Explorations in Savitri

All's miracle here and can by miracle change. This is that secret Nature's edge of might.

A giant order was discovered here Of which the tassel and extended fringe Are the scant stuff of our material lives.

All the great Words that toiled to express the One Were lifted into an absoluteness of light, An ever-burning Revelation's fire And the immortality of the eternal Voice.

Above were the Immortal's changeless seats, White chambers of dalliance with eternity And the stupendous gates of the Alone.

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 an immaterial substance linked to ours In a deep oneness of all things that are, The universe of the Unknown arose.

A miracle of the Absolute was born; Infinity put on a finite soul, All ocean lived within a wandering drop, A time-made body housed the Illimitable. To live this Mystery out our souls came here.

Its intercession with the eternal Ray Inspires our transient earth's brief-lived attempts At beauty and the perfect shape of things.

Intruder from the formless Infinite Daring to break into the Inconscient's reign, The spirit's leap towards body touches ground.

Thus taken was God's plunge into the Night. This fallen world became a nurse of souls Inhabited by concealed divinity.

Our being thrills with high far memories And would bring down their dateless meanings here, But, too divine for earthly Nature's scheme, Beyond our reach the eternal marvels blaze.

Thus we draw near to the All-Wonderful Following his rapture in things as sign and guide; Beauty is his footprint showing us where he has passed, Love is his heart-beats' rhythm in mortal breasts, Happiness the smile on his adorable face.

Our spirit tires of being's surfaces, Transcended is the splendour of the form; It turns to hidden powers and deeper states. So now he looked beyond for greater light.

A scene was planned for all her numberless moods Where each could be the law and way of life, But none could offer a pure felicity; Only a flickering zest they left behind Or the fierce lust that brings a dead fatigue.

Calm heavens of imperishable Light, Illumined continents of violet peace, Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God And griefless countries under purple suns.

On a spiritual and mysterious peak Only a miracle's high transfiguring line Divided life from the formless Infinite And sheltered Time against eternity.

Only to be was a supreme delight, Life was a happy laughter of the soul And Joy was king with Love for minister.

There were summit-glories inconceivable, Autonomies of Wisdom's still self-rule And high dependencies of her virgin sun, Illumined theocracies of the seeing soul Throned in the power of the Transcendent's ray.

There reigned a breath of high immune content, A fortunate gait of days in tranquil air, A flood of universal love and peace.