Savitri – Eine Legende und ein Symbol. Sri Aurobindo

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      It was torn out from its mortality

      And underwent a new and bourneless change.

      An Omniscient knowing without sight or thought,

      An indecipherable Omnipotence,

      A mystic Form that could contain the worlds,

      Yet make one human breast its passionate shrine,

      Drew him out of his seeking loneliness

      Into the magnitudes of God’s embrace.

      As when a timeless Eye annuls the hours

      Abolishing the agent and the act,

      So now his spirit shone out wide, blank, pure:

      His wakened mind became an empty slate

      On which the Universal and Sole could write.

      All that represses our fallen consciousness

      Was taken from him like a forgotten load:

      A fire that seemed the body of a god

      Consumed the limiting figures of the past

      And made large room for a new self to live.

      Eternity’s contact broke the moulds of sense.

      A greater Force than the earthly held his limbs,

      Huge workings bared his undiscovered sheaths,

      Strange energies wrought and screened tremendous hands

      Unwound the triple cord of mind and freed

      The heavenly wideness of a Godhead’s gaze.

      As through a dress the wearer’s shape is seen,

      There reached through forms to the hidden absolute

      A cosmic feeling and transcendent sight.

      Increased and heightened were the instruments.

      Illusion lost her aggrandising lens;

      As from her failing hand the measures fell,

      Atomic looked the things that loomed so large.

      The little ego’s ring could join no more;

      In the enormous spaces of the self

      The body now seemed only a wandering shell,

      His mind the many-frescoed outer court

      Of an imperishable Inhabitant:

      His spirit breathed a superhuman air.

      The imprisoned deity rent its magic fence.

      As with a sound of thunder and of seas,

      Vast barriers crashed around the huge escape.

      Immutably coeval with the world,

      Circle and end of every hope and toil

      Inexorably drawn round thought and act,

      The fixed immovable peripheries

      Effaced themselves beneath the Incarnate’s tread.

      The dire velamen and the bottomless crypt

      Between which life and thought for ever move,

      Forbidden still to cross the dim dread bounds,

      The guardian darknesses mute and formidable,

      Empowered to circumscribe the wingless spirit

      In the boundaries of Mind and Ignorance,

      Protecting no more a dual eternity

      Vanished rescinding their enormous role:

      Once figure of creation’s vain ellipse,

      The expanding zero lost its giant curve.

      The old adamantine vetoes stood no more:

      Overpowered were earth and Nature’s obsolete rule;

      The python coils of the restricting Law

      Could not restrain the swift arisen God:

      Abolished were the scripts of destiny.

      There was no small death-hunted creature more,

      No fragile form of being to preserve

      From an all-swallowing Immensity.

      The great hammer-beats of a pent-up world-heart

      Burst open the narrow dams that keep us safe

      Against the forces of the universe.

      The soul and cosmos faced as equal powers.

      A boundless being in a measureless Time

      Invaded Nature with the infinite;

      He saw unpathed, unwalled, his titan scope.

      All was uncovered to his sealless eye.

      A secret Nature stripped of her defence,

      Once in a dreaded half-light formidable,

      Overtaken in her mighty privacy

      Lay bare to the burning splendour of his will.

      In shadowy chambers lit by a strange sun

      And opening hardly to hid mystic keys

      Her perilous arcanes and hooded Powers

      Confessed the advent of a mastering Mind

      And bore the compulsion of a time-born gaze.

      Incalculable in their wizard modes,

      Immediate and invincible in the act,

      Her secret strengths native to greater worlds

      Lifted above our needy limited scope,

      The occult privilege of demigods

      And the sure power-pattern of her cryptic signs,

      Her diagrams of geometric force,

      Her potencies of marvel-fraught design

      Courted employment by an earth-nursed might.

      A conscious Nature’s quick machinery

      Armed with a latent splendour of miracle

      The prophet-passion of a seeing Mind,

      And the lightning bareness of a free soul-force.

      All once impossible deemed could now become

      A natural limb of possibility,

      A new domain of normalcy supreme.

      An almighty occultist erects in Space

      This seeming outward world which tricks the sense;

      He weaves his hidden threads of consciousness,

      He builds bodies for his shapeless energy;

      Out of the unformed and vacant Vast he has made

      His sorcery of solid images,

      His magic of formative number and design,

      The fixed irrational links none can annul,

      This criss-cross tangle of invisible laws;

      His infallible rules, his covered processes,

      Achieve unerringly an inexplicable

      Creation where our error carves dead frames

      Of knowledge for a living ignorance.

      In her mystery’s moods divorced from the Maker’s laws

      She too as sovereignly creates her field,

      Her will shaping the undetermined vasts,

      Making