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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/Book 2 Canto 6 The Kingdoms and Godheads.htm
CANTO SIX
THE KINGDOMS AND
GODHEADS OF THE
GREATER LIFE
AS one
who between dim receding walls
Towards the far gleam of a tunnel mouth,
Hoping
for light, walks now with freer pace
And
feels approach a breath of wider air,
So he
escaped from that grey anarchy.
Into
an ineffectual world he came,
A
purposeless region of arrested birth
Where
being from non-being fled and dared
To
live but had no strength long to abide.
Above
there gleamed a pondering brow of sky
Tormented, crossed by wings of doubtful haze
Adventuring with a voice of roaming winds
And
crying for a dire
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/Post_Content.htm
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/ Book 2 Canto 14 The World-Soul.htm
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CANTO FOURTEEN
THE WORLD-SOUL
A COVERT answer to his seeking came.
In a far-shimmering background of Mind-Space
A
glowing mouth was seen, a luminous shaft,
A
recluse-gate it seemed, musing on joy,
A veiled
retreat and escape to mystery.
Away
from the unsatisfied surface world
It fled
into the bosom of the unknown,
A well,
a tunnel of the depths of God.
It
plunged as if a mystic groove of hope
Through
many layers of formless voiceless self
To reach
the last profound of the world's heart,
And from
that heart there surged a wordless
call
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/ Book 2 Canto 8 The World of Falsehood The Mother.htm
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CANTO EIGHT
THE WORLD OF
FALSEHOOD, THE MOTHER
OF EVIL AND
THE SONS OF DARKNESS
THEN could he see the hidden heart of Night:
The labour of its stark unconsciousness
Revealed
the endless terrible Inane.
A
spiritless blank Infinity was there;
A Nature that denied the eternal Truth
In the
vain braggart freedom of its thought
Hoped to
abolish God and reign alone.
There was no sovereign Guest, no witness Light;
Unhelped it would create its own bleak world.
Its
large blind eyes looked out on demon acts,
Its deaf
ears heard the untruth i
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/ Book 2 Canto 1 The World-Stair.htm
BOOK TWO
The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
CANTO ONE
THE WORLD-STAIR
A
LONE he moved watched by the infinity
Around him and the
Unknowable above.
All could be seen that shuns the mortal
eye,
All could be known the mind has never grasped,
All
could be done no mortal will can dare.
A limitless movement
filled a limitless peace.
In a profound existence beyond
earth's
Parent or kin to our ideas an
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/ Book 2 Canto 2 The Kingdom of Subtle Matter.htm
CANTO TWO
THE
KINGDOM OF SUBTLE MATTER
IN
the impalpable field of secret self,
This
little outer being's vast support
Parted from vision by
earth's solid fence,
He came into a magic crystal air
And
found a life that lived not by the flesh,
A light that made
visible immaterial things.
A fine degree in wonder's
hierarchy,
The kingdom of subtle Matter's faery craft
Outlined
against a sky of vivid hues,
Leaping out of a splendour
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/Book 2 Canto 7 The Descent into Night.htm
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CANTO SEVEN
THE DESCENT
INTO NIGHT
A MIND absolved from life, made calm to know,
A heart
divorced from the blindness and the pang,
The seal
of tears, the bond of ignorance,
He turned
to find that wide world-failure's cause.
Away he
looked from Nature's visible face
And sent
his gaze into the viewless Vast,
The
formidable unknown Infinity,
Asleep
behind the endless coil of things, '
'
That carries the universe in its timeless breadths
And the
ripples of its being are our lives.
The
worlds are built by its unconscious Breath
And
Matt
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/ Book 1 Canto 5 The Yoga of The King.htm
CANTO FIVE
THE YOGA OF THE
KING:
THE YOGA OF THE
SPIRIT'S FREEDOM AND
GREATNESS
THIS knowledge
first he had of time-born men.
Admitted through
a curtain of bright mind
That hangs between our thought and
absolute sight,
He found the occult cave, the mystic door
Near
to the well of vision in the soul,
And entered where the Wings
of Glory brood
In the sunlit
space where all is for ever known.
Indifferent to doubt and
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/Book 2 Canto 4 The Kingdoms of The Little Life.htm
CANTO FOUR
THE KINGDOMS OF THE
LITTLE LIFE
A
QUIVERING trepidant uncertain world
Born from that dolorous
meeting and eclipse
Appeared m the emptiness where her feet
had trod,
A quick obscurity, a seeking stir.
There was a
writhing of half-conscious force
Hardly awakened from
inconscient sleep
And tied to an instinct-driven Ignorance,
To
find itself and find its hold on things.
Inheritor of poverty
and loss,
Assailed by memories
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/Other Editions/Savitri 1950 Edition/ Book 1 Canto 3 The Yoga of The King.htm
CANTO THREE
THE YOGA OF THE
KING:
THE YOGA OF THE
SOUL'S RELEASE
A
WORLD'S desire compelled her mortal birth.
One
in the front of the immemorial quest,
Protagonist
of the mysterious play
In
which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
And
limits his eternity by the hours
And
the blind Void struggles to live and see,
A
thinker and toiler in the ideal's air,
Brought
down to earth's