Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VI: The Book of Fate 424 He came not yet, this sweetness wandered forth Cleaving her way with the beat of her rapid wings. Led by a distant call her vague swift flight Threaded the summer morns and sunlit lands. The happy rest her burdened lashes keep And these charmed guardian lips hold treasured still. Virgin who comest perfected by joy, Reveal the name thy sudden heart-beats learned. Whom hast thou chosen, kingliest among men?” And Savitri answered with her still calm voice As one who speaks beneath the eyes of Fate: “Father and king, I have carried out thy will. One whom I sought I found in distant lands; I have obeyed my heart, I have heard its call. On the borders of a dreaming wilderness Mid Shalwa’s giant hills and brooding woods In his thatched hermitage Dyumatsena dwells, Blind, exiled, outcast, once a mighty king. The son of Dyumatsena, Satyavan, I have met on the wild forest’s lonely verge. My father, I have chosen. This is done.” Astonished, all sat silent for a space. Then Aswapati looked within and saw A heavy shadow float above the name Chased by a sudden and stupendous light; He looked into his daughter’s eyes and spoke: “Well hast thou done and I approve thy choice. If this is all, then all is surely well; If there is more, then all can still be well. Whether it seem good or evil to men’s eyes, Only for good the secret Will can work. Our destiny is written in double terms: Through Nature’s contraries we draw nearer God; Out of the darkness we still grow to light. Death is our road to immortality. ‘Cry woe, cry woe,’ the world’s lost voices wail,
CANTO I: The Word of Fate 425 Yet conquers the eternal Good at last.” Then might the sage have spoken, but the king In haste broke out and stayed the dangerous word: “O singer of the ultimate ecstasy, Lend not a dangerous vision to the blind Because by native right thou hast seen clear. Impose not on the mortal’s tremulous breast The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings; Demand not now the Godhead in our acts. Here are not happy peaks the heaven-nymphs roam Or Coilas or Vaicountha’s starry stair: Abrupt, jagged hills only the mighty climb Are here where few dare even think to rise; Far voices call down from the dizzy rocks, Chill, slippery, precipitous are the paths. Too hard the gods are with man’s fragile race; In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate And they forget the wounded feet of man, His limbs that faint beneath the whips of grief, His heart that hears the tread of time and death. The future’s road is hid from mortal sight: He moves towards a veiled and secret face. To light one step in front is all his hope And only for a little strength he asks To meet the riddle of his shrouded fate. Awaited by a vague and half-seen force, Aware of danger to his uncertain hours He guards his flickering yearnings from her breath; He feels not when the dreadful fingers close Around him with the grasp none can elude. If thou canst loose her grip, then only speak. Perhaps from the iron snare there is escape: Our mind perhaps deceives us with its words And gives the name of doom to our own choice; Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate.” He said and Narad answered not the king.
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CANTO I: The Word of Fate 425<br />
Yet conquers the eternal Good at last.”<br />
Then might the sage have spoken, but the king<br />
In haste broke out and stayed the dangerous word:<br />
“O singer of the ultimate ecstasy,<br />
Lend not a dangerous vision to the blind<br />
Because by native right thou hast seen clear.<br />
Impose not on the mortal’s tremulous breast<br />
The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings;<br />
Demand not now the Godhead in our acts.<br />
Here are not happy peaks the heaven-nymphs roam<br />
Or Coilas or Vaicountha’s starry stair:<br />
Abrupt, jagged hills only the mighty climb<br />
Are here where few dare even think to rise;<br />
Far voices call down from the dizzy rocks,<br />
Chill, slippery, precipitous are the paths.<br />
Too hard the gods are with man’s fragile race;<br />
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate<br />
And they forget the wounded feet of man,<br />
His limbs that faint beneath the whips of grief,<br />
His heart that hears the tread of time and death.<br />
The future’s road is hid from mortal sight:<br />
He moves towards a veiled and secret face.<br />
To light one step in front is all his hope<br />
And only for a little strength he asks<br />
To meet the riddle of his shrouded fate.<br />
Awaited by a vague and half-seen force,<br />
Aware of danger to his uncertain hours<br />
He guards his flickering yearnings from her breath;<br />
He feels not when the dreadful fingers close<br />
Around him with the grasp none can elude.<br />
If thou canst loose her grip, then only speak.<br />
Perhaps from the iron snare there is escape:<br />
Our mind perhaps deceives us with its words<br />
And gives the name of doom to our own choice;<br />
Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate.”<br />
He said and Narad answered not the king.