Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      Who hunts and seizes me, my captive grows:

      This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats.

      For ever love, O beautiful slave of God!

      O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose,

      Become my cord of universal love.

      The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight

      Of creation’s oneness sweet and fathomless,

      Compelled to embrace my myriad unities

      And all my endless forms and divine souls.

      O Mind, grow full of the eternal peace;

      O Word, cry out the immortal litany:

      Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born.

      “Descend to life with him thy heart desires.

      O Satyavan, O luminous Savitri,

      I sent you forth of old beneath the stars,

      A dual power of God in an ignorant world,

      In a hedged creation shut from limitless self,

      Bringing down God to the insentient globe,

      Lifting earth-beings to immortality.

      In the world of my knowledge and my ignorance

      Where God is unseen and only is heard a Name

      And knowledge is trapped in the boundaries of mind

      And life is hauled in the drag-net of desire

      And Matter hides the soul from its own sight,

      You are my Force at work to uplift earth’s fate,

      My self that moves up the immense incline

      Between the extremes of the spirit’s night and day.

      He is my soul that climbs from nescient Night

      Through life and mind and supernature’s Vast

      To the supernal light of Timelessness

      And my eternity hid in moving Time

      And my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space.

      It climbs to the greatness it has left behind

      And to the beauty and joy from which it fell,

      To the closeness and sweetness of all things divine,

      To light without bounds and life illimitable,

      Taste of the depths of the Ineffable’s bliss,

      Touch of the immortal and the infinite.

      He is my soul that gropes out of the beast

      To reach humanity’s heights of lucent thought

      And the vicinity of Truth’s sublime.

      He is the godhead growing in human lives

      And in the body of earth-being’s forms:

      He is the soul of man climbing to God

      In Nature’s surge out of earth’s ignorance.

      O Savitri, thou art my spirit’s Power,

      The revealing voice of my immortal Word,

      The face of Truth upon the roads of Time

      Pointing to the souls of men the routes to God.

      While the dim light from the veiled Spirit’s peak

      Falls upon Matter’s stark inconscient sleep

      As if a pale moonbeam on a dense glade,

      And Mind in a half-light moves amid half-truths

      And the human heart knows only human love

      And life is a stumbling and imperfect force

      And the body counts out its precarious days,

      You shall be born into man’s dubious hours

      In forms that hide the soul’s divinity

      And show through veils of the earth’s doubting air

      My glory breaking as through clouds a sun,

      Or burning like a rare and inward fire,

      And with my nameless influence fill men’s lives.

      Yet shall they look up as to peaks of God

      And feel God like a circumambient air

      And rest on God as on a motionless base.

      Yet shall there glow on mind like a horned moon

      The Spirit’s crescent splendour in pale skies

      And light man’s life upon his Godward road.

      But more there is concealed in God’s Beyond

      That shall one day reveal its hidden face.

      Now mind is all and its uncertain ray,

      Mind is the leader of the body and life,

      Mind the thought-driven chariot of the soul

      Carrying the luminous wanderer in the night

      To vistas of a far uncertain dawn,

      To the end of the Spirit’s fathomless desire,

      To its dream of absolute truth and utter bliss.

      There are greater destinies mind cannot surmise

      Fixed on the summit of the evolving Path

      The Traveller now treads in the Ignorance,

      Unaware of his next step, not knowing his goal.

      Mind is not all his tireless climb can reach,

      There is a fire on the apex of the worlds,

      There is a house of the Eternal’s light,

      There is an infinite truth, an absolute power.

      The Spirit’s mightiness shall cast off its mask;

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