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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 2 Canto 02 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-trance and haze,
The
wizard revelation of its front.
A
world of lovelier f
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 2 Canto 01 The World-Stair.htm
Book Two
The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto One
The World-Stair
Alone
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 and dreams
Where
Space is a vast experiment of the soul,
In a
deep oneness of all things that are,
The
univer
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 2 Canto 06 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's 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 direction in the void
Like blind sou
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 1 Canto 03 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 dumb need her radiant power.
His was a spirit that stooped from larger spheres
Into our province of ephemeral sight,
A colonist from immortality.
A pointing beam on earth's uncertain roads,
His birth held up a symbol and a
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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 3 Canto 03 The House of the Spirit and the New Creation.htm
Canto Three
The House of the
Spirit and the New Creation
A mightier task remained than all he had done.
To that he turned from which all being comes,
A sign attending from the Secrecy
Which knows the Truth ungrasped behind our thoughts
And guards the world with its all-seeing gaze.
In the unapproachable stillness of his soul,
Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone,
Patient he sat like an incarnate hope
Motionless on a pedestal of prayer.
A Strength he sought that was not yet on earth,
Help from a Power too great for mortal will,
The Light of a Truth now only seen afar,
A sanction f
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 1 Canto 05 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 to belief,
Avid
of the naked real's single
shock
He
shore the cord of mind that ties the earth
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Boo k 2 Canto 12 The Heavens of the Ideal.htm
Canto Twelve
The Heavens of
the Ideal
Always the Ideal beckoned from afar.
Awakened by the touch of the Unseen,
Deserting the boundary of things achieved,
Aspired the strong discoverer, tireless Thought,
Revealing at each step a luminous world.
It left known summits for the unknown peaks:
Impassioned, it sought the lone unrealised
Truth,
It longed for the Light that knows not death and birth.
Each stage of the soul's remote ascent was built
Into a constant heaven felt always here.
At each pace of the journey marvellous
A new degree of wonder and of bliss,
A new rung formed in Being's mighty stair,
A g
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 1 Canto 01 The Symbol Dawn.htm
PART ONE
(Books I–III)
Book One
The Book of Beginnings
Canto One
The Symbol Dawn
It was the hour before the Gods awake.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence' marge.
Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable,
In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse
The abysm of the unbodied Infinite;
A fathomless zero occupied the world.
A power of fallen boundless self awake
Between the first and the last Nothingness,
Recalling the tenebrous womb from which it came,
Turned from the insol
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Savitri_Volume-28/Book 2 Canto 03 The Glory and the Fall of Life.htm
Canto Three
The
Glory and Fall of Life
An uneven broad
ascent now lured his feet.
Answering a greater
Nature's troubled call
He crossed the limits
of embodied Mind
And entered wide
obscure disputed fields
Where all was doubt
and change and nothing sure,
A world of search and
toil without repose.
As one who meets the
face of the Unknown,
A questioner with
none to give reply,
Attracted to a
problem never solved,
Always uncertain of
the ground he trod,
Always drawn on to an
inconstant goal
He travelled through
a land peopled by doubts
In shifting confines
on a quaking base.
In front h