Golden Bridge

Savitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 3 Part 2 His spirit was made a vessel of her force; Mute in the fathomless passion of his will He outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer. Then in a sovereign answer to his heart A gesture came as of worlds thrown away, And from her raiment’s lustrous mystery raised One arm half-parted the eternal veil. A light appeared still and imperishable. Attracted to t...

Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 2 part 2 The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free. There is a clamour of battle, a tramp, a march: A cry arises like a moaning sea, A desperate laughter under the blows of death, A doom of blood and sweat and toil and tears. Men die that man may live and God be born. An awful Silence watches tragic Time. Pain is the hand of Nature sculpturing men To greatness:...

Savitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 3 Part 1 In a slumber of the voices of the world He of the eternal moment grew aware; His knowledge stripped bare of the garbs of sense Knew by identity without thought or word; His being saw itself without its veils, Life’s line fell from the spirit’s infinity. Along a road of pure interior light, Alone between tremendous Presences, Under the watching eyes of name...

Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 2 part 1 Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come; Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light; Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience Which was thy body’s dumb original base; Already slept there pain’s subconscient shape: A shadow in a shadowy tenebrous womb, Till life shall move, it waits to wake and be. In one caul with joy came forth the dreadful...

Savitri: Book 3 Canto 2 Section 3 This was a seed cast into endless Time. A Word is spoken or a Light is shown, A moment sees, the ages toil to express. So flashing out of the Timeless leaped the worlds; An eternal instant is the cause of the years. All he had done was to prepare a field; His small beginnings asked for a mighty end: For all that he had been must now new-shape In him her joy to emb...

Savitri: Book 3 Canto 2 Section 2 At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate, In their slow round the cycles turn to her call; Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base. Hers is the mystery the Night conceals; The spirit’s alchemist energy is hers; She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. The luminous heart of the Unknown is she, A power of silence in the depths of God; She is the...

Savitri: Book 10 Canto 4 Section 2 end Already the torch becomes the undying ray, Already the life is the Immortal’s force, The house grows of the householder part and one. How sayst thou Truth can never light the human mind And Bliss can never invade the mortal’s heart Or God descend into the world he made? If in the meaningless Void creation rose, If from a bodiless Force Matter was born, If Lif...

Savitri: BOOK 11 Canto 1 Section 8 The Book of Everlasting Day The Spirit shall be the master of his world Lurking no more in form’s obscurity And Nature shall reverse her action’s rule, The outward world disclose the Truth it veils; All things shall manifest the covert God, All shall reveal the Spirit’s light and might And move to its destiny of felicity. Even should a hostile force cling to its...

Mahalakshmi Book -3, Canto- 2, The book of the Divine Mother, Pg-314 A burning Love from white spiritual founts Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths; Suffering was lost in her immortal smile. A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death; To err no more was natural to mind; Wrong could not come where all was light and love. The Formless and the Formed were joined in her: Immensity was exce...

Savitri: BOOK 3 Canto 4 Section 1 The Book of the Divine Mother 340 The high gods look on man and watch and choose Today’s impossibles for the future’s base. His transience trembles with the Eternal’s touch, His barriers cede beneath the Infinite’s tread; The Immortals have their entries in his life: The Ambassadors of the Unseen draw near. A splendour sullied by the mortal air, Love passes throug...

Savitri - Book 10 Canto 4 Section 2 The world is a spiritual paradox Invented by a need in the Unseen, A poor translation to the creature’s sense Of That which for ever exceeds idea and speech, A symbol of what can never be symbolised, A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true. Its powers have come from the eternal heights And plunged into the inconscient dim Abyss And risen from it to do their...

Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 Illumining breath to think and plasm to feel, He labours with his slow and sceptic brain Helped by the reason’s vacillating fires, To make his thought and will a magic door For knowledge to enter the darkness of the world And love to rule a realm of strife and hate. A mind impotent to reconcile heaven and earth And tied to Matter with a thousand bonds, He lifts hi...

Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 His day is a moment in perpetual Time; He is the prey of the minutes and the hours. Assailed on earth and unassured of heaven, Descended here unhappy and sublime, A link between the demigod and the beast, He knows not his own greatness nor his aim; He has forgotten why he has come and whence. His spirit and his members are at war; His heights break off too low to...

Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 THEN suddenly there rose a sacred stir. Amid the lifeless silence of the Void In a solitude and an immensity A sound came quivering like a loved footfall Heard in the listening spaces of the soul; A touch perturbed his fibres with delight. An Influence had approached the mortal range, A boundless Heart was near his longing heart, A mystic Form enveloped his earthl...

Savitri : Book 3 Canto 2 A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare, A burning Love from white spiritual founts Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths; Suffering was lost in her immortal smile. A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death; To err no more was natural to mind; Wrong could not come where all was light and love. The Formless and the Formed were joined in her: Immensity was ex...

Savitri: Book 3 Canto 1 Section 1 ALL IS too little that the world can give: Its power and knowledge are the gifts of Time And cannot fill the spirit’s sacred thirst. Although of One these forms of greatness are And by its breath of grace our lives abide, Although more near to us than nearness’ self, It is some utter truth of what we are; Hidden by its own works, it seemed far-off, Impenetrable, o...

Savitri: Book 2 Canto 10 Section 1 This was the first means of our slow ascent From the half-conscience of the animal soul Living in a crowded press of shape-events In a realm it cannot understand nor change; Only it sees and acts in a given scene And feels and joys and sorrows for a while. The ideas that drive the obscure embodied spirit Along the roads of suffering and desire In a world that str...

Savitri: Book 4 Canto 3 Section 1 As when the mantra sinks in Yoga’s ear, Its message enters stirring the blind brain And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound; The hearer understands a form of words And, musing on the index thought it holds, He strives to read it with the labouring mind, But finds bright hints, not the embodied truth: Then, falling silent in himself to know He meets the deepe...

Savitri: Book 7 Canto 6 Section 2 This mind is a dynamic small machine Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out, With raw material drawn from the outside world, The patterns sketched out by an artist God. Often our thoughts are finished cosmic wares Admitted by a silent office gate And passed through the subconscient’s galleries, Then issued in Time’s mart as private make. For now they bear the li...

Savitri: Book 1 Canto 4 Section 4 All here where each thing seems its lonely self Are figures of the sole transcendent One: Only by him they are, his breath is their life; An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay. A playmate in the mighty Mother’s game, One came upon the dubious whirling globe To hide from her pursuit in force and form. A secret spirit in the Inconscient’s sleep, A shapeless E...

Savitri: Book 1 Canto 4 Section 6 The master of existence lurks in us And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force; In Nature’s instrument loiters secret God. The Immanent lives in man as in his house; He has made the universe his pastime’s field, A vast gymnasium of his works of might. All-knowing he accepts our darkened state, Divine, wears shapes of animal or man; Eternal, he assents to Fate a...

Savitri: Book 1, Canto 3, Section 2 As so he grew into his larger self, Humanity framed his movements less and less; A greater being saw a greater world. A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase The lines of safety Reason draws that bar Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite. Even his first steps broke our small earth-bounds And loitered in a vaster freer air. In hands sustained by a trans...

Savitri: Book Three, Canto Three, Section 1 A MIGHTIER task remained than all he had done. To That he turned from which all being comes, A sign attending from the Secrecy Which knows the Truth ungrasped behind our thoughts And guards the world with its all-seeing gaze. In the unapproachable stillness of his soul, Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone, Patient he sat like an incarnate hope Motionl...

Savitri: Book 7 Canto 2 Section 1 A Power within her answered the still Voice: “I am thy portion here charged with thy work, As thou myself seated for ever above, Speak to my depths, O great and deathless Voice, Command, for I am here to do thy will.” The Voice replied: “Remember why thou cam’st: Find out thy soul, recover thy hid self, In silence seek God’s meaning in thy depths, Then mortal natu...

Book 1, Canto 3, Section 1 : This bodily appearance is not all; The form deceives, the person is a mask; Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell. His fragile ship conveys through the sea of years An incognito of the Imperishable. A spirit that is a flame of God abides, A fiery portion of the Wonderful, Artist of his own beauty and delight, Immortal in our mortal poverty. This sculptor of the fo...