Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      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.

      Thence all departed into silent self,

      And all became formless and pure and bare.

      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

      And crossing a wall of doorless living fire

      There suddenly she met her secret soul.

      A being stood immortal in transience,

      Deathless dallying with momentary things,

      In whose wide eyes of tranquil happiness

      Which pity and sorrow could not abrogate

      Infinity turned its gaze on finite shapes:

      Observer of the silent steps of the hours,

      Eternity upheld the minute’s acts

      And the passing scenes of the Everlasting’s play.

      In the mystery of its selecting will,

      In the Divine Comedy a participant,

      The Spirit’s conscious representative,

      God’s delegate in our humanity,

      Comrade of the universe, the Transcendent’s ray,

      She had come into the mortal body’s room

      To play at ball with Time and Circumstance.

      A joy in the world her master movement here,

      The passion of the game lighted her eyes:

      A smile on her lips welcomed earth’s bliss and grief,

      A laugh was her return to pleasure and pain.

      All things she saw as a masquerade of Truth

      Disguised in the costumes of Ignorance,

      Crossing the years to immortality;

      All she could front with the strong spirit’s peace.

      But since she knows the toil of mind and life

      As a mother feels and shares her children’s lives,

      She puts forth a small portion of herself,

      A being no bigger than the thumb of man

      Into a hidden region of the heart

      To face the pang and to forget the bliss,

      To share the suffering and endure earth’s wounds

      And labour mid the labour of the stars.

      This in us laughs and weeps, suffers the stroke,

      Exults in victory, struggles for the crown;

      Identified with the mind and body and life,

      It takes on itself their anguish and defeat,

      Bleeds with Fate’s whips and hangs upon the cross,

      Yet is the unwounded and immortal self

      Supporting the actor in the human scene.

      Through this she sends us her glory and her powers,

      Pushes to wisdom’s heights, through misery’s gulfs;

      She gives us strength to do our daily task

      And sympathy that partakes of others’ grief

      And the little strength we have to help our race,

      We who must fill the role of the universe

      Acting itself out in a slight human shape

      And on our shoulders carry the struggling world.

      This is in us the godhead small and marred;

      In this human portion of divinity

      She seats the greatness of the Soul in Time

      To uplift from light to light, from power to power,

      Till on a heavenly peak it stands, a king.

      In body weak, in its heart an invincible might,

      It climbs stumbling, held up by an unseen hand,

      A toiling spirit in a mortal shape.

      Here in this chamber of flame and light they met;

      They looked upon each other, knew themselves,

      The secret deity and its human part,

      The calm immortal and the struggling soul.

      Then with a magic transformation’s speed

      They rushed into each other and grew one.

      Once more she was human upon earthly soil

      In the muttering night amid the rain-swept woods

      And the rude cottage where she sat in trance:

      That subtle world withdrew deeply within

      Behind the sun-veil of the inner sight.

      But now the half-opened lotus bud of her heart

      Had bloomed and stood disclosed to the earthly ray;

      In an image shone revealed her secret soul.

      There was no wall severing the soul and mind,

      No mystic fence guarding from the claims of life.

      In its deep lotus home her being sat

      As if on concentration’s marble seat,

      Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds

      To make this earthly tenement her house.

      As in a flash from a supernal light,

      A living image of the original Power,

      A face, a form came down into her СКАЧАТЬ