The Mother Reads Savitri (video clips)

He had reached the top of all that can be known

Appeared the far-seen Godhead of the whole, His feet firm-based on Life’s stupendous wings, Omnipotent or lonely seer of Time, Inward, inscrutable, with diamond gaze.

In her confirmed because transformed in her, Our life shall find in its fulfilled response Above, the boundless hushed beatitudes, Below, the wonder of the embrace divine.

The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul, To feel was a flame-discovery of God, All mind was a single harp of many strings, All life a song of many meeting lives; For worlds were many, but the Self was one.

“O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend and break the iron Law, Change Nature’s doom by the lone Spirit’s power.

In this high signal moment of the gods Answering earth’s yearning and her cry for bliss A greatness from our other countries came.

A friend and yet too great wholly to know, She walked in their front towards a greater light, Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls, One close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.

"The Voice withdrew into its hidden skies. But like a shining answer from the gods Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri."

Still unaccomplished was the fateful quest; Still she found not the one predestined face For which she sought amid the sons of men.