Golden Bridge

From Savitri Book 7 CANTO V Section 2: The Finding of the Soul Section All things she saw as a masquerade of Truth Disguised in the costumes of Ignorance, Crossing the years to immortality; All she could front with the strong spirit’s peace. But since she knows the toil of mind and life As a mother feels and shares her children’s lives, She puts forth a small portion of herself, A being no bigger...

Book 10 Canto 4 Section 5 Her eyes were two stars that watched the universe. The Power that from her being’s summit reigned, The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy, Came down and held the centre in her brow Where the mind’s Lord in his control-room sits; There throned on concentration’s native seat He opens that third mysterious eye in man, The Unseen’s eye that looks at the unseen, When Light wi...

In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest,    Whose is the hand that has painted the glow? When the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether,    Who was it roused them and bade them to blow? He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature,    He is found in the brain where He builds up the thought:In the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven,    In the luminous net of the stars...

There is a godhead of unrealised things    To which Time’s splendid gains are hoarded dross;A cry seems near, a rustle of silver wings    Calling to heavenly joy by earthly loss. All eye has seen and all the ear has heard    Is a pale illusion by some greater voiceAnd mightier vision; no sweet sound or word,    No passion of hues that make the heart rejoice Can equal those diviner ecstasies.    A...

Into the Silence, into the Silence,Arise, O Spirit immortal,Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle. Ascend, single and deathless:Care no more for the whispers and the shoutings in the darkness,Pass from the sphere of the grey and the little,Leaving the cry and the struggle,Into the Silence for ever. Vast and immobile, formless and marvellous,Higher than Heaven, wider than the uni...

'A Tree' - poem by Sri Aurobindo A tree beside the sandy river-beach    Holds up its topmost boughsLike fingers towards the skies they cannot reach,    Earth-bound, heaven-amorous. This is the soul of man. Body and brainHungry for earth our heavenly flight detain. Read Here: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/a-tree

'A God's Labour' - poem by Sri Aurobindo Read the poem here: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/a-gods-labour

On a dire whirlpool in the hurrying river,    A life-stilled statue naked, bronze, severe,    He kept the posture of a deathless seerUnshaken by the mad water’s leap and shiver. Thought could not think in him, flesh could not quiver;    The feet of Time could not adventure here;    Only some unknown Power nude and austere,Only a Silence mighty to deliver. His spirit world-wide and companionless,  ...

I am the bird of God in His blue;     Divinely high and clear I sing the notes of the sweet and the true     For the god’s and the seraph’s ear. I rise like a fire from the mortal’s earth     Into a griefless sky And drop in the suffering soil of his birth     Fire-seeds of ecstasy. My pinions soar beyond Time and Space     Into unfading Light; I bring the bliss of the Eternal’s face     And the b...

Because Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss,    My soul blind and enamoured yearns for Thee;It bears Thy mystic touch in all that is    And thrills with the burden of that ecstasy. Behind all eyes I meet Thy secret gaze    And in each voice I hear Thy magic tune:Thy sweetness hunts my heart through Nature’s ways;    Nowhere it beats now from Thy snare immune. It loves Thy body in all living things; ...

From: Savitri : Book-4, Canto-1 A Mother-wisdom works in Nature’s breast A Mother wisdom works in Nature’s breast To pour delight on the heart of toil and want And press perfection on life’s stumbling powers, Impose heaven-sentience on the obscure abyss And make dumb Matter conscious of its God. ||94.8|| Although our fallen minds forget to climb, Although our human stuff resists or breaks, She kee...

From : Savitri - Book III - Canto II - The Adoration of the Divine Mother Across the silence of the ultimate Calm, Out of a marvellous Transcendence' core, A body of wonder and translucency As if a sweet mystic summary of her self Escaping into the original Bliss Had come enlarged out of eternity, Someone came infinite and absolute. A being of wisdom, power and delight, Even as a mother draws...

Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight Poured a supernal beauty on men’s lives.||3.34|| A wide self-giving was her native act; A magnanimity as of sea or sky Enveloped with its greatness all that came And gave a sense as of a greatened world: Her kindly care was a sweet temperate sun, Her high passion a blue heaven’s equipoise.||3.35|| As might a s...

From: Savitri - Book Seven, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces Part of : VII:iv Section 2 (123) I stand upon earth’s paths of danger and grief And help the unfortunate and save the doomed. ||123.11|| To the strong I bring the guerdon of their strength, To the weak I bring the armour of my force; To men who long I carry their coveted joy: I am fortune justifying the great and wise By the sanction of t...

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 Force, the inevitable Word, The ma...