priest and sage:
“O woman soul, what light, what power revealed,
Working the rapid marvels of this day,
Opens for us by thee a happier age?”
Her lashes fluttering upwards gathered in
To a vision which had scanned immortal things,
Rejoicing, human forms for their delight.
They claimed for their deep childlike motherhood
The life of all these souls to be her life,
Then falling veiled the light. Low she replied,
“Awakened to the meaning of my heart
That to feel love and oneness is to live
And this the magic of our golden change,
Is all the truth I know or seek, O sage.”
Wondering at her and her too luminous words
Westward they turned in the fast-gathering night.
From the entangling verges freed they came
Into a dimness of the sleeping earth
And travelled through her faint and slumbering plains.
Murmur and movement and the tread of men
Broke the night’s solitude; the neigh of steeds
Rose from that indistinct and voiceful sea
Of life and all along its marchings swelled
The rhyme of hooves, the chariot’s homeward voice.
Drawn by white manes upon a high-roofed car
In flare of the unsteady torches went
With linked hands Satyavan and Savitri,
Hearing a marriage march and nuptial hymn,
Where waited them the many-voiced human world.
Numberless the stars swam on their shadowy field
Describing in the gloom the ways of light.
Then while they skirted yet the southward verge,
Lost in the halo of her musing brows
Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven
In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign.
She brooded through her stillness on a thought
Deep-guarded by her mystic folds of light,
And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn.
The End
SAVITRI
Eine Legende und ein Symbol
SRI AUROBINDO
Deutsch
Inhalt
ERSTER TEIL
Bücher I - III
ERSTES BUCH
Das Buch von den Anfängen
Erster Canto
Zweiter Canto
Dritter Canto
Der Yoga des Königs: Der Yoga von der Befreiung der Seele
Vierter Canto
Fünfter Canto
Der Yoga des Königs: Der Yoga von der Freiheit und Größe des Geistes
ZWEITES BUCH
Das Buch vom Weltenwanderer
Erster Canto
Zweiter Canto
Das Königreich der subtilen Materie
Dritter Canto
Vierter Canto
Die Königreiche des kleinen Lebens
Fünfter Canto
Die Gottheiten des kleinen Lebens
Sechster Canto
Die Königreiche und Gottheiten des größeren Lebens
Siebter Canto
Achter Canto
Die Welt der Falschheit, die Mutter des Bösen und die Söhne der Finsternis
Neunter Canto
Das Paradies der Lebens-Götter
Zehnter Canto
