“SAVITRI” by Sri Aurobindo (Republished edition of the 1st edition 1950-51, draft approved by Sri Aurobindo before his death) Book Two—The Book of The Traveller of the Worlds (Contd. from yesterday July 2, 2013) Canto FOURTEEN THE WORLD-SOUL The silent soul of all the world was there: A Being lived, a Presence and a Power, A single Person who was himself and all And cherished Nature’s sweet and dangerous throbs Transfigured into beats divine and pure. One who could love without return for love, Meeting and turning to the best the worst, It healed the bitter cruelties of earth Transforming all experience to delight; Intervening in the sorrowful paths of birth It rocked the cradle of the cosmic Child And stilled all weeping with its hand of joy; It led things evil towards their secret good, It turned racked falsehood into happy truth; Its power was to reveal divinity. Infinite, coeval with the mind of God, It bore within itself a seed, a flame, A seed from which the Eternal is new-born, A flame that cancels death in mortal things. All grew to all kindred and self and near, The intimacy of God was everywhere, No veil was felt, no brute barrier inert, Distance could not divide, Time could not change. A fire of passion burned in spirit-depths, A constant touch of sweetness linked all hearts, The throb of one adoration’s single bliss In a rapt ether of undying love. An inner happiness abode in all, A sense of universal harmonies, A measureless secure eternity Of truth and beauty and good and joy made one. There was the welling core of finite life; A formless spirit became the soul of form.
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