Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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СКАЧАТЬ left the footprints of a god,

      Each moment was a beat of puissant wings.

      The little plot of our mortality

      Touched by this tenant from the heights became

      A playground of the living Infinite.

      This bodily appearance is not all;

      The form deceives, the person is a mask;

      Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell.

      His fragile ship conveys through the sea of years

      An incognito of the Imperishable.

      A spirit that is a flame of God abides,

      A fiery portion of the Wonderful,

      Artist of his own beauty and delight,

      Immortal in our mortal poverty.

      This sculptor of the forms of the Infinite,

      This screened unrecognised Inhabitant,

      Initiate of his own veiled mysteries,

      Hides in a small dumb seed his cosmic thought.

      In the mute strength of the occult Idea

      Determining predestined shape and act,

      Passenger from life to life, from scale to scale,

      Changing his imaged self from form to form,

      He regards the icon growing by his gaze

      And in the worm foresees the coming god.

      At last the traveller in the paths of Time

      Arrives on the frontiers of eternity.

      In the transient symbol of humanity draped,

      He feels his substance of undying self

      And loses his kinship to mortality.

      A beam of the Eternal smites his heart,

      His thought stretches into infinitude;

      All in him turns to spirit vastnesses.

      His soul breaks out to join the Oversoul,

      His life is oceaned by that superlife.

      He has drunk from the breasts of the Mother of the worlds;

      A topless Supernature fills his frame:

      She adopts his spirit’s everlasting ground

      As the security of her changing world

      And shapes the figure of her unborn mights.

      Immortally she conceives herself in him,

      In the creature the unveiled Creatrix works:

      Her face is seen through his face, her eyes through his eyes;

      Her being is his through a vast identity.

      Then is revealed in man the overt Divine.

      A static Oneness and dynamic Power

      Descend in him, the integral Godhead’s seals;

      His soul and body take that splendid stamp.

      A long dim preparation is man’s life,

      A circle of toil and hope and war and peace

      Tracked out by Life on Matter’s obscure ground.

      In his climb to a peak no feet have ever trod,

      He seeks through a penumbra shot with flame

      A veiled reality half-known, ever missed,

      A search for something or someone never found,

      Cult of an ideal never made real here,

      An endless spiral of ascent and fall

      Until at last is reached the giant point

      Through which his Glory shines for whom we were made

      And we break into the infinity of God.

      Across our nature’s border line we escape

      Into Supernature’s arc of living light.

      This now was witnessed in that son of Force;

      In him that high transition laid its base.

      Original and supernal Immanence

      Of which all Nature’s process is the art,

      The cosmic Worker set his secret hand

      To turn this frail mud-engine to heaven-use.

      A Presence wrought behind the ambiguous screen:

      It beat his soil to bear a Titan’s weight,

      Refining half-hewn blocks of natural strength

      It built his soul into a statued god.

      The Craftsman of the magic stuff of self

      Who labours at his high and difficult plan

      In the wide workshop of the wonderful world,

      Modelled in inward Time his rhythmic parts.

      Then came the abrupt transcendent miracle:

      The masked immaculate Grandeur could outline,

      At travail in the occult womb of life,

      His dreamed magnificence of things to be.

      A crown of the architecture of the worlds,

      A mystery of married Earth and Heaven

      Annexed divinity to the mortal scheme.

      A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time.

      For him mind’s limiting firmament ceased above.

      In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day

      A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault;

      The conscious ends of being went rolling back:

      The landmarks of the little person fell,

      The island ego joined СКАЧАТЬ