June 30, 2024
Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII The Book of Yoga, Canto 5 The Finding of the Soul, pp. 527-531
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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII The Book of Yoga, Canto 5 The Finding of the Soul, pp. 527-531
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Once more she was human upon
earthly soil.
2
00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:10,160
In the muttering night, amid the
rain swept woods and the rude
3
00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:15,000
cottage where she sat in trance,
that subtle world withdrew
4
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,080
deeply within behind the sun
Vale of the inner site.
5
00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,080
But now the half open Lotus bud
of her heart had bloomed and
6
00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:31,120
stood disclosed to the earthly
ray in an image shown revealed
7
00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,400
her secret soul.
There was no wall severing the
8
00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,000
soul and mind, no Mystic fence
guarding from the claims of life
9
00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,880
in its deep Lotus home.
Her being SAT as if on
10
00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,400
concentration's marble seat,
calling the mighty Mother of the
11
00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,240
world's to make this earthly
tenement her house.
12
00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,800
As in a flash, from a supernal
light, a living image of the
13
00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:06,400
original power, a face, a form,
came down into her heart and
14
00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,040
made of it its temple in pure
abode.
15
00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,320
But when its feet had touched
the quivering bloom, a mighty
16
00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:18,720
movement rocked the inner space,
as if a world were shaken and
17
00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,560
found its soul.
Out of the inconscient,
18
00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,680
soulless, mindless night a
flaming serpent rose.
19
00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,000
Released from sleep it rose,
billowing its coils, and stood
20
00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,920
erect and climbing mightily,
stormily on its way.
21
00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,960
It touched her centres with its
flaming mouth, as if a fiery
22
00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,640
kiss had broken their sleep.
They bloomed and laughed,
23
00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:49,920
surcharged with light and bliss.
Then at the crown it joined the
24
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,440
Eternal's space in the flower of
the head, in the flower of
25
00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:00,400
matter's base, in each divine
stronghold and nature not, it
26
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,720
held together the Mystic stream
which joins the viewless summits
27
00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,440
with the unseen depths, the
string of forts that make the
28
00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:14,760
frail defense safeguarding US
against the enormous world.
29
00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,880
Our lines of self-expression in
its vast an image sat of the
30
00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,560
original power, wearing the
mighty Mother's form and face,
31
00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,680
armed bearer of the weapon and
the sign whose occult might no
32
00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:38,520
magic can imitate manifold yet
one she sat a guardian force, a
33
00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,960
saviour gesture stretched her
lifted arm and symbol of some
34
00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:48,520
native cosmic strength.
A sacred beast lay prone below
35
00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,040
her feet a silent, flame eyed
mass of living force.
36
00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,440
All underwent a high celestial
change, breaking the black in
37
00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,320
conscience.
Blind, mute wall effacing the
38
00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,120
circles of the ignorance, powers
and divinities burst, flaming
39
00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,760
forth.
Each part of the being,
40
00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,960
trembling with delight, lay
overwhelmed with tides of
41
00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,560
happiness, and saw her hand in
every circumstance, and felt her
42
00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:26,200
touch in every limb and cell.
In the country of the Lotus of
43
00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,600
the head, which thinking mind
has made its busy space in the
44
00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,800
castle of the Lotus, twixt the
brows whence it shoots the
45
00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:40,720
arrows of its sight and will.
In the passage of the Lotus of
46
00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,320
the throat, where speech must
rise, and the expressing mind
47
00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,840
and the heart's impulse run
towards word and act, a glad
48
00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:55,280
uplift and a new working came.
The immortal's thoughts
49
00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,120
displaced our bounded view.
The Immortal's thoughts, earth,
50
00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:05,360
drab idea and sense.
All things now bore a deep
51
00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,480
heavenlier sense.
A glad clear harmony marked
52
00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,400
their truth's outline.
Reset the balance and measures
53
00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,480
of the world.
Each shape showed its occult
54
00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,000
design, unveiled God's meaning
in it for which it was made, and
55
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,400
the vivid splendor of his
artist's thought.
56
00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,600
A channel of the mighty Mother's
choice.
57
00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000
The Immortal's will took into
its calm control our blind or
58
00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,760
erring government of life, a
loose Republic, wants of wants
59
00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,480
and needs, then bowed to the
uncertain sovereign mind.
60
00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:51,320
Life now obeyed to a diviner
rule, and every act became an
61
00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:56,240
act of God in the Kingdom of the
Lotus of the heart.
62
00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,400
Love chanting its pure hymenial
hymn, made life and body mirrors
63
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,400
of sacred joy, and all the
emotions gave themselves to God.
64
00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,240
In the naval Lotus broad
imperial range, its proud
65
00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,880
ambitions and its master lusts
were tamed into instruments of a
66
00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:23,120
great calm sway to do a work of
God on earthly soil.
67
00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:29,560
In the narrow nether centre's
petty parts, its childish game
68
00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,120
of daily dwarf desires was
changed into a sweet and
69
00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,560
boisterous play, a romp of
little gods with life.
70
00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,600
In time.
In the deep place where once the
71
00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:48,160
serpent slept, there came a grip
on matter's giant powers for
72
00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:53,680
large utilities in life's little
space A firm ground was made for
73
00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,640
Heaven's descending might.
Behind all reigned her
74
00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,840
sovereign, deathless soul.
Casting aside its veil of
75
00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:07,440
ignorance, Allied to gods and
cosmic beings and powers, it
76
00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,880
built the harmony of its human
state.
77
00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:14,320
Surrendered into the great
world, Mother's hands only she
78
00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,080
obeyed her soul supreme behest.
In the enigma of the
79
00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:26,320
inconscience world, the secret
soul behind supporting all is
80
00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,720
master and witness of our
ignorant life.
81
00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,400
Admits the person's look and
nature's role.
82
00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,880
But once the hidden doors are
flung apart, then the veiled
83
00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,360
King steps out in Nature's
front.
84
00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,680
A light comes down into the
ignorance.
85
00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,160
Its heavy, painful knot loosens
its grasp.
86
00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:54,000
The mind becomes a mastered
instrument, and life a hue and
87
00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000
figure of the soul.
All happily grows towards
88
00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,320
knowledge and towards bliss.
A divine poescence then takes
89
00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,320
Nature's place and pushes the
movements of our body and mind.
90
00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,760
Possessor of our passionate
hopes and dreams, the beloved
91
00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,880
despot of our thoughts and acts,
she streams into us with her
92
00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:22,080
unbound force into mortal limbs.
The immortal's rapture and
93
00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,080
power, an inner law of beauty
shapes our lives.
94
00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,680
Our words become the natural
speech of truth.
95
00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,880
Each thought is a ripple on a
sea of light.
96
00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,680
Than sin and virtue leave the
cosmic lists.
97
00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,960
They struggle no more in our
delivered hearts.
98
00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:47,000
Our acts chime with God's simple
natural good, or serve the rule
99
00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:52,480
of a supernal right.
All moods, unlovely, evil and
100
00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:58,200
untrue, forsake their stations
in fiery disarray and hide their
101
00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,200
shame in the subconscious.
Dusk then lifts the mind, a cry
102
00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:07,520
of victory.
O soul, my soul, we have created
103
00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,480
heaven within.
We have found the Kingdom here
104
00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:16,000
of God, His fortress built in a
loud, ignorant world.
105
00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,680
Our life is entrenched between
two rivers of light.
106
00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:25,040
We have turned space into a gulf
of peace and made the body a
107
00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,120
capital of bliss.
What more?
108
00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:35,760
What more, if more, must still
be done in the slow process of
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00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:40,360
the evolving spirit?
In the brief stayed between a
110
00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:46,320
death and birth, a first
perfection stage is reached at
111
00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,080
last.
Out of the wood and stone of our
112
00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,640
nature's stuff, a temple is
shaped where the high gods could
113
00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,440
live.
Even if the struggling world is
114
00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:04,040
left outside, one man's
perfection still can save the
115
00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:08,240
world.
There is one a new proximity to
116
00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:13,600
the skies, a first betrothal of
the earth to heaven, a deep
117
00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:20,280
concordat between truth and
life, A camp of God is pitched
118
00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:21,840
in human time.
00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:05,040
Once more she was human upon
earthly soil.
2
00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:10,160
In the muttering night, amid the
rain swept woods and the rude
3
00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:15,000
cottage where she sat in trance,
that subtle world withdrew
4
00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,080
deeply within behind the sun
Vale of the inner site.
5
00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:25,080
But now the half open Lotus bud
of her heart had bloomed and
6
00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:31,120
stood disclosed to the earthly
ray in an image shown revealed
7
00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,400
her secret soul.
There was no wall severing the
8
00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,000
soul and mind, no Mystic fence
guarding from the claims of life
9
00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:45,880
in its deep Lotus home.
Her being SAT as if on
10
00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,400
concentration's marble seat,
calling the mighty Mother of the
11
00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,240
world's to make this earthly
tenement her house.
12
00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,800
As in a flash, from a supernal
light, a living image of the
13
00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:06,400
original power, a face, a form,
came down into her heart and
14
00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,040
made of it its temple in pure
abode.
15
00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,320
But when its feet had touched
the quivering bloom, a mighty
16
00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:18,720
movement rocked the inner space,
as if a world were shaken and
17
00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,560
found its soul.
Out of the inconscient,
18
00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,680
soulless, mindless night a
flaming serpent rose.
19
00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,000
Released from sleep it rose,
billowing its coils, and stood
20
00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,920
erect and climbing mightily,
stormily on its way.
21
00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,960
It touched her centres with its
flaming mouth, as if a fiery
22
00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,640
kiss had broken their sleep.
They bloomed and laughed,
23
00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:49,920
surcharged with light and bliss.
Then at the crown it joined the
24
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,440
Eternal's space in the flower of
the head, in the flower of
25
00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:00,400
matter's base, in each divine
stronghold and nature not, it
26
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,720
held together the Mystic stream
which joins the viewless summits
27
00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:09,440
with the unseen depths, the
string of forts that make the
28
00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:14,760
frail defense safeguarding US
against the enormous world.
29
00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,880
Our lines of self-expression in
its vast an image sat of the
30
00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,560
original power, wearing the
mighty Mother's form and face,
31
00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:31,680
armed bearer of the weapon and
the sign whose occult might no
32
00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:38,520
magic can imitate manifold yet
one she sat a guardian force, a
33
00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,960
saviour gesture stretched her
lifted arm and symbol of some
34
00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:48,520
native cosmic strength.
A sacred beast lay prone below
35
00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,040
her feet a silent, flame eyed
mass of living force.
36
00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,440
All underwent a high celestial
change, breaking the black in
37
00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,320
conscience.
Blind, mute wall effacing the
38
00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,120
circles of the ignorance, powers
and divinities burst, flaming
39
00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,760
forth.
Each part of the being,
40
00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,960
trembling with delight, lay
overwhelmed with tides of
41
00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,560
happiness, and saw her hand in
every circumstance, and felt her
42
00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:26,200
touch in every limb and cell.
In the country of the Lotus of
43
00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,600
the head, which thinking mind
has made its busy space in the
44
00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,800
castle of the Lotus, twixt the
brows whence it shoots the
45
00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:40,720
arrows of its sight and will.
In the passage of the Lotus of
46
00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:45,320
the throat, where speech must
rise, and the expressing mind
47
00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,840
and the heart's impulse run
towards word and act, a glad
48
00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:55,280
uplift and a new working came.
The immortal's thoughts
49
00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,120
displaced our bounded view.
The Immortal's thoughts, earth,
50
00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:05,360
drab idea and sense.
All things now bore a deep
51
00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,480
heavenlier sense.
A glad clear harmony marked
52
00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,400
their truth's outline.
Reset the balance and measures
53
00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,480
of the world.
Each shape showed its occult
54
00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,000
design, unveiled God's meaning
in it for which it was made, and
55
00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,400
the vivid splendor of his
artist's thought.
56
00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,600
A channel of the mighty Mother's
choice.
57
00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000
The Immortal's will took into
its calm control our blind or
58
00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,760
erring government of life, a
loose Republic, wants of wants
59
00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,480
and needs, then bowed to the
uncertain sovereign mind.
60
00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:51,320
Life now obeyed to a diviner
rule, and every act became an
61
00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:56,240
act of God in the Kingdom of the
Lotus of the heart.
62
00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,400
Love chanting its pure hymenial
hymn, made life and body mirrors
63
00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,400
of sacred joy, and all the
emotions gave themselves to God.
64
00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,240
In the naval Lotus broad
imperial range, its proud
65
00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,880
ambitions and its master lusts
were tamed into instruments of a
66
00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:23,120
great calm sway to do a work of
God on earthly soil.
67
00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:29,560
In the narrow nether centre's
petty parts, its childish game
68
00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,120
of daily dwarf desires was
changed into a sweet and
69
00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,560
boisterous play, a romp of
little gods with life.
70
00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,600
In time.
In the deep place where once the
71
00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:48,160
serpent slept, there came a grip
on matter's giant powers for
72
00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:53,680
large utilities in life's little
space A firm ground was made for
73
00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,640
Heaven's descending might.
Behind all reigned her
74
00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,840
sovereign, deathless soul.
Casting aside its veil of
75
00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:07,440
ignorance, Allied to gods and
cosmic beings and powers, it
76
00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:09,880
built the harmony of its human
state.
77
00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:14,320
Surrendered into the great
world, Mother's hands only she
78
00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,080
obeyed her soul supreme behest.
In the enigma of the
79
00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:26,320
inconscience world, the secret
soul behind supporting all is
80
00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,720
master and witness of our
ignorant life.
81
00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,400
Admits the person's look and
nature's role.
82
00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,880
But once the hidden doors are
flung apart, then the veiled
83
00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,360
King steps out in Nature's
front.
84
00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,680
A light comes down into the
ignorance.
85
00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,160
Its heavy, painful knot loosens
its grasp.
86
00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:54,000
The mind becomes a mastered
instrument, and life a hue and
87
00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000
figure of the soul.
All happily grows towards
88
00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,320
knowledge and towards bliss.
A divine poescence then takes
89
00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,320
Nature's place and pushes the
movements of our body and mind.
90
00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,760
Possessor of our passionate
hopes and dreams, the beloved
91
00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,880
despot of our thoughts and acts,
she streams into us with her
92
00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:22,080
unbound force into mortal limbs.
The immortal's rapture and
93
00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,080
power, an inner law of beauty
shapes our lives.
94
00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,680
Our words become the natural
speech of truth.
95
00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,880
Each thought is a ripple on a
sea of light.
96
00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,680
Than sin and virtue leave the
cosmic lists.
97
00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,960
They struggle no more in our
delivered hearts.
98
00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:47,000
Our acts chime with God's simple
natural good, or serve the rule
99
00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:52,480
of a supernal right.
All moods, unlovely, evil and
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untrue, forsake their stations
in fiery disarray and hide their
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shame in the subconscious.
Dusk then lifts the mind, a cry
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of victory.
O soul, my soul, we have created
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heaven within.
We have found the Kingdom here
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of God, His fortress built in a
loud, ignorant world.
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Our life is entrenched between
two rivers of light.
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We have turned space into a gulf
of peace and made the body a
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capital of bliss.
What more?
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What more, if more, must still
be done in the slow process of
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the evolving spirit?
In the brief stayed between a
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death and birth, a first
perfection stage is reached at
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last.
Out of the wood and stone of our
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nature's stuff, a temple is
shaped where the high gods could
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live.
Even if the struggling world is
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left outside, one man's
perfection still can save the
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world.
There is one a new proximity to
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the skies, a first betrothal of
the earth to heaven, a deep
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concordat between truth and
life, A camp of God is pitched
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in human time.