“SAVITRI” by Sri Aurobindo (Republished edition of the 1st edition 1950-51, draft approved by Sri Aurobindo before his death) Book Six—The Book of Fate (Contd. from yesterday, November 23, 2013) Canto I The WORD OF FATE But Savitri replied with steadfast eyes: “My will is part of the eternal will, My fate is what my spirit’s strength can make, My fate is what my spirit’s strength can bear; My strength is not the titan’s, it is God’s. I have discovered my glad reality Beyond my body in another’s being: I found the deep unchanging soul of love. Then how shall I desire a lonely good, Or slay, aspiring to white vacant peace, The endless hope that made my soul spring forth Out of its infinite solitude and sleep? My spirit has glimpsed the glory for which it came, Beating of one vast heart in the flame of things, My eternity clasped by his eternity And, tireless of the sweet abysms of Time, Deep possibility always to love. This, this is first, last joy and to its throb The riches of a thousand fortunate years Are a poverty. Nothing to me are death and grief Or ordinary lives and happy days. And what to me are common souls of men Or eyes and lips that are not Satyavan’s? I have no need to draw back from his arms And the discovered paradise of his love And journey into a still infinity. Only now for my soul in Satyavan I treasure the rich occasion of my birth: In sunlight and a dream of emerald ways I shall, walk with him like gods in Paradise. If for a year, that year is all my life And yet I know this is not all my fate Only to live and love awhile and die.
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