{"id":2462,"date":"2013-07-13T01:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2013-12-03T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T03:54:36","slug":"14-canto-nine-the-paradise-of-the-life-gods-vol-33-34-savitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/33-34-savitri\/14-canto-nine-the-paradise-of-the-life-gods-vol-33-34-savitri","title":{"rendered":"-14_\u00a0Canto Nine – The Paradise of the Life-Gods.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t Canto Nine <\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Paradise of the Life-Gods<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tA<\/font>ROUND<\/b> him shone a great felicitous Day.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA lustre of some rapturous Infinite,<\/p>\n

It held in the splendour of its golden laugh<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRegions of the heart’s happiness set free,<\/p>\n

Intoxicated with the wine of God,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmersed in light, perpetually divine.<\/p>\n

A favourite and intimate of the Gods<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tObeying the divine command to joy,<\/p>\n

It was the sovereign of its own delight<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd master of the kingdoms of its force.<\/p>\n

Assured of the bliss for which all forms were made,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tUnmoved by fear and grief and the shocks of Fate<\/p>\n

And unalarmed by the breath of fleeting Time<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd unbesieged by adverse circumstance,<\/p>\n

It breathed in a sweet secure unguarded ease<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFree from our body’s frailty inviting death,<\/p>\n

Far from our danger-zone of stumbling Will.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt needed not to curb its passionate beats;<\/p>\n

Thrilled by the clasp of the warm satisfied sense<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd the swift wonder-rush and flame and cry<\/p>\n

Of the life-impulses’ red magnificent race,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God<\/p>\n

And lay on the breast of universal love.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImmune the unfettered Spirit of Delight<\/p>\n

Pastured his gleaming sun-herds and moon-flocks<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAlong the lyric speed of griefless streams<\/p>\n

In fragrance of the unearthly asphodel.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA silence of felicity wrapped the heavens,<\/p>\n

A careless radiance smiled upon the heights;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA murmur of inarticulate ravishment<\/p>\n

Trembled in the winds and touched the enchanted soil;<\/p>\n

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Incessant in the arms of ecstasy<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRepeating its sweet involuntary note<\/p>\n

A sob of rapture flowed along the hours.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAdvancing under an arch of glory and peace,<\/p>\n

Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs one who sees in the World-Magician’s glass<\/p>\n

A miracled imagery of soul-scapes flee<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe traversed scenes of an immortal joy<\/p>\n

And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAround him was a light of conscious suns<\/p>\n

And a brooding gladness of great symbol things;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo meet him crowded plains of brilliant calm,<\/p>\n

Mountains and violet valleys of the Blest,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tDeep glens of joy and crooning waterfalls<\/p>\n

And woods of quivering purple solitude;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBelow him lay like gleaming jewelled thoughts<\/p>\n

Rapt dreaming cities of Gandharva kings.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAcross the vibrant secrecies of Space<\/p>\n

A dim and happy music sweetly stole,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSmitten by unseen hands he heard heart-close<\/p>\n

The harps’ cry of the heavenly minstrels pass,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd voices of unearthly melody<\/p>\n

Chanted the glory of eternal love<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn the white-blue-moonbeam air of Paradise.<\/p>\n

A summit and core of all that marvellous world,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tApart stood high Elysian nameless hills,<\/p>\n

Burning like sunsets in a trance of eve.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAs if to some new unsearched profundity,<\/p>\n

Into a joyful stillness plunged their base;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTheir slopes through a hurry of laughter and voices sank,<\/p>\n

Crossed by a throng of singing rivulets,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAdoring blue heaven with their happy hymn,<\/p>\n

Down into woods of shadowy secrecy:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLifted into wide voiceless mystery<\/p>\n

Their peaks climbed towards a greatness beyond life.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe shining Edens of the vital gods<\/p>\n

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Received him in their deathless harmonies.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll things were perfect there that flower in Time;<\/p>\n

Beauty was there creation’s native mould,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPeace was a thrilled voluptuous purity.<\/p>\n

There Love fulfilled her gold and roseate dreams<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd Strength her crowned and mighty reveries;<\/p>\n

Desire climbed up, a swift omnipotent flame,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd Pleasure had the stature of the gods;<\/p>\n

Dream walked along the highways of the stars;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSweet common things turned into miracles:<\/p>\n

Overtaken by the spirit’s sudden spell,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSmitten by a divine passion’s alchemy,<\/p>\n

Pain’s self compelled transformed to potent joy<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCuring the antithesis twixt heaven and hell.<\/p>\n

All life’s high visions are embodied there,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer wandering hopes achieved, her aureate combs<\/p>\n

Caught by the honey-eater’s darting tongue,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer burning guesses changed to ecstasied truths,<\/p>\n

Her mighty pantings stilled in deathless calm<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd liberated her immense desires.<\/p>\n

In that paradise of perfect heart and sense<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tNo lower note could break the endless charm<\/p>\n

Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHer steps are sure of their intuitive fall.<\/p>\n

After the anguish of the soul’s long strife<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAt length were found calm and celestial rest<\/p>\n

And, lapped in a magic flood of sorrowless hours,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHealed were his warrior nature’s wounded limbs<\/p>\n

In the encircling arms of Energies<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThat brooked no stain and feared not their own bliss.<\/p>\n

In scenes forbidden to our pallid sense<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAmid miraculous scents and wonder-hues<\/p>\n

He met the forms that divinise the sight,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTo music that can immortalise the mind<\/p>\n

And make the heart wide as infinity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tListened, and captured the inaudible<\/p>\n

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Cadences that awake the occult ear:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOut of the ineffable hush it hears them come<\/p>\n

Trembling with the beauty of a wordless speech,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd thoughts too great and deep to find a voice,<\/p>\n

Thoughts whose desire new-makes the universe.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA scale of sense that climbed with fiery feet<\/p>\n

To heights of unimagined happiness,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tRecast his being’s aura in joy-glow,<\/p>\n

His body glimmered like a skiey shell;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHis gates to the world were swept with seas of light.<\/p>\n

His earth, dowered with celestial competence,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHarboured a power that needed now no more<\/p>\n

To cross the closed customs-line of mind and flesh<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd smuggle godhead into humanity.<\/p>\n

It shrank no more from the supreme demand<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOf an untired capacity for bliss,<\/p>\n

A might that could explore its own infinite<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd beauty and passion and the depths’ reply<\/p>\n

Nor feared the swoon of glad identity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWhere spirit and flesh in inner ecstasy join<\/p>\n

Annulling the quarrel between self and shape.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt drew from sight and sound spiritual power,<\/p>\n

Made sense a road to reach the intangible:<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIt thrilled with the supernal influences<\/p>\n

That build the substance of life’s deeper soul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEarth-nature stood reborn, comrade of heaven.<\/p>\n

A fit companion of the timeless Kings,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEqualled with the godheads of the living Suns,<\/p>\n

He mixed in the radiant pastimes of the Unborn,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHeard whispers of the Player never seen<\/p>\n

And listened to his voice that steals the heart<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd draws it to the breast of God’s desire,<\/p>\n

And felt its honey of felicity<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFlow through his veins like the rivers of Paradise,<\/p>\n

Made body a nectar-cup of the Absolute.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIn sudden moments of revealing flame,<\/p>\n

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In passionate responses half-unveiled<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe reached the rim of ecstasies unknown;<\/p>\n

A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,<\/p>\n

And hints leaped down of white beatitudes.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEternity drew close disguised as Love<\/p>\n

And laid its hand upon the body of Time.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tA little gift comes from the Immensitudes,<\/p>\n

But measureless to life its gain of joy;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAll the untold Beyond is mirrored there.<\/p>\n

A giant drop of the Bliss unknowable<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOverwhelmed his limbs and round his soul became<\/p>\n

A fiery ocean of felicity;<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tHe foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts:<\/p>\n

The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe rapture that the gods sustain he bore.<\/p>\n

Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAnd turned his strength into undying power.<\/p>\n

Immortality captured Time and carried Life.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tEND OF<\/font> CANTO<\/font> NINE<\/font><\/p>\n

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