Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      His greater consciousness withdrew behind;

      Dim and eclipsed, his human outside strove

      To feel again the old sublimities,

      Bring the high saving touch, the ethereal flame,

      Call back to its dire need the divine Force.

      Always the power poured back like sudden rain,

      Or slowly in his breast a presence grew;

      It clambered back to some remembered height

      Or soared above the peak from which it fell.

      Each time he rose there was a larger poise,

      A dwelling on a higher spirit plane;

      The Light remained in him a longer space.

      In this oscillation between earth and heaven,

      In this ineffable communion’s climb

      There grew in him as grows a waxing moon

      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

      Widening the mortal mind’s half-look on things,

      Bridging the gap between man’s force and Fate

      Made whole the fragment-being we are here.

      At last was won 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.

      His heights of being lived in the still Self;

      His mind could rest on a supernal ground

      And look down on the magic and the play

      Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn

      And the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise.

      To the still heights and to the troubled depths

      His equal spirit gave its vast assent:

      A poised serenity of tranquil strength,

      A wide unshaken look on Time’s unrest

      Faced all experience with unaltered peace.

      Indifferent to the sorrow and delight,

      Untempted by the marvel and the call,

      Immobile it beheld the flux of things,

      Calm and apart supported all that is:

      His spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world.

      Inspired by silence and the closed eyes’ sight

      His force could work with a new luminous art

      On the crude material from which all is made

      And the refusal of Inertia’s mass

      And the grey front of the world’s Ignorance

      And nescient Matter and the huge error of life.

      As a sculptor chisels a deity out of stone

      He slowly chipped off the dark envelope,

      Line of defence of Nature’s ignorance,

      The illusion and mystery of the Inconscient

      In whose black pall the Eternal wraps his head

      That he may act unknown in cosmic Time.

      A splendour of self-creation from the peaks,

      A transfiguration in the mystic depths,

      A happier cosmic working could begin

      And fashion the world-shape in him anew,

      God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God.

      Already in him was seen that task of Power:

      Life made its home on the high tops of self;

      His soul, mind, heart became a single sun;

      Only life’s lower reaches remained dim.

      But there too, in the uncertain shadow of life,

      There was a labour and a fiery breath;

      The ambiguous cowled celestial puissance worked

      Watched by the inner Witness’s moveless peace.

      Even on the struggling Nature left below

      Strong periods of illumination came:

      Lightnings of glory after glory burned,

      Experience was a tale of blaze and fire,

      Air rippled round the argosies of the Gods,

      Strange riches sailed to him from the Unseen;

      Splendours of insight filled the blank of thought,

      Knowledge spoke to the inconscient stillnesses,

      Rivers poured down of bliss and luminous force,

      Visits of beauty, storm-sweeps of delight

      Rained from the all-powerful Mystery above.

      Thence stooped the eagles of Omniscience.

      A dense veil was rent, a mighty whisper heard;

      Repeated in the privacy of his soul,

      A wisdom-cry from rapt transcendences

      Sang on the mountains of an unseen world;

      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.

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