Explorations in Savitri

As one who sets his sail towards mysteried shores Driven through huge oceans by the breath of God, The fathomless below, the unknown around, His soul abandoned the blind star-field, Space.

A Bliss, a Light, a Power, a flame-white Love Caught all into a sole immense embrace; Existence found its truth on Oneness' breast And each became the self and space of all.

His words were syllables of the cosmos' speech, His life a field of the vast cosmic stir. He felt the footsteps of a million wills Moving in unison to a single goal.

He saw a hierarchy of lucent planes Enfeoffed to this highest kingdom of God-state. Attuning to one Truth their own right rule Each housed the gladness of a bright degree

Life's rapture kept for ever its flame and cry. All that now passes lived immortal there In the proud beauty and fine harmony Of Matter plastic to spiritual light.

Himself he knew and why his soul had gone Into earth's passionate obscurity To share the labour of an errant Power Which by division hopes to find the One. Two beings he was, one wide and free above, One struggling, bound, intense, its portion here.

"Accepting worship as its single law, Accepting bliss as the sole cause of things, Refusing the austere joy which none can share, Refusing the calm that lives for calm alone, To her it turned for whom it willed to be."

"I am the Mystery beyond reach of mind, I am the goal of the travail of the suns; My fire and sweetness are the cause of life. But too immense my danger and my joy."

"A riddle of opposites is made his field: Freedom he asks but needs to live in bonds, He has need of darkness to perceive some light And need of grief to feel a little bliss; He has need of death to find a greater life."

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."