Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book VII, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces

Transcript

Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book VII, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:02
  Oh savitri, I am thy secret soul.
• 0:07
  I have come down to the wounded desolate, Earth to heal her
• 0:11
  pangs and lull her heart to rest, and lay her head upon the
• 0:16
  mother's lap that she made dream of God and know his peace and
• 0:22
  draw the harmony of higher spheres into the rhythm of
• 0:25
  Earth's rude, troubled days. I showed to her the figures of
• 0:30
  bright gods, and bring strength and Solace to her struggling
• 0:35
  life. I things that now are only words
• 0:39
  and forms. I reveal to her in the body of
• 0:42
  their power. I am peace that steals into
• 0:47
  man's War Warren breast amid the reign of Hell, his axe, create a
• 0:53
  hostile, where Heavens Messengers can Lodge.
• 0:57
  I am charity with the kindly hands that bless.
• 1:01
  I am silence mid the noisy Tramp of life.
• 1:07
  I am knowledge pouring on her Cosmic map in the anomalies of
• 1:12
  the human heart were good and evil are close.
• 1:15
  Bedfellows and light is by Darkness dogged.
• 1:19
  At every step, we're his largest knowledge is an ignorance.
• 1:25
  I am the power that Labor's towards the best and works for
• 1:29
  God and looks up towards the heights, I make even sin and
• 1:35
  error step. Being stones and all experience
• 1:39
  a long march towards light out of the incontinent.
• 1:43
  I build Consciousness and Lead through death to reach Immortal
• 1:49
  Life. Many are God's forms by which he
• 1:53
  grows in man they stamp his thoughts and deeds with divinity
• 1:58
  uplift. The stature of the Human Clay
• 2:02
  were slowly transmuted into Heavens gold.
• 2:07
  He is the good for which men fight and die.
• 2:10
  He is the war of right with Titan wrong.
• 2:14
  He is freedom rising deathless from her pyre.
• 2:18
  He is Valor guarding. Still the desperate pass or loan
• 2:23
  indirect on the shattered barricade or a sentinel in the
• 2:29
  dangerous echoing night. He is the crown of the Martyr
• 2:34
  burned in flame and the gladrags Resignation of the saint and
• 2:39
  courage, indifferent to the wounds of time and the heroes
• 2:44
  might wrestling with death and fate.
• 2:48
  He is wisdom incarnate on a glorious throne and the calm
• 2:53
  autocracy of the sages rule. He is the high and solitary
• 2:58
  thought aloof above the ignorant, multitude, he is the
• 3:03
  prophet's voice, the site of the Seer.
• 3:08
  He is beauty nectar of the passionate Soul.
• 3:12
  He is the truth by which the spirit lives.
• 3:16
  He is the riches of the spiritual vast poured out in
• 3:20
  healing streams on Indigent life.
• 3:24
  He is eternity Lord from hour to hour.
• 3:28
  He is infinity in a little space.
• 3:32
  He is immortality In The Arms Of Death.
• 3:36
  These Powers I am. And at my call, they come the
• 3:40
  slowly, I lift man's Soul nearer the light.
• 3:45
  But human mind clings to its ignorance.
• 3:48
  And to its littleness, the human heart and to its right to grief,
• 3:54
  the Earthly life Only when eternity takes time by the hand
• 4:01
  only when Infinity wedge, the finite thought.
• 4:06
  Can man be free from himself and live with God.
• 4:11
  I bring. Meanwhile the gods upon the
• 4:13
  earth. I bring back hope to the
• 4:16
  despairing heart. I give peace to the humble and
• 4:21
  the great. And shed my grace on the foolish
• 4:25
  and the wise. I shall save Earth if Earth
• 4:30
  consents to be saved. Then love shall at last on
• 4:35
  wounded tread Earth soil. Man's mind, shall admit.
• 4:39
  The sovereignty of Truth. And body bear.
• 4:44
  The immense Descent of God. And body bear.
• 4:44
  The immense Descent of God.