Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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a mane of Darkness into God’s sky,

      It ebbed receding into a distant roar.

      Then smiled again a large and tranquil air:

      Blue heaven, green earth, partners of Beauty’s reign,

      Lived as of old, companions in happiness;

      And in the world’s heart laughed the joy of life.

      All now was still, the soil shone dry and pure.

      Through it all she moved not, plunged not in the vain waves.

      Out of the vastness of the silent self

      Life’s clamour fled; her spirit was mute and free.

      Then journeying forward through the self’s wide hush

      She came into a brilliant ordered Space.

      There Life dwelt parked in an armed tranquillity;

      A chain was on her strong insurgent heart.

      Tamed to the modesty of a measured pace,

      She kept no more her vehement stride and rush;

      She had lost the careless majesty of her muse

      And the ample grandeur of her regal force;

      Curbed were her mighty pomps, her splendid waste,

      Sobered the revels of her bacchant play,

      Cut down were her squanderings in desire’s bazaar,

      Coerced her despot will, her fancy’s dance,

      A cold stolidity bound the riot of sense.

      A royalty without freedom was her lot;

      The sovereign throned obeyed her ministers:

      Her servants mind and sense governed her house:

      Her spirit’s bounds they cast in rigid lines

      And guarding with a phalanx of armoured rules

      The reason’s balanced reign, kept order and peace.

      Her will lived closed in adamant walls of law,

      Coerced was her force by chains that feigned to adorn,

      Imagination was prisoned in a fort,

      Her wanton and licentious favourite;

      Reality’s poise and reason’s symmetry

      Were set in its place sentinelled by marshalled facts,

      They gave to the soul for throne a bench of Law,

      For kingdom a small world of rule and line:

      The ages’ wisdom, shrivelled to scholiast lines,

      Shrank patterned into a copy-book device.

      The Spirit’s almighty freedom was not here:

      A schoolman mind had captured life’s large space,

      But chose to live in bare and paltry rooms

      Parked off from the too vast dangerous universe,

      Fearing to lose its soul in the infinite.

      Even the Idea’s ample sweep was cut

      Into a system, chained to fixed pillars of thought

      Or rivetted to Matter’s solid ground:

      Or else the soul was lost in its own heights:

      Obeying the Ideal’s high-browed law

      Thought based a throne on unsubstantial air

      Disdaining earth’s flat triviality:

      It barred reality out to live in its dreams.

      Or all stepped into a systemed universe:

      Life’s empire was a managed continent,

      Its thoughts an army ranked and disciplined;

      Uniformed they kept the logic of their fixed place

      At the bidding of the trained centurion mind.

      Or each stepped into its station like a star

      Or marched through fixed and constellated heavens

      Or kept its feudal rank among its peers

      In the sky’s unchanging cosmic hierarchy.

      Or like a high-bred maiden with chaste eyes

      Forbidden to walk unveiled the public ways,

      She must in close secluded chambers move,

      Her feeling in cloisters live or gardened paths.

      Life was consigned to a safe level path,

      It dared not tempt the great and difficult heights

      Or climb to be neighbour to a lonely star

      Or skirt the danger of the precipice

      Or tempt the foam-curled breakers’ perilous laugh,

      Adventure’s lyrist, danger’s amateur,

      Or into her chamber call some flaming god,

      Or leave the world’s bounds and where no limits are

      Meet with the heart’s passion the Adorable

      Or set the world ablaze with the inner Fire.

      A chastened epithet in the prose of life,

      She must fill with colour just her sanctioned space,

      Not break out of the cabin of the idea

      Nor trespass into rhythms too high or vast.

      Even when it soared into ideal air,

      Thought’s flight lost not itself in heaven’s blue:

      It drew upon the skies a patterned flower

      Of disciplined beauty and harmonic light.

      A temperate vigilant spirit governed life:

      Its acts were tools of the considering thought,

      Too

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