Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

      In the impetuous drive of thy heart of flame,

      In thy passion to deliver man and earth,

      Indignant at the impediments of Time

      And the slow evolution’s sluggard steps,

      Lead not the spirit in an ignorant world

      To dare too soon the adventure of the Light,

      Pushing the bound and slumbering god in man

      Awakened mid the ineffable silences

      Into endless vistas of the unknown and unseen,

      Across the last confines of the limiting Mind

      And the Superconscient’s perilous border line

      Into the danger of the Infinite.

      But if thou wilt not wait for Time and God,

      Do then thy work and force thy will on Fate.

      As I have taken from thee my load of night

      And taken from thee my twilight’s doubts and dreams,

      So now I take my light of utter Day.

      These are my symbol kingdoms but not here

      Can the great choice be made that fixes fate

      Or uttered the sanction of the Voice supreme.

      Arise upon a ladder of greater worlds

      To the infinity where no world can be.

      But not in the wide air where a greater Life

      Uplifts its mystery and its miracle,

      And not on the luminous peaks of summit Mind,

      Or in the hold where subtle Matter’s spirit

      Hides in its light of shimmering secrecies,

      Can there be heard the Eternal’s firm command

      That joins the head of destiny to its base.

      These only are the mediating links;

      Not theirs is the originating sight

      Nor the fulfilling act or last support

      That bears perpetually the cosmic pile.

      Two are the Powers that hold the ends of Time;

      Spirit foresees, Matter unfolds its thought,

      The dumb executor of God’s decrees,

      Omitting no iota and no dot,

      Agent unquestioning, inconscient, stark,

      Evolving inevitably a charged content,

      Intention of his force in Time and Space,

      In animate beings and inanimate things;

      Immutably it fulfils its ordered task,

      It cancels not a tittle of things done;

      Unswerving from the oracular command

      It alters not the steps of the Unseen.

      If thou must indeed deliver man and earth

      On the spiritual heights look down on life,

      Discover the truth of God and man and world;

      Then do thy task knowing and seeing all.

      Ascend, O soul, into thy timeless self;

      Choose destiny’s curve and stamp thy will on Time.”

      He ended and upon the falling sound

      A power went forth that shook the founded spheres

      And loosed the stakes that hold the tents of form.

      Absolved from vision’s grip and the folds of thought,

      Rapt from her sense like disappearing scenes

      In the stupendous theatre of Space

      The heaven-worlds vanished in spiritual light.

      A movement was abroad, a cry, a word,

      Beginningless in its vast discovery,

      Momentless in its unthinkable return:

      Choired in calm seas she heard the eternal Thought

      Rhythming itself abroad unutterably

      In spaceless orbits and on timeless roads.

      In an ineffable world she lived fulfilled.

      An energy of the triune Infinite,

      In a measureless Reality she dwelt,

      A rapture and a being and a force,

      A linked and myriad-motioned plenitude,

      A virgin unity, a luminous spouse,

      Housing a multitudinous embrace

      To marry all in God’s immense delight,

      Bearing the eternity of every spirit,

      Bearing the burden of universal love,

      A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls.

      All things she knew, all things imagined or willed:

      Her ear was opened to ideal sound,

      Shape the convention bound no more her sight,

      A thousand doors of oneness was her heart.

      A crypt and sanctuary of brooding light

      Appeared, the last recess of things beyond.

      Then in its rounds the enormous fiat paused,

      Silence gave back to the Unknowable

      All it had given. Still was her listening thought.

      The form of things had ceased within her soul.

      Invisible that perfect godhead now.

      Around her some tremendous spirit lived,

      Mysterious flame around a melting pearl,

      And in the phantom of abolished Space

      There was a voice unheard by ears that cried:

      “Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again;

      For now from my highest being looks at thee

      The nameless formless peace where all things rest.

      In a happy vast sublime cessation know, –

      An immense extinction in eternity,

      A point that disappears in the infinite, –

      Felicity of the extinguished flame,

      Last sinking of a wave in a boundless sea,

      End of the trouble of thy wandering thoughts,

      Close of the journeying of thy pilgrim soul.

      Accept, O music, weariness of thy notes,

      O stream, wide breaking of thy channel banks.”

      The moments fell into eternity.

      But someone yearned within a bosom unknown

      And silently the woman’s heart replied:

      “Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep

      Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time

      For the magnificent soul of man on earth.

      Thy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy.”

      Limitless like ocean round a lonely isle

      A second time the eternal cry arose:

      “Wide open are the ineffable gates in front.