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RISHI
He brought the calm of a gigantic
sleep:
Earth's mind—a flicker gathering
sudden gold—
Merged with unknowable vistas to come
back
A fire whose tongue had tasted
paradise.
A plumbless music rolled from his far
mouth:
Waves of primeval secrecy broke white
Along the heart's shores, a rumour of
deathless love
Afloat like a vast moon upon the deep.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"A very fine poem, lines
I, 4 are from the Illumined Higher Mind. The second comes very splendidly
from the Illumined Mind, the third is Higher Mind at a high level. The fifth
comes from the Higher Mind—the sixth, seventh and eighth from the Illumined
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Through Vesper^s Veil.htm
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THROUGH VESPER'S VEIL
A rose of fire like a secret smile
Won from the heart of lost eternity
Broke suddenly through vesper's virgin
veil.
A smoulder of strange joy—then time
grew dark,
And all my vigil's burning cry a swoon
As if the soul were drawn into its God
Across that dream-curve dimming out of
space....
Then from the inmost deep a white
trance-eye
Kindled a throbbing core of the
Unknown,
Some mute mysterious memory lit beyond
The wideness with one star that is the
dusk.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"Very fine poetry—quite original.
Its originality consists as in other poems of yours of the same kind
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/The Close of Dante^s Divina Commedia.htm
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THE CLOSE OF DANTE'S "DIVINA
COMMEDIA" ("PARADISO", Canto 33)
St. Bernard Supplicates on Behalf
of Dante
"O Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son!
Life's
pinnacle of shadowless sanctity,
Yet,
with the lustre of God-union,
Outshining all in chaste humility—
Extreme
fore-fixed by the supernal Mind,
Unto
such grace rose thy humanity
That the Arch-dreamer who thy form
designed
Scorned
not to house His own vast self in clay:
For,
thy womb's sacred mystery enshrined
The omnific Love by whose untarnished
ray
Now
flowers this rose-heart of eternal peace!
A
beaconing magnificent midday
Art t
ARCH-IMAGE
A kiss will break the quiet whole
Of your white soul;
Shape from the silver of that poise
A magic voice,
The
lustre of a skyward call—
No
flickering grace, but all
Your
spirit's gathered virgin light
One
death-oblivious height
Of
shadowless body rapture-crowned—
A face
of reverie caught beyond
Our
time-throbs to strange heavens afar....
O build
from hush of star on star
That
shining statued secrecy
Of
love's divinity!
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"Very fine throughout—both the
thought and expression very felicitous and intuitively right—exacacty expressive
of the thing seen."
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OVERSELF
All things are lost in Him, all things
are found:
He rules an infinite hush that hears
each sound.
But fragmentary quivers blossom there
To voice on mingling voice of
shadowless air,
Bodies of fire and ecstasies of line
Where passion's mortal music grows
divine—
For, in that spacious revel glimmers
through
Each form one single trance of
breakless blue.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"Higher Mind throughout,
illumined. The first and third couplets exceedingly fine, perfect poetic
expressions of what they want to say. —the other two are less inevitable,
although the second lines in both are admirable. Lines 2, 5,6 are among the
VITA NUOVA
Haloed by some vast blue withheld from
us,
Her pure face smiles through her
cascading hair:
Like a strange dawn of rainfall
nectarous
It comes to amaranth each desert
prayer.
Beyond themselves her clay-born
beauties call:
Breathing the rich air round her is to
find
An ageless God-delight embracing all,
The mute unshadowed spaces of her
mind.
Across both night and day her secrets
run,
For even through our deepest
slumberings
We hearken to an embassy of the sun
And stir invisible of rapturous wings.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"A very fine poem. The second
stanza is the finest; in the two others
MADONNA MIA
I merge in her rhythm of haloed
reverie
By spacious vigil-lonelinesses drawn
From star-birds winging through the
vacancy
Of night's incomprehensible
spirit-dawn.
My whole heart echoes the enchanted
gloom
Where God-love shapes her visionary
grace:
The sole truth my lips bear is the
perfume
From the ecstatic flower of her face.
Sri
Aurobindo's Comment
"I think it is one of your best.
I could not very definitely say from where the inspiration comes. It seems to
come from the Illumination through the Higher Mind—but there is an intuitive
touch here and there, even some indirect touch of 'mental Overmind' vision
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/Overhead Poetry/Night of Trance.htm
NIGHT OF TRANCE
Closing your eyes, outstretch
vague hands of prayer
Beyond the prison-house of mortal
air...
Then, soul-awakened, watch the
universe thrill
With secrets drawn from the
Invisible—
A force of gloom that makes each
flicker-stress
Bare the full body of its
goldenness
And yield in that embrace of
mystery
A flaming focus of infinity,
A fire-tongue nourished by God's
whole expanse
Through darknesses of superhuman
trance.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"Lines five to eight (marked
double) are from the Illumined Mind touched with the Intuition—the rest seem to
be mainly from the Higher Mind, except th
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/On Sri Aurobindo^s Savitri/Saviti Some Glimpses and Reflections.htm
SAVITRI: SOME GLIMPSES AND
REFLECTIONS1
On August 15, 1954, the eighty-second birthday of Sri Aurobindo, a most splendid offering to the Master was the one-volume edition brought out by the Ashram of his greatest poetic achievement - Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol - over which he had worked for, we may say, almost his lifetime. It is on record that Virgil devoted approximately ten years to his Aeneid, Dante sixteen intermittently and six wholly to his Divina Commedia, Milton at least eight to Paradise Lost and Goethe spread the writing of his Faust, with long intervals, over nearly fifty years of crowded life. Sri Aurobindo's occupation with his
Resource name: /E-Library/Disciples/Amal Kiran (K D Sethna)/English/On Sri Aurobindo^s Savitri/Index of lines in Savitri.htm
INDEX OF LINES IN SAVITRI
A being no bigger than the thumb of man115
A brute half-conscious body serves as means116
A bull-throat bellowed with its brazen tongue71
A deathless body and a divine name70
A dragon power of reptile energies67
A formless void oppressed his struggling brain363
A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault304
A gate of dreams ajar on mystery's verge367
A greater darkness waited, a worse reign245
A greater force than the earthly held his limbs123
A hope stole in that hardly dared to be248
A last high world was seen where all worlds met111
A lonely freedom cannot satisfy