This word was seed of all the thing to be
Savitri Study Classes in Hindi
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pp. 01-03 (SH 002)
IT WAS the hour before the Gods awake.
Maa Saraswati, (SH 003)
Oft inspiration with her lightning feet,
A sudden messenger from the all-seeing tops,
Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind
Bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden things.
pp. 03-05 (SH 004)
Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,
The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths
That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars
And saw the spaces ready for her feet.
pp. 05-07 (SH 005)
And Savitri too awoke among these tribes
That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner’s chant
And, lured by the beauty of the apparent ways,
Acclaimed their portion of ephemeral joy.
pp. 07-08 (SH 006)
A fire has come and touched men’s hearts and gone;
A few have caught flame and risen to greater life.
pp. 08-09 (SH 007)
Even her humanity was half divine:
Her spirit opened to the Spirit in all,
Her nature felt all Nature as its own.
pp. 09-10 (SH 008)
The sacrifice of suffering and desire
Earth offers to the immortal Ecstasy
Began again beneath the eternal Hand.
pp. 11-12 (SH 009)
On the bare peak where Self is alone with Nought
And life has no sense and love no place to stand,
She must plead her case upon extinction’s verge,
In the world’s death-cave uphold life’s helpless claim
And vindicate her right to be and love.
pp. 12-14 (SH 010)
There had she grown to the stature of her spirit:
The genius of titanic silences
Steeping her soul in its wide loneliness
Had shown to her her self’s bare reality
And mated her with her environment.
pp. 14-15 (SH 011)
Immortal rhythms swayed in her time-born steps;
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight
Poured a supernal beauty on men’s lives.
pp. 15-17 (SH 012)
At once she was the stillness and the word,
A continent of self-diffusing peace,
An ocean of untrembling virgin fire;
The strength, the silence of the gods were hers.
pp. 17-19 (SH 013)
But not to submit and suffer was she born;
To lead, to deliver was her glorious part.
pp. 19-21 (SH 014)
A force in her that toiled since earth was made,
Accomplishing in life the great world-plan,
Pursuing after death immortal aims
pp. 20-22 (SH 015)
Affiliated to cosmic Space and Time
And paying here God’s debt to earth and man
A greater sonship was his divine right.
pp. 22-23 (SH 016)
A WORLD’S desire compelled her mortal birth.
pp. 23-25 (SH 017)
A topless Supernature fills his frame:
She adopts his spirit’s everlasting ground
As the security of her changing world
And shapes the figure of her unborn mights.
pp. 23-26 (SH 018)
At last the traveller in the paths of Time
Arrives on the frontiers of eternity.