“SAVITRI” by Sri Aurobindo (Republished edition of the 1st edition 1950-51, draft approved by Sri Aurobindo before His Death) PART ONE Book One— The Book of Beginnings Canto I THE SYMBOL DAWN Explanation of the Text by the Late M. P. Pandit, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo at the Ashram published in his book entitled “THE BOOK OF BEGINNINGS” published by Dipti Publication, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, now, Puducherry. (Continued from yesterday, November 30, 2014) The poet then describes the action of the dawn: A glamour from the unreached transcendences Iridescent with the glory of the Unseen, A message from the unknown immortal Light Ablaze upon creation’s quivering edge, Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours. Transcendences are the regions that are beyond our reach. From those unreached regions comes a ‘glamour’, something attractively brilliant, shining with the glory of that which is unseen; it is a message not only from the Unseen, but also from the Unknown. There is somewhere a Light that never fades, that is not known to the mortal eye. From that Immortal Light, a message arrives in the form of dawn. This dawn is ablaze, afire, on the border of the quivering edge of the earth. Thus she builds her aura of magnificent colours that outpour from her. They create an aura, a kind of a hazy belt. The dawn is a promise, she comes to assure that the light is coming. Dawn herself is not the grandeur; dawn plants the seed of grandeur in the hours i.e. time. For us, time unrolls itself in the succession of moments, hours, days. And though the dawn recedes and the day takes over, as the day progresses the grandeur manifests,—the fruit of the seed. An instant’s visitor the godhead shone: Dawn is described as the godhead; it is an instant’s visitor, does not last long. On life’s thin border awhile the Vision stood And bent over earth’s pondering forehead curve. When the Vision stands there on the border of the earth, it is as if bending over the curve of the forehead of the earth. That forehead is pondering, wondering what is to come.
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