Explorations in Savitri

An immutable Power has made this mutable world; A self-fulfilling transcendence treads man's road; The driver of the soul upon its path, It knows its steps, its way is inevitable, And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?

"How shall I rest content with mortal days And the dull measure of terrestrial things, I who have seen behind the cosmic mask The glory and the beauty of thy face?"

Above blind fate and the antagonist powers Moveless there stands a high unchanging Will; To its omnipotence leave thy work's result. All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.

I know that thy creation cannot fail: For even through the mists of mortal thought Infallible are thy mysterious steps

"At one with Nature and at height with heaven, A spirit vast as the containing sky And swept with ecstasy from invisible founts, A god come down and greater by the fall."

"Although Fate lingers in the high Beyond And the work seems vain on which our heart's force was spent, All shall be done for which our pain was borne."

"O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe, Creatrix, the Eternal's artist Bride, Linger not long with thy transmuting hand"

One shall descend and break the iron Law, Change Nature's doom by the lone spirit's power. A limitless Mind that can contain the world, A sweet and violent heart of ardent calms Moved by the passions of the gods shall come.

"... Around a Light she must not dare to touch, Hastening towards a far-off unknown goal Earth followed the endless journey of the Sun."