Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 2 The Adoration of the Divine Mother

0:01 A stillness, absolute, incommunicable, meets the sheer selfdiscovery of the soul. A wall of stillness shuts it from the world. A gulf of stillness swallows up the sense and makes unreal all that mind has known, all that the laboring senses still would weave, prolonging an image to unreality. Self's vast spiritual silence occupies space. Only the inconceivable is left only the nameless. Without space and time abolished is the burdening need of life. Thought falls from us.

0:48 We cease from joy and grief. The ego is dead. We are freed from being and care. We have done with birth and death and work and fate. Oh soul, it is too early to rejoice. Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the self. Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss. But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and self's power? On what dead bank on the eternal's Rd. one was within thee, Who was self and world? What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars? Escape brings not the victory and the crown something thou camest to do from the unknown.

1:40 But nothing is finished, and the world goes on, because only half God's cosmic work is done. Only the everlasting no has neared and stared into thy eyes, and killed thy heart. But where is the lover's everlasting? Yes, and immortality In the secret heart, The voice, the chance to the creator fire. The symbold ohm, the great assenting word, The bridge between the rapture and the calm. The passion and the beauty of the bride. The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss. The smile that saves.

2:25 The golden peak of things. This too is truth. At the Mystic fount of life, a black veil has been lifted. We have seen the mighty shadow of the omniscient Lord. But who has lifted up the veil of light? And who has seen the body of the King? The mystery of God's birth and acts remains. Leaving unbroken the last chapter seal unsolved, the Riddle of the unfinished play, the cosmic player laughs within his mask, and still the last in Violet secret hides behind the human glory of a form. Behold, behind the gold idol, on of a name a large white line has figured as a goal.

3:20 But far beyond the ineffable sun track's blaze, what seemed the source and end was a wide gait, a last bare step into eternity. An eye has opened upon timelessness. Infinity takes back the forms it gave, and through God's darkness were his naked light. His million rays return into the sun. There is a 0 sign of the supreme nature left nude and still uncovers God, but in her grandiose nothingness all is there.

4:03 When her strong garbs are torn away from us, the soul's ignorance is slain, but not the soul. The 0 covers an immortal face. A high and blank negation is not all. A huge extinction is not God's last word, Life's ultimate sense, the close of beings course, the meaning of this great mysterious world in absolute silence sleeps an absolute power. Awaking it can wake the transbound soul and in the ray reveal the parent son. It can make the world a vessel of spirit's force. It can fashion in the clay.

4:52 God's perfect shape to free the self is but one radiant pace. Here to fulfill himself was God's desire.