Sri Aurobindo
Savitri A Legend and a Symbol
PART ONE BOOK TWO The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Eleven The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
Savitri A Legend and a Symbol
PART ONE BOOK TWO The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto Eleven The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
- There ceased the limits of the labouring Power.
- But being and creation cease not there.
- For Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,
- It is greater than its earthly instrument:
- The godhead crammed into mind's narrow space
- Escapes on every side into some vast
- That is a passage to infinity.
- It moves eternal in the spirit's field,
- A runner towards the far spiritual light,
- A child and servant of the spirit's force.
- But mind too falls back from a nameless peak.
- His being stretched beyond the sight of Thought.
- For the spirit is eternal and unmade
- And not by thinking was its greatness born,
- And not by thinking can its knowledge come.
- It knows itself and in itself it lives,
- It moves where no thought is nor any form.
- Its feet are steadied upon finite things,
- Its wings can dare to cross the Infinite.
- Arriving into his ken a wonder space
- Of great and marvellous meetings called his steps,
- Where Thought leaned on a Vision beyond thought
- And shaped a world from the Unthinkable.
- On peaks imagination cannot tread,
- In the horizons of a tireless sight,
- Under a blue veil of eternity
- The splendours of ideal Mind were seen
- Outstretched across the boundaries of things known.
- Origin of the little that we are,
- Instinct with the endless more that we must be,
- A prop of all that human strength enacts,
- Creator of hopes by earth unrealised,
- It spreads beyond the expanding universe;
- It wings beyond the boundaries of Dream,
- It overtops the ceiling of life's soar.
- Awake in a luminous sphere unbound by Thought,
- Exposed to omniscient immensities,
- It casts on our world its great crowned influences,
- Its speed that outstrips the ambling of the hours,
- Its force that strides invincibly through Time,
- Its mights that bridge the gulf twixt man and God,
- Its lights that combat Ignorance and Death.
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