Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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СКАЧАТЬ the body’s crust of thickened self

      A tardy fervent working in the dark,

      The turbid yeast of Nature’s passionate change,

      Ferment of the soul’s creation out of mire.

      A heavenly process donned this grey disguise,

      A fallen ignorance in its covert night

      Laboured to achieve its dumb unseemly work,

      A camouflage of the Inconscient’s need

      To release the glory of God in Nature’s mud.

      His sight, spiritual in embodying orbs,

      Could pierce through the grey phosphorescent haze

      And scan the secrets of the shifting flux

      That animates these mute and solid cells

      And leads the thought and longing of the flesh

      And the keen lust and hunger of its will.

      This too he tracked along its hidden stream

      And traced its acts to a miraculous fount.

      A mystic Presence none can probe nor rule,

      Creator of this game of ray and shade

      In this sweet and bitter paradoxical life,

      Asks from the body the soul’s intimacies

      And by the swift vibration of a nerve

      Links its mechanic throbs to light and love.

      It summons the spirit’s sleeping memories

      Up from subconscient depths beneath Time’s foam;

      Oblivious of their flame of happy truth,

      Arriving with heavy eyes that hardly see,

      They come disguised as feelings and desires,

      Like weeds upon the surface float awhile

      And rise and sink on a somnambulist tide.

      Impure, degraded though her motions are,

      Always a heaven-truth broods in life’s deeps;

      In her obscurest members burns that fire.

      A touch of God’s rapture in creation’s acts,

      A lost remembrance of felicity

      Lurks still in the dumb roots of death and birth,

      The world’s senseless beauty mirrors God’s delight.

      That rapture’s smile is secret everywhere;

      It flows in the wind’s breath, in the tree’s sap,

      Its hued magnificence blooms in leaves and flowers.

      When life broke through its half-drowse in the plant

      That feels and suffers but cannot move or cry,

      In beast and in winged bird and thinking man

      It made of the heart’s rhythm its music’s beat;

      It forced the unconscious tissues to awake

      And ask for happiness and earn the pang

      And thrill with pleasure and laughter of brief delight,

      And quiver with pain and crave for ecstasy.

      Imperative, voiceless, ill-understood,

      Too far from light, too close to being’s core,

      Born strangely in Time from the eternal Bliss,

      It presses on heart’s core and vibrant nerve;

      Its sharp self-seeking tears our consciousness;

      Our pain and pleasure have that sting for cause:

      Instinct with it, but blind to its true joy

      The soul’s desire leaps out towards passing things.

      All Nature’s longing drive none can resist,

      Comes surging through the blood and quickened sense;

      An ecstasy of the infinite is her cause.

      It turns in us to finite loves and lusts,

      The will to conquer and have, to seize and keep,

      To enlarge life’s room and scope and pleasure’s range,

      To battle and overcome and make one’s own,

      The hope to mix one’s joy with others’ joy,

      A yearning to possess and be possessed,

      To enjoy and be enjoyed, to feel, to live.

      Here was its early brief attempt to be,

      Its rapid end of momentary delight

      Whose stamp of failure haunts all ignorant life.

      Inflicting still its habit on the cells

      The phantom of a dark and evil start

      Ghostlike pursues all that we dream and do.

      Although on earth are firm established lives,

      A working of habit or a sense of law,

      A steady repetition in the flux,

      Yet are its roots of will ever the same;

      These passions are the stuff of which we are made.

      This was the first cry of the awaking world.

      It clings around us still and clamps the god.

      Even when reason is born and soul takes form,

      In beast and reptile and in thinking man

      It lasts and is the fount of all their life.

      This too was needed that breath and living might be.

      The spirit in a finite ignorant world

      Must rescue so its prisoned consciousness

      Forced out in little jets at quivering points

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