All Life Is Yoga: Savitri. Sri Aurobindo

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      The world is making itself anew under a great spiritual pressure, the old things are passing away and the new things ready to come into being, and it may be that some of the old nations that have been the leaders of the past and the old literatures that have been hitherto the chosen vehicles of strong poetic creation may prove incapable of holding the greater breath of the new spirit and be condemned to fall into decadence. It may be that we shall have to look for the future creation to new poetical literatures that are not yet born or are yet in their youth and first making or, though they have done something in the past, have still to reach their greatest voice and compass. A language passes through its cycle and grows aged and decays by many maladies: it stagnates perhaps by the attachment of its life to a past tradition and mould of excellence from which it cannot get away without danger to its principle of existence or a straining and breaking of its possibilities and a highly coloured decadence; or, exhausted in its creative vigour, it passes into that attractive but dangerous phase of art for art’s sake which makes of poetry no longer a high and fine outpouring of the soul and the life but a hedonistic indulgence and dilettantism of the intelligence. These and other signs of age are not absent from the greater European literary tongues, and at such a stage it becomes a difficult and a critical experiment to attempt at once a transformation of spirit and of the inner cast of poetic language. There is yet in the present ferment and travail a compelling force of new potentiality, a saving element in the power that is at the root of the call to change, the power of the spirit ever strong to transmute life and mind and make all young again, and once this magical force can be accepted in its completeness and provided there is no long-continued floundering among perverted inspirations or half motives, the old literatures may enter rejuvenated into a new creative cycle.

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      It is this spiritual realisation that the future poetry has to help forward by giving to it its eye of sight, its shape of aesthetic beauty, its revealing tongue and it is this greatening of life that it has to make its substance.

      It is in effect a larger cosmic vision, a realising of the godhead in the world and in man, of his divine possibilities as well as of the greatness of the power that manifests in what he is, a spiritualised uplifting of his thought and feeling and sense and action, a more developed psychic mind and heart, a truer and a deeper insight into his nature and the meaning of the world, a calling of diviner potentialities and more spiritual values into the intention and structure of his life that is the call upon humanity, the prospect offered to it by the slowly unfolding and now more clearly disclosed Self of the universe. The nations that most include and make real these things in their life and culture are the nations of the coming dawn and the poets of whatever tongue and race who most completely see with this vision and speak with the inspiration of its utterance are those who shall be the creators of the poetry of the future.

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      Part IV

      SAVITRI – THE DIVINE WORD

      All world is expression or manifestation, creation by the Word. — Sri Aurobindo

      Chapter 1

      Savitri – The Sun-Word

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light

      And bring down God into the lives of men;

      Earth shall be my work-chamber and my house,

      My garden of life to plant a seed divine.

      When all thy work in human time is done

      The mind of earth shall be a home of light,

      The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven,

      The body of earth a tabernacle of God.

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      “O living power of the incarnate Word,

      All that the Spirit has dreamed thou canst create:

      Thou art the force by which I made the worlds,

      Thou art my vision and my will and voice.”

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      The omniscient hush, womb of the immortal Word...

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      A Word, a Wisdom watches us from on high...

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      An ear of mind withdrawn from the outward’s rhymes

      Discovered the seed-sounds of the eternal Word,

      The rhythm and music heard that built the worlds,

      And seized in things the bodiless Will to be.

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      Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,

      The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul...

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      The Word that ushers divine experience...

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      Chapter 2

      Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol

      Words of Sri Aurobindo

      The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen blind, losing its celestial kingdom of vision, and through that loss its kingdom of glory. Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are not personified qualities, but incarnations or emanations of living and conscious Forces with whom we can enter into concrete touch and they take human bodies in order to help man and show him the way from his mortal state to a divine consciousness and immortal life.

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      Chapter 3

      Savitri – A Revelation

      On the 18th January 1960, when a young disciple met the Mother for a personal interview, she said to him: “I shall give you something special; be prepared.” The next day, when he again met her, she spoke in French first about how to kindle the psychic Flame and then in this connection started speaking about Sri Aurobindo’s great epic Savitri and continued to speak at length.

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