Invocation 08 - Auroville

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give it a vivid directness in its own kind. This passage was
introduced because it brought in something in Savitri's relation
with the human world which seemed to me a necessary part of a
complete psychological description of her. … As for the line
about the strength and the silence of the Gods, that has a similar
motive of completeness. The line about the "stillness" and the
"word" gives us the transcendental element in Savitri, for the
Divine Savitri is the word that rises from the transcendental
stillness; the next two lines render that element into the poise of
the spiritual consciousness; this last line brings the same thing
down to the outward character and temperament in life. A union
of strength and silence is insisted upon in this poem as one of
the most prominent characteristics of Savitri and I have dwelt
on it elsewhere, but it had to be brought in here also if this
description of her was to be complete.
* Based on SABCL 29, pp. 765-6