{"id":3384,"date":"2013-07-13T01:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:47:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:47:58","slug":"24-book-3-canto-2-the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother-vol-01-savitri-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/02-other-editions\/01-savitri\/01-savitri-1950\/24-book-3-canto-2-the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother-vol-01-savitri-1950","title":{"rendered":"-24_ Book 3 Canto 2 The Adoration of The Divine Mother.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CANTO TWO<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTHE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE
\nMOTHER<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nA STILLNESS absolute,
\nincommunicable,<\/p>\n

\nMeets the sheer self-discovery of the soul; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nA wall of stillness shuts it from
\nthe world,<\/p>\n

\nA gulf of stillness swallows up the sense<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd makes unreal all that mind has known,<\/p>\n

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\nAll that the labouring senses still would weave<\/p>\n

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\nProlonging an imaged unreality.<\/p>\n

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\nSelf’s vast spiritual silence occupies space;
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOnly the Inconceivable is left,<\/p>\n

\nOnly the Nameless without space and time: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAbolished is the burdening need of
\nlife: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThought falls from us, we cease
\nfrom joy and grief; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe ego is dead; we are free from
\nbeing and care,<\/p>\n

\nWe have done with birth and death and work and fate.<\/p>\n

\n

\n0 soul, it is too early to rejoice!<\/p>\n

\n

\nThou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nBut where hast thou thrown self’s
\nmission and self’s power?<\/p>\n

\nOn what dead bank on the Eterrnal’s road?<\/p>\n

\n

\nOne was within thee who was self and world,<\/p>\n

\n

\nWhat hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?<\/p>\n

\n

\nEscape brings not the victory and the crown!<\/p>\n

\n

\nSomething thou cam’st to do from the Unknown,<\/p>\n

\n

\nBut nothing is finished and the world goes on,<\/p>\n

\n

\nBecause only half God’s cosmic work is done.<\/p>\n

\n

\nOnly the everlasting No has neared<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nBut where is the Lover’s
\neverlasting Yes,<\/p>\n

\nAnd immortality in the secret heart,<\/p>\n

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\nThe voice that chants to the creator Fire, <\/p>\n

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\nThe symboled OM, the great
\nassenting Word,<\/p>\n

\nThe bridge between the rapture and the calm,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe passion and the beauty of the Bride,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe smile that saves, the golden peak of things?<\/p>\n

\n

\nThis too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life.<\/p>\n

\n

\nA black veil has been lifted; we have seen<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe mighty shadow of the omniscient Lord; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nBut who has lifted up the veil of
\nlight<\/p>\n

\nAnd who has seen the body of the King?<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe mystery of God’s birth and acts remains<\/p>\n

\n

\nLeaving unbroken the last chapter’s seal,<\/p>\n

\n

\nUnsolved the riddle of the unfinished Play; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nThe cosmic Player laughs within his
\nmask, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd still the last inviolate secret
\nhides <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBehind the human glory of a Form, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBehind the gold eidolon of a Name. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA large white line has figured as a
\ngoal, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut far beyond the ineffable
\nsuntracks blaze. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat seemed the source and end was
\na wide gate, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA last bare step into eternity. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn eye has opened upon
\ntimelessness, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInfinity takes back the forms it
\ngave, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd through God’s darkness or his
\nnaked light <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHis million rays return into the
\nSun. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere is a zero sign of the
\nSupreme; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNature left nude and still uncovers
\nGod.<\/p>\n

\nBut in her grandiose nothingness all is there: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nWhen her strong garbs are torn away
\nfrom us,<\/p>\n

\nThe soul’s ignorance is slain but not the soul.<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe zero covers an immortal face.<\/p>\n

\n

\nA high and black negation is not all,<\/p>\n

\n

\nA huge extinction is not God’s last word,<\/p>\n

\n

\nLife’s ultimate sense, the close of being’s course,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe meaning of this great mysterious world.<\/p>\n

\n

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\nIn absolute silence sleeps an
\nabsolute Power.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAwaking, it can wake the trance-bound soul<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd in the ray reveal the parent sun: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIt can make the world a vessel of
\nSpirit’s force,<\/p>\n

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\nIt can fashion in the clay God’s
\nperfect shape. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nTo free the self is but one radiant
\npace,<\/p>\n

\nHere to fulfil himself was God’s desire. <\/p>\n

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\n

\n     Even while
\nhe stood on being’s naked edge<\/p>\n

\nAnd all the passion and seeking of his soul<\/p>\n

\n

\nFaced their extinction in some featureless Vast,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe Presence he yearned for suddenly drew close.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAcross the silence of the ultimate Calm,<\/p>\n

\n

\nOut of a marvellous Transcendence’ core,<\/p>\n

\n

\nA body of wonder and translucency<\/p>\n

\n

\nAs if a sweet mystic summary of her self,<\/p>\n

\n

\nEscaping into the original Bliss<\/p>\n

\n

\nHad come enlarged out of eternity,<\/p>\n

\n

\nSomeone came infinite and absolute.<\/p>\n

\n

\nA being of wisdom, power and delight,<\/p>\n

\n

\nEven as a mother draws her child to her arms,<\/p>\n

\n

\nTook to her breast Nature and world and soul.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAbolishing the signless emptiness,<\/p>\n

\n

\nBreaking the vacancy and voiceless hush,<\/p>\n

\n

\nPiercing the limitless Unknowable,<\/p>\n

\n

\nInto the liberty of the motionless depths<\/p>\n

\n

\nA beautiful and felicitous lustre stole,<\/p>\n

\n

\nImaged itself in a surprising beam<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd built a golden passage to his heart<\/p>\n

\n

\nTouching through him all longing sentient things.<\/p>\n

\n

\nA moment’s sweetness of the All-Beautiful<\/p>\n

\n

\nCancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.<\/p>\n

\n

\nA Nature throbbing with a Heart divine<\/p>\n

\n

\nWas felt in the unconscious universe; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIt made the breath a happy mystery <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd brought a love sustaining pain
\nwith joy; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA love that bore the cross of pain
\nwith joy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEudaemonised the sorrow of the
\nworld, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMade happy the weight of long
\nunending Time, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe secret caught of God’s
\nfelicity. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAffirming in life a hidden ecstasy <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt held the spirit to its
\nmiraculous course; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCarrying immortal values to the
\nhours <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt justified the labour of the
\nsuns. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor one was there supreme behind
\nthe God.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nA Mother Might brooded upon the
\nworld; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Consciousness revealed its
\nmarvellous front<\/p>\n

\nTranscending all that is, denying none: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nImperishable above our fallen heads<\/p>\n

\nHe felt a rapturous and unstumbling Force.<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe undying Truth appeared, the enduring Power<\/p>\n

\n

\nOf all that here is made and then destroyed,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe Mother of all godheads and all strengths<\/p>\n

\n

\nWho, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme.<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe Enigma ceased that rules our nature’s night,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe covering Nescience was unmasked and slain; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIts mind of error was stripped off
\nfrom things<\/p>\n

\nAnd the dull moods of its perverting will.<\/p>\n

\n

\nIllumined by her all-seeing identity<\/p>\n

\n

\nKnowledge and Ignorance could strive no more; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nNo longer could the titan
\nOpposites, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAntagonist poles of the world’s
\nartifice, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImpose the illusion of their
\ntwofold screen <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThrowing their figures between us
\nand her. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Wisdom was near, disguised by
\nits own works, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf which the darkened universe is
\nthe robe. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNo more existence seemed an aimless
\nfall, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nExtinction was no more the sole
\nrelease. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe hidden Word was found, the
\nlong-sought clue, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRevealed was the meaning of our
\nspirit’s birth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCondemned to an imperfect body and
\nmind, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the inconscience of material
\nthings <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the indignity of mortal life. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Heart was felt in the spaces wide
\nand bare, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA burning Love from white spiritual
\nfounts <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnnulled the sorrow of the ignorant
\ndepths; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSuffering was lost in her immortal
\nsmile. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Life from beyond grew conqueror
\nhere of Death; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo err no more was natural to mind; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWrong could not come where all was
\nlight and love. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Formless and the Formed were
\njoined in her. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImmensity was exceeded by a look, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Face revealed the crowded
\nInfinite. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIncarnating inexpressibly in her
\nlimbs <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe boundless joy the blind
\nworld-forces seek, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nHer body of beauty mooned the seas
\nof bliss.<\/p>\n

\nAt the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,<\/p>\n

\n

\nIn their slow round the cycles, turn to her call; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAlone her hands can change Time’s
\ndragon base.<\/p>\n

\nHers is the mystery the Night conceals; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nThe spirit’s alchemist energy is
\nhers; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShe is the golden bridge, the
\nwonderful fire.<\/p>\n

\nThe luminous heart of the Unknown is she,<\/p>\n

\n

\nA power of silence in the depths of God; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nShe is the Force, the inevitable
\nWord,<\/p>\n

\nThe magnet of our difficult ascent,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe Sun from which we kindle all our suns,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe joy that beckons from the impossible,<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe Might of all that never yet came down.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll Nature dumbly calls to her alone<\/p>\n

\n

\nTo heal with her feet the aching throb of life<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd break the seals on the dim soul of man<\/p>\n

\n

\nAnd kindle her fire in the closed heart of things.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll here shall be one day her sweetness’s home,<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll contraries prepare her harmony; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nTowards her our knowledge climbs,
\nour passion gropes, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn her miraculous rapture we shall
\ndwell, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHer clasp will turn to ecstasy our
\npain. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOur self shall be one self with all
\nthrough her. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn her confirmed because
\ntransformed in her, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOur life shall find in its
\nfulfilled response <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAbove, the boundless hushed
\nbeatitudes, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBelow, the wonder of the embrace
\ndivine. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThis known as in a thunder-flash of
\nGod, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe rapture of things eternal
\nfilled his limbs; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAmazement fell upon his ravished
\nsense; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHis spirit was caught in her
\nintolerant flame.<\/p>\n

\nOnce seen, his heart acknowledged only her.<\/p>\n

\n

\nOnly a hunger of infinite bliss was left.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll aims in her were lost, then found in her; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nHis base was gathered into one
\npointing spire. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n     Thus was a
\nseed cast into endless Time.<\/p>\n

\nA Word is spoken or a Light is shown, <\/p>\n

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\nA moment sees, the ages toil to
\nexpress.<\/p>\n

\nSo flashing out of the Timeless leaped the worlds,<\/p>\n

\n

\nAn eternal instant is the cause of the years.<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll he had done was to prepare a field; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nHis small beginnings asked for a
\nmighty end: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor all that he had been must now
\nnew-shape<\/p>\n

\nIn him her joy to embody, to enshrine<\/p>\n

\n

\nHer beauty and greatness in his house of life.<\/p>\n

\n

\nBut now his being was too wide for self; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nHis heart’s demand had grown
\nimmeasurable: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHis single freedom could not
\nsatisfy,<\/p>\n

\nHer light, her bliss he asked for earth and men.<\/p>\n

\n

\nBut vain are human power and human love<\/p>\n

\n

\nTo break earth’s seal of ignorance and death; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nHis nature’s might seemed now an
\ninfant’s grasp; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHeaven is too high for outstretched
\nhands to seize.<\/p>\n

\nThis Light comes not by struggle or by thought; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIn the mind’s silence the
\nTranscendent acts <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the hushed heart hears the
\nunuttered Word. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA vast surrender was his only
\nstrength. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Power that lives upon the heights
\nmust act, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBring into life’s closed room the
\nImmortal’s air <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd fill the finite with the
\nInfinite. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll that denies must be torn out
\nand slain <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd crushed the many longings for
\nwhose sake <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWe lose the One for whom our lives
\nwere made. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNow other claims had hushed in him
\ntheir cry: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOnly he longed to draw her presence
\nand power<\/p>\n

\nInto his heart and mind and breathing frame; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nOnly he yearned to call for ever
\ndown<\/p>\n

\nHer healing touch of love and truth and joy<\/p>\n

\n

\nInto the darkness of the suffering world.<\/p>\n

\n

\nHis soul was freed and given to her alone. <\/p>\n

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\nEND OF CANTO TWO<\/font><\/p>\n

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