Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK IX: The Book of Eternal Night 574 When yet the mind, a passionate learner, toiled And ill-shaped instruments were crudely moved. Transcended now was the poor human rule; A sovereign power was there, a godlike will. A moment yet she lingered motionless And looked down on the dead man at her feet; Then like a tree recovering from a wind She raised her noble head; fronting her gaze Something stood there, unearthly, sombre, grand, A limitless denial of all being That wore the terror and wonder of a shape. In its appalling eyes the tenebrous Form Bore the deep pity of destroying gods; A sorrowful irony curved the dreadful lips That speak the word of doom. Eternal Night In the dire beauty of an immortal face Pitying arose, receiving all that lives For ever into its fathomless heart, refuge Of creatures from their anguish and world-pain. His shape was nothingness made real, his limbs Were monuments of transience and beneath Brows of unwearying calm large godlike lids Silent beheld the writhing serpent, life. Unmoved their timeless wide unchanging gaze Had seen the unprofitable cycles pass, Survived the passing of unnumbered stars And sheltered still the same immutable orbs. The two opposed each other with their eyes, Woman and universal god: around her, Piling their void unbearable loneliness Upon her mighty uncompanioned soul, Many inhuman solitudes came close. Vacant eternities forbidding hope Laid upon her their huge and lifeless look, And to her ears, silencing earthly sounds, A sad and formidable voice arose
CANTO I: Towards the Black Void 575 Which seemed the whole adverse world’s. “Unclasp”, it cried, “Thy passionate influence and relax, O slave Of Nature, changing tool of changeless Law, Who vainly writh’st rebellion to my yoke, Thy elemental grasp; weep and forget. Entomb thy passion in its living grave. Leave now the once-loved spirit’s abandoned robe: Pass lonely back to thy vain life on earth.” It ceased, she moved not, and it spoke again, Lowering its mighty key to human chords, — Yet a dread cry behind the uttered sounds, Echoing all sadness and immortal scorn, Moaned like a hunger of far wandering waves. “Wilt thou for ever keep thy passionate hold, Thyself a creature doomed like him to pass, Denying his soul death’s calm and silent rest? Relax thy grasp; this body is earth’s and thine, His spirit now belongs to a greater power. Woman, thy husband suffers.” Savitri Drew back her heart’s force that clasped his body still Where from her lap renounced on the smooth grass Softly it lay, as often before in sleep When from their couch she rose in the white dawn Called by her daily tasks: now too, as if called, She rose and stood gathered in lonely strength, Like one who drops his mantle for a race And waits the signal, motionlessly swift. She knew not to what course: her spirit above On the crypt-summit of her secret form Like one left sentinel on a mountain crest, A fiery-footed splendour puissant-winged, Watched flaming-silent, with her voiceless soul Like a still sail upon a windless sea. White passionless it rode, an anchored might, Waiting what far-ridged impulse should arise Out of the eternal depths and cast its surge.
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BOOK IX: The Book of Eternal Night 574<br />
When yet the mind, a passionate learner, toiled<br />
And ill-shaped instruments were crudely moved.<br />
Transcended now was the poor human rule;<br />
A sovereign power was there, a godlike will.<br />
A moment yet she lingered motionless<br />
And looked down on the dead man at her feet;<br />
Then like a tree recovering from a wind<br />
She raised her noble head; fronting her gaze<br />
Something stood there, unearthly, sombre, grand,<br />
A limitless denial of all being<br />
That wore the terror and wonder of a shape.<br />
In its appalling eyes the tenebrous Form<br />
Bore the deep pity of destroying gods;<br />
A sorrowful irony curved the dreadful lips<br />
That speak the word of doom. Eternal Night<br />
In the dire beauty of an immortal face<br />
Pitying arose, receiving all that lives<br />
For ever into its fathomless heart, refuge<br />
Of creatures from their anguish and world-pain.<br />
His shape was nothingness made real, his limbs<br />
Were monuments of transience and beneath<br />
Brows of unwearying calm large godlike lids<br />
Silent beheld the writhing serpent, life.<br />
Unmoved their timeless wide unchanging gaze<br />
Had seen the unprofitable cycles pass,<br />
Survived the passing of unnumbered stars<br />
And sheltered still the same immutable orbs.<br />
The two opposed each other with their eyes,<br />
Woman and universal god: around her,<br />
Piling their void unbearable loneliness<br />
Upon her mighty uncompanioned soul,<br />
Many inhuman solitudes came close.<br />
Vacant eternities forbidding hope<br />
Laid upon her their huge and lifeless look,<br />
And to her ears, silencing earthly sounds,<br />
A sad and formidable voice arose