Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      Explained, they seem yet more inexplicable.

      Even in our world a mystery has reigned

      Earth’s cunning screen of trivial plainness hides;

      Her larger levels are of sorceries made.

      There the enigma shows its splendid prism,

      There is no deep disguise of commonness;

      Occult, profound comes all experience,

      Marvel is ever new, miracle divine.

      There is a screened burden, a mysterious touch,

      There is a secrecy of hidden sense.

      Although no earthen mask weighs on her face,

      Into herself she flees from her own sight.

      All forms are tokens of some veiled idea

      Whose covert purpose lurks from mind’s pursuit,

      Yet is a womb of sovereign consequence.

      There every thought and feeling is an act,

      And every act a symbol and a sign,

      And every symbol hides a living power.

      A universe she builds from truths and myths,

      But what she needed most she cannot build;

      All shown is a figure or copy of the Truth,

      But the Real veils from her its mystic face.

      All else she finds, there lacks eternity;

      All is sought out, but missed the Infinite.

      A consciousness lit by a Truth above

      Was felt; it saw the light but not the Truth:

      It caught the Idea and built from it a world;

      It made an Image there and called it God.

      Yet something true and inward harboured there.

      The beings of that world of greater life,

      Tenants of a larger air and freer space,

      Live not by the body or in outward things:

      A deeper living was their seat of self.

      In that intense domain of intimacy

      Objects dwell as companions of the soul;

      The body’s actions are a minor script,

      The surface rendering of a life within.

      All forces are Life’s retinue in that world

      And thought and body as her handmaids move.

      The universal widenesses give her room:

      All feel the cosmic movement in their acts

      And are the instruments of her cosmic might.

      Or their own self they make their universe.

      In all who have risen to a greater Life,

      A voice of unborn things whispers to the ear,

      To their eyes visited by some high sunlight

      Aspiration shows the image of a crown:

      To work out a seed that she has thrown within,

      To achieve her power in them her creatures live.

      Each is a greatness growing towards the heights

      Or from his inner centre oceans out;

      In circling ripples of concentric power

      They swallow, glutted, their environment.

      Even of that largeness many a cabin make;

      In narrower breadths and briefer vistas pent

      They live content with some small greatness won.

      To rule the little empire of themselves,

      To be a figure in their private world

      And make the milieu’s joys and griefs their own

      And satisfy their life-motives and life-wants

      Is charge enough and office for this strength,

      A steward of the Person and his fate.

      This was transition-line and starting-point,

      A first immigration into heavenliness,

      For all who cross into that brilliant sphere:

      These are the kinsmen of our earthly race;

      This region borders on our mortal state.

      This wider world our greater movements gives,

      Its strong formations build our growing selves;

      Its creatures are our brighter replicas,

      Complete the types we only initiate

      And are securely what we strive to be.

      As if thought-out eternal characters,

      Entire, not pulled as we by contrary tides,

      They follow the unseen leader in the heart,

      Their lives obey the inner nature’s law.

      There is kept grandeur’s store, the hero’s mould;

      The soul is the watchful builder of its fate;

      None is a spirit indifferent and inert;

      They choose their side, they see the god they adore.

      A battle is joined between the true and false,

      A pilgrimage sets out to the divine Light.

      For even Ignorance there aspires to know

      And shines with the lustre of a distant star;

      There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep

      And Nature comes to them as a conscious force.

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