Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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Название Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol
Автор произведения Sri Aurobindo
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my right to my estate;

      A growing godhead in her divinised mud,

      I climb, a claimant to the throne of heaven.

      The last-born of the earth I stand the first;

      Her slow millenniums waited for my birth.

      Although I live in Time besieged by Death,

      Precarious owner of my body and soul

      Housed on a little speck amid the stars,

      For me and my use the universe was made.

      Immortal spirit in the perishing clay,

      I am God still unevolved in human form;

      Even if he is not, he becomes in me.

      The sun and moon are lights upon my path;

      Air was invented for my lungs to breathe,

      Conditioned as a wide and wall-less space

      For my winged chariot’s wheels to cleave a road,

      The sea was made for me to swim and sail

      And bear my golden commerce on its back:

      It laughs cloven by my pleasure’s gliding keel,

      I laugh at its black stare of fate and death.

      The earth is my floor, the sky my living’s roof.

      All was prepared through many a silent age,

      God made experiments with animal shapes,

      Then only when all was ready I was born.

      I was born weak and small and ignorant,

      A helpless creature in a difficult world

      Travelling through my brief years with death at my side;

      I have grown greater than Nature, wiser than God.

      I have made real what she never dreamed,

      I have seized her powers and harnessed for my work,

      I have shaped her metals and new metals made;

      I will make glass and raiment out of milk,

      Make iron velvet, water unbreakable stone,

      Like God in his astuce of artist skill,

      Mould from one primal plasm protean forms,

      In single Nature multitudinous lives,

      All that imagination can conceive

      In mind intangible, remould anew

      In Matter’s plastic solid and concrete.

      No magic can surpass my magic’s skill.

      There is no miracle I shall not achieve.

      What God imperfect left, I will complete,

      Out of a tangled mind and half-made soul

      His sin and error I will eliminate;

      What he invented not, I shall invent:

      He was the first creator, I am the last.

      I have found the atoms from which he built the worlds:

      The first tremendous cosmic energy

      Missioned shall leap to slay my enemy kin,

      Expunge a nation or abolish a race,

      Death’s silence leave where there was laughter and joy.

      Or the fissured invisible shall spend God’s force

      To extend my comforts and expand my wealth,

      To speed my car which now the lightnings drive

      And turn the engines of my miracles.

      I will take his means of sorcery from his hands

      And do with them greater wonders than his best.

      Yet through it all I have kept my balanced thought;

      I have studied my being, I have examined the world,

      I have grown a master of the arts of life.

      I have tamed the wild beast, trained to be my friend;

      He guards my house, looks up waiting my will.

      I have taught my kind to serve and to obey.

      I have used the mystery of the cosmic waves

      To see far distance and to hear far words;

      I have conquered Space and knitted close all earth.

      Soon I shall know the secrets of the Mind;

      I play with knowledge and with ignorance

      And sin and virtue my inventions are

      I can transcend or sovereignly use.

      I shall know mystic truths, seize occult powers.

      I shall slay my enemies with a look or thought,

      I shall sense the unspoken feelings of all hearts

      And see and hear the hidden thoughts of men.

      When earth is mastered, I shall conquer heaven;

      The gods shall be my aides or menial folk,

      No wish I harbour unfulfilled shall die:

      Omnipotence and omniscience shall be mine.”

      And Savitri heard the voice, the warped echo heard

      And turning to her being of power she spoke:

      “Madonna of might, Mother of works and force,

      Thou art a portion of my soul put forth

      To help mankind and help the travail of Time.

      Because thou art in him, man hopes and dares;

      Because thou art, men’s souls can climb the heavens

      And walk like gods in the presence of the Supreme.

      But without wisdom power is like a wind,

      It can breathe upon the heights and kiss the sky,

      It cannot build the extreme eternal things.

      Thou hast given men strength, wisdom thou couldst not give.

      One day I will return, a bringer of light;

      Then will I give to thee the mirror of God;

      Thou shalt see self and world as by him they are seen

      Reflected in the bright pool of thy soul.

      Thy wisdom shall be vast as vast thy power.

      Then hate shall dwell no more in human hearts,

      And fear and weakness shall desert men’s lives,

      The cry of the ego shall be hushed within,

      Its lion roar that claims the world as food,

      All shall be might and bliss and happy force.”

      Ascending still her spirit’s upward route

      She came into a high and happy space,

      A wide tower of vision whence all could be seen

      And all was centred in a single view

      As when by distance separate scenes grow one

      And a harmony is made of hues at war.

      The wind was still and fragrance packed the air.

      There was a carol of birds and murmur of bees,

      And all that is common and natural and sweet,

      Yet intimately divine to heart