Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      Life’s barriers opened into the Unknown.

      Abolished were conception’s covenants

      And, striking off subjection’s rigorous clause,

      Annulled the soul’s treaty with Nature’s nescience.

      All the grey inhibitions were torn off

      And broken the intellect’s hard and lustrous lid;

      Truth unpartitioned found immense sky-room;

      An empyrean vision saw and knew;

      The bounded mind became a boundless light,

      The finite self mated with infinity.

      His march now soared into an eagle’s flight.

      Out of apprenticeship to Ignorance

      Wisdom upraised him to her master craft

      And made him an archmason of the soul,

      A builder of the Immortal’s secret house,

      An aspirant to supernal Timelessness:

      Freedom and empire called to him from on high;

      Above mind’s twilight and life’s star-led night

      There gleamed the dawn of a spiritual day.

      As so he grew into his larger self,

      Humanity framed his movements less and less;

      A greater being saw a greater world.

      A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase

      The lines of safety Reason draws that bar

      Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite.

      Even his first steps broke our small earth-bounds

      And loitered in a vaster freer air.

      In hands sustained by a transfiguring Might

      He caught up lightly like a giant’s bow

      Left slumbering in a sealed and secret cave

      The powers that sleep unused in man within.

      He made of miracle a normal act

      And turned to a common part of divine works,

      Magnificently natural at this height,

      Efforts that would shatter the strength of mortal hearts,

      Pursued in a royalty of mighty ease

      Aims too sublime for Nature’s daily will:

      The gifts of the spirit crowding came to him;

      They were his life’s pattern and his privilege.

      A pure perception lent its lucent joy:

      Its intimate vision waited not to think;

      It enveloped all Nature in a single glance,

      It looked into the very self of things;

      Deceived no more by form he saw the soul.

      In beings it knew what lurked to them unknown;

      It seized the idea in mind, the wish in the heart;

      It plucked out from grey folds of secrecy

      The motives which from their own sight men hide.

      He felt the beating life in other men

      Invade him with their happiness and their grief;

      Their love, their anger, their unspoken hopes

      Entered in currents or in pouring waves

      Into the immobile ocean of his calm.

      He heard the inspired sound of his own thoughts

      Re-echoed in the vault of other minds;

      The world’s thought-streams travelled into his ken;

      His inner self grew near to others’ selves

      And bore a kinship’s weight, a common tie,

      Yet stood untouched, king of itself, alone.

      A magical accord quickened and attuned

      To ethereal symphonies the old earthy strings;

      It raised the servitors of mind and life

      To be happy partners in the soul’s response,

      Tissue and nerve were turned to sensitive chords,

      Records of lustre and ecstasy; it made

      The body’s means the spirit’s acolytes.

      A heavenlier function with a finer mode

      Lit with its grace man’s outward earthliness;

      The soul’s experience of its deeper sheaths

      No more slept drugged by Matter’s dominance.

      In the dead wall closing us from wider self,

      Into a secrecy of apparent sleep,

      The mystic tract beyond our waking thoughts,

      A door parted, built in by Matter’s force,

      Releasing things unseized by earthly sense:

      A world unseen, unknown by outward mind

      Appeared in the silent spaces of the soul.

      He sat in secret chambers looking out

      Into the luminous countries of the unborn

      Where all things dreamed by the mind are seen and true

      And all that the life longs for is drawn close.

      He saw the Perfect in their starry homes

      Wearing the glory of a deathless form,

      Lain in the arms of the Eternal’s peace,

      Rapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy.

      He lived in the mystic space where thought is born

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