Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      Covered eternity with nothingness.

      A seeking Mind replaced the seeing Soul:

      Life grew into a huge and hungry death,

      The Spirit’s bliss was changed to cosmic pain.

      Assuring God’s self-cowled neutrality

      A mighty opposition conquered Space.

      A sovereign ruling falsehood, death and grief,

      It pressed its fierce hegemony on the earth;

      Disharmonising the original style

      Of the architecture of her fate’s design,

      It falsified the primal cosmic Will

      And bound to struggle and dread vicissitudes

      The long slow process of the patient Power.

      Implanting error in the stuff of things

      It made an Ignorance of the all-wise Law;

      It baffled the sure touch of life’s hid sense,

      Kept dumb the intuitive guide in Matter’s sleep,

      Deformed the insect’s instinct and the brute’s,

      Disfigured man’s thought-born humanity.

      A shadow fell across the simple Ray:

      Obscured was the Truth-light in the cavern heart

      That burns unwitnessed in the altar crypt

      Behind the still velamen’s secrecy

      Companioning the Godhead of the shrine.

      Thus was the dire antagonist Energy born

      Who mimes the eternal Mother’s mighty shape

      And mocks her luminous infinity

      With a grey distorted silhouette in the Night.

      Arresting the passion of the climbing soul,

      She forced on life a slow and faltering pace;

      Her hand’s deflecting and retarding weight

      Is laid on the mystic evolution’s curve:

      The tortuous line of her deceiving mind

      The Gods see not and man is impotent;

      Oppressing the God-spark within the soul

      She forces back to the beast the human fall.

      Yet in her formidable instinctive mind

      She feels the One grow in the heart of Time

      And sees the Immortal shine through the human mould.

      Alarmed for her rule and full of fear and rage

      She prowls around each light that gleams through the dark

      Casting its ray from the spirit’s lonely tent,

      Hoping to enter with fierce stealthy tread

      And in the cradle slay the divine Child.

      Incalculable are her strength and ruse;

      Her touch is a fascination and a death;

      She kills her victim with his own delight;

      Even Good she makes a hook to drag to Hell.

      For her the world runs to its agony.

      Often the pilgrim on the Eternal’s road

      Ill-lit from clouds by the pale moon of Mind,

      Or in devious byways wandering alone,

      Or lost in deserts where no path is seen,

      Falls overpowered by her lion leap,

      A conquered captive under her dreadful paws.

      Intoxicated by a burning breath

      And amorous grown of a destroying mouth,

      Once a companion of the sacred Fire,

      The mortal perishes to God and Light,

      An Adversary governs heart and brain,

      A Nature hostile to the Mother-Force.

      The self of life yields up its instruments

      To Titan and demoniac agencies

      That aggrandise earth-nature and disframe:

      A cowled fifth-columnist is now thought’s guide;

      His subtle defeatist murmur slays the faith

      And, lodged in the breast or whispering from outside,

      A lying inspiration fell and dark

      A new order substitutes for the divine.

      A silence falls upon the spirit’s heights,

      From the veiled sanctuary the God retires,

      Empty and cold is the chamber of the Bride;

      The golden Nimbus now is seen no more,

      No longer burns the white spiritual ray

      And hushed for ever is the secret Voice.

      Then by the Angel of the Vigil Tower

      A name is struck from the recording book;

      A flame that sang in Heaven sinks quenched and mute;

      In ruin ends the epic of a soul.

      This is the tragedy of the inner death

      When forfeited is the divine element

      And only a mind and body live to die.

      For terrible agencies the Spirit allows

      And there are subtle and enormous Powers

      That shield themselves with the covering Ignorance.

      Offspring of the gulfs, agents of the shadowy Force,

      Haters of light, intolerant of peace,

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