Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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СКАЧАТЬ pure childhood’s lonely dreams,

      Desired and had not for his beautiful life.

      Give, if thou must, or, if thou canst, refuse.”

      Death bowed his head in scornful cold assent,

      The builder of this dreamlike earth for man

      Who has mocked with vanity all gifts he gave.

      Uplifting his disastrous voice he spoke:

      “Indulgent to the dreams my touch shall break,

      I yield to his blind father’s longing heart

      Kingdom and power and friends and greatness lost

      And royal trappings for his peaceful age,

      The pallid pomps of man’s declining days,

      The silvered decadent glories of life’s fall.

      To one who wiser grew by adverse Fate,

      Goods I restore the deluded soul prefers

      To impersonal nothingness’s bare sublime.

      The sensuous solace of the light I give

      To eyes which could have found a larger realm,

      A deeper vision in their fathomless night.

      For that this man desired and asked in vain

      While still he lived on earth and cherished hope.

      Back from the grandeur of my perilous realms

      Go, mortal, to thy small permitted sphere!

      Hasten swift-footed, lest to slay thy life

      The great laws thou hast violated, moved,

      Open at last on thee their marble eyes.”

      But Savitri answered the disdainful Shade:

      “World-spirit, I was thy equal spirit born.

      My will too is a law, my strength a god.

      I am immortal in my mortality.

      I tremble not before the immobile gaze

      Of the unchanging marble hierarchies

      That look with the stone eyes of Law and Fate.

      My soul can meet them with its living fire.

      Out of thy shadow give me back again

      Into earth’s flowering spaces Satyavan

      In the sweet transiency of human limbs

      To do with him my spirit’s burning will.

      I will bear with him the ancient Mother’s load,

      I will follow with him earth’s path that leads to God.

      Else shall the eternal spaces open to me,

      While round us strange horizons far recede,

      Travelling together the immense unknown.

      For I who have trod with him the tracts of Time,

      Can meet behind his steps whatever night

      Or unimaginable stupendous dawn

      Breaks on our spirits in the untrod Beyond.

      Wherever thou leadst his soul I shall pursue.”

      But to her claim opposed, implacable,

      Insisting on the immutable Decree,

      Insisting on the immitigable Law

      And the insignificance of created things,

      Out of the rolling wastes of night there came

      Born from the enigma of the unknowable depths

      A voice of majesty and appalling scorn.

      As when the storm-haired Titan-striding sea

      Throws on a swimmer its tremendous laugh

      Remembering all the joy its waves have drowned,

      So from the darkness of the sovereign night

      Against the Woman’s boundless heart arose

      The almighty cry of universal Death.

      “Hast thou god-wings or feet that tread my stars,

      Frail creature with the courage that aspires,

      Forgetting thy bounds of thought, thy mortal role?

      Their orbs were coiled before thy soul was formed.

      I, Death, created them out of my void;

      All things I have built in them and I destroy.

      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.

      Mortal, whose spirit is my wandering breath,

      Whose transience was imagined by my smile,

      Flee clutching thy poor gains to thy trembling breast

      Pierced by my pangs Time shall not soon appease.

      Blind slave of my deaf force whom I compel

      To sin that I may punish, to desire

      That I may scourge thee with despair and grief

      And thou come bleeding to me at the last,

      Thy nothingness recognised, my greatness known,

      Turn nor attempt forbidden happy fields

      Meant for the souls that can obey my law,

      Lest in their sombre shrines thy tread awake

      From their uneasy iron-hearted sleep

      The Furies who avenge fulfilled desire.

      Dread lest in skies where passion hoped to live,

      The Unknown’s lightnings start and, terrified,

      Lone, sobbing, hunted by the hounds of heaven,

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