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

0:02 Oh savitri, I am thy secret soul. I have come down to the wounded desolate, Earth to heal her pangs and lull her heart to rest, and lay her head upon the mother's lap that she made dream of God and know his peace and draw the harmony of higher spheres into the rhythm of Earth's rude, troubled days. I showed to her the figures of bright gods, and bring strength and Solace to her struggling life. I things that now are only words and forms. I reveal to her in the body of their power. I am peace that steals into man's War Warren breast amid the reign of Hell, his axe, create a hostile, where Heavens Messengers can Lodge.

0:57 I am charity with the kindly hands that bless. I am silence mid the noisy Tramp of life. I am knowledge pouring on her Cosmic map in the anomalies of the human heart were good and evil are close. Bedfellows and light is by Darkness dogged. At every step, we're his largest knowledge is an ignorance. I am the power that Labor's towards the best and works for God and looks up towards the heights, I make even sin and error step. Being stones and all experience a long march towards light out of the incontinent.

1:43 I build Consciousness and Lead through death to reach Immortal Life. Many are God's forms by which he grows in man they stamp his thoughts and deeds with divinity uplift. The stature of the Human Clay were slowly transmuted into Heavens gold. He is the good for which men fight and die. He is the war of right with Titan wrong. He is freedom rising deathless from her pyre. He is Valor guarding. Still the desperate pass or loan indirect on the shattered barricade or a sentinel in the dangerous echoing night. He is the crown of the Martyr burned in flame and the gladrags Resignation of the saint and courage, indifferent to the wounds of time and the heroes might wrestling with death and fate.

2:48 He is wisdom incarnate on a glorious throne and the calm autocracy of the sages rule. He is the high and solitary thought aloof above the ignorant, multitude, he is the prophet's voice, the site of the Seer. He is beauty nectar of the passionate Soul. He is the truth by which the spirit lives. He is the riches of the spiritual vast poured out in healing streams on Indigent life. He is eternity Lord from hour to hour. He is infinity in a little space.

3:32 He is immortality In The Arms Of Death. These Powers I am. And at my call, they come the slowly, I lift man's Soul nearer the light. But human mind clings to its ignorance. And to its littleness, the human heart and to its right to grief, the Earthly life Only when eternity takes time by the hand only when Infinity wedge, the finite thought. Can man be free from himself and live with God. I bring. Meanwhile the gods upon the earth. I bring back hope to the despairing heart. I give peace to the humble and the great. And shed my grace on the foolish and the wise. I shall save Earth if Earth consents to be saved. Then love shall at last on wounded tread Earth soil. Man's mind, shall admit.

4:39 The sovereignty of Truth. And body bear. The immense Descent of God. And body bear. The immense Descent of God.