{"id":507,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=507"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:27","slug":"23-book-3-canto-02-the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother-vol-28-savitri-volume-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/28-savitri-volume-28\/23-book-3-canto-02-the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother-vol-28-savitri-volume-28","title":{"rendered":"-23_Book 3 Canto 02 The Adoration of the Divine Mother.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nCanto Two<\/i> <\/p>\n

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\nThe Adoration of
\nthe Divine Mother<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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A stillness absolute, incommunicable,<\/p>\n

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

A wall of stillness shuts it from the world,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

Self’s vast spiritual silence occupies
\nspace;<\/p>\n

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

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

Abolished is the burdening need of life:<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

But where hast thou thrown
\nself’s mission and self’s power?<\/p>\n

On what dead bank on the Eternal’s road?<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But where is the Lover’s everlasting Yes,<\/p>\n

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

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

The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word, <\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But who has lifted up the veil of light<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

The cosmic Player laughs within his mask,<\/p>\n

And still the last inviolate secret hides<\/p>\n

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

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

A large white line has figured as a goal,<\/p>\n

But far beyond the ineffable suntracks
\nblaze.<\/p>\n

What seemed the source and end was a wide gate,<\/p>\n

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

An eye has opened upon timelessness,<\/p>\n

Infinity takes back the forms it gave,<\/p>\n

And through God’s darkness or his naked light<\/p>\n

His million rays return into the Sun.<\/p>\n

There is a zero sign of the Supreme;<\/p>\n

Nature left nude and still uncovers God.<\/p>\n

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

When her strong garbs are torn away from us,<\/p>\n

The soul’s ignorance
\nis slain but not the soul.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It can fashion in the clay God’s perfect shape.<\/p>\n

To free the self is but one radiant pace;<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful and felicitous lustre
\nstole,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It made the breath a
\nhappy mystery<\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\tbrought a love  sustaining pain with joy;<\/p>\n

A love that bore the cross of pain with joy<\/p>\n

Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world, <\/p>\n

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Made happy the weight of long unending Time,<\/p>\n

The secret caught of God’s felicity.<\/p>\n

Affirming in life a hidden ecstasy<\/p>\n

It held the spirit to its miraculous course;<\/p>\n

Carrying immortal values to the hours<\/p>\n

It justified the labour of the suns.<\/p>\n

For one was there supreme behind the God.<\/p>\n

A Mother Might brooded upon the world;<\/p>\n

A Consciousness revealed its marvellous front<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Its mind of error was stripped off from things<\/p>\n

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

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

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

No longer could the titan Opposites,<\/p>\n

Antagonist poles of the world’s artifice,<\/p>\n

Impose the illusion of their twofold screen<\/p>\n

Throwing their figures between us and her.<\/p>\n

The Wisdom was near, disguised by its own works,<\/p>\n

Of which the darkened universe is the robe.<\/p>\n

No more existence seemed an aimless fall,<\/p>\n

Extinction was no more the sole release.<\/p>\n

The hidden Word was found, the long-sought clue,<\/p>\n

Revealed was the meaning of our spirit’s birth,<\/p>\n

Condemned to an imperfect body and mind,<\/p>\n

In the inconscience of material things<\/p>\n

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

A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare, <\/p>\n

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A burning Love from white spiritual founts<\/p>\n

Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths;<\/p>\n

Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.<\/p>\n

A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of
\nDeath;<\/p>\n

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

Wrong could not come where all was light and love.<\/p>\n

The Formless and the
\nFormed were joined in her.<\/p>\n

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

A Face revealed the crowded Infinite.<\/p>\n

Incarnating inexpressibly in her limbs<\/p>\n

The boundless joy the blind world-forces seek,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base.<\/p>\n

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

The spirit’s alchemist energy is hers;<\/p>\n

She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.<\/p>\n

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

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

She is the Force, the inevitable Word,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All contraries prepare her harmony;<\/p>\n

Towards her our
\nknowledge climbs, our passion gropes,<\/p>\n

In her miraculous rapture we shall dwell,<\/p>\n

Her clasp will turn to ecstasy our pain.<\/p>\n

Our self shall be one self with all through her. <\/p>\n

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In her confirmed because transformed in her,<\/p>\n

Our life shall find in its fulfilled response<\/p>\n

Above, the boundless hushed beatitudes,<\/p>\n

Below, the wonder of the embrace divine.<\/p>\n

This known as in a thunder-flash of God,<\/p>\n

The rapture of things eternal filled his limbs;<\/p>\n

Amazement fell upon his ravished sense;<\/p>\n

His spirit was caught in her intolerant flame.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

His base was gathered
\ninto one pointing spire.<\/p>\n

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

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

A moment sees, the ages toil to express.<\/p>\n

So flashing out of the Timeless leaped the worlds;<\/p>\n

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

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

His small beginnings asked for a mighty end:<\/p>\n

For all that he had been must now new-shape<\/p>\n

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

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

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

His heart’s demand had grown immeasurable:<\/p>\n

His single freedom could not satisfy,<\/p>\n

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

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

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

His nature’s might seemed now an infant’s grasp;<\/p>\n

Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize.<\/p>\n

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

In the mind’s silence the Transcendent acts<\/p>\n

And the hushed heart hears the unuttered Word.<\/p>\n

A vast surrender was his only strength.<\/p>\n

A Power that lives upon the heights must act, <\/p>\n

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Bring into life’s closed room the Immortal’s air<\/p>\n

And fill the finite with the Infinite.<\/p>\n

All that denies must be torn out and slain<\/p>\n

And crushed the many longings for whose sake<\/p>\n

We lose the One for whom our lives were made.<\/p>\n

Now other claims had hushed in him their cry:<\/p>\n

Only he longed to draw her presence and power<\/p>\n

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

Only he yearned to call for ever down<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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End of Canto Two <\/p>\n

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