Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 1

0:02 All is too little that the world can give. It's power and knowledge or the gifts of time and cannot fill the spirits sacred thirst. Although of one, these forms of greatness are and by its breadth of Grace, Our Lives abide, although more near to us than nearness self, It is some utter truth of what we are hidden by its own works. It seemed far off, impenetrable occult voiceless obscure. The presence was lost by which all things have charm the glory lacked of which they are dim signs.

0:49 The world lived on made empty of its cause like love when the beloved's face is gone the labor to know seem to vein Strife of mind all knowledge ended in the unknowable, the effort to rule seem to Vain pride of will A trivial achievement scorned, by time all power retired into the omnipotent, a cave of Darkness guards. The Eternal Light, the silence settled on his striving heart absolved from the voices of the world's desire. He turned to the ineffable Timeless call. a being intimate and unnamable a wide compelling, ecstasy and peace felt in himself and all and yet ungh rasped Approached and Faded from his Souls Pursuit as if forever luring him Beyond. Near it retreated far at called him, still nothing could satisfy.

2:01 But it's Delight. Its absence left. The greatest actions dull, its presence made the smallest seem Divine when it was there, the hearts of Miss was filled but when the uplifting deity withdrew existence lost its aim in the inane. The order of the immemorial planes, the Godlike. Fullness of the instruments were turned to props for an impermanent seen. But who that? Mightiness, was he knew not yet? Impalpable yet, filling all that, is it made and blotted out a million worlds and took and lost a thousand shapes and names. It wore the guise of an indiscernible vast or was a subtle colonel in the soul, a distant greatness left, it huge and dim, a Mystic closeness.

3:05 Shut it sweetly in. It seems sometimes a figment or a robe and seem sometimes his own colossal shade. A giant doubt, overshadowed his advance. Across a neutral all supporting void whose blankness nursed, his loan Immortal Spirit, allured towards some recondite, Supreme aided coerced by enigmatic Powers aspiring and half sinking in the up. Born invincibly, he ascended without pause. Always a sinus, vague immensity brooded without approach Beyond response, condemning finite, things to nothingness, fronting him with the in commensurable.

4:03 Then to the ascent, there came a mighty term, a height was reached where nothing made could live a line where every hope and search must cease neared, some intolerant bear reality. A zero formed pregnant with boundless change on a dizzy Verge. We're all disguises fail and human mind must abdicate in light. Or die like a moth and the naked blaze of Truth. He stood compelled to a tremendous choice. All he had been in all towards which he grew must.

4:45 Now be left behind or else transform into a self of that, which has no name. Alone and fronting an intangible Force, which offered nothing to the grasp, of thought, his Spirit face, the adventure of the inane, abandoned by the worlds of form. He strove, a fruitful worldwide. Ignorance foundered here. thoughts long far circling Journey touched its clothes and ineffective paused the actor Will the symbol modes of being helped no more, the structures, nescient builds, collapsing failed, and even the spirit that holds the universe fainted in luminous insufficiency In an abysmal lapse of all things built.

5:39 Transcending every perishable support and joining it. Last. It's mighty, origin. The separate self must melt or be reborn into a truth beyond the minds appeal. All glory of outline, sweetness of Harmony rejected, like a Grace of trivial notes. Expunged from being silenced, nude austere. Died into a fine and Blissful nothingness. The demiurge has lost their names and forms the great schemed worlds that they had planned and wrought past taken and abolished one by one. The universe removed, it's colored Veil. And at the unimaginable, end of the huge, riddle of created things appeared, the far, seen God Head of the whole his feet firm.

6:37 Based on life, stupendous Wings, omnipotent, a lonely Seer of time. In word inscrutable with diamond gaze attracted by the unfathomable reason. Regard the unsolved slow Cycles, to their found returned to Rise Again from that invisible sea. All from his positions born was now undone nothing remained the cosmic mind conceives, eternity prepared to fade and seem to Hugh. And imposition on the void space was the fluttering of a dream that sank before it's ending into nothing's deeps.

7:22 The spirit that dies not and the godhead. Self seemed myths, projected from the unknowable from it all spraying in. It is called to cease. But what that was no thought nor site could tell only a formless form of self was left a tenuous ghost of something that had been the last experience of elapsing wave before it sinks into a born loose see as if it kept even on the brink of not, it's bear.

8:04 Feeling of the ocean whence it came. A vastness brooded free from sense of space and everlastingness cut off from time. A strange Sublime and alterable peace. Silent rejected from IT world and soul a stark. Companionless reality answered at last with his Souls, passionate search. Passionless wordless absorbed in its fathomless hush. Keeping the mystery, none. Whatever pierce it brooded, inscrutable and intangible facing him with its dumb, tremendous calm.

8:51 It had no kinship with the universe. There was no act, no movement in its vast. Life's question met by its silence died on her lips. The world's efforts East convicted of ignorance. Finding no sanction of supernal light. There was no mind there with its need to know, there was no heart there with its need to love all person perished in its namelessness. There was no second. It had no partner or peer. Only itself was real to itself.

9:31 A pure existence safe from thought and mood, a consciousness of unshared immortal Bliss. It, dwelt aloof and it's bear infinite one and unique unutterably soul of being formless, futureless and mute that new Itself by its own Timeless self-aware forever. And it's motionless, depths Uhn creating Dated and unborn the one by whom all live, who lives by none and immeasurable luminous secrecy guarded by the veils of the unmanifest.

10:16 Above the changing Cosmic interlude Abode Supreme immutably the same. A silent. Cause a cult impenetrable infinite Eternal unthinkable. Alone. Alone.