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

0:02 Oh beautiful. Body of the Incarnate. Word by thoughts are mine. I have spoken with thy voice. My will is dying. What thou Hast chosen? I choose? All thou Hast asked, I give to Earth and Men all shall be written out in Destiny's book by my trusty of thought and plan and act, the executor of my will Eternal time But since thou Hast refused my nameless calm and turn from my term was peace in which is expunged, the visit of space and the shape of time is lost and from Happy Extinction of thy separate self in my uncompassionate and Loan, Eternity for not for thee. The nameless World, Le snot annihilation of thy living soul, and the end of thought and Hope.

1:00 Hope and life, and love in the blank, measureless unknowable. I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame. I lay my hands upon my heart of love, a yoke thee to my power of work in time because thou Hast obeyed my Timeless will Because there has chosen to share Earth's struggle in fate and leaned in pity over Earthbound men and turned aside to help and yearn to save. I bind by thy heart's passion, thy heart to mine and lay my Splendid yoke upon my soul.

1:42 Now will I do in the my marvelous works. I will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength, subdue to My delight thy Spirits, Limbs and make thee, a vivid not of all my Bliss and build in thee. My proud and Crystal home by day shall be. My shafts of Power and Light by night. My story mysteries of joy and all my clouds. Light angled in thy hair and all my spring tides Mary in thy mouth. Oh sunward. Thou hast Thou shalt raise the Earth. Sold to light and bring down God. Into the lives of men Earth shall be my work chamber, and my house, my Garden of Life to plant the seed Divine. When all thy Work in human time is done the mind of Earth shall be a home of light, the life of Earth. The tree growing towards heaven, the body of Earth, the Tabernacle of God, awaken from the more Idols, ignorance men shall be lit with the eternals Ray and the glory of my son lived in their thoughts and feel in their hearts, the sweetness of my love and in their act, my Powers miraculous drive. My will shall be the meaning of their lives. Living For Me By Me.

3:12 In me. They shall live in the heart of my Creations mystery. I will enact the drama of thy Soul, inscribe, the long Romance of the enemy. I will pursue the across the centuries. Thou shalt be hunted through the World, by love naked of ignorance protecting Veil. And without covert from my radiant, God's no shape Shall Scream thee from my Divine desire. Nowhere shalt thou Escape, my living eyes in the nudity. I discovered self in a bear identity with all that is disrobed of thy covering of humanity, divested of the dense. Veil of human thought, made one with every mind and body. And heart made one with all nature and with self and God swimming in thy single soul, my Mystic world, I will possess in thee my universe, The universe find all I am in the Thou shalt Bear, all things, that all things may change. Thou shalt fill all with my Splendor and my Bliss, Thou shalt meet all with die transmuting, Soul assailed by my infinitude tube of and quivering and immensities Below pursued by me through my mind's Wallace

4:43 vast. Oceanic with the surges of my life, a swimmer lost between two, leaping seized by my outer, pains and inner sweetnesses, finding my joy in my opposite Mysteries. Thou shalt respond to me from every nerve of vision shall compel thy coursing breath, thy heart shall Drive the on the wheel of works. By mind shall urge the Through the flames of thought. To meet me in the abyss and on the heights to feel me in the Tempest and the calm and love me in the noble and the vial in beautiful things and terrible desire.

5:29 The Pains of Hell shall be to thee, my kiss, the flowers of Heaven persuade, the, with my touch my fiercest, Mass, shall my attractions bring music, shall find the, in the voice of Swords, Beauty pursue thee through the core of flame. Thou shalt know me in the rolling of the Spheres and cross me in the atoms of the world. The Wheeling forces of My Universe shall Cry To Thee the The Summons of my name Delight shall drop down from my nectarous. Moons my fragrance, he's the in the Jasmine snare. My I shall look upon thee, from the Sun mirror of nature.

6:14 Secret Spirit made Thou shalt reflect my hidden Heart Of Joy. Thou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed in my pure. Lotus. Cup of Starry brim, my Dreadful Hands laid on thy bosom, shall Force die. Being bathed in fiercest longing streams, Thou shalt discover the one in quivering, note and cry the harp of all my Melodies, and roll my foaming wave in Seas of Love. Even my disasters. Clutch shall be to thee the ordeal of my raptures. Contrary shape in pain self shall smile on the my secret face.

6:59 Face Thou shalt bear, my ruthless Beauty unabridged amid the world's intolerable wrongs trampled by the violent misdeeds of time, cry out to the Ecstasy of my raptures touch. All being shall be to thy life. My emissaries drawn to me on the bosom of thy friend compelled to meet me in thy enemies eyes. My creature shall demand me from thy heart thou Shalt not shrink from any brother Soul Thou shalt be attracted helplessly to all men. Seeing these shall feel my hands of joy and Sorrows pangs feel. Steps of the world's Delight.

7:45 Their life experience its tumultuous shock in the mutual craving of two opposites. Hearts touched by thy love, shall answer to my call. Discovered the ancient Music of the Spheres in the revealing accents of thy voice and nearer, draw to me because Thou Art enamour'd of thy Spirits loveliness. They shall embrace my body in thy Soul here in thy life. The beauty of my laughs. No, the thrilled Bliss with which I made the world's all that thou Hast shall be for others Bliss.

8:27 All that thou art shall to my hands belong. I will pour Delight from thee as from a jar. I will whirl the, as my Chariot through the ways, I will use the as my sword. And as my liar, I will play on thee my minstrels, he's of thought and when thou art vibrant, with all ecstasy, and when thou live is one spirit with all things, then will I spare the not. I living fires, but make the channel for my Timeless force. My hidden presence, led. The unknowing on from thy beginning and Earth voiceless, bosom through life and pain and time, and will and death through outer shocks.

9:15 And inner Silence has along the Mystic roads of space and time to the experience, which all nature hides. Who hunts and seizes me. My captive grows this shalt thou henceforth. Learn from thy, heart beats forever love. Oh, beautiful. Slave of God. Oh, lasso of my raptures. Widening news. Become my court of universal. Love the Spirit, ensnared by thee forced to Delight of Creations, Oneness tweet, and fathomless compelled to embrace my myriad. Unities and all my endless, forms and divine Souls. Oh, mine grow full of the Eternal peace. A word, cry out.

10:05 The immortal litany built is the golden Tower. The flame child born. Oh, mine grow full of the Eternal peace. A word, cry out. The immortal litany built is the golden Tower. The flame child born.