“SAVITRI” by Sri Aurobindo (Republished edition of the 1st edition 1950-51, draft approved by Sri Aurobindo before his death) Book Three—The Book of the Divine Mother (Contd. from yesterday July 20, 2013) Canto II THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE MOTHER A stillness absolute, incommunicable, Meets the sheer self-discovery of the soul; A wall of stillness shuts it from the world, A gulf of stillness swallows up the sense And makes unreal all that mind has known, All that the labouring senses still would weave Prolonging an imaged unreality. Self’s vast spiritual silence occupies space; Only the Inconceivable is left, Only the Nameless without space and time: Abolished is the burdening need of life: Thought falls from us, we cease from joy and grief; The ego is dead; we are free from being and care, We have done with birth and death and work and fate. O soul, it is too early to rejoice! Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self, Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss; But where hast thou thrown self’s mission and self’s power? On what dead bank on the Eternal’s road? One was within thee who was self and world, What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars? Escape brings not the victory and the crown! Something thou cam’st to do from the Unknown, But nothing is finished and the world goes on, Because only half God’s cosmic work is done. Only the everlasting No has neared And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart: But where is the Lover’s everlasting Yes, And immortality in the secret heart, The voice that chants to the creator Fire, The symboled OM, the great assenting Word, The bridge between the rapture and the calm, The passion and the beauty of the Bride, The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss, The smile that saves, the golden peak of things? This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life.
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