April 7, 2024
Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 4 The Secret Knowledge pp. 49-52
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But all is screened, subliminal,
mystical.
2
00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,760
It needs the intuitive heart,
the inward turn.
3
00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,440
It needs the power of a
spiritual gaze.
4
00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,400
Else to our waking mind, small
moment look, a goalless voyage
5
00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,840
seems our dubious coarse.
Some chance has settled or
6
00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:30,000
hazarded, some will or a
necessity without aim or cause,
7
00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,760
unwillingly compelled to emerge
and be in this dense field where
8
00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,440
nothing is plain or sure.
Our very being seems to us
9
00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:47,160
questionable, our life a vague
experiment, the soul a
10
00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:50,320
flickering light in a strange
ignorant world.
11
00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,160
The Earth.
A brute mechanic accident, a net
12
00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,720
of death in which by chance we
live.
13
00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,880
All we have learned appears a
doubtful guess.
14
00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,960
The achievement done.
A passage or a phase whose
15
00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:09,400
farther end is hidden from our
sight.
16
00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,160
A chance happening or a
fortuitous fate.
17
00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,440
Out of the unknown, we move to
the unknown.
18
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,960
Ever surround our brief
existence here, Gray shadows of
19
00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:27,880
unanswered questionings, the
dark in conscience, sineless
20
00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,760
mysteries stand up unsolved
behind fate's starting line.
21
00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,680
An aspiration in the night's
profound seed of a perishing
22
00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,280
body and half lit mind uplift
its lonely tongue of conscious
23
00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:50,560
fire towards an undying light,
forever lost only adheres sole
24
00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:57,000
echo of its call, the dim reply
in man's unknowing heart and
25
00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,640
meats, not understanding why it
came or for what reason is the
26
00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,000
suffering.
Here God sanctioned to the
27
00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,720
paradox of life and the Riddle
of the Immortal's birth in time.
28
00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,280
Along a path of eon Serpentine.
In the coiled blackness of her
29
00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,720
nessient course, the earth
goddess toils across the sands
30
00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,280
of time.
A being is in her whom she hopes
31
00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,320
to know.
A word speaks to her heart.
32
00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,800
She cannot hear.
A fate compels whose forms she
33
00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,880
cannot see.
In her unconscious orbit through
34
00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,240
the void, out of her mindless
depths, she strives to rise a
35
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,560
perilous life.
Her gain, a struggling joy, a
36
00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,760
thought that can conceive but
hardly knows, arises slowly in
37
00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,520
her and creates the idea.
The speech that labels more than
38
00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:04,600
it lights a trembling gladness
that is less than bliss, invades
39
00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,880
from all this beauty that must
die.
40
00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,200
Alarmed by the sorrow dragging
at her feet, and conscious of
41
00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,240
the high things not yet won
ever, she nurses in her
42
00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,840
sleepless breast an inward urge
that takes from her rest and
43
00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,800
peace.
Ignorant and weary and
44
00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,240
invincible, she seeks through
the soul's war and quivering
45
00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:34,240
pain, the pure perfection her
marred nature needs.
46
00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,640
A breath of Godhead on her stone
and mire, a faith she craves
47
00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,000
that can survive defeat.
The sweetness of a love that
48
00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,840
knows not death.
The radiance of a truth forever
49
00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,400
surer.
A light grows in her, she
50
00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,280
assumes a voice, her state she
learns to read and the ACT she
51
00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:02,040
has done, but the one needed
truth eludes her grasp, herself,
52
00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,200
and all of which she is the
sign.
53
00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,040
An inarticulate whisper drives
her steps, of which she feels
54
00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:15,440
the force but not the sense.
A few rare intimations come as
55
00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,560
guides.
Immense divining flashes cleave
56
00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:24,760
her brain, and sometimes in her
hours of dream and muse the
57
00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,360
truth that she has missed looks
out on her as if far off.
58
00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:35,960
And yet within her soul a change
comes near that flees from her
59
00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:43,720
surmise, and ever postponed
compels attempt and hope it
60
00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,360
seems too great for mortal hope
to dare.
61
00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,000
A vision meets her of supernal
powers that draw her as if
62
00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,920
mighty kinsmen lost, approaching
with a strange great luminous
63
00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,000
gaze.
Then as she moved to all that
64
00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,120
she has not, and stretches arms
to what was never hers,
65
00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,720
outstretching arms to the
unconscious void.
66
00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,040
Passionate, she prays to
invisible forms of gods,
67
00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,160
soliciting from dumb fate and
toiling time what most she
68
00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,320
needs.
What most exceeds her scope.
69
00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:27,480
A mind unvisited by illusion's
gleams, a will expressive of
70
00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,000
soul's deity, a strength not
forced to stumble by its speed,
71
00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,600
a joy that drags, not sorrow as
its shade.
72
00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:41,400
For these she yearns and feels
them destined hers.
73
00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,320
Heaven's privilege, she claims
as her own right.
74
00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,560
Just is her claim.
The all witnessing gods approve,
75
00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:57,440
clear in a greater light than
reason owns our intuitions are
76
00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:03,600
its title deeds.
Our souls accept what our blind
77
00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,320
thoughts refuse.
The Earth's wing.
78
00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,760
Chimeras are truth's deeds in
heaven, the impossible God's
79
00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,480
sign of things to be.
00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:05,120
But all is screened, subliminal,
mystical.
2
00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,760
It needs the intuitive heart,
the inward turn.
3
00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,440
It needs the power of a
spiritual gaze.
4
00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:19,400
Else to our waking mind, small
moment look, a goalless voyage
5
00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:24,840
seems our dubious coarse.
Some chance has settled or
6
00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:30,000
hazarded, some will or a
necessity without aim or cause,
7
00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,760
unwillingly compelled to emerge
and be in this dense field where
8
00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,440
nothing is plain or sure.
Our very being seems to us
9
00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:47,160
questionable, our life a vague
experiment, the soul a
10
00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:50,320
flickering light in a strange
ignorant world.
11
00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,160
The Earth.
A brute mechanic accident, a net
12
00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,720
of death in which by chance we
live.
13
00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,880
All we have learned appears a
doubtful guess.
14
00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,960
The achievement done.
A passage or a phase whose
15
00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:09,400
farther end is hidden from our
sight.
16
00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,160
A chance happening or a
fortuitous fate.
17
00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:17,440
Out of the unknown, we move to
the unknown.
18
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,960
Ever surround our brief
existence here, Gray shadows of
19
00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:27,880
unanswered questionings, the
dark in conscience, sineless
20
00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,760
mysteries stand up unsolved
behind fate's starting line.
21
00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,680
An aspiration in the night's
profound seed of a perishing
22
00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,280
body and half lit mind uplift
its lonely tongue of conscious
23
00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:50,560
fire towards an undying light,
forever lost only adheres sole
24
00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:57,000
echo of its call, the dim reply
in man's unknowing heart and
25
00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:02,640
meats, not understanding why it
came or for what reason is the
26
00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:06,000
suffering.
Here God sanctioned to the
27
00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,720
paradox of life and the Riddle
of the Immortal's birth in time.
28
00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:18,280
Along a path of eon Serpentine.
In the coiled blackness of her
29
00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,720
nessient course, the earth
goddess toils across the sands
30
00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,280
of time.
A being is in her whom she hopes
31
00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,320
to know.
A word speaks to her heart.
32
00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,800
She cannot hear.
A fate compels whose forms she
33
00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,880
cannot see.
In her unconscious orbit through
34
00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:43,240
the void, out of her mindless
depths, she strives to rise a
35
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,560
perilous life.
Her gain, a struggling joy, a
36
00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,760
thought that can conceive but
hardly knows, arises slowly in
37
00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,520
her and creates the idea.
The speech that labels more than
38
00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:04,600
it lights a trembling gladness
that is less than bliss, invades
39
00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,880
from all this beauty that must
die.
40
00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,200
Alarmed by the sorrow dragging
at her feet, and conscious of
41
00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,240
the high things not yet won
ever, she nurses in her
42
00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,840
sleepless breast an inward urge
that takes from her rest and
43
00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,800
peace.
Ignorant and weary and
44
00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,240
invincible, she seeks through
the soul's war and quivering
45
00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:34,240
pain, the pure perfection her
marred nature needs.
46
00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:39,640
A breath of Godhead on her stone
and mire, a faith she craves
47
00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,000
that can survive defeat.
The sweetness of a love that
48
00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,840
knows not death.
The radiance of a truth forever
49
00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,400
surer.
A light grows in her, she
50
00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,280
assumes a voice, her state she
learns to read and the ACT she
51
00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:02,040
has done, but the one needed
truth eludes her grasp, herself,
52
00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,200
and all of which she is the
sign.
53
00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,040
An inarticulate whisper drives
her steps, of which she feels
54
00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:15,440
the force but not the sense.
A few rare intimations come as
55
00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,560
guides.
Immense divining flashes cleave
56
00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:24,760
her brain, and sometimes in her
hours of dream and muse the
57
00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:29,360
truth that she has missed looks
out on her as if far off.
58
00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:35,960
And yet within her soul a change
comes near that flees from her
59
00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:43,720
surmise, and ever postponed
compels attempt and hope it
60
00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,360
seems too great for mortal hope
to dare.
61
00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,000
A vision meets her of supernal
powers that draw her as if
62
00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,920
mighty kinsmen lost, approaching
with a strange great luminous
63
00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,000
gaze.
Then as she moved to all that
64
00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,120
she has not, and stretches arms
to what was never hers,
65
00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,720
outstretching arms to the
unconscious void.
66
00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,040
Passionate, she prays to
invisible forms of gods,
67
00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:18,160
soliciting from dumb fate and
toiling time what most she
68
00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,320
needs.
What most exceeds her scope.
69
00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:27,480
A mind unvisited by illusion's
gleams, a will expressive of
70
00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,000
soul's deity, a strength not
forced to stumble by its speed,
71
00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,600
a joy that drags, not sorrow as
its shade.
72
00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:41,400
For these she yearns and feels
them destined hers.
73
00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,320
Heaven's privilege, she claims
as her own right.
74
00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,560
Just is her claim.
The all witnessing gods approve,
75
00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:57,440
clear in a greater light than
reason owns our intuitions are
76
00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:03,600
its title deeds.
Our souls accept what our blind
77
00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,320
thoughts refuse.
The Earth's wing.
78
00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:12,760
Chimeras are truth's deeds in
heaven, the impossible God's
79
00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,480
sign of things to be.