About Savitri | B1C4-01 The Promise of the Future (pp.46-47)
On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights. Our early approaches to the Infinite Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge While lingers yet unseen the glorious sun. What now we see is a shadow of what must come. The earth’s uplook to a remote unknown Is a preface only of the epic climb Of human soul from its flat earthly state To the discovery of a greater self And the far gleam of an eternal Light. This world is a beginning and a base Where Life and Mind erect their structured dreams; An unborn Power must build reality. A deathbound littleness is not all we are: Immortal our forgotten vastnesses Await discovery in our summit selves; Unmeasured breadths and depths of being are ours. Akin to the ineffable secrecy, Mystic, eternal in unrealised Time, Neighbours of Heaven are Nature’s altitudes. To these high-peaked dominions sealed to our search Too far from surface Nature’s postal routes, Too lofty for our mortal lives to breathe, Deep in us a forgotten kinship points And a faint voice of ecstasy and prayer Calls to those lucent lost immensities.
That is a promise of what is waiting for us when we will know to liberate our consciousness from the slavery to the outward appearance of things.
Even when we fail to look into our souls Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness, Still have we parts that grow towards the Light, Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene And Eldoradoes of splendour and ecstasy And temples to the Godhead none can see. A shapeless memory lingers in us still And sometimes, when our sight is turned within, Earth’s ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes; There is a short miraculous escape. This narrow fringe of clamped experience We leave behind meted to us as life, Our little walks, our insufficient reach.
It is the condition of the body because for centuries none took care to give to the body the right Consciousness, but now this Consciousness has come down upon earth and is working to give to the body the same experience as many have got already in the mind, and the aspiration towards the true self and the true life which depends on a higher and more divine Consciousness. The time has come when this marvellous change can be effected and we must hope that many will take advantage of this marvellous hour.
About Savitri | B1C4-01 The Promise of the Future (pp.46-47)
On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights.
Our early approaches to the Infinite
Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge
While lingers yet unseen the glorious sun.
What now we see is a shadow of what must come.
The earth’s uplook to a remote unknown
Is a preface only of the epic climb
Of human soul from its flat earthly state
To the discovery of a greater self
And the far gleam of an eternal Light.
This world is a beginning and a base
Where Life and Mind erect their structured dreams;
An unborn Power must build reality.
A deathbound littleness is not all we are:
Immortal our forgotten vastnesses
Await discovery in our summit selves;
Unmeasured breadths and depths of being are ours.
Akin to the ineffable secrecy,
Mystic, eternal in unrealised Time,
Neighbours of Heaven are Nature’s altitudes.
To these high-peaked dominions sealed to our search
Too far from surface Nature’s postal routes,
Too lofty for our mortal lives to breathe,
Deep in us a forgotten kinship points
And a faint voice of ecstasy and prayer
Calls to those lucent lost immensities.
That is a promise of what is waiting for us when we will know to liberate our consciousness from the slavery to the outward appearance of things.
Even when we fail to look into our souls
Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness,
Still have we parts that grow towards the Light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
And Eldoradoes of splendour and ecstasy
And temples to the Godhead none can see.
A shapeless memory lingers in us still
And sometimes, when our sight is turned within,
Earth’s ignorant veil is lifted from our eyes;
There is a short miraculous escape.
This narrow fringe of clamped experience
We leave behind meted to us as life,
Our little walks, our insufficient reach.
It is the condition of the body because for centuries none took care to give to the body the right Consciousness, but now this Consciousness has come down upon earth and is working to give to the body the same experience as many have got already in the mind, and the aspiration towards the true self and the true life which depends on a higher and more divine Consciousness. The time has come when this marvellous change can be effected and we must hope that many will take advantage of this marvellous hour.