April 21, 2024
Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 4 The Secret Knowledge pp. 63-66
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This is the knot that ties
together the stars.
2
00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,480
The two who are one are the
secret of all power.
3
00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,360
The two who are one are the
might and right in things.
4
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,360
His soul silence supports the
world, and her His acts are her
5
00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,200
commandments, registers.
Happy, inert.
6
00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,680
He lies beneath her feet, his
breast.
7
00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:30,120
He offers for her cosmic dance,
of which our lives are the
8
00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,480
Quivering Theatre, and none
could bear but for his strength
9
00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:39,600
within.
Yet none would leave because of
10
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,160
his delight.
His works, his thoughts have
11
00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:47,280
been devised by her.
His being is a mirror, vast of
12
00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,240
hers, active, Inspired by her,
he speaks and moves.
13
00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,280
His deeds obey her heart's
unspoken demands.
14
00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,200
Passive, he bears the impacts of
the world, as if her touch is
15
00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:07,080
shaping his soul and life.
His journey through the days is
16
00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,800
her sun March.
He runs upon her roads.
17
00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,240
Hers is his course, a witness
and student of her joy and dole,
18
00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,240
a partner in her evil and her
good.
19
00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,840
He is consented to her
passionate ways.
20
00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:28,240
He is driven by her sweet and
dreadful force, His sanctioning
21
00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,640
name initials all her works.
His silence is his signature to
22
00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:39,840
her deeds in the execution of
her drama scheme, in her fancies
23
00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,880
of the moment and its mood in
the March of this obvious
24
00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,560
ordinary world where all is deep
and strange to the eyes that see
25
00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,520
and nature's common forms are
marvel wefts.
26
00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,640
She through his witness sight
and motion of might, unrolls the
27
00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,960
material of her cosmic act, her
happenings that exalt and smite
28
00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,880
the soul, her force that moves,
her powers that save and slay
29
00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,680
her word, that in the silence
speaks to our hearts, her
30
00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,480
silence that transcends the
summit.
31
00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,680
Word her heights and depths to
which our spirit moves, Her
32
00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,720
events that weave the texture of
our lives and all by which we
33
00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,280
find or lose ourselves.
Things sweet and bitter,
34
00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,520
magnificent and mean.
Things terrible and beautiful
35
00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,240
and divine.
Her empire in the cosmos she is
36
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,200
built.
He is governed by her subtle and
37
00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,840
mighty laws.
His consciousness is a babe upon
38
00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,480
her knees, his being a field of
her vast experiment.
39
00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,640
Her endless space is the
playground of his thoughts.
40
00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:03,440
She binds to knowledge of the
shapes of time and the creative
41
00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,200
error of limiting mind and
chance that wears the rigid face
42
00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:14,120
of fate and her sport of death
and pain and nessience, his
43
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,720
changed and struggling
immortality.
44
00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,440
His soul is a subtle atom in a
mass, his substance a material
45
00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,120
for her works.
His spirit survives amid the
46
00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,800
death of things.
He climbs to eternity through
47
00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,920
beings gaps.
He is carried by her from night
48
00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,560
to deathless light.
This grand surrender is his free
49
00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,160
Will's gift.
His pure transcendent force
50
00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:48,680
submits to hers in the mystery
of her cosmic ignorance in the
51
00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,760
insoluble Riddle of her play, a
creature made of perishable
52
00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,320
stuff in the pattern she has set
for him.
53
00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,560
He moves, he thinks with her
thoughts.
54
00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480
With her trouble his bosom
heaves.
55
00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,200
He seems the thing that she
would have him seem.
56
00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,720
He is whatever her artist will
can make, although she drives
57
00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,680
him on her fancies, roads at
play with him, as with her child
58
00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:23,520
or slave to freedom and the
eternal's mastery and
59
00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,200
immortality stand above the
world.
60
00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:32,720
She moves her seeming puppet of
an hour even in this mortal
61
00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,400
session in Bodies House, an
aimless traveller between birth
62
00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,400
and death, ephemeral, dreaming
of immortality to reign.
63
00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,880
She spurs him.
He takes up her powers.
64
00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,280
He has harnessed her to the yoke
of her own law.
65
00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,120
His face of human thought puts
on a crown held in her leash,
66
00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,560
bound to her veiled Caprice.
He studies her ways.
67
00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:04,440
If so, he may prevail even for
an hour, and she works out his
68
00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,600
will.
He makes of her his moment.
69
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,240
Passions serf to obey.
She feigns.
70
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,200
She follows her creature's lead
for him.
71
00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,240
She was made lives only for his
use.
72
00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,280
But conquering her then is he
most her slave?
73
00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,080
He is her dependent.
All his means are hers.
74
00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,080
Nothing without her he can.
She rules him still.
75
00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,760
At last he wakes to a memory of
self.
76
00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,560
He sees within the face of deity
the godhead breaks out through
77
00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,320
the human mould, her highest
height.
78
00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,280
She unmasked and is his mate.
Till then.
79
00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,720
He is a plaything in her game,
her seeming Regent.
80
00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,360
Yet her fancies toy, a living
robot moved by her energy
81
00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,480
springs.
He acts as in the movements of a
82
00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,720
dream, an automaton stepping in
the grooves of fate.
83
00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,760
He stumbles on, driven by her
whip of force.
84
00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:18,600
His thought labours a Bullock in
times fields His will, he thinks
85
00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:24,120
his own is shaped in her forge,
obedient to world nature's dumb
86
00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:29,200
control, driven by his own
formidable power, his chosen
87
00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:34,040
partner in a Titan game.
Her will He has made the master
88
00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,800
of his fate, her whim, the
dispenser of his pleasure and
89
00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,200
pain.
He has sold himself into her
90
00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,160
regal power for any blow or boon
that she may choose.
91
00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:52,400
Even in what is suffering to our
sense, he feels the sweetness of
92
00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,880
her mastering touch in all
experience meets her blissful
93
00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,720
hands on his heart.
He bears the happiness of her
94
00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,080
tread, and the surprise of her
arrival's joy in each event and
95
00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,600
every moment's chance.
All she can do is marvellous in
96
00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,280
his sight.
He revels in her a swimmer in
97
00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,480
her sea, a tireless amateur of
her world delight.
98
00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,680
He rejoices in her every thought
and act, and gives consent to
99
00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,480
all that she can wish.
Whatever she desires, he wills
100
00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,160
to be the Spirit, the
innumerable one.
101
00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,800
He has left behind his lone
eternity.
102
00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,240
He has an endless birth in
endless time, her finite's
103
00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,680
multitude in an infinite space.
00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,840
This is the knot that ties
together the stars.
2
00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,480
The two who are one are the
secret of all power.
3
00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,360
The two who are one are the
might and right in things.
4
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,360
His soul silence supports the
world, and her His acts are her
5
00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:22,200
commandments, registers.
Happy, inert.
6
00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,680
He lies beneath her feet, his
breast.
7
00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:30,120
He offers for her cosmic dance,
of which our lives are the
8
00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,480
Quivering Theatre, and none
could bear but for his strength
9
00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:39,600
within.
Yet none would leave because of
10
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,160
his delight.
His works, his thoughts have
11
00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:47,280
been devised by her.
His being is a mirror, vast of
12
00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,240
hers, active, Inspired by her,
he speaks and moves.
13
00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,280
His deeds obey her heart's
unspoken demands.
14
00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,200
Passive, he bears the impacts of
the world, as if her touch is
15
00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:07,080
shaping his soul and life.
His journey through the days is
16
00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,800
her sun March.
He runs upon her roads.
17
00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:16,240
Hers is his course, a witness
and student of her joy and dole,
18
00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,240
a partner in her evil and her
good.
19
00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,840
He is consented to her
passionate ways.
20
00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:28,240
He is driven by her sweet and
dreadful force, His sanctioning
21
00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,640
name initials all her works.
His silence is his signature to
22
00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:39,840
her deeds in the execution of
her drama scheme, in her fancies
23
00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,880
of the moment and its mood in
the March of this obvious
24
00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,560
ordinary world where all is deep
and strange to the eyes that see
25
00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,520
and nature's common forms are
marvel wefts.
26
00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,640
She through his witness sight
and motion of might, unrolls the
27
00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:04,960
material of her cosmic act, her
happenings that exalt and smite
28
00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,880
the soul, her force that moves,
her powers that save and slay
29
00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,680
her word, that in the silence
speaks to our hearts, her
30
00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,480
silence that transcends the
summit.
31
00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,680
Word her heights and depths to
which our spirit moves, Her
32
00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,720
events that weave the texture of
our lives and all by which we
33
00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,280
find or lose ourselves.
Things sweet and bitter,
34
00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,520
magnificent and mean.
Things terrible and beautiful
35
00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,240
and divine.
Her empire in the cosmos she is
36
00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,200
built.
He is governed by her subtle and
37
00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,840
mighty laws.
His consciousness is a babe upon
38
00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,480
her knees, his being a field of
her vast experiment.
39
00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,640
Her endless space is the
playground of his thoughts.
40
00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:03,440
She binds to knowledge of the
shapes of time and the creative
41
00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:08,200
error of limiting mind and
chance that wears the rigid face
42
00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:14,120
of fate and her sport of death
and pain and nessience, his
43
00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,720
changed and struggling
immortality.
44
00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:22,440
His soul is a subtle atom in a
mass, his substance a material
45
00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,120
for her works.
His spirit survives amid the
46
00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,800
death of things.
He climbs to eternity through
47
00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,920
beings gaps.
He is carried by her from night
48
00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,560
to deathless light.
This grand surrender is his free
49
00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,160
Will's gift.
His pure transcendent force
50
00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:48,680
submits to hers in the mystery
of her cosmic ignorance in the
51
00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,760
insoluble Riddle of her play, a
creature made of perishable
52
00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,320
stuff in the pattern she has set
for him.
53
00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,560
He moves, he thinks with her
thoughts.
54
00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480
With her trouble his bosom
heaves.
55
00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,200
He seems the thing that she
would have him seem.
56
00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,720
He is whatever her artist will
can make, although she drives
57
00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,680
him on her fancies, roads at
play with him, as with her child
58
00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:23,520
or slave to freedom and the
eternal's mastery and
59
00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,200
immortality stand above the
world.
60
00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:32,720
She moves her seeming puppet of
an hour even in this mortal
61
00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,400
session in Bodies House, an
aimless traveller between birth
62
00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:42,400
and death, ephemeral, dreaming
of immortality to reign.
63
00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,880
She spurs him.
He takes up her powers.
64
00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,280
He has harnessed her to the yoke
of her own law.
65
00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,120
His face of human thought puts
on a crown held in her leash,
66
00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,560
bound to her veiled Caprice.
He studies her ways.
67
00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:04,440
If so, he may prevail even for
an hour, and she works out his
68
00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,600
will.
He makes of her his moment.
69
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,240
Passions serf to obey.
She feigns.
70
00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,200
She follows her creature's lead
for him.
71
00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,240
She was made lives only for his
use.
72
00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,280
But conquering her then is he
most her slave?
73
00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,080
He is her dependent.
All his means are hers.
74
00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,080
Nothing without her he can.
She rules him still.
75
00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,760
At last he wakes to a memory of
self.
76
00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,560
He sees within the face of deity
the godhead breaks out through
77
00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,320
the human mould, her highest
height.
78
00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,280
She unmasked and is his mate.
Till then.
79
00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,720
He is a plaything in her game,
her seeming Regent.
80
00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,360
Yet her fancies toy, a living
robot moved by her energy
81
00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,480
springs.
He acts as in the movements of a
82
00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,720
dream, an automaton stepping in
the grooves of fate.
83
00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,760
He stumbles on, driven by her
whip of force.
84
00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:18,600
His thought labours a Bullock in
times fields His will, he thinks
85
00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:24,120
his own is shaped in her forge,
obedient to world nature's dumb
86
00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:29,200
control, driven by his own
formidable power, his chosen
87
00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:34,040
partner in a Titan game.
Her will He has made the master
88
00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,800
of his fate, her whim, the
dispenser of his pleasure and
89
00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,200
pain.
He has sold himself into her
90
00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,160
regal power for any blow or boon
that she may choose.
91
00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:52,400
Even in what is suffering to our
sense, he feels the sweetness of
92
00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,880
her mastering touch in all
experience meets her blissful
93
00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,720
hands on his heart.
He bears the happiness of her
94
00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:07,080
tread, and the surprise of her
arrival's joy in each event and
95
00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,600
every moment's chance.
All she can do is marvellous in
96
00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,280
his sight.
He revels in her a swimmer in
97
00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,480
her sea, a tireless amateur of
her world delight.
98
00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,680
He rejoices in her every thought
and act, and gives consent to
99
00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,480
all that she can wish.
Whatever she desires, he wills
100
00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,160
to be the Spirit, the
innumerable one.
101
00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,800
He has left behind his lone
eternity.
102
00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,240
He has an endless birth in
endless time, her finite's
103
00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,680
multitude in an infinite space.