The mind leaned out to meet the hidden worlds.
Air glowed and teemed with marvellous shapes and hues,
In the nostrils quivered celestial fragrances,
On the tongue lingered the honey of paradise.
A channel of universal harmony,
Hearing was a stream of magic audience,
A bed for occult sounds earth cannot hear.
Out of a covert tract of slumber self
The voice came of a truth submerged, unknown
That flows beneath the cosmic surfaces,
Only mid an omniscient silence heard,
Held by intuitive heart and secret sense.
It caught the burden of secrecies sealed and dumb,
It voiced the unfulfilled demand of earth
And the song of promise of unrealised heavens
And all that hides in an omnipotent Sleep.
It’s a continuation of the description of what will be the life of the next race, what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supramental Being. The senses will be transformed in such a way that it will live in harmony with the Supreme Consciousness and all this constant suffering, unpleasantness, disharmony, inharmonious feelings that are there now in life will be replaced by a constant harmony and the expression of the Higher Life.
About Savitri | B1C3-08 The New Life (pp.28-29)
The mind leaned out to meet the hidden worlds.
Air glowed and teemed with marvellous shapes and hues,
In the nostrils quivered celestial fragrances,
On the tongue lingered the honey of paradise.
A channel of universal harmony,
Hearing was a stream of magic audience,
A bed for occult sounds earth cannot hear.
Out of a covert tract of slumber self
The voice came of a truth submerged, unknown
That flows beneath the cosmic surfaces,
Only mid an omniscient silence heard,
Held by intuitive heart and secret sense.
It caught the burden of secrecies sealed and dumb,
It voiced the unfulfilled demand of earth
And the song of promise of unrealised heavens
And all that hides in an omnipotent Sleep.
It’s a continuation of the description of what will be the life of the next race, what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supramental Being. The senses will be transformed in such a way that it will live in harmony with the Supreme Consciousness and all this constant suffering, unpleasantness, disharmony, inharmonious feelings that are there now in life will be replaced by a constant harmony and the expression of the Higher Life.
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