(Introducing Savitri)
Today we read the following passage:
And Savitri too awoke among these tribes
That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner's chant
And, lured by the beauty of the apparent ways,
Acclaimed their portion of ephemeral joy.
Akin to the eternity whence she came,
No part she took in this small happiness;
A mighty stranger in the human field,
The embodied Guest within made no response.
The call that wakes the leap of human mind,
Its chequered eager motion of pursuit,
Its fluttering-hued illusion of desire,
Visited her heart like a sweet alien note.
Time's message of brief light was not for her.
In her there was the anguish of the gods
Imprisoned in our transient human mould,
The deathless conquered by the death of things.
A vaster Nature's joy had once been hers,
But long could keep not its gold heavenly hue
Or stand upon this brittle earthly base. (Savitri: 6)
In The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo traces the evolution of human society and suggests where it is headed.
Sometimes it is good to look back and try to see and understand how the Ashram life shaped itself in the beginning with the...
Now we continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ by Sri Aurobindo, and take the chapters five to ten.
