Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      Canto One

      The Eternal Day:

       The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation

      A marvellous sun looked down from ecstasy’s skies

      On worlds of deathless bliss, perfection’s home,

      Magical unfoldings of the Eternal’s smile

      Capturing his secret heart-beats of delight.

      God’s everlasting day surrounded her,

      Domains appeared of sempiternal light

      Invading all Nature with the Absolute’s joy.

      Her body quivered with eternity’s touch,

      Her soul stood close to the founts of the infinite.

      Infinity’s finite fronts she lived in, new

      For ever to an everliving sight.

      Eternity multiplied its vast self-look

      Translating its endless mightiness and joy

      Into delight souls playing with Time could share

      In grandeurs ever new-born from the unknown depths,

      In powers that leaped immortal from unknown heights,

      In passionate heart-beats of an undying love,

      In scenes of a sweetness that can never fade.

      Immortal to the rapturous heart and eyes,

      In serene arches of translucent calm

      From Wonder’s dream-vasts cloudless skies slid down

      An abyss of sapphire; sunlight visited eyes

      Which suffered without pain the absolute ray

      And saw immortal clarities of form.

      Twilight and mist were exiles from that air,

      Night was impossible to such radiant heavens.

      Firm in the bosom of immensity

      Spiritual breadths were seen, sublimely born

      From a still beauty of creative joy;

      Embodied thoughts to sweet dimensions held

      To please some carelessness of divine peace,

      Answered the deep demand of an infinite sense

      And its need of forms to house its bodiless thrill.

      A march of universal powers in Time,

      The harmonic order of self’s vastitudes

      In cyclic symmetries and metric planes

      Harboured a cosmic rapture’s revelry,

      An endless figuring of the spirit in things

      Planned by the artist who has dreamed the worlds;

      Of all the beauty and the marvel here,

      Of all Time’s intricate variety

      Eternity was the substance and the source;

      Not from a plastic mist of Matter made,

      They offered the suggestion of their depths

      And opened the great series of their powers.

      Arisen beneath a triple mystic heaven

      The seven immortal earths were seen, sublime:

      Homes of the blest released from death and sleep

      Where grief can never come nor any pang

      Arriving from self-lost and seeking worlds

      Alter Heaven-nature’s changeless quietude

      And mighty posture of eternal calm,

      Its pose of ecstasy immutable.

      Plains lay that seemed the expanse of God’s wide sleep,

      Thought’s wings climbed up towards heaven’s vast repose

      Lost in blue deeps of immortality.

      A changed earth-nature felt the breath of peace.

      Air seemed an ocean of felicity

      Or the couch of the unknown spiritual rest,

      A vast quiescence swallowing up all sound

      Into a voicelessness of utter bliss;

      Even Matter brought a close spiritual touch,

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