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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
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“My God is love and sweetly suffers all.”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“The great are strongest when they stand alone,
A God-given might of being is their force.”
― Savitri
A God-given might of being is their force.”
― Savitri
“Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“All can be done if the god-touch is there”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause
And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause
And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Thus shall the earth open to divinity
And common natures feel the wide uplift,
Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray
And meet the deity in common things.
Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
This earthly life become the life divine.
(Savitri, Book 11, Canto 1, pp. 710-711)”
― Savitri
And common natures feel the wide uplift,
Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray
And meet the deity in common things.
Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
This earthly life become the life divine.
(Savitri, Book 11, Canto 1, pp. 710-711)”
― Savitri
“But though hast come and all will surely change.”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“The worlds are built by its unconscious Breath
And Matter and Mind are its figures or its powers,
Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams.
02.07_055:003”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
And Matter and Mind are its figures or its powers,
Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams.
02.07_055:003”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Ever she circled towards some far-off Light:
Her signs still covered more than they revealed;
But tied to some immediate sight and will
They lost their purport in the joy of use,
Till stripped of their infinite meaning they became
A cipher gleaming with unreal sense.
02.06_052:004”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Her signs still covered more than they revealed;
But tied to some immediate sight and will
They lost their purport in the joy of use,
Till stripped of their infinite meaning they became
A cipher gleaming with unreal sense.
02.06_052:004”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
Ignorant, he forms the All-conscient in his depths,
Human, looks up to superhuman peaks:
A borrower of Supernature’s gold,
He paves his road to Immortality.
03.04_089:053”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
Ignorant, he forms the All-conscient in his depths,
Human, looks up to superhuman peaks:
A borrower of Supernature’s gold,
He paves his road to Immortality.
03.04_089:053”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“His failure is not failure whom God leads;
Through all the slow mysterious march goes on:
An immutable Power has made this mutable world;
A self-fulfilling transcendence treads man’s road;
The driver of the soul upon its path,
It knows its steps, its way is inevitable
And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?
03.04_089:049”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Through all the slow mysterious march goes on:
An immutable Power has made this mutable world;
A self-fulfilling transcendence treads man’s road;
The driver of the soul upon its path,
It knows its steps, its way is inevitable
And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?
03.04_089:049”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“All that denies must be torn out and slain
And crushed the many longings for whose sake
We lose the One for whom our lives were made.
03.02_082:010”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
And crushed the many longings for whose sake
We lose the One for whom our lives were made.
03.02_082:010”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Here too its bud is born in human breasts;
Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved.
02.12_073:010”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Then by a touch, a presence or a voice
The world is turned into a temple ground
And all discloses the unknown Beloved.
02.12_073:010”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A thousand icons they have made of her
And find her in the idols they adore;
But she remains herself and infinite.
02.11_072:021”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
And find her in the idols they adore;
But she remains herself and infinite.
02.11_072:021”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice;
It looks through light to ever greater light
And sees Eternity ensphering Life.
02.11_071:054”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
It looks through light to ever greater light
And sees Eternity ensphering Life.
02.11_071:054”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“A half-sight draws the horizon of her acts:
Her depths remember what she came to do,
But the mind has forgotten or the heart mistakes:
In Nature’s endless lines is lost the God.
02.06_054:002”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Her depths remember what she came to do,
But the mind has forgotten or the heart mistakes:
In Nature’s endless lines is lost the God.
02.06_054:002”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Earth felt the Imperishable’s passage close:
The waking ear of Nature heard her steps
And wideness turned to her its limitless eye,
And, scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds.
All grew a consecration and a rite.
Air was a vibrant link between earth and heaven;
The wide-winged hymn of a great priestly wind
Arose and failed upon the altar hills;
The high boughs prayed in a revealing sky.
01.01_001:033-035”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
The waking ear of Nature heard her steps
And wideness turned to her its limitless eye,
And, scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds.
All grew a consecration and a rite.
Air was a vibrant link between earth and heaven;
The wide-winged hymn of a great priestly wind
Arose and failed upon the altar hills;
The high boughs prayed in a revealing sky.
01.01_001:033-035”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race,
O petty adventurers in an infinite world
And prisoners of a dwarf humanity,
How long will you tread the circling tracks of mind
Around your little self and petty things?
04.03_098:008”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
O petty adventurers in an infinite world
And prisoners of a dwarf humanity,
How long will you tread the circling tracks of mind
Around your little self and petty things?
04.03_098:008”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“But thou hast come and all will surely change:
I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.
The child of the Void shall be reborn in God.
05.03_103:045-046”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs
And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice.
The child of the Void shall be reborn in God.
05.03_103:045-046”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“All they have touched or seen they make their own,
In Nature’s basement lodge, mind’s passages fill,
Disrupt thought’s links and musing sequences,
Break through the soul’s stillness with a noise and cry
Or they call the inhabitants of the abyss,
Invite the instincts to forbidden joys,
A laughter wake of dread demoniac mirth
And with nether riot and revel shake life’s floor.
Impotent to quell his terrible prisoners
Appalled the householder helpless sits above,
Taken from him his house is his no more.
07.02_117:032-033”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
In Nature’s basement lodge, mind’s passages fill,
Disrupt thought’s links and musing sequences,
Break through the soul’s stillness with a noise and cry
Or they call the inhabitants of the abyss,
Invite the instincts to forbidden joys,
A laughter wake of dread demoniac mirth
And with nether riot and revel shake life’s floor.
Impotent to quell his terrible prisoners
Appalled the householder helpless sits above,
Taken from him his house is his no more.
07.02_117:032-033”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“All beautiful grew, subtle and high and strange.
Here on a boulder carved like a huge throne
A Woman sat in gold and purple sheen,
Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt,
Her feet upon a couchant lion’s back.
A formidable smile curved round her lips,
Heaven-fire laughed in the corners of her eyes;
Her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength,
She menaced the triumph of the nether gods.
A halo of lightnings flamed around her head
And sovereignty a great cestus zoned her robe
And majesty and victory sat with her
Guarding in the wide cosmic battle-field
Against the flat equality of Death
And the all-levelling insurgent Night
The hierarchy of the ordered Powers,
The high changeless values, the peaked eminences,
The privileged aristocracy of Truth,
And in the governing Ideal’s sun
The triumvirate of wisdom, love and bliss
And the sole autocracy of the absolute Light.
August on her seat in the inner world of Mind,
The Mother of Might looked down on passing things,
Listened to the advancing tread of Time,
Saw the irresistible wheeling of the suns
And heard the thunder of the march of God.
07.04_123:003-007”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Here on a boulder carved like a huge throne
A Woman sat in gold and purple sheen,
Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt,
Her feet upon a couchant lion’s back.
A formidable smile curved round her lips,
Heaven-fire laughed in the corners of her eyes;
Her body a mass of courage and heavenly strength,
She menaced the triumph of the nether gods.
A halo of lightnings flamed around her head
And sovereignty a great cestus zoned her robe
And majesty and victory sat with her
Guarding in the wide cosmic battle-field
Against the flat equality of Death
And the all-levelling insurgent Night
The hierarchy of the ordered Powers,
The high changeless values, the peaked eminences,
The privileged aristocracy of Truth,
And in the governing Ideal’s sun
The triumvirate of wisdom, love and bliss
And the sole autocracy of the absolute Light.
August on her seat in the inner world of Mind,
The Mother of Might looked down on passing things,
Listened to the advancing tread of Time,
Saw the irresistible wheeling of the suns
And heard the thunder of the march of God.
07.04_123:003-007”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Even if thou rain down intuition’s rays,
The mind of man will think it earth’s own gleam,
His spirit by spiritual ego sink,
Or his soul dream shut in sainthood’s brilliant cell
Where only a bright shadow of God can come:
His hunger for the eternal thou must nurse
And fill his yearning heart with heaven’s fire
And bring God down into his body and life.
07.04_124:070”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
The mind of man will think it earth’s own gleam,
His spirit by spiritual ego sink,
Or his soul dream shut in sainthood’s brilliant cell
Where only a bright shadow of God can come:
His hunger for the eternal thou must nurse
And fill his yearning heart with heaven’s fire
And bring God down into his body and life.
07.04_124:070”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“Across the threshold’s sleep she entered in
And found herself amid great figures of gods
Conscious in stone and living without breath,
Watching with fixed regard the soul of man,
Executive figures of the cosmic self,
World-symbols of immutable potency.
07.05_125:026”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
And found herself amid great figures of gods
Conscious in stone and living without breath,
Watching with fixed regard the soul of man,
Executive figures of the cosmic self,
World-symbols of immutable potency.
07.05_125:026”
― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.
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― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.
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― Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
