About Savitri | B1C4-06 The Promise of Heaven (pp.51-52)
Outstretching arms to the unconscious Void, Passionate she prays to invisible forms of Gods Soliciting from dumb Fate and toiling Time What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope, A Mind unvisited by illusion’s gleams, A Will expressive of soul’s deity, A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed, A Joy that drags not sorrow as its shade. For these she yearns and feels them destined hers: Heaven’s privilege she claims as her own right. Just is her claim the all-witnessing Gods approve, Clear in a greater light than reason owns: Our intuitions are its title-deeds; Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. Earth’s winged chimeras are Truth’s steeds in Heaven, The impossible God’s sign of things to be. But few can look beyond the present state Or overleap this matted hedge of sense.
Coming from the highest world, Savitri knew intuitively what must be and will be the possibilities of the beings who will live upon earth. But the possibility was already in Her because She had them from Her Origin. But, for the beings born upon earth and of earth-origin, they are to be acquired after a long transformation. She came to announce what can be and to show that it is possible. But all the work upon earth was to be done and is yet mostly to be done and that means long efforts and serious preparation. To know not only that it is a possibility but that it is a certitude and will certainly be when the time is come, helps the consciousness to make the necessary effort to hasten the advent of the right time. She came to show what can be and will be. And that gives the energy to fulfil.
About Savitri | B1C4-06 The Promise of Heaven (pp.51-52)
Outstretching arms to the unconscious Void,
Passionate she prays to invisible forms of Gods
Soliciting from dumb Fate and toiling Time
What most she needs, what most exceeds her scope,
A Mind unvisited by illusion’s gleams,
A Will expressive of soul’s deity,
A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed,
A Joy that drags not sorrow as its shade.
For these she yearns and feels them destined hers:
Heaven’s privilege she claims as her own right.
Just is her claim the all-witnessing Gods approve,
Clear in a greater light than reason owns:
Our intuitions are its title-deeds;
Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse.
Earth’s winged chimeras are Truth’s steeds in Heaven,
The impossible God’s sign of things to be.
But few can look beyond the present state
Or overleap this matted hedge of sense.
Coming from the highest world, Savitri knew intuitively what must be and will be the possibilities of the beings who will live upon earth. But the possibility was already in Her because She had them from Her Origin. But, for the beings born upon earth and of earth-origin, they are to be acquired after a long transformation.
She came to announce what can be and to show that it is possible. But all the work upon earth was to be done and is yet mostly to be done and that means long efforts and serious preparation.
To know not only that it is a possibility but that it is a certitude and will certainly be when the time is come, helps the consciousness to make the necessary effort to hasten the advent of the right time.
She came to show what can be and will be. And that gives the energy to fulfil.