Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 664 But where is thy strength to conquer Time and Death? Hast thou God’s force to build heaven’s values here? For truth and knowledge are an idle gleam If Knowledge brings not power to change the world, If Might comes not to give to Truth her right. A blind Force, not Truth has made this ignorant world, A blind Force, not Truth orders the lives of men: By Power, not Light, the great Gods rule the world; Power is the arm of God, the seal of Fate. O human claimant to immortality, Reveal thy power, lay bare thy spirit’s force, Then will I give back to thee Satyavan. Or if the Mighty Mother is with thee, Show me her face that I may worship her; Let deathless eyes look into the eyes of Death, An imperishable Force touching brute things Transform earth’s death into immortal life. Then can thy dead return to thee and live. The prostrate earth perhaps shall lift her gaze And feel near her the secret body of God And love and joy overtake fleeing Time.” And Savitri looked on Death and answered not. Almost it seemed as if in his symbol shape The world’s darkness had consented to Heaven-light And God needed no more the Inconscient’s screen. A mighty transformation came on her. A halo of the indwelling Deity, The Immortal’s lustre that had lit her face And tented its radiance in her body’s house, Overflowing made the air a luminous sea. In a flaming moment of apocalypse The Incarnation thrust aside its veil. A little figure in infinity Yet stood and seemed the Eternal’s very house, As if the world’s centre was her very soul
CANTO IV: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real 665 And all wide space was but its outer robe. A curve of the calm hauteur of far heaven Descending into earth’s humility, Her forehead’s span vaulted the Omniscient’s gaze, Her eyes were two stars that watched the universe. The Power that from her being’s summit reigned, The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy, Came down and held the centre in her brow Where the mind’s Lord in his control-room sits; There throned on concentration’s native seat He opens that third mysterious eye in man, The Unseen’s eye that looks at the unseen, When Light with a golden ecstasy fills his brain And the Eternal’s wisdom drives his choice And eternal Will seizes the mortal’s will. It stirred in the lotus of her throat of song, And in her speech throbbed the immortal Word, Her life sounded with the steps of the world-soul Moving in harmony with the cosmic Thought. As glides God’s sun into the mystic cave Where hides his light from the pursuing gods, It glided into the lotus of her heart And woke in it the Force that alters Fate. It poured into her navel’s lotus depth, Lodged in the little life-nature’s narrow home, On the body’s longings grew heaven-rapture’s flower And made desire a pure celestial flame, Broke into the cave where coiled World-Energy sleeps And smote the thousand-hooded serpent Force That blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above, Joined Matter’s dumbness to the Spirit’s hush And filled earth’s acts with the Spirit’s silent power. Thus changed she waited for the Word to speak. Eternity looked into the eyes of Death And Darkness saw God’s living Reality. Then a Voice was heard that seemed the stillness’ self
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BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 664<br />
But where is thy strength to conquer Time and Death?<br />
Hast thou God’s force to build heaven’s values here?<br />
For truth and knowledge are an idle gleam<br />
If Knowledge brings not power to change the world,<br />
If Might comes not to give to Truth her right.<br />
A blind Force, not Truth has made this ignorant world,<br />
A blind Force, not Truth orders the lives of men:<br />
By Power, not Light, the great Gods rule the world;<br />
Power is the arm of God, the seal of Fate.<br />
O human claimant to immortality,<br />
Reveal thy power, lay bare thy spirit’s force,<br />
Then will I give back to thee Satyavan.<br />
Or if the Mighty Mother is with thee,<br />
Show me her face that I may worship her;<br />
Let deathless eyes look into the eyes of Death,<br />
An imperishable Force touching brute things<br />
Transform earth’s death into immortal life.<br />
Then can thy dead return to thee and live.<br />
The prostrate earth perhaps shall lift her gaze<br />
And feel near her the secret body of God<br />
And love and joy overtake fleeing Time.”<br />
And Savitri looked on Death and answered not.<br />
Almost it seemed as if in his symbol shape<br />
The world’s darkness had consented to Heaven-light<br />
And God needed no more the Inconscient’s screen.<br />
A mighty transformation came on her.<br />
A halo of the indwelling Deity,<br />
The Immortal’s lustre that had lit her face<br />
And tented its radiance in her body’s house,<br />
Overflowing made the air a luminous sea.<br />
In a flaming moment of apocalypse<br />
The Incarnation thrust aside its veil.<br />
A little figure in infinity<br />
Yet stood and seemed the Eternal’s very house,<br />
As if the world’s centre was her very soul