griefs: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
600:Imagination’s great ensorcelling rod
Summoned the unknown and gave to it a home, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
601:Imps with wry limbs and carved beast visages,
Sprite-prompters goblin-wizened or faery-small, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
602:In the mind’s silence the Transcendent acts
And the hushed heart hears the unuttered Word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
603:Its light stirs man the thinker to create
An earthly semblance of diviner things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
604:Meditation on Savitri, September 9, 2018 SundayHere too these godlings drive our human hearts,Our nature’s twilight is their lurking place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
605:Sin poisons with its vivid flowers of joy
Or leaves a red scar burnt across the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
606:The bliss which sleeps in things and tries to wake,
Breaks out in him in a small joy of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
607:The blue sea’s chant, the rivulet’s wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal’s harp. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
608:There was no act, no movement in its Vast:
Life’s question met by its silence died on her lips, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#NFDB
609:The Spirit's greatness is our timeless source
And it shall be our crown in endless Time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, [T5],#NFDB
610:This huge material universe became
A small result of a stupendous force: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
611:Who hug their lot and mock the saviour Light
And see in Mind wisdom’s sole tabernacle, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
612:A dull gravitation drags us down
To the blind driven inertia of our base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
613:A light of liberating knowledge shone
Across the gulfs of silence in their eyes; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
614:A million faces wears her knowledge here
And every face is turbaned with a doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
615:A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful
Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T5],#NFDB
616:Armed with the intuition of a bliss
To which some moved tranquillity was the key, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
617:A still deep sea, he laughs in rolling waves;
Universal, he is all,—transcendent, none. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
618:Came Reason, the squat godhead artisan,
To her narrow house upon a ridge in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
619:It has joined its hunger to the hunger of earth,
It has given the law of craving to our lives, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
620:Novel values furbished ancient themes
To cheat the mind with the idea of change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
621:The word was used as a hieratic means
For the release of the imprisoned spirit
Into communion with its comrade gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#NFDB
622:The world-interpreting movements of the dance
Moulded idea and mood to a rhythmic sway
And posture. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
623:All things hang here between God’s yes and no,
Two Powers real but to each other untrue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
624:The Power that from her being’s summit reigned,
The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
625:The Wisdom was near, disguised by its own works,
Of which the darkened universe is the robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
626:A fatal seed was sown in life’s false start
When evil twinned with good on earthly soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
627:Always ascends the zigzag of the gods
And upward points the spirit’s climbing Fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
628:A magnanimity as of sea or sky
Enveloped with its greatness all that came
And gave a sense as of a greatened world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
629:Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light,
Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
630:Passions that crumble to ashes while they blaze
Kindled the common earth with their brief flame. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
631:Philosophies that strip all problems bare
But nothing ever have solved since earth began, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
632:Sculpture and painting concentrated sense
Upon an inner vision's motionless verge,
Revealed a figure of the invisible, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:2,#NFDB
633:The mighty daemon lies unshaped within,
To evoke, to give it form is Nature’s task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
634:There Matter is the Spirit’s firm density,
An artistry of glad outwardness of self. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
635:The spirit’s consent is needed for each act
And Freedom walks in the same pace with Law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
636:This blindfold force could place no thinking step;
Asking for light she followed darkness’ clue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
637:This bodily appearance is not all;
The form deceives, the person is a mask; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
638:This now he willed to discover and exile,
The element in him betraying God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, [T5],#NFDB
639:Waiting the advent of a larger ray
And rescue of the lost herds of the Sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
640:Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven
Or Heaven descend into earth’s mortal state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
641:Her pragmatism of the transcendent Truth
Fills silence with the voices of the gods, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
642:Like a sky-flare showing all the ground
A swift intuitive discernment shone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
643:Mind, a glorious traveller in the sky,
Walks lamely on the earth with footsteps slow. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
644:Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight,
Breathe her divine illimitable air,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
645:We may find when all the rest has failed
Hid in ourselves the key of perfect change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
646:Each is a greatness growing towards the heights
Or from his inner centre oceans out; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
647:Gods who know not grief
And look impassive on a suffering world,
Calm they gaze down on the little human scene ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
648:In the unfolding process of the Self
Sometimes the inexpressible Mystery
Elects a human vessel of descent. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
649:Joy cannot endure until the end:
There is a darkness in terrestrial things
That will not suffer long too glad a note. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
650:O mortal, bear, but ask not for the stroke,
Too soon will grief and anguish find thee out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
651:Or there repose and action are the same
In the deep breast of God’s supreme delight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
652:The wise are tranquil; silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
653:Absolute her judgments seem but none is sure;
Time cancels all her verdicts in appeal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
654:A single path, shot thin and arrowlike
Into this bosom of vast and secret life,
Pierced its enormous dream of solitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
655:It stirred in the lotus of her throat of song,
And in her speech throbbed the immortal Word, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
656:It waited for the fiat of the Word
That comes through the still self from the Supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
657:Life-Self
Such is the life earth’s travail has conceived,
A constant stream that never is the same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
658:New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths,
Life’s glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
659:On earth by the will of this Arch-Intelligence
A bodiless energy put on Matter’s robe; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
660:Our days are links of a disastrous chain,
Necessity avenges casual steps;
Old cruelties come back unrecognised, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
661:The hidden Word was found, the long-sought clue,
Revealed was the meaning of our spirit’s birth, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
662:The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother, [T1],#NFDB
663:Fate covered with an unseen necessity
The game of chance of an omnipotent Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
664:He saw the labour of a godhead’s birth.
A secret knowledge masked as Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
665:His soul must be wider than the universe
And feel eternity as its very stuff. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
666:Imagined scenes or great eternal worlds,
Dream-caught or sensed, they touch our hearts with their depths; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
667:In all who have risen to a greater Life,
A voice of unborn things whispers to the ear, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
668:Meditation on Savitri, July 22, 2020, Wednesday.Above was an ardent white tranquillity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 239, #NFDB
669:By Power, not Light, the great Gods rule the world;
Power is the arm of God, the seal of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
670:Even now hints of a luminous Truth like stars
Arise in the mind-mooned splendour of Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
671:Even the smallest meanest work became
A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
672:Huge armoured strengths shook a frail quaking ground,
Great puissant creatures with a dwarfish brain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
673:It is finished, the dread mysterious sacrifice,
Offered by God’s martyred body for the world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
674:Magic of percept joined with concept’s art
And lent to each object an interpreting name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
675:Man’s knowledge casked in the barrels of Memory
Has the harsh savour of a mortal draught: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
676:Mind is a tissue woven of light and shade
Where right and wrong have sewn their mingled parts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
677:The Energy acts, the stable is its seal:
On Shiva’s breast is stayed the enormous dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
678:There is a guardian power, there are Hands that save,
Calm eyes divine regard the human scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
679:To eternal light and knowledge meant to rise,
Up from man’s bare beginning is our climb; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
680:Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
681:With a silver cry of opening gates
Sight’s lightnings leaped into the invisible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
682:A bee-croon honey-drunk in summer isles
Ardent with ecstasy in a slumbrous noon,
Or the far anthem of a pilgrim sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
683:He who would save himself lives bare and calm;
He who would save the race must share its pain: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
684:His past lives in him; it drives his future’s pace;
His present’s acts fashion his coming fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
685:Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage,
For through small joys and griefs thou mov’st towards God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
686:Mortality bears ill the eternal’s touch:
It fears the pure divine intolerance
Of that assault of ether and of fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
687:Nature walks upon her mighty way
Unheeding when she breaks a soul, a life;
Leaving her slain behind she travels on: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
688:Nothing is known while aught remains concealed;
The Truth is known only when all is seen. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
689:There all the truths unite in a single Truth,
And all ideas rejoin Reality.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release, [T5],#NFDB
690:A battle is joined between the true and false,
A pilgrimage sets out to the divine Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
691:A Veda-knower of the unwritten book
Perusing the mystic scripture of her forms,
He had caught her hierophant significances, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
692:A Wisdom knows and guides the mysteried world;
A Truth-gaze shapes its beings and events; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
693:But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in the light
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, [T5],#NFDB
694:It made of Space a marvel house of God,
It poured through Time its works of ageless might, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
695:Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage,
For through small joys and griefs thou movst towards God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
696:Out of this world of signs suddenly he came
Into a silent self where world was not ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
697:Slumbering in a sealed and secret cave
The powers that sleep unused in man within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
698:There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts
That wait their hour to step into life’s front. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
699:These wide divine extremes, these inverse powers
Are the right and left side of the body of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
700:This too the supreme Diplomat can use,
He makes our fall a means for greater rise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
701:Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come;
Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
702:A charm and greatness locked in every hour
Awakes the joy which sleeps in all things made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
703:At hazard he read by arrow-leaps of Thought
That hit the mark by guess or luminous chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
704:He is the Maker and the world he made,
He is the vision and he is the Seer;
He is himself the actor and the act, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
705:Here all experience was a single plan,
The thousandfold expression of the One.
All came at once into his single view; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
706:In the communion of two meeting minds
Thought looked at thought and had no need of speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
707:In the communion of two meeting minds
Thought looked at thought and had no need of speech; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
708:Man’s soul crosses through thee to Paradise,
Heaven’s sun forces its way through death and night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
709:O Death, if thou couldst touch the Truth supreme
Thou wouldst grow suddenly wise and cease to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
710:Our being must move eternally through Time;
Death helps us not, vain is the hope to cease; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
711:Some word that could incarnate highest Truth
Leaped out from a chance tension of the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
712:The deities have screened their dreadful power:
God hides his thought and, even, he seems to err. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
713:The ever-living whom we name as dead
Could leave their glory beyond death and birth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
714:Their anger rushed galloping in brute attack,
A charge of trampling hooves on shaken soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
715:Then is our life a tranquil pilgrimage,
Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way,
Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
716:The tinkling pace of a long caravan
It seemed at times, or a vast forest’s hymn,
The solemn reminder of a temple gong, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
717:Heaven's sun forces its way through death and night;
Its light is seen upon our being's verge...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
718:Meditation on Savitri, September 25, 2020, FridayThence sprang the burning vision of Desire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 247, #NFDB
719:Nameless the austere ascetics without home
Abandoning speech and motion and desire
Aloof from creatures sat absorbed, alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
720:Thought-worlds
A thousand roads leaped into Eternity
Or singing ran to meet God’s veilless face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#NFDB
721:Across the threshold's sleep she entered in
And found herself amid great figures of gods ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Book of Yoga, The Finding of the Soul, 524,#NFDB
722:A deathbound littleness is not all we are:
Immortal our forgotten vastnesses
Await discovery in our summit selves; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
723:As if in different worlds they walked, though close ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain, #NFDB
724:But not for self alone the Self is won:
Content abide not with one conquered realm; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
725:Existence’ self was shadowed by a doubt;
Almost it seemed a lotus-leaf afloat
On a nude pool of cosmic Nothingness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
726:For man, below the god, above the brute,
Is given the calm reason as his guide;
He is not driven by an unthinking will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
727:Half-poised on equal wings of thought and doubt
Toiled ceaselessly twixt being’s hidden ends. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
728:In our unseen subtle body thought is born
Or there it enters from the cosmic field. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
729:Meditation on Savitri, September 27, 2020, SundayIt burns all breasts with an ambiguous fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 247, #NFDB
730:Meditation on Savitri, September 9, 2020, WednesdayA dwarf three-bodied trinity was her serf. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 245, #NFDB
731:Myth suckled knowledge with her lustrous milk;
The infant passed from dim to radiant breasts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
732:The last inviolate secret hides
Behind the human glory of a Form,
Behind the gold eidolon of a Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
733:The lines of safety Reason draws that bar
Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
734:There substance was a resonant harp of self,
A net for the constant lightnings of the spirit, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
735:The Sole in its solitude yearned towards the All
And the Many turned to look back at the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
736:Thus for a while she trod the Golden Path;
This was the sun before abysmal Night.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
737:Thy acts are thy helpers, all events are signs,
Waking and sleep are opportunities
Given to thee by an immortal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
738:Calm and apart supported all that is:
His spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
739:He heard the inspired sound of his own thoughts
Re-echoed in the vault of other minds; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
740:More deeply than the bounded senses can
Which grasp externally and find to lose, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
741:O queen, thy thought is a light of the Ignorance,
Its brilliant curtain hides from thee God’s face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
742:Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
743:The divine Dwarf towered to unconquered worlds,
Earth grew too narrow for his victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
744:The lotus-heart of love
With all its thousand luminous buds of truth,
Which quivering sleeps veiled by apparent things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
745:World-force outlasts world-disillusion’s shock:
Dumb, she is still the Word, inert the Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
746:A fragile miracle of thinking clay,
Armed with illusions walks the child of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
747:A future knowledge is an added pain,
A torturing burden and a fruitless light
On the enormous scene that Fate has built. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
748:All things have their justifiable cause of being, their good use and their right enjoyment. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, Surya Savitri, Creator and Increaser, #NFDB
749:He props her dance upon a rigid base,
His timeless still immutability
Must standardise her creation’s miracle. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#NFDB
750:Leader here with his uncertain mind,
Alone who stares at the future’s covered face,
Man lifted up the burden of his fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
751:Meditation on Savitri, August 24, 2018 FridayA fixed and narrow power with rigid forms,He saw the empire of the little life,An unhappy corner in eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
752:Such is Savitri' s mission. This mission has two sessions or periods. The first, that of preparation; the second, that of fulfilment. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, 6, #NFDB
753:The malignancy of hostile Powers
Puts craftily back the clock of destiny
And mightier seems than the eternal Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
754:While a tardy Evolution’s coils wind on
And Nature hews her way through adamant
A divine intervention thrones above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
755:But pain came first, then only joy could be.
Pain ploughed the first hard ground of the world-drowse. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
756:But thought nor word can seize eternal Truth:
The whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
757:Her will must cancel her body’s destiny.
For only the unborn spirit’s timeless power
Can lift the yoke imposed by birth in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
758:Nature's Process
A nearness thrilled of the spirit to its source
And deepest things seemed obvious, close and true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
759:Our souls can climb into the shining planes,
The breadths from which they came can be our home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
760:The sorrow by which Nature’s hunger is fed,
The oestrus which creates with fire of pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
761:Two contraries needed for his great World-task,
Two poles whose currents wake the immense World-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
762:A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers;
God’s summits look back on the mute Abyss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
763:A gaol is this immense material world:
Across each road stands armed a stone-eyed Law,
At every gate the huge dim sentinels pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
764:All life is fixed in an ascending scale
And adamantine is the evolving Law;
In the beginning is prepared the close. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
765:An old pull of subconscious cords renews;
It draws the unwilling spirit from the heights, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
766:He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain-chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
767:I am the giver of the bowl of rice,
I am the worshipped Angel of the House.
I am in all that suffers and that cries. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
768:I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
769:My eternity hid in moving Time
And my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
770:None is for any on this transient globe.
He whom thou lovest now, a stranger came
And into a far strangeness shall depart: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
771:Only in an uplifting hour of stress
Men answer to the touch of greater things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
772:Silent the great hills
Rise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky,
Seated on their unchanging base ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
773:The morn went up into a smiling sky;
Cast from its sapphire pinnacle of trance
Day sank into the burning gold of eve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#NFDB
774:The snake is there and the worm in the heart of the rose.
A word, a moment’s act can slay the god; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
775:Ablaze upon creation’s quivering edge,
Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues
And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
776:A routed sullen rearguard of retreat,
The last rains had fled murmuring across the woods ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
777:Death, the dire god, inflicted on her eyes
The immortal calm of his tremendous gaze: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
778:His human self like a translucent cloak
Covered the All-Wise who leads the unseeing world.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
779:Incessant in the arms of ecstasy
Repeating its sweet involuntary note
A sob of rapture flowed along the hours. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
780:Near and real to the longing heart And to the body’s passionate thought and sense Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life, #NFDB
781:Nothing would confess its own pretence
Even to itself in the ambiguous heart:
A vast deception was the law of things; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
782:She puts forth a small portion of herself,
A being no bigger than the thumb of man
Into a hidden region of the heart ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
783:Through Nature’s contraries we draw near God;
Out of the darkness we still grow to light.
Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
784:All that transpires on earth and all beyond
Are parts of an illimitable plan
The One keeps in his heart and knows alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
785:An artist Sight constructed the Beyond
In contrary patterns and conflicting hues;
A part-experience fragmented the Whole. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
786:He must pass to the other shore of falsehood’s sea,
He must enter the world’s dark to bring there light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
787:Inheritor of the brief animal mind,
Man, still a child in Nature’s mighty hands,
In the succession of the moments lives; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
788:In our defeated hearts God’s strength survives
And victory’s star still lights our desperate road; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
789:Our base’s Matter seems alone complete,
An absolute machine without a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
790:Sometimes one life is charged with earth’s destiny,
It cries not for succour from the time-bound powers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
791:Thought-mind
Where Knowledge is the leader of the act
And Matter is of thinking substance made, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
792:Thy heart that needs
Some human answering heart against thy breast;
For who, being mortal, can dwell glad alone? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
793:Although as unknown beings we seem to meet,
Our lives are not aliens nor as strangers join,
Moved to each other by a causeless force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#NFDB
794:A mass phenomenon of visible shapes
Supported by the silence of the Void
Appeared in the eternal Consciousness ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
795:And all was centred in a single view
As when by distance separate scenes grow one
And a harmony is made of hues at war. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
796:An inspired Knowledge sat enthroned within
Whose seconds illumined more than reason’s years: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
797:Arrogant, gibing at more luminous states
The people of the gulfs despised the sun.
A barriered autarchy excluded light; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
798:A Woman sat in gold and purple sheen,
Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt,
Her feet upon a couchant lion’s back. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
799:But there is a guardian power, there are Hands that save,
Calm eyes divine regard the human scene.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul, [T5],#NFDB
800:Its highest wisdom was a brilliant guess,
Its mighty structured science of the worlds
A passing light on being’s surfaces. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
801:The dry gnarled trees stood up like dying men
Stiffened into a pose of agony, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
802:the rhythms and metres of the stars
Significant of the movements of our fate ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
803:Being collapsed into a pointless void
That yet was a zero parent of the worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
804:Meditation on Savitri, August 23, 2020, Sunday.In those bright realms are Mind's first forward steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 243, #NFDB
805:Meditation on Savitri, July 28 2018 SaturdayIt lit the impulse of the half-sentient flood,Even an illusion gave of fixityAs if a sea could serve as a firm soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
806:More there is concealed in God’s Beyond
That shall one day reveal its hidden face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
807:The architecture of the Infinite
Discovered here its inward-musing shapes
Captured into wide breadths of soaring stone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
808:The more she plunged into love that anguish grew;
Her deepest grief from sweetest gulfs arose.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge,#NFDB
809:Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
810:All ocean lived within a wandering drop.
A time made body housed the illimitable.
To live this mystery out our soul comes here.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
811:A matted forest-head invaded heaven
As if a blue-throated ascetic peered
From the stone fastness of his mountain cell ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#NFDB
812:A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
World after coloured and ecstatic world
Climbs towards some far unseen epiphany. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
813:A monstrous birth prepared its cosmic form
In Nature’s titan embryo, Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
814:If one of theirs they see scale heaven’s peaks,
Men then can hope to learn that titan climb. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
815:In the enormous spaces of the self
The body now seemed only a wandering shell, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
816:Knowledge dwells not in the passionate heart;
The heart’s words fall back unheard from Wisdom’s throne. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
817:Man only sees the cosmic surfaces.
Then wondering what may lie hid from the sense
A little way he delves to depths below: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
818:Only sometimes a holier influence comes,
A tide of mightier surgings bears our lives
And a diviner Presence moves the soul; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
819:This world is a beginning and a base
Where Life and Mind erect their structured dreams;
An unborn Power must build reality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
820:We must fill the immense lacuna we have made,
Re-wed the closed finite’s lonely consonant
With the open vowels of Infinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
821:What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion’s gleams,
A Will expressive of soul’s deity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
822:When I have loved for ever, I shall know.
Love in me knows the truth all changings mask. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
823:A foreseeing Knowledge might be ours,
If we could take our spirit’s stand within,
If we could hear the muffled daemon voice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
824:All she beheld that surges from man’s depths,
The animal instincts prowling mid life’s trees, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
825:His kindness an investment for return,
His altruism is ego’s other face:
He serves the world that him the world may serve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
826:I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, [T5],#NFDB
827:Immersed in voiceless internatal trance
The beings that once wore forms on earth sat there
In shining chambers of spiritual sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
828:Meditation on Savitri, July 23 2018 MondayIt flowed emerging into upper lightFrom the deep pool of its subliminal birthTo reach some high existence still unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
829:No more shut in by body’s walls and gates
Her being, a circle without circumference. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#NFDB
830:Wisdom attracts him with her luminous masks,
But never has he seen the face behind:
A giant Ignorance surrounds his lore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
831:As thoughts stand mute on a despairing verge
Where the last depths plunge into nothingness ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
832:For nothing is known while aught remains concealed;
The Truth is known only when all is seen.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind, #index,#NFDB
833:He made of Nothingness his living-room
And Night a process of the eternal light
And death a spur towards immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
834:Met the hounds of bale who hunt men’s hearts
Baying across the veldts of Destiny, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
835:Once figure of creation’s vain ellipse,
The expanding zero lost its giant curve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
836:The cosmic drowse of ignorant Force
Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns
And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
837:The hierarchy of the ordered Powers,
The high changeless values, the peaked eminences,
The privileged aristocracy of Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
838:The incarnate dual Power shall open God’s door,
Eternal supermind touch earthly Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
839:There in the slumber of the cosmic Will
He saw the secret key of Nature’s change. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
840:There was no more the dark pretence of hate,
The cruel rictus on Love’s altered face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
841:A mass of superconscience closed in light,
Creator of things in his all-knowing sleep. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
842:An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
843:A secret soul behind supporting all
Is master and witness of our ignorant life,
Admits the Person’s look and Nature’s role. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
844:Even there shall come as a high crown of all
The end of Death, the death of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
845:For all we have acquired soon loses worth,
An old disvalued credit in Times bank,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
846:Immortality for imperfect man,
A god who hurts himself at every step,
Would be a cycle of eternal pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
847:Our own minds are the justicers of doom.
For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others’ souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
848:Sometimes, when our sight is turned within,
Earth’s ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes;
There is a short miraculous escape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
849:The impulse of the Path was felt
Moving from the Silence that supports the stars
To touch the confines of the visible world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#NFDB
850:The night’s gold treasure of autumnal moons
Came floating shipped through ripples of faery air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
851:The swoon of glad identity
Where spirit and flesh in inner ecstasy join
Annulling the quarrel between self and shape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
852:The word, the form, the charm, the glory and grace
Are missioned sparks from a stupendous Fire; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
853:To the height of heights rose now their daily climb:
Truth leaned to them from her supernal realm;
Above them blazed eternity's mystic suns. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 4:4,#NFDB
854:A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
855:A sailor on the Inconscient’s fathomless sea,
He voyages through a starry world of thought
On Matter’s deck to a spiritual sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
856:At first was only an etheric Space:
Its huge vibrations circled round and round
Housing some unconceived initiative: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
857:But if thou wilt not wait for Time and God,
Do then thy work and force thy will on Fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
858:Circling around a single luminous point,
Centre of reference in a conscious field,
Figure of a unitary Light within. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
859:Felt its honey of felicity
Flow through his veins like the rivers of Paradise,
Made body a nectar-cup of the Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
860:Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet:
His breast he offers for her cosmic dance
Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
861:I am Prometheus under the vulture’s beak,
Man the discoverer of the undying fire,
In the flame he kindled burning like a moth ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
862:Impure, sadistic, with grimacing mouths,
Grey foul inventions gruesome and macabre
Came televisioned from the gulfs of Night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
863:In bodies motionless like statues, fixed
In tranced cessations of their sleepless thought
Sat sleeping souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
864:In man a dim disturbing somewhat lives;
It knows but turns away from divine Light
Preferring the dark ignorance of the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
865:It acted not but bore all thoughts and deeds,
The witness Lord of Nature’s myriad acts
Consenting to the movements of her Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
866:The omniscient Ray is shut behind his lids:
He is the Wisdom that comes not by thought, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
867:There crawled through every tense and aching nerve
Leaving behind its poignant quaking trail
A nameless and unutterable fear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
868:Veiled by the ray no mortal eye can bear,
The Spirit's bare and absolute potencies
Burn in the solitude of the thoughts of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
869:All contraries were true in one huge spirit
Surpassing measure, change and circumstance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#NFDB
870:And symbol of some native cosmic strength,
A sacred beast lay prone below her feet,
A silent flame-eyed mass of living force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
871:As those who have lived long made one in love
Need word nor sign for heart’s reply to heart,
He met and communed without bar of speech ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
872:A strange pell-mell of magic artisans,
Was seen moulding the plastic clay of life,
An elfin brood, an elemental kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
873:His wakened mind became an empty slate
On which the Universal and Sole could write. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
874:in her spaceless self released from bounds
Unnumbered years seemed moments long drawn out,
The brilliant time-flakes of eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#NFDB
875:Meditation on Savitri, August 20, 2018 Monday.There were no vast perspectives of the spirit,No swift invasions of unknown delight,No golden distances of wide release. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
876:Reason that scans and breaks, but cannot build
Or builds in vain because she doubts her work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
877:The boundless Nescience of the unconscious depths
Covered eternity with nothingness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
878:The Immanent lives in man as in his house;
He has made the universe his pastime’s field,
A vast gymnasium of his works of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
879:They are caught by the Wheel that they had hoped to break,
On their shoulders they must bear man’s load of fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
880:A living centre of the Illimitable
Widened to equate with the world’s circumference, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
881:An omnipotent indiscernible Influence,
He sits, unfelt by the form in which he lives
And veils his knowledge by the groping mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
882:Impersonal, signless, featureless, void of forms
A blank pure consciousness had replaced the mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
883:In destruction felt creation’s hasty pace,
Knew loss as the price of a celestial gain ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
884:Meditation on Savitri, September 25, 2018 TuesdayThere was none there to see and none to feel;Only the miraculous Inconscient,A subtle wizard skilled, was at its task. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
885:Oneness was sovereign in that sylvan peace,
The wild beast joined in friendship with its prey;
Persuading the hatred and the strife to cease ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
886:The builder Reason lost her confidence
In the successful sleight and turn of thought
That makes the soul the prisoner of a phrase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
887:Across the unfolding of the seas of self
Appeared the deathless countries of the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
888:Agents of darkness imitating light,
Spirits obscure and moving things obscure,
Unwillingly they serve a mightier Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
889:All here is a mystery of contraries:
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light,
Suffering some secret rapture’s tragic mask ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
890:An ocean of electric Energy
Formlessly formed its strange wave-particles
Constructing by their dance this solid scheme, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
891:God's Desire
Lo, how all shakes when the gods tread too near!
All moves, is in peril, anguished, torn, upheaved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
892:Her patient paleness wore a pensive glow
Like evening’s subdued gaze of gathered light
Departing, which foresees sunrise her child. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#NFDB
893:Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight
Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
894:The heavens of the ideal Mind were seen
In a blue lucency of dreaming Space
Like strips of brilliant sky clinging to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
895:These sages breathed for God’s delight in things.
Assisting the slow entries of the gods,
Sowing in young minds immortal thoughts they lived, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
896:The Spirit shall look out through Matter’s gaze
And Matter shall reveal the Spirit’s face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
897:What is Truth and who can find her form
Amid the specious images of sense,
Amid the crowding guesses of the mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
898:A Thought that can conceive but hardly knows
Arises slowly in her and creates
The idea, the speech that labels more than it lights; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
899:Even when we fail to look into our souls
Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness,
Still have we parts that grow towards the light, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
900:Her mouth was seized to channel ineffable truths,
Knowledge unthinkable found an utterance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#NFDB
901:He sees in all things strangely fashioned here
The unwelcome jest of a deceiving Force,
A parable of Maya and her might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
902:He whose transcendence rules the pregnant Vasts,
Prescient now dwells in our subliminal depths,
A luminous individual Power, alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
903:I have been pity, leaning over pain
And the tender smile that heals the wounded heart
And sympathy making life less hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
904:Implacable in the passion of their will,
Lifting the hammers of titanic toil
The demiurges of the universe work; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
905:I smite the Titan who bestrides the world
And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den.
I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
906:Nabhi-Padma (Navel-lotus)
Out of the dreadful press she dragged her will
And fixed her thought upon the saviour Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
907:Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
908:Only religion in this bankruptcy
Presents its dubious riches to our hearts
Or signs unprovisioned cheques on the Beyond: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
909:Pity it's not sixteen million. If it were sixteen million, it would be very good. The question would have been solved already long ago. Pity it wasn't twenty-six million. ~ Savitri Devi, #NFDB
910:Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,
The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
911:There is a consciousness mind cannot touch,
Its speech cannot utter nor its thought reveal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
912:A mighty victory or a mighty fall,
A throne in heaven or a pit in hell,
The dual Energy they have justified ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
913:Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth,
Earth in its sorrow dreams of perfect heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
914:His spirit by spiritual ego sink,
Or his soul dream shut in sainthood’s brilliant cell
Where only a bright shadow of God can come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
915:Knew death for a cellar of the house of life,
In destruction felt creation’s hasty pace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
916:Meditation on Savitri, August 18, 2018 Saturday.Out of a slow confused embroiled self-searchMind grew to a clarity cut out, precise,A gleam enclosed in a stone ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
917:O to spread forth, O to encircle and seize
More hearts till love in us has filled thy world! ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
918:Our spirit tires of being’s surfaces,
Transcended is the splendour of the form;
It turns to hidden powers and deeper states. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
919:The doors of light are sealed to common mind
And earth’s needs nail to earth the human mass, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
920:Trivial amusements stimulate and waste
The energy given to him to grow and be.
His little hour is spent in little things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
921:When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in;
He dared to live when breath and thought were still.
Thus could he step into that magic place ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:5,#NFDB
922:Without wisdom power is like a wind,
It can breathe upon the heights and kiss the sky,
It cannot build the extreme eternal things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
923:A little gift comes from the Immensitudes,
But measureless to life its gain of joy;
All the untold Beyond is mirrored there. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
924:An almighty occultist erects in Space
This seeming outward world which tricks the sense; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
925:An inner law of beauty shapes our lives;
Our words become the natural speech of Truth,
Each thought is a ripple on a sea of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
926:The eyes of love gaze starlike through death’s night,
The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
927:The lust that warps the spirit’s natural good
Replaced by a manufactured virtue and vice
The frank spontaneous impulse of the soul: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
928:Time's works
The giant’s and the Titan’s furious march
Climbs to usurp the kingdom of the gods
Or skirts the demon magnitudes of Hell; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
929:A divine pity on the peaks of the world,
A spirit touched by the grief of all that lives,
She looked out far and saw from inner mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
930:A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense
Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all,
To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
931:All’s miracle here and can by miracle change.
This is that secret Nature’s edge of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
932:Ananke’s engines organising Chance,
Channels perverse of a stupendous Will,
Tools of the Unknown who use us as their tools, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
933:An invisible Beauty, goal of the world’s desire,
A Sun of which all knowledge is a beam,
A Greatness without whom no life could be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
934:Even through the tangled anarchy called Fate
And through the bitterness of death and fall
An outstretched Hand is felt upon our lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
935:Intense philosophies pointed earth to heaven
Or on foundations broad as cosmic Space
Upraised the earth-mind to superhuman heights. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
936:O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light
And bring down God into the lives of men; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
937:That, travellers from on high, arrive to us
Deformed by our search, tricked by costuming mind, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
938:The crown of conscious Immortality,
The godhead promised to our struggling souls
When first man’s heart dared death and suffered life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
939:The troglodytes of the subconscious Mind,
Ill-trained slow stammering interpreters
Only of their small task’s routine aware ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
940:Too hard the gods are with man’s fragile race;
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate
And they forget the wounded feet of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
941:All knowledge failed and the Idea’s forms
And Wisdom screened in awe her lowly head
Feeling a Truth too great for thought or speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
942:An adversary Force was born of old:
Invader of the life of mortal man,
It hides from him the straight immortal path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
943:A puritan God made pleasure a poisonous fruit,
Or red drug in the market-place of Death,
And sin the child of Nature’s ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
944:Meditation on Savitri, August 4, 2018 Saturday.A little ordered world broke into viewWhere being had prison-room for act and sight,A floor to walk, a clear but scanty range. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
945:Meditation on Savitri, September 20, 2018 ThursdayA mighty Hand then rolls mind’s firmaments back,Infinity takes up the finite’s actsAnd Nature steps into the eternal Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
946:Mind’s voices mimicked inspiration’s stress,
Its ictus of infallibility,
Its speed and lightning heaven-leap of the Gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
947:Only the Eternal’s strength in us can dare
To attempt the immense adventure of that climb
And the sacrifice of all we cherish here. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
948:Out of a slow confused embroiled self-search
Mind grew to a clarity cut out, precise,
A gleam enclosed in a stone ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
949:Soul's soar
It seemed the yearning of a lonely flute
That roamed along the shores of memory
And filled the eyes with tears of longing joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
950:There is a oneness native and occult
That needs no instruments and erects no form;
In unison it grows with all that is. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
951:A lonely soul passions for the Alone,
The heart that loved man thrills to the love of God,
A body is his chamber and his shrine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
952:Even God himself obeys the Laws he made:
The Law abides and never can it change,
The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
953:He shore the cord of mind that ties the earth-heart
And cast away the yoke of Matter’s law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
954:In moments when the inner lamps are lit
And the life’s cherished guests are left outside,
Our spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
955:Insatiate seeker, he has all to learn:
He has exhausted now life’s surface acts,
His being’s hidden realms remain to explore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
956:Its aspect of a fixed stability
Is the cover of a captive motion’s swirl,
An order of the steps of Energy’s dance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
957:Life now became a sure approach to God,
Existence a divine experiment
And cosmos the soul’s opportunity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
958:Meditation on Savitri, July 12 2018 ThursdayOnly she had beaten out sparks of ignorance;Only the life could think and not the mind,Only the sense could feel and not the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
959:Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break
A dead resistance in the mortal’s heart,
His slow inertia as of living stone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
960:They sang Infinity’s names and deathless powers
In metres that reflect the moving worlds,
Sight’s sound-waves breaking from the soul’s great deeps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
961:All here is dreamed or doubtfully exists,
But who the dreamer is and whence he looks
Is still unknown or only a shadowy guess. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
962:All here where each thing seems its lonely self
Are figures of the sole transcendent One:
Only by him they are, his breath is their life; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
963:All in outer mind
Is made, not born, a product perishable,
Forged in the body’s factory by earth-force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
964:A stripped imperative of conceptual phrase
Architectonic and inevitable
Translated the unthinkable into thought: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
965:By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
966:Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone,
Patient he sat like an incarnate hope
Motionless on a pedestal of prayer. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
967:Non-Being’s night could never have been saved
If Being had not plunged into the dark
Carrying with it its triple mystic cross. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
968:Our precarious mortal thought
That looks from soil to sky and sky to soil
But knows not the below nor the beyond, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
969:The kingdom of the animal self arose,
Where deed is all and mind is still half-born
And the heart obeys a dumb unseen control. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
970:A mystic Form that could contain the worlds,
Yet make one human breast its passionate shrine, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
971:A veil is kept, something is still held back,
Lest, captives of the beauty and the joy,
Our souls forget to the Highest to aspire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
972:Expansion and contraction’s mystic act
Created touch and friction in the void,
Into abstract emptiness brought clash and clasp: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
973:Hidden behind the fair outsides of life.
Its dangerous commerce is our suffering’s cause.
Its breath is a subtle poison in men’s hearts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
974:Ignorant and stumbling, in brief boundaries pent,
He crowns himself the world’s mock suzerain,
Tormenting Nature with the works of Mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#NFDB
975:Music brought down celestial yearnings, song
Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths,
Linking the human with the cosmic cry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
976:Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand,
Only when infinity weds the finite’s thought,
Can man be free from himself and live with God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
977:The spirit rises mightier by defeat;
Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall.
Its splendid failures sum to victory. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
978:To seize the absolute in shapes that pass,
To fix the eternal’s touch in time-made things,
This is the law of all perfection here. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
979:A Truth occult has made this mighty world:
The Eternal’s wisdom and self-knowledge act
In ignorant Mind and in the body’s steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
980:Falsehood enthroned on awed and prostrate hearts
The cults and creeds that organise living death
And slay the soul on the altar of a lie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
981:Ignorant like men born blind who know not light,
They could equate worst ill with highest good, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
982:Meditation on Savitri, September 11 2018 TuesdayIt speaks to us with the voices of the Night:Our darkened lives to greater darkness move;Our seekings listen to calamitous hopes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
983:Night over tired lands, when evening pales
And fading gleams break down the horizon’s walls,
Nor yet the dusk grows mystic with the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#NFDB
984:Since God has made earth, earth must make in her God;
What hides within her breast she must reveal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
985:Then through a tunnel dug in the last rock
She came out where there shone a deathless sun.
A house was there all made of flame and light ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
986:The sacred Book lay on its sanctified desk
Wrapped in interpretation’s silken strings:
A credo sealed up its spiritual sense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
987:These revolutions, demon or drunken god,
Convulsing the wounded body of mankind
Only to paint in new colours an old face; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
988:Where Matter is all, there Spirit is a dream:
If all are the Spirit, Matter is a lie,
And who was the liar who forged the universe? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
989:An attempt, a drawing half-done is the world’s life;
Its lines doubt their concealed significance,
Its curves join not their high intended close. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
990:A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,
The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,
And hints leaped down of white beatitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
991:Beyond the earth, but meant for delivered earth,
Wisdom and joy prepare their perfect crown;
Truth superhuman calls to thinking man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
992:His knowledge he disguised as Ignorance,
His Good he sowed in Evil’s monstrous bed,
Made error a door by which Truth could enter in. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
993:Light flung the photon’s swift revealing spark
And showed, in the minuteness of its flash
Imaged, this cosmos of apparent things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
994:Thou art his spur to greatness in his works,
The whip to his yearning for eternal bliss,
His poignant need of immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
995:Vain the soul’s hope if changeless Law is all:
Ever to the new and the unknown press on
The speeding aeons justifying God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
996:Who help men’s drab and heavy ignorant lives
To wake to beauty and the wonder of things
Touching them with glory and divinity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
997:A gift of priceless value from Time’s gods
Lost or mislaid in an uncaring world,
Life is a marvel missed, an art gone wry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
998:A solid image of reality
Carved out of being to prop the works of Time,
Matter on the firm earth sits strong and sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
999:Crowding and stinging in a monstrous swarm
Pressed with a noxious hum into his mind
Thoughts that could poison Nature’s heavenliest breath, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1000:The Inconscient too is infinite;
The more its abysses we insist to sound,
The more it stretches, stretches endlessly. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
1001:There Ego was lord upon his peacock seat
And Falsehood sat by him, his mate and queen:
The world turned to them as Heaven to Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1002:There every thought and feeling is an act,
And every act a symbol and a sign,
And every symbol hides a living power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1003:These static objects in the cosmic dance
That are but Energy’s self-repeating whorls
Prolonged by the spirit of the brooding Void, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1004:All here gathers beneath one golden sky:
The Powers that build the cosmos station take
In its house of infinite possibility; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1005:But many-visaged is the cosmic Soul;
A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate.
A sudden turn can come, a road appear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1006:Ever since consciousness was born on earth,
Life is the same in insect, ape and man,
Its stuff unchanged, its way the common route. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1007:For body without mind has not the light,
The rapture of spirit sense, the joy of life;
All then becomes subconscient, tenebrous. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1008:Her deepest grief from sweetest gulfs arose.
Remembrance was a poignant pang ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1009:He who Is grows manifest in the years
And the slow Godhead shut within the cell
Climbs from the plasm to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1010:His failure is not failure whom God leads; ...
It knows its steps, its way is inevitable,
And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
1011:Hunger that gnawest at the universe
Consuming the cold remnants of the suns
And eatst the whole world with thy jaws of fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1012:If something great awakes, too frail his pitch
To reveal its zenith tension of delight,
His thought to eternise its ephemeral soar, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1013:It was a plane of undetermined spirit
That could be a zero or round sum of things,
A state in which all ceased and all began. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#NFDB
1014:Once the Ananda, the divine delight in all things is attained, it sets right all the distortions, all the evil of the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #NFDB
1015:There beat a throb of living interchange:
Being felt being even when afar
And consciousness replied to consciousness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1016:This hidden foe lodged in the human breast
Man must overcome or miss his higher fate.
This is the inner war without escape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1017:Yet Light is there; it stands at Nature’s doors:
It holds a torch to lead the traveller in.
It waits to be kindled in our secret cells ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1018:A formless void suppressed his struggling brain,
A darkness grim and cold oppressed his flesh,
A whispered grey suggestion chilled his heart; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1019:Earth lies unchanged beneath the circling sun;
She loves her fall and no omnipotence
Her mortal imperfections can erase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1020:Half-heard lowings drew the listening ear,
As if the Sun-god’s brilliant kine were there
Hidden in mist and passing towards the sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1021:Haughtily humble in his own conceit
Believes himself a spawn of Matter’s mud
And takes his own creations for his cause. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1022:Heaven-fire laughed in the corners of her eyes;
Her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength,
She menaced the triumph of the nether gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
1023:Meditation on Savitri, September 23, 2018 SundayIn this whirl and sprawl through infinite vacancyThe Spirit became Matter and lay in the whirl,A body sleeping without sense or soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1024:Meditation on Savitri, September 23, 2020, WednesdayA fiery spirit came, next of the three. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 247. instagram.com/p/CFcviA-H0M0/…, #NFDB
1025:Night is not our beginning nor our end;
She is the dark Mother in whose womb we have hid
Safe from too swift a waking to world-pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1026:The cosmos is no accident in Time;
There is a meaning in each play of Chance,
There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1027:These pale glimmer-realms
Where dawn-sheen gambolled with the native dusk
And helped the Day to grow and Night to fail, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1028:Through a glamour of shifting hues of air
The seasons drew in linked significant dance
The symbol pageant of the changing year. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1029:A circuit ending where it first began
Is dubbed the forward and eternal march
Of progress on perfection’s unknown road. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1030:An errant ray from the immortal Mind
Accepted the earth’s blindness and became
Our human thought, servant of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1031:Our ignorance is Wisdom’s chrysalis,
Our error weds new knowledge on its way,
Its darkness is a blackened knot of light; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1032:Pain is the hand of Nature sculpturing men
To greatness: an inspired labour chisels
With heavenly cruelty an unwilling mould. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1033:Then stretches the boundless finite’s last expanse,
The cosmic empire of the Overmind,
Time’s buffer state bordering Eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1034:The slow process of a material mind
Which serves the body it should rule and use
And needs to lean upon an erring sense. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1035:A world of lovelier forms lies near to ours,
Where, undisguised by earth’s deforming sight,
All shapes are beautiful and all things true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
1036:In gleaming clarities of amethyst air
The chainless and omnipotent Spirit of Mind
Brooded on the blue lotus of the Idea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1037:Night was a chrysoprase on velvet cloth,
A nestling darkness or a moonlit deep; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1038:On the ocean surface of vast Consciousness
Small thoughts in shoals are fished up into a net
But the great truths escape her narrow cast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1039:The unseizable forces of the cosmic whirl
Bear in their bacchant limbs the fixity
Of an original foresight that is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1040:The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
1041:The worlds are built by its unconscious Breath
And Matter and Mind are its figures or its powers,
Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1042:Under a blue veil of eternity
The splendours of ideal Mind were seen
Outstretched across the boundaries of things known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1043:A channel of universal harmony,
Hearing was a stream of magic audience,
A bed for occult sounds earth cannot hear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1044:At last there wakes in us a witness Soul
That looks at truths unseen and scans the Unknown;
Then all assumes a new and marvellous face: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1045:Climb not to Godhead by the Titan’s road.
Against the Law he pits his single will,
Across its way he throws his pride of might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1046:Even in all that life and man have marred,
A whisper of divinity still is heard,
A breath is felt from the eternal spheres. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1047:He stood compelled to a tremendous choice.
All he had been and all towards which he grew
Must now be left behind or else transform
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable, [T5],#NFDB
1048:Imagination called her shining squads
That venture into undiscovered scenes
Where all the marvels lurk none yet has known: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1049:In this whirl and sprawl through infinite vacancy
The Spirit became Matter and lay in the whirl,
A body sleeping without sense or soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1050:Our past lives still in our unconscious selves
And by the weight of its hidden influences
Is shaped our future’s self-discovery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1051:Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse.
Earth’s winged chimaeras are Truth’s steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God’s sign of things to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1052:The staple or dry straw of Reason’s tilth,
Its heaped fodder of innumerable facts,
Plebeian fare on which today we thrive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1053:Across the cosmic field through narrow lanes
Asking a scanty dole from Fortune’s hands
And garbed in beggar’s robes there walks the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1054:All that denies must be torn out and slain
And crushed the many longings for whose sake
We lose the One for whom our lives were made. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
1055:An Energy of perpetual transience makes
The journey from which no return is sure,
The pilgrimage of Nature to the Unknown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1056:A spirit, a being saw created things
And cast itself into unnumbered forms
And was what it saw and made; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#NFDB
1057:Creation and destruction waltzed inarmed
On the bosom of a torn and quaking earth;
All reeled into a world of Kali’s dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1058:God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;
For man shall not know the coming till its hour
And belief shall be not till the work is done. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1059:In the exact Inconscient’s stark conceit,
In the casual error of the world’s ignorance
A plan, a hidden Intelligence is glimpsed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1060:The All-containing was contained in form,
Oneness was carved into units measurable,
The limitless built into a cosmic sum: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1061:There in the silence few have ever reached,
Thou shalt see the Fire burning on the bare stone
And the deep cavern of thy secret soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1062:The sin last, greatest, the spiritual pride,
That, made of dust, equalled itself with heaven,
Its scorn of the worm writhing in the mud, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1063:This universe an old enchantment guards;
Its objects are carved cups of World-Delight
Whose charmed wine is some deep soul’s rapture-drink. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1064:Voices that came from unseen waiting worlds
Uttered the syllables of the Unmanifest
To clothe the body of the mystic Word. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1065:His fires of grandeur burn in the great sun,
He glides through heaven shimmering in the moon;
He is beauty carolling in the fields of sound; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1066:None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.
This too the traveller of the worlds must dare.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1067:Yes, there are happy ways near to God’s sun;
But few are they who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1068:Yet is it a conscious power that moves in us,
A seed-idea is parent of our acts
And destiny the unrecognised child of Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1069:Yet were there regions where these absolutes met
And made a circle of bliss with married hands;
Light stood embraced by light, fire wedded fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1070:A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1071:If the chamber’s door is even a little ajar,
What then can hinder God from stealing in
Or who forbid his kiss on the sleeping soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1072:Our body’s subtle self is throned within
In its viewless palace of veridical dreams
That are bright shadows of the thoughts of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1073:Out of the sorrow and darkness of the world,
Out of the depths where life and thought are tombed,
Lonely mounts up to heaven the deathless Flame. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1074:The Son of God born as the Son of man
Has drunk the bitter cup, owned Godhead’s debt,
The debt the Eternal owes to the fallen kind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1075:Thus is it even with the seer and sage;
For still the human limits the divine:
Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1076:Two golden serpents round the lintel curled,
Enveloping it with their pure and dreadful strength,
Looked out with wisdom’s deep and luminous eyes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1077:An idea,
Each deemed Truth’s intimate fount and summit force,
The heart of the meaning of the universe,
Perfection’s key, passport to Paradise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1078:A sumptuous chamber of the spirit’s sleep
At first she made, a deep interior room,
Where he slumbers as if a forgotten guest. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1079:A thinking mind had come to lift life’s moods,
The keen-edged tool of a Nature mixed and vague,
An intelligence half-witness, half-machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1080:Easy the heavens were to build for God.
Earth was his difficult matter, earth the glory
Gave of the problem and the race and strife. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1081:Its steps are paces of the soul’s return
From the deep adventure of material birth,
A ladder of delivering ascent
And rungs that Nature climbs to deity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
1082:The mind of mortal man is led by words,
His sight retires behind the walls of Thought
And looks out only through half-opened doors. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1083:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall;
Nature’s most careless lolling is a pose
Preparing some forward step, some deep result. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1084:To catch the boundless in a net of birth,
To cast the spirit into physical form,
To lend speech and thought to the Ineffable; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1085:A Truth supreme has forced the world to be;
It has wrapped itself in Matter as in a shroud,
A shroud of Death, a shroud of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1086:Bliss is the secret stuff of all that lives,
Even pain and grief are garbs of world-delight,
It hides behind thy sorrow and thy cry. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1087:He tastes the honey of tears and puts off joy
Repenting, and has laughter and has wrath,
And both are a broken music of the soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1088:In packets she ties up the Indivisible;
Finding her hands too small to hold vast Truth
She breaks up knowledge into alien parts ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1089:Meditation on Savitri, September 11, 2020, FridayAbsorbed and cabined in external sight,It takes its stand on Nature's solid base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 245, #NFDB
1090:One endless watches the inconscient scene
Where all things perish, as the foam the stars.
The One lives for ever. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
1091:This sole is real in apparent things,
Even upon earth the spirit is life’s key,
But her solid outsides nowhere bear its trace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1092:Trivial or sombre, disillusion comes,
Life’s harsh reality stares at the soul:
Heaven’s hour adjourned flees into bodiless Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1093:Already God is near, the Truth is close:
Because the dark atheist body knows him not,
Must the sage deny the Light, the seer his soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1094:Although defeated, life must struggle on;
Always she sees a crown she cannot grasp;
Her eyes are fixed beyond her fallen state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1095:Day was a purple pageant and a hymn,
A wave of the laughter of light from morn to eve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1096:If human will could be made one with God’s,
If human thought could echo the thoughts of God,
Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1097:Meditation on Savitri, August 25, 2020, Tuesday.Ardent and golden-gleamed with sunrise fires,Alert it lives upon invention's verge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 243, #NFDB
1098:Meditation on Savitri, October 11, 2018 ThursdayA subtler breath quickened dead Matter’s forms;The world’s set rhythm changed to a conscious cry;A serpent Power twinned the insensible Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1099:Meditation on Savitri, October 14, 2018 SundayWaking and sleep lay locked in mutual arms;Helpless and indistinct came pleasure and painTrembling with the first faint thrills of a World-Soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1100:Mind is Nature’s marriage of convenance
Between truth and falsehood, between joy and pain:
This struggling pair no court can separate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1101:Our life’s uncertain way winds circling on,
Our mind’s unquiet search asks always light,
Till they have learned their secret in their source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1102:The genius too receives from some high fount
Concealed in a supernal secrecy
The work that gives him an immortal name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1103:the troubled stream where leaps a blind heart-pulse
And the nerve-beat of feeling wakes in sense
Dividing Matter’s sleep from conscious Mind, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
1104:Adventure leaped an unexpected friend,
And danger brought a keen sweet tang of joy;
Each happening was a deep experience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1105:All forms are tokens of some veiled idea
Whose covert purpose lurks from mind’s pursuit,
Yet is a womb of sovereign consequence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1106:All seems in vain, yet endless is the game.
Impassive turns the ever-circling Wheel,
Life has no issue, death brings no release. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1107:At last to open thy eyes consent and see
The stuff of which thou and the world are made.
Inconscient in the dumb inconscient Void
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1108:Here in Life’s nether realms all contraries meet;
Truth stares and does her works with bandaged eyes
And Ignorance is Wisdom’s patron here: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1109:He who has found his identity with God
Pays with the body’s death his soul’s vast light.
His knowledge immortal triumphs by his death. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1110:Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways,
Withhold from thee the body of God’s bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1111:In his fragile tenement he grows Nature’s lord.
In him Matter wakes from its long obscure trance,
In him earth feels the Godhead drawing near. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
1112:Man is a dynamo for the cosmic work;
Nature does most in him, God the high rest:
Only his soul’s acceptance is his own. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1113:Our souls, upon the wheel of God
For ever turning, they arrive and go,
Married and sundered in the magic round
Of the great Dancer of the boundless dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1114:The Eternal suffers in a human form,
He has signed salvation’s testament with his blood:
He has opened the doors of his undying peace. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1115:The seed of Godhead sleeps in mortal hearts,
The flower of Godhead grows on the world-tree:
All shall discover God in self and things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1116:A greater Personality sometimes
Possesses us which yet we know is ours:
Or we adore the Master of our souls.
Then the small bodily ego thins and falls; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1117:Cast Thought from thee, that nimble ape of Light:
In his tremendous hush stilling thy brain
His vast Truth wake within and know and see. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1118:Great figures of gods
Conscious in stone and living without breath,
Watching with fixed regard the soul of man,
Executive figures of the cosmic self ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1119:I know that knowledge is a vast embrace:
I know that every being is myself,
In every heart is hidden the myriad One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
1120:Meditation on Savitri, September 30, 2018 SundayOn the hearth of Space it kindled a viewless FireThat, scattering worlds as one might scatter seeds,Whirled out the luminous order of the stars. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1121:The little Mind is tied to little things:
Its sense is but the spirit’s outward touch,
Half-waked in a world of dark Inconscience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1122:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes’ interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1123:They enter the valley of the wandering Gleam
Whence, captives or victims of the specious Ray,
Souls trapped in that region never can escape. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1124:A bullock yoked in the cart of proven fact,
She drags huge knowledge-bales through Matter’s dust
To reach utility’s immense bazaar. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1125:A hunchback rider of the red Wild-Ass,
A rash Intelligence leaped down lion-maned
From the great mystic Flame that rings the worlds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1126:A schoolman mind had captured life’s large space,
But chose to live in bare and paltry rooms
Parked off from the too vast dangerous universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1127:Crafts minute in subtle lines
Eternised a swift moment’s memory
Or showed in a carving’s sweep, a cup’s design
The underlying patterns of the unseen: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
1128:Her eternal Lover is her action’s cause;
For him she leaped forth from the unseen Vasts
To move here in a stark unconscious world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1129:His face of human thought puts on a crown. மானிட வேடம் பூண்ட அவனதுதிருமுகம் பின்னர் மணிமுடி தரித்திடும். ~ Sri Aurobindo, [1999]. Savitri, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 65, தமிழில்: விஜயா சங்கரநாராயணன், #NFDB
1130:Infallibly by Truth’s directing gaze
All creatures here their secret self disclose,
Forced to become what in themselves they hide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1131:Mystic, ineffable is the spirit’s truth,
Unspoken, caught only by the spirit’s eye.
When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1132:There consciousness was a close and single weft;
The far and near were one in spirit-space,
The moments there were pregnant with all time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#NFDB
1133:Well is the unconscious rule for the animal breeds
Content to live beneath the immutable yoke;
Man turns to a nobler walk, a master path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1134:He too is a machine amid machines;
A piston brain pumps out the shapes of thought,
A beating heart cuts out emotion’s modes;
An insentient energy fabricates a soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Issue,#NFDB
1135:I have created all, all I devour;
I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life,
I am Kali black and naked in the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1136:In an outburst of heavenly joy and ease
Life yields to the divinity within
And gives the rapture-offering of its all,
And the soul opens to felicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1137:All that we seek for is prefigured there
And all we have not known nor ever sought
Which yet one day must be born in human hearts
That the Timeless may fulfil itself in things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri,#NFDB
1138:In a veiled Nature’s hallowed secrecies
It burns for ever on the altar Mind,
Its priests the souls of dedicated gods,
Humanity its house of sacrifice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1139:In the black night the wrath of storm swept by,
The thunder crashed above her, the rain hissed,
Its million footsteps pattered on the roof. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1140:Our dead past round our future’s ankles clings
And drags back the new nature’s glorious stride,
Or from its buried corpse old ghosts arise, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1141:This world is in love with its own ignorance,
Its darkness turns away from the saviour light,
It gives the cross in payment for the crown. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1142:An arrow leaping through eternity
Suddenly shot from the tense bow of Time,
A ray returning to its parent sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1143:The life that wins its aim asks greater aims,
The life that fails and dies must live again;
Till it has found itself it cannot cease. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1144:There was a separateness of soul from soul:
An inner wall of silence could be built,
An armour of conscious might protect and shield; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1145:Thy soul is a brief flower by the gardener Mind
Created in thy matter’s terrain plot;
It perishes with the plant on which it grows. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
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1146:Whether for Heaven or Hell they must wage war:
Warriors of Good, they serve a shining cause
Or are Evil’s soldiers in the pay of Sin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1147:Here rapture was a common incident;
The lovelinesses of whose captured thrill
Our human pleasure is a fallen thread, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1148:Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. ~ Savitri Devi, #NFDB
1149:There Mind, a splendid sun of vision’s rays,
Shaped substance by the glory of its thoughts
And moved amidst the grandeur of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
1150:To music that can immortalise the mind
And make the heart wide as infinity
Listened, and captured the inaudible
Cadences that awake the occult ear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
1151:A light was with him, an invisible hand
Was laid upon the error and the pain
Till it became a quivering ecstasy,
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1152:Appealing to the soul and not the eye
Beauty lived there at home in her own house,
There all was beautiful by its own right
And needed not the splendour of a robe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
1153:At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow round the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
1154:Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all;
Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme
That all in thee may reach its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1155:He watched in the alchemist radiance of her suns
The crimson outburst of one secular flower
On the tree-of-sacrifice of spiritual love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1156:If he could leave his limits he would be safe:
He sees but cannot mount to his greater heavens;
Even winged, he sinks back to his native soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1157:This mind is a dynamic small machine
Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out,
With raw material drawn from the outside world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1158:But only when we break through Matter’s wall
In that spiritual vastness can we stand
Where we can live the masters of our world ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1159:Meditation on Savitri, September 24, 2018 MondayA mass phenomenon of visible shapesSupported by the silence of the VoidAppeared in the eternal ConsciousnessAnd seemed an outward and insensible world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1160:Our tasks are given, we are but instruments;
Nothing is all our own that we create:
The Power that acts in us is not our force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1161:This world is a vast unbroken totality,
A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers;
God’s summits look back on the mute Abyss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1162:At the beginning of each far-spread plane
Pervading with her power the cosmic suns
She reigns, inspirer of its multiple works
And thinker of the symbol of its scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
1163:Reconstitute the perfect word, unite
The Alpha and the Omega in one sound;
Then shall the Spirit and Nature be at one.
Two are the ends of the mysterious plan. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1164:The world creates itself invincibly;
For its body is the body of the Lord
And in its heart stands Virat, King of Kings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1165:A few can climb to an unperishing sun,
Or live on the edges of the mystic moon
And channel to earth-mind the wizard ray. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1166:A fire of passion burned in spirit-depths,
A constant touch of sweetness linked all hearts,
The throb of one adoration’s single bliss
In a rapt ether of undying love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
1167:I made the worlds my net, each joy a mesh.
A Hunger amorous of its suffering prey,
Life that devours, my image see in things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
1168:The shadowy keepers of our deathless past
Have made our fate the child of our own acts,
And from the furrows laboured by our will
We reap the fruit of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
1169:This great perplexed and discontented world,
This haunt of Ignorance, this home of Pain:
There are pitched desire’s tents, grief’s headquarters. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1170:A fateful prison wall
Where men condemned wake through the creeping hours
Counted by the tollings of an ominous bell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1171:A giant order was discovered here
Of which the tassel and extended fringe
Are the scant stuff of our material lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1172:A light not born of sun or moon nor fire,
A light that dwelt within and saw within
Shedding an intimate visibility,
Made secrecy more revealing than the word: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1173:Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face;
Night’s dusk tiara was his matted hair,
The ashes of the pyre his forehead’s sign. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
1174:Hewn, quartered on the scaffold as he falls,
His crucified voice proclaims, ‘I, I am God;’
‘Yes, all is God,’ peals back Heaven’s deathless call. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1175:I fear not for the angry frown of Heaven,
I flinch not from the red assault of Hell;
I crush the opposition of the gods,
Tread down a million goblin obstacles. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
1176:It was a world of sorrow and of hate,
Sorrow with hatred for its lonely joy,
Hatred with others’ sorrow as its feast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1177:Mind is a mediator divinity:
Its powers can undo all Nature’s work:
Mind can suspend or change earth’s concrete law. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1178:Only when thou hast climbed above thy mind
And liv’st in the calm vastness of the One
Can love be eternal in the eternal Bliss
And love divine replace the human tie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1179:Above the birth of body and of thought
Our spirit’s truth lives in the naked self
And from that height, unbound, surveys the world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1180:A divinising stream possessed his veins,
His body’s cells awoke to spirit sense,
Each nerve became a burning thread of joy:
Tissue and flesh partook beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
1181:A sight withdrawn in the concentrated heart
Could pierce behind the screen of Time’s results
And the rigid cast and shape of visible things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1182:Idols of an oblique divinity,
They wore the heads of animal or troll,
Assumed ears of the faun, the satyr’s hoof,
Or harboured the demoniac in their gaze. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1183:In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
And limits his eternity by the hours
And the blind Void struggles to live and see, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1184:saw the signature and fiery seal
Of Wisdom on the dim Power’s hooded work
Who builds in Ignorance the steps of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1185:The daemons of the unknown overshadow his mind
Casting their dreams into live moulds of thought,
The moulds in which his mind builds out its world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1186:Thinking-mind
There throned on concentration’s native seat
He opens that third mysterious eye in man,
The Unseen’s eye that looks at the unseen, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1187:World-naked hermits with their matted hair
Immobile as the passionless great hills
Around them grouped like thoughts of some vast mood
Awaiting the Infinite’s behest to end. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
1188:A high and dazzling limit shines above,
A black and blinding border rules below:
His mind is closed between two firmaments. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1189:Because there dwelt the Eternal’s vast Idea
And his dynamic will in men and things,
So only could the enormous scene begin. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1190:In the sealed hermetic heart, the happy core,
Unmoved behind this outer shape of death
The eternal Entity prepares within
Its matter of divine felicity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1191:The saviour creeds that cannot save themselves,
But perish in the strangling hands of the years,
Discarded from man’s thought, proved false by Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1192:A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:
His nature we must put on as he put ours;
We are sons of God and must be even as he:
His human portion, we must grow divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1193:A Nature that denied the eternal Truth
In the vain braggart freedom of its thought
Hoped to abolish God and reign alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1194:From Matter’s plinth and viewless base
To a top as viewless, a carved sea of worlds
Climbing with foam-maned waves to the Supreme
Ascended towards breadths immeasurable; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Stair,#NFDB
1195:I am the Man of Sorrows, I am he
Who is nailed on the wide cross of the universe;
To enjoy my agony God built the earth,
My passion he has made his drama’s theme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
1196:In booths of sin and night-repairs of vice
Styled infamies of the body’s concupiscence
And sordid imaginations etched in flesh,
Turned lust into a decorative art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1197:Invents creation’s paradox profound;
Spiritual thought is crammed in Matter’s forms,
Unseen it throws out a dumb energy
And works a miracle by a machine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1198:If men were not and all were brilliant gods,
The mediating stair would then be lost
By which the spirit awake in Matter winds ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1199:Life's meaning
A mighty life-self with its inner powers
Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life;
It can graft upon our crawl two puissant wings. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1200:That lives within us by ourselves unseen;
Only sometimes a holier influence comes,
A tide of mightier surgings bears our lives
And a diviner Presence moves the soul. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1201:The radiant world of the everlasting Truth
Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
Above the golden Overmind’s shimmering ridge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1202:A calmness neared as of the approach of God,
A light of musing trance lit soil and sky
And an identity and ecstasy
Filled meditation’s solitary heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1203:A dull indifference replaces fire
Or an endearing habit imitates love:
An outward and uneasy union lasts
Or the routine of a life’s compromise: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1204:A firm spiritual poise,
A constant lodging in the Eternal’s realm,
A safety in the Silence and the Ray,
A settlement in the Immutable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1205:Ascending and descending twixt life’s poles
The seried kingdoms of the graded Law
Plunged from the Everlasting into Time, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1206:A thunder rolling mid the hills of God,
Tireless, severe is their tremendous Voice:
Exceeding us, to exceed ourselves they call
And bid us rise incessantly above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1207:Broke into the cave where coiled World-Energy sleeps
And smote the thousand-hooded serpent Force
That blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1208:Content abide not with one conquered realm;
Adventure all to make the whole world thine,
To break into greater kingdoms turn thy force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1209:All flowed immeasurably to one sea:
All living forms became its atom homes.
A Panergy that harmonised all life
Held now existence in its vast control; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#NFDB
1210:It imitates the Godhead it denies,
Puts on his figure and assumes his face.
A Manichean creator and destroyer,
This can abolish man, annul his world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1211:The middle path is made for thinking man.
To choose his steps by reason’s vigilant light,
To choose his path among the many paths
Is given him, for each his difficult goal ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1212:Then suddenly there came on her the change
Which in tremendous moments of our lives
Can overtake sometimes the human soul
And hold it up towards its luminous source. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Towards the Black Void,#NFDB
1213:There is a truth to know, a work to do;
Her play is real; a Mystery he fulfils:
There is a plan in the Mother’s deep world-whim,
A purpose in her vast and random game. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1214:Truths they could find and hold but not the one Truth:
The Highest was to them unknowable.
By knowing too much they missed the whole to be known: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1215:Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,
The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths
That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars
And saw the spaces ready for her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Symbol Dawn,#NFDB
1216:God must be born on earth and be as man
That man being human may grow even as God.
He who would save the world must be one with the world ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1217:He sang the Inconscient and its secret self,
Its power omnipotent knowing not what it does,
All-shaping without will or thought or sense,
Its blind unerring occult mystery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1218:In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1219:O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe,
Creatrix, the Eternals artist Bride,
Linger not long with thy transmuting hand.
Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
1220:The source of all error is misapplication, wrong placing of truth, wrong arrangement, wrong relation, wrong positing in time and place, object and order. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, To Bhaga Savitri, the Enjoyer, #NFDB
1221:Though Necessity dons the garb of Chance,
Hidden in the blind shifts of Fate she keeps
The slow calm logic of Infinity’s pace
And the inviolate sequence of its will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
1222:A specialist of logic’s hard machine
Imposed its rigid artifice on the soul;
An aide of the inventor intellect,
It cut Truth into manageable bits ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1223:Godheads live who care not for the world
And share not in the toil of Nature’s powers:
Absorbed in their self-ecstasy they dwell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1224:Invading the small sensitive flower of the throat
They brought their mute unuttered resonances
To kindle the figures of a heavenly speech. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1225:It wore the guise of an indiscernible Vast,
Or was a subtle kernel in the soul:
A distant greatness left it huge and dim,
A mystic closeness shut it sweetly in: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Pursuit of the Unknowable,#NFDB
1226:An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart.
A vast and nameless fear dragged at her nerves
As drags a wild beast its half-slaughtered prey; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1227:An ancient tale of woe can move us still,
We keep the ache of breasts that breathe no more,
We are shaken by the sight of human pain,
And share the miseries that others feel. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1228:An ear of mind withdrawn from the outward’s rhymes
Discovered the seed-sounds of the eternal Word,
The rhythm and music heard that built the worlds, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1229:A new aesthesis of Inferno’s art
That trained the mind to love what the soul hates,
Imposed allegiance on the quivering nerves
And forced the unwilling body to vibrate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1230:A purpose mingled with the whims of Time,
A meaning met the stumbling pace of Chance
And Fate revealed a chain of seeing Will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1231:If my comrades are not destined to rule the world, then away with it! A shower of atom bombs upon it and in place of its meaningsless chatter about 'love' and 'peace' the voice of the howling wind over its ruins. ~ Savitri Devi, #NFDB
1232:In the navel lotus’ broad imperial range
Its proud ambitions and its master lusts
Were tamed into instruments of a great calm sway
To do a work of God on earthly soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1233:Opponents of the Highest they have come
Out of their world of soulless thought and power
To serve by enmity the cosmic scheme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1234:The months had fed the passion of the sun
And now his burning breath assailed the soil.
The tiger heats prowled through the fainting earth;
All was licked up as by a lolling tongue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,#NFDB
1235:There Matter is soul’s result and not its cause.
In a contrary balance to earth’s truth of things
The gross weighs less, the subtle counts for more; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1236:What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion’s gleams,
A Will expressive of soul’s deity,
A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1237:All is not here a blinded Nature’s task:
A Word, a Wisdom watches us from on high,
A Witness sanctioning her will and works,
An Eye unseen in the unseeing vast; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1238:Maya is a veil of the Absolute;
A Truth occult has made this mighty world:
The Eternal’s wisdom and self-knowledge act
In ignorant Mind and in the body’s steps. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1239:The great Gods use the pain of human hearts
As a sharp axe to hew their cosmic road:
They squander lavishly men’s blood and tears
For a moment’s purpose in their fateful work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1240:Arisen beneath a triple mystic heaven
The seven immortal earths were seen, sublime:
Homes of the blest released from death and sleep ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1241:As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1242:Each leaned on the occult Inconscient’s power,
The fountain of its needed Ignorance,
Archmason of the limits by which it lives. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1243:Impenetrable, a mystery recondite
Is the vast plan of which we are a part;
Its harmonies are discords to our view
Because we know not the great theme they serve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1244:In God’s supreme withdrawn and timeless hush
A seeing Self and potent Energy met;
The Silence knew itself and thought took form:
Self-made from the dual power creation rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
1245:In the narrow nether centre’s petty parts
Its childish game of daily dwarf desires
Was changed into a sweet and boisterous play,
A romp of little gods with life in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1246:All here is a mystery of contraries:
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light,
Suffering some secret rapture’s tragic mask
And death an instrument of perpetual life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1247:Behind her an ineffable Presence stood:
Her reign received their mystic influences,
Their lion-forces crouched beneath her feet. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1248:The animal’s thoughtless joy is left behind,
Care and reflection burden his daily walk;
He has risen to greatness and to discontent,
He is awake to the Invisible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
1249:The great hammer-beats of a pent-up world-heart
Burst open the narrow dams that keep us safe
Against the forces of the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1250:But on a failing edge of dumb lost space
Still a great dragon body sullenly loomed;
Adversary of the slow struggling Dawn
Defending its ground of tortured mystery, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1251:Climbed back from Time into undying Self,
Up a golden ladder carrying the soul,
Tying with diamond threads the Spirit’s extremes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1252:Gayatri Mantra Tat savitur varam rupam jyothih parasyadhimahi, yannah satyena dipayetLet us meditate on the most auspicious [best] form of Savitri, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1253:Her body’s thoughts climbed from her conscious limbs
And carried their yearnings to its mystic crown
Where Nature’s murmurs meet the Ineffable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1254:The harp of God falls mute, its call to bliss
Discouraged fails mid earth’s unhappy sounds;
The strings of the siren Ecstasy cry not here
Or soon are silenced in the human heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1255:This huge world unintelligibly turns
In the shadow of a mused Inconscience;
It hides a key to inner meanings missed,
It locks in our hearts a voice we cannot hear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1256:Though a dress of blind and devious chance
Is laid upon the work of all-wise Fate,
Our acts interpret an omniscient Force
That dwells in the compelling stuff of things, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#NFDB
1257:A Consciousness that knows not its own truth,
A vagrant hunter of misleading dawns,
Between the being’s dark and luminous ends
Moves here in a half-light that seems the whole: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1258:Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls;
Earth is the heroic spirit’s battlefield,
The forge where the Archmason shapes his works. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1259:Love that was once an animal’s desire,
Then a sweet madness in the rapturous heart,
An ardent comradeship in the happy mind,
Becomes a wide spiritual yearning’s space. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1260:Obstructing the gods’ open ways he makes
His own estate of the earth’s air and light;
A monopolist of the world-energy,
He dominates the life of common men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1261:Then a sound pealed through that dead monstrous realm:
Vast like the surge in a tired swimmer’s ears,
Clamouring, a fatal iron-hearted roar, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
1262:There are muffled throbs of laughter’s undertones,
The murmur of an occult happiness,
An exultation in the depths of sleep,
A heart of bliss within a world of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1263:Above the spirit cased in mortal sense
Are superconscious realms of heavenly peace,
Below, the Inconscient’s sullen dim abyss,
Between, behind our life, the deathless Rose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Heavens of the Ideal,#NFDB
1264:It seized on speech to give those flamings shape,
Made beat the heart of wisdom in a word
And spoke immortal things through mortal lips. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#NFDB
1265:Still have we parts that grow towards the light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
And Eldorados of splendor and ecstacy
And temples to the godhead none can see
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1266:The music born in Matter’s silences
Plucked nude out of the Ineffable’s fathomlessness
The meaning it had held but could not voice. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1267:A love that bore the cross of pain with joy
Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,
Made happy the weight of long unending Time,
The secret caught of God’s felicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
1268:Ascending out of the limiting breadths of mind,
They shall discover the world’s huge design
And step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1269:In the smothering stress of this stupendous Nought
Mind could not think, breath could not breathe, the soul
Could not remember or feel itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#NFDB
1270:Only if God assumes the human mind
And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak
And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride,
Can he help man to grow into the God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1271:The Inconscient could not read without man’s mind
The mystery of the world its sleep has made:
Man is its key to unlock a conscious door. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1272:A border sovereign is the occult Force.
A threshold guardian of the earth-scene’s Beyond,
She has canalised the outbreaks of the Gods ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1273:All we attempt in this imperfect world,
Looks forward or looks back beyond Time’s gloss
To its pure idea and firm inviolate type
In an absolute creation’s flawless skill. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
1274:An animal in the instinctive herd
Pushed by life impulses, forced by common needs,
Each in his own kind saw his ego’s glass;
All served the aim and action of the pack. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
1275:Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,
The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,
Casting a javelin regard in front,
Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1276:It was the hour before the Gods awake.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence marge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 01.01,#NFDB
1277:Life-God
Life’s visage hides life’s real self from sight;
Life’s secret sense is written within, above.
The thought that gives it sense lives far beyond; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1278:The day-bringer must walk in darkest night.
He who would save the world must share its pain.
If he knows not grief, how shall he find grief’s cure? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1279:He who now stares at the world with ignorant eyes
Hardly from the Inconscient’s night aroused,
That look at images and not at Truth,
Can fill those orbs with an immortal’s sight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Call to the Quest,#NFDB
1280:In the passage of the lotus of the throat
Where speech must rise and the expressing mind
And the heart’s impulse run towards word and act,
A glad uplift and a new working came. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1281:Meditation on Savitri, August 21, 2020, Friday.Thus streamed down from the realm of early LightEthereal thinkings into Matter's world;Its gold-horned herds trooped into earth's cave-heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo,… instagram.com/p/CEIVUPJHHvJ/…, #NFDB
1282:Men hail in my coming the Almighty's force
Or praise with thankful tears his saviour Grace.
I smite the Titan who bestrides the world
And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
1283:The deathless Two-in-One,
A single being in two bodies clasped,
A diarchy of two united souls,
Seated absorbed in deep creative joy;
Their trance of bliss sustained the mobile world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World-Soul,#NFDB
1284:Truth-world
Two beings he was, one wide and free above,
One struggling, bound, intense, its portion here.
A tie between them still could bridge two worlds; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The House of the Spirit and the New Creation,#NFDB
1285:A huge inertness is the world’s defence,
Even in change is treasured changelessness;
Into inertia revolution sinks,
In a new dress the old resumes its role; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1286:Home-Earth
Aloof, its influence entered everywhere
And left a cloven hoof-mark on the breast;
A twisted heart and a strange sombre smile
Mocked at the sinister comedy of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Descent into Night,#NFDB
1287:Overtaken by the spirit’s sudden spell,
Smitten by a divine passion’s alchemy,
Pain’s self compelled transformed to potent joy
Curing the antithesis twixt heaven and hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
1288:Science tears out Nature’s occult powers,
Enormous djinns who serve a dwarf’s small needs,
Exposes the sealed minutiae of her art
And conquers her by her own captive force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1289:She turned to the face of a veiled voiceless Truth
Hid in the dumb recesses of the heart
Or waiting beyond the last peak climbed by Thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness,#NFDB
1290:wizard diagrams of the occult Law
Sealed some precise unreadable harmony,
Or used hue and figure to reconstitute
The herald blazon of Time’s secret things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1291:Doom is a passage for our inborn force,
Our ordeal is the hidden spirit’s choice,
Ananke is our being’s own decree. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1292:"Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots:For nothing is truly vain the One has made:In our defeated hearts God's strength survives..." ~ #Savitri#SriAurobindo #Divine #Grace #Meditation #Yoga #Aspiration #Consciousness #Truth #Prayers, #NFDB
1293:Only if God assumes the human mind
And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak
And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride,
Can he help man to grow into the God.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1294:Our great forefathers in those splendours moved;
Termless in power and satisfied of light,
They enjoyed the sense of all for which we strive. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1295:The hearts of men are amorous of clay-kin
And bear not spirits lone and high who bring
Fire-intimations from the deathless planes
Too vast for souls not born to mate with heaven. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Growth of the Flame,#NFDB
1296:World-creators
Inaudible to our deaf mortal ears
The wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant
To which life strives to fit our rhyme-beats here ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1297:Across the burning languor of the soil
Paced Summer with his pomp of violent noons
And stamped his tyranny of torrid light
And the blue seal of a great burnished sky. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1298:Artificer of Ideal and Idea,
Mind, child of Matter in the womb of Life,
To higher levels persuades his parents’ steps:
Inapt, they follow ill the daring guide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1299:Beneath the body’s crust of thickened self
A tardy fervent working in the dark,
The turbid yeast of Nature’s passionate change,
Ferment of the soul’s creation out of mire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Little Life,#NFDB
1300:But still there lacked the last transcendent power
And Matter still slept empty of its Lord.
The Spirit was saved, the body lost and mute
Lived still with Death and ancient Ignorance ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
1301:His earth, dowered with celestial competence,
Harboured a power that needed now no more
To cross the closed customs-line of mind and flesh
And smuggle godhead into humanity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
1302:Inner Change (Effect)
This is the tragedy of the inner death
When forfeited is the divine element
And only a mind and body live to die. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness,#NFDB
1303:Love must not cease to live upon the earth;
For Love is the bright link twixt earth and heaven,
Love is the far Transcendent’s angel here;
Love is man’s lien on the Absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1304:Radha-krishna
The radiant world of the everlasting Truth
Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
Above the golden Overmind’s shimmering ridge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1305:How shall the mighty Mother her calm delight
Keep fragrant in this narrow fragile vase,
Or lodge her sweet unbroken ecstasy
In hearts which earthly sorrow can assail ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1306:I make even sin and error stepping-stones
And all experience a long march towards Light.
Out of the Inconscient I build consciousness,
And lead through death to reach immortal Life.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
1307:On heights unreached by mind’s most daring soar,
Upon a dangerous edge of failing Time
The soul draws back into its deathless Self;
Man’s knowledge becomes God’s supernal Ray. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1308:On his long way through Time and Circumstance
The grey-hued riddling nether shadow-Sphinx,
Her dreadful paws upon the swallowing sands,
Awaits him armed with the soul-slaying word: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,#NFDB
1309:Poured its maze of tangled charm
And heady draught of Nature’s primitive joy
And the fire and mystery of forbidden delight
Drunk from the world-libido’s bottomless well. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1310:There meet and clasp the eternal opposites,
There pain becomes a violent fiery joy;
Evil turns back to its original good,
And sorrow lies upon the breasts of Bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1311:A last high world was seen where all worlds meet;
In its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,
The light began of the Trinity supreme. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness,#NFDB
1312:A mounting endless possibility
Climbs high upon a topless ladder of dream
For ever in the Being’s conscious trance.
All on that ladder mounts to an unseen end. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1313:An Infant nursed on Nature’s covert breast,
An Infant playing in the magic woods,
Fluting to rapture by the spirit’s streams,
Awaits the hour when we shall turn to his call. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1314:A pure Thought-Mind surveyed the cosmic act.
Archangel of a white transcending realm,
It saw the world from solitary heights
Luminous in a remote and empty air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1315:Herds of the Sun
Thus streamed down from the realm of early Light
Ethereal thinkings into Matter’s world;
Its gold-horned herds trooped into earth’s cave-heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1316:In that fair subtle realm behind our own
The form is all, and physical gods are kings.
The inspiring Light plays in fine boundaries;
A faultless beauty comes by Nature’s grace; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdom of Subtle Matter,#NFDB
1317:In this investiture of fleshly life
A soul that is a spark of God survives
And sometimes it breaks through the sordid screen
And kindles a fire that makes us half-divine
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
1318:Meditation on Savitri, August 30, 2020, Sunday.All was a chaos of the true and false,Mind sought amid deep mists of Nescience;It looked within itself but saw not God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 244, #NFDB
1319:Then suddenly a luminous finger fell
On all things seen or touched or heard or felt
And showed his mind that nothing could be known;
That must be reached from which all knowledge comes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, In the Self of Mind,#NFDB
1320:This evil Nature housed in human hearts,
A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest:
The soul that harbours it it can dislodge,
Expel the householder, possess the house. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1321:A chaos of little sensibilities
Gathered round a small ego’s pin-point head;
In it a sentient creature found its poise,
It moved and lived a breathing, thinking whole. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1322:Its glimmerings lighted with the abstract word
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
I could not live the truth it spoke and thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan and Savitri,#NFDB
1323:The glory of the integer of his soul.
A union of the Real with the unique,
A gaze of the Alone from every face,
The presence of the Eternal in the hours
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King The Yoga of the Souls Release,#NFDB
1324:An inconclusive play is Reason’s toil.
Each strong idea can use her as its tool;
Accepting every brief she pleads her case.
Open to every thought, she cannot know. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1325:Heaven had unveiled its lustre in her eyes,
Her feet were moonbeams, her face was a bright sun,
Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart
To live again and feel the hands of calm. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Triple Soul-Forces,#NFDB
1326:Death is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride
The soul must take to cross from birth to birth,
A grey defeat pregnant with victory,
A whip to lash us towards our deathless state. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Ideal,#NFDB
1327:Feet (Mother's)
A giant drop of the Bliss unknowable
Overwhelmed his limbs and round his soul became
A fiery ocean of felicity;
He foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
1328:If Mind is all, renounce the hope of bliss;
If Mind is all, renounce the hope of Truth.
For Mind can never touch the body of Truth
And Mind can never see the soul of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1329:Meditation on Savitri, August 14, 2020, Friday.But all was still a mobile Ignorance;Still Knowledge could not come and firmly graspThis huge invention seen as a universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 242, #NFDB
1330:Winter and Dew-time laid their calm cool hands
On Nature’s bosom still in a half sleep
And deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease
The tranquil beauty of the waning year. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1331:For the spirit is eternal and unmade
And not by thinking was its greatness born,
And not by thinking can its knowledge come.
It knows itself and in itself it lives, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1332:He stood erect among his brute compeers,
He built life new, measured the universe,
Opposed his fate and wrestled with unseen Powers,
Conquered and used the laws that rule the world, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1333:He would stamp his single figure on the world,
Obsess the world’s rumours with his single name.
His moments centre the vast universe.
He sees his little self as very God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1334:Illumined theocracies of the seeing soul
Throned in the power of the Transcendent's ray.
A vision of grandeurs, a dream of magnitudes
In sun-bright kingdoms moved with regal gait:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and the Fall of Life,#NFDB
1335:Into a simplest movement she could bring
A oneness with earth’s glowing robe of light,
A lifting up of common acts by love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1336:Meditation on Savitri, August 26, 2020, Wednesday.Yet all it does is on an infant's scale,As if the cosmos were a nursery game,Mind, life the playthings of a Titan's babe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 243, #NFDB
1337:The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,
The rapture that the gods sustain he bore.
Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves
And turned his strength into undying power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#NFDB
1338:A pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds
For ever stooped to hammer fact and form.
Absorbed and cabined in external sight,
It takes its stand on Nature’s solid base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1339:All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#NFDB
1340:His fate within him shapes his acts and rules;
Its face and form already are born in him,
Its parentage is in his secret soul ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain,#NFDB
1341:In the deep place where once the Serpent slept,
There came a grip on Matter’s giant powers
For large utilities in life’s little space;
A firm ground was made for Heaven’s descending might. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#NFDB
1342:Meditation on Savitri, September 8, 2020, TuesdayA candidate for a higher suzerainty,A passage she cut through from Night to Light,And searched for an ungrasped Omniscience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 245, #NFDB
1343:Then first appeared the malady of mind,
Its pang of thought, its quest for the aim of life.
It twisted into forms of good and ill
The frank simplicity of the animal’s acts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1344:A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes;
Its smallest parts are here philosophies
Challenging with their detailed immensity,
Each figuring an omniscient scheme of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1345:Ascetic voices called of lonely seers
On mountain summits or by river banks
Or from the desolate heart of forest glades
Seeking heaven’s rest or the spirit’s worldless peace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1346:Each thought is a gold coin with bright alloy
And error and truth are its obverse and reverse:
This is the imperial mintage of the brain
And of this kind is all its currency. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1347:He saw the Perfect in their starry homes
Wearing the glory of a deathless form,
Lain in the arms of the Eternal’s peace,
Rapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Yoga of the King, The Yoga of the Soul’s Release,#NFDB
1348:Into thought’s narrow limits she has come;
Her greatness she has suffered to be pressed
Into the little cabin of the Idea,
The closed room of a lonely thinker’s grasp: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1349:Meditation on Savitri, September 7, 2020, MondayIn her own realm she stumbles not nor fails,But moves in boundaries of subtle powerAcross which mind can step towards the sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 245, #NFDB
1350:Mind’s quick-paced thoughts floated from their high necks,
A glowing splendour as of an irised mane,
A parure of pure intuition’s light;
Its flame-foot gallop they could imitate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Entry into the Inner Countries,#NFDB
1351:The earth's uplook to a remote Unknown
Is a preface only of the epic climb
Of human soul from its flat earthly state
To the discovery of a greater self
And the far gleam of an eternal Light.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#NFDB
1352:One day the Face must burn out through the mask.
Our ignorance is Wisdom's chrysalis,
Our error weds new knowledge on its way,
Its darkness is a blackened knot of light;
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#NFDB
1353:The superman shall wake in mortal man
And manifest the hidden demigod
Or grow into the God-Light and God-Force
Revealing the secret deity in the cave. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#NFDB
1354:A hidden Bliss is at the root of things.
A mute Delight regards Time’s countless works:
To house God’s joy in things Space gave wide room,
To house God’s joy in self our souls were born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#NFDB
1355:As one about to die
Looks back upon the sunlit fields of life
Where he too ran and sported with the rest,
Lifting his head above the huge dark stream
Into whose depths he must for ever plunge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Death in the Forest,#NFDB
1356:In its vast ambit of ideal Space
Where beauty and mightiness walk hand in hand,
The Spirit’s truths take form as living Gods
And each can build a world in its own right. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1357:Nabhi-Padma (Navel-lotus)
Around her navel lotus clustering close
Her large sensations of the teeming worlds
Streamed their dumb movements of the unformed Idea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1358:There Knowledge called him to her mystic peaks
Where thought is held in a vast internal sense
And feeling swims across a sea of peace
And vision climbs beyond the reach of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge,#NFDB
1359:Even the smallest meanest work became
A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament,
An offering to the self of the great world
Or a service to the One in each and all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1360:Meditation on Savitri, August 31, 2020, Monday.Yet was her strength unlike the unseeing earth'sCompelled to handle makeshift instrumentsInvented by the life-force and the flesh. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, p. 244, #NFDB
1361:Not only is there hope for godheads pure;
The violent and darkened deities
Leaped down from the one breast in rage to find
What the white gods had missed: they too are safe; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal,#NFDB
1362:Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,
It is greater than its earthly instrument:
The godhead crammed into mind’s narrow space
Escapes on every side into some vast ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#NFDB
1363:To man’s righteousness this is his cosmic crime,
Almighty beyond good and evil to dwell
Leaving the good to their fate in a wicked world
And evil to reign in this enormous scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1364:A Chance that chose a strange arithmetic
But could not bind with it the forms it made,
A multitude that could not guard its sum
Which less than zero grew and more than one. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,#NFDB
1365:Armies of revolution crossed the time-field,
The clouds’ unending march besieged the world,
Tempests’ pronunciamentos claimed the sky
And thunder drums announced the embattled gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1366:A traveller from unquiet neighbouring seas,
The dense-maned monsoon rode neighing through earth’s hours:
Thick now the emissary javelins:
Enormous lightnings split the horizon’s rim ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1367:Meditation on Savitri, August 11, 2020, Tuesday.Its skill endorsing Matter's right to thinkCut sentient passages for the mind of fleshAnd found a means for Nescience to know. ~ Sri Aurobindo, (1993). Savitri, Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, pp. 241-242, #NFDB
1368:A conscious soul in the Inconscient’s world,
Hidden behind our thoughts and hopes and dreams,
An indifferent Master signing Nature’s acts
Leaves the vicegerent mind a seeming king. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1369:He listens for Inspiration’s postman knock
And takes delivery of the priceless gift
A little spoilt by the receiver mind
Or mixed with the manufacture of his brain; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1370:O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe;
Consent to hide thy royalty of bliss
Lest Time and Fate find out its avenues
And beat with thunderous knock upon thy gates. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1371:Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves
And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;
His advent was a fire of irised hues,
His arms were a circle of the arrival of joy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Birth and Childhood of the Flame,#NFDB
1372:This bright perfection of her inner state
Poured overflowing into her outward scene,
Made beautiful dull common natural things
And action wonderful and time divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#NFDB
1373:This mind no silence knows nor dreamless sleep,
In the incessant circling of its steps
Thoughts tread for ever through the listening brain;
It toils like a machine and cannot stop. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#NFDB
1374:Meditation on Savitri, September 6, 2020, SundayIn her eyes however darkly fringed was litThe Archangel's gaze who knows inspired his actsAnd shapes a w