Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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СКАЧАТЬ luminous patterns of her soul’s deep truth,

      And from her eyes she cast another look

      On all around her than man’s ignorant view.

      All objects were to her shapes of living selves

      And she perceived a message from her kin

      In each awakening touch of outward things.

      Each was a symbol power, a vivid flash

      In the circuit of infinities half-known;

      Nothing was alien or inanimate,

      Nothing without its meaning or its call.

      For with a greater Nature she was one.

      As from the soil sprang glory of branch and flower,

      As from the animal’s life rose thinking man,

      A new epiphany appeared in her.

      A mind of light, a life of rhythmic force,

      A body instinct with hidden divinity

      Prepared an image of the coming god;

      And when the slow rhyme of the expanding years

      And the rich murmurous swarm-work of the days

      Had honey-packed her sense and filled her limbs,

      Accomplishing the moon-orb of her grace,

      Self-guarded in the silence of her strength

      Her solitary greatness was not less.

      Nearer the godhead to the surface pressed,

      A sun replacing childhood’s nebula

      Sovereign in a blue and lonely sky.

      Upward it rose to grasp the human scene:

      The strong Inhabitant turned to watch her field.

      A lovelier light assumed her spirit brow

      And sweet and solemn grew her musing gaze;

      Celestial-human deep warm slumbrous fires

      Woke in the long fringed glory of her eyes

      Like altar-burnings in a mysteried shrine.

      Out of those crystal windows gleamed a will

      That brought a large significance to life.

      Holding her forehead’s candid stainless space

      Behind the student arch a noble power

      Of wisdom looked from light on transient things.

      A scout of victory in a vigil tower,

      Her aspiration called high destiny down;

      A silent warrior paced in her city of strength

      Inviolate, guarding Truth’s diamond throne.

      A nectarous haloed moon her passionate heart

      Loved all and spoke no word and made no sign,

      But kept her bosom’s rapturous secrecy

      A blissful ardent moved and voiceless world.

      Proud, swift and joyful ran the wave of life

      Within her like a stream in Paradise.

      Many high gods dwelt in one beautiful home;

      Yet was her nature’s orb a perfect whole,

      Harmonious like a chant with many tones,

      Immense and various like a universe.

      The body that held this greatness seemed almost

      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.

      End of Canto One

      Canto Two

      The Growth of the Flame

      A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains

      And giant rivers pacing to vast seas,

      A field of creation and spiritual hush,

      Silence swallowing life’s acts into the deeps,

      Of thought’s transcendent climb and heavenward leap,

      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 grandeur had their home,

      Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.

      Over her watched millennial influences

      And the deep godheads of a grandiose past

      Looked on her and saw the future’s godheads come

      As if this magnet drew their powers unseen.

      Earth’s brooding wisdom spoke to her still breast;

      Mounting from mind’s last peaks to mate with gods,

      Making earth’s brilliant thoughts a springing-board

      To dive into the cosmic vastnesses,

      The knowledge of the thinker and the seer

      Saw the unseen and thought the unthinkable,

      Opened the enormous doors of the unknown,

      Rent man’s horizons into infinity.

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