Invocation 08 - Auroville

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A magnanimity as of sea or sky
Enveloped with its greatness all that came
And gave a sense as of a greatened world:
Her kindly care was a sweet temperate sun,
Her high passion a blue heaven's equipoise.
As might a soul fly like a hunted bird,
Escaping with tired wings from a world of storms,
And a quiet reach like a remembered breast,
In a haven of safety and splendid soft repose
One could drink life back in streams of honey-fire,
Recover the lost habit of happiness,
Feel her bright nature's glorious ambiance
And preen joy in her warmth and colour's rule.
This is the poetic description of her nature - the nature of her being that
comes from higher and more perfect worlds, the worlds that intend to manifest
upon earth but have first to prepare earth in order that she is ready to manifest
them. That is just why Savitri has come down: to prepare the earth for the
coming of the New World.
In this description there is a strong stress on peace and joy, equanimity
and constant smile. The more things are seen in their totality, the more
limitations are overcome, the more time and space become present, the
more the joy can be constant and the peace unshakable. It is only the narrow
limits created by separativeness that have created this suffering, this anguish
and this anger. With the descent of a higher consciousness comes a happy
smile and a quiet peace that are never disturbed.
Sri Aurobindo has announced that Savitri has prepared the world, and
now the consciousness that she carried in herself has come down upon
earth and is preparing to manifest.
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A deep of compassion, a hushed sanctuary,
Her inward help unbarred a gate in heaven;
Love in her was wider than the universe,
The whole world could take refuge in her single heart.
The great unsatisfied godhead here could dwell: