The Journey of Man, pp. 622-623

Opening Remarks
Now Savitri reveals the journey of Man further since the time he emerged out of the animal.

A reasoning animal
A reasoning animal willed and planned and sought;
He stood erect among his brute compeers,
He built life new, measured the universe,
Opposed his fate and wrestled with unseen Powers,
Conquered and used the laws that rule the world,
And hoped to ride the heavens and reach the stars,
A master of his huge environment.

At first a reasoning animal emerged that willed and planned and thought. Standing erect among the brute beast man built life anew and measured the universe. He opposed his fate and wrestled with unseen Powers. He studied and mastered the laws that govern the world. Riding through the skies to reach the stars man strove to become the master of his huge environment.

Stared the demigod
Now through Mind’s windows stares the demigod
Hidden behind the curtains of man’s soul:
He has seen the Unknown, looked on Truth’s veilless face;
A ray has touched him from the eternal sun;
Motionless, voiceless in foreseeing depths,
He stands awake in Supernature’s light
And sees a glory of arisen wings
And sees the vast descending might of God.

Now the Mind opens its windows to greater possibilities and stares at the demigod concealed behind the curtains of man’s soul. He sees the Unknown, looks on Truth’s veilless face. A ray has touched him from the eternal sun. Motionless, voiceless in foreseeing depths Man wakes up in Supernature’s light. He sees a glory of arisen wings and sees the vast descending might of God.

Unfinished world
“O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.

Savitri further continues to address Death. She says that you are looking upon an unfinished world assailed by Death and unsure of its road. She tells Death that he is looking upon a world peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives and calls it vain.

Child be the man
How shall the child already be the man?

She asks Death as to how shall man, still the child in Nature’s hands grow suddenly and become the adult man?

He is infant
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?

Man is presently an infant compared to the Time scale of creation. Does it mean that he shall never grow?

Shall he never grow
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?

Because man is ignorant shall he never learn and grow in knowledge and wisdom.

In a small fragile seed
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.

In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks. In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut. A little element in a little sperm grows and becomes a conqueror and a sage.

God’s mystic truth
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God’s mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?

Wilt Death still deny this obvious spiritual miracle, God’s mystic truth, asks Savitri.

Still wilt thou say
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?

Savitri narrates these ‘mystic miracles’ and then asks Death if still he will say that there is no spirit, no God.

Closing Remarks
Savitri is showing the face of God in nature.