Quotes from Savitri
Sri Aurobindo
I looked upon the world and missed the Self.
And when I found the Self, I lost the world,
My other selves I lost and the body of God,…
The mystic aim for which the world was made…” (462)
I am stronger than death and greater than my fate” (490 )
and
“ Her will must cancel her body’s destiny” (15).
A voice cried, ‘Go where none has gone,
Dig, deeper, deeper yet…”
Earth is the heroic spirit’s battlefield…
There where the gods and demons battle in night…
To dare the impossible with these pangs of search,
In me the spirit of immortal love
Stretches its arms out to embrace mankind.” (770–71)
“… a soul made ready through a thousand years
Is the living mould of a supreme Descent” (451)
“He is the soul of man climbing to God
In Nature’s surge out of earth’s ignorance”.
Her trance knew not of sun or earth or world;…
She knew not self …
“O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the Universe…
Incarnate the white passion of thy force,
Mission to earth some living form of thee…” (390–91)
“Descend, Let thy journey cease, come down to us.” (455)
“He… let her penetrate his very soul.
As is a world by the world’s spirit filled,
As the mortal wakes into Eternity,
As the finite opens to the Infinite”. (465)
“In a wide moment of two souls that meet
She felt her being flow into him…
As when a soul is merging into God
To live in Him for ever and know His joy,
Her consciousness was a wave of his alone
And all her separate self was lost in his.” (464–5)
“My Matter shall evade the Inconscient’s trance,
My body like my spirit shall be free :
It shall escape from Death and Ignorance.” (460)
“Acquittance she must win from her past’s bond:
An old account of suffering exhaust,
Strike out… the heavy servitudes of the Karmic Gods,
The slow revenge of unforgiving Law…” (16)
“He must call light into its dark abysms,
Else never can Truth conquer Matter’s sleep
And all earth look into the eyes of God”. (510)
“How long shall our spirits battle with the Night
And bear defeat and the brute yoke of Death…?
Where in the greyness is thy coming’s ray?
Where is the thunder of thy victory’s wings?” (386–7)
“A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks
Empowered to force the door denied and closed
Smote from Death’s visage its dumb absolute
And burst the bounds of consciousness and Time.” (25)
Leaving thy borrowed body on the sod,
Ascend, O Soul, into thy blissful home…
O Immortal, into felicity arise. (769)
“Amidst the headlong rapture of her fall
Held like a bird in a child’s satisfied hands…
She kept within her strong embosoming soul
Like a flower hidden in the heart of spring
The soul of Satyavan drawn down by her
Inextricably in that mighty lapse.” (799)
