Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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is not all we are or all our world.

      Our greater self of knowledge waits for us,

      A supreme light in the truth-conscious Vast:

      It sees from summits beyond thinking mind,

      It moves in a splendid air transcending life.

      It shall descend and make earth’s life divine.

      Truth made the world, not a blind Nature-Force.

      For here are not our large diviner heights;

      Our summits in the superconscient’s blaze

      Are glorious with the very face of God:

      There is our aspect of eternity,

      There is the figure of the god we are,

      His young unaging look on deathless things,

      His joy in our escape from death and Time,

      His immortality and light and bliss.

      Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls:

      There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts

      That wait their hour to step into life’s front:

      We feel an aid from deep indwelling Gods;

      One speaks within, Light comes to us from above.

      Our soul from its mysterious chamber acts;

      Its influence pressing on our heart and mind

      Pushes them to exceed their mortal selves.

      It seeks for Good and Beauty and for God;

      We see beyond self’s walls our limitless self,

      We gaze through our world’s glass at half-seen vasts,

      We hunt for the Truth behind apparent things.

      Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light,

      Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors;

      Our members luminous grow and Wisdom’s face

      Appears in the doorway of the mystic ward:

      When she enters into our house of outward sense,

      Then we look up and see, above, her sun.

      A mighty life-self with its inner powers

      Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life;

      It can graft upon our crawl two puissant wings.

      Our body’s subtle self is throned within

      In its viewless palace of veridical dreams

      That are bright shadows of the thoughts of God.

      In the prone obscure beginnings of the race

      The human grew in the bowed apelike man.

      He stood erect, a godlike form and force,

      And a soul’s thoughts looked out from earth-born eyes;

      Man stood erect, he wore the thinker’s brow:

      He looked at heaven and saw his comrade stars;

      A vision came of beauty and greater birth

      Slowly emerging from the heart’s chapel of light

      And moved in a white lucent air of dreams.

      He saw his being’s unrealised vastnesses,

      He aspired and housed the nascent demigod.

      Out of the dim recesses of the self

      The occult seeker into the open came:

      He heard the far and touched the intangible,

      He gazed into the future and the unseen;

      He used the powers earth-instruments cannot use,

      A pastime made of the impossible;

      He caught up fragments of the Omniscient’s thought,

      He scattered formulas of omnipotence.

      Thus man in his little house made of earth’s dust

      Grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream

      Looking into the vast vistas of his mind

      On a small globe dotting infinity.

      At last climbing a long and narrow stair

      He stood alone on the high roof of things

      And saw the light of a spiritual sun.

      Aspiring he transcends his earthly self;

      He stands in the largeness of his soul new-born,

      Redeemed from encirclement by mortal things

      And moves in a pure free spiritual realm

      As in the rare breath of a stratosphere;

      A last end of far lines of divinity,

      He mounts by a frail thread to his high source;

      He reaches his fount of immortality,

      He calls the Godhead into his mortal life.

      All this the spirit concealed had done in her:

      A portion of the mighty Mother came

      Into her as into its own human part:

      Amid the cosmic workings of the Gods

      It marked her the centre of a wide-drawn scheme,

      Dreamed in the passion of her far-seeing spirit

      To mould humanity into God’s own shape

      And lead this great blind struggling world to light

      Or a new world discover or create.

      Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven

      Or Heaven descend into earth’s mortal state.

      But for such vast spiritual change to be,

      Out of the mystic cavern in man’s heart

      The

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