Inspiring Lines from Savitri
A long lone line of hesitating hue
Like a vague smile tempting a desert heart
Troubled the far rim of life's obscure sleep. 2 24-27
Its message crept through the reluctant hush
Calling the adventure of consciousness and joy 2 35-36
A memory quivered in the heart of Time 3 5
All can be done if the God-touch is there. 3 11
A gate of dreams ajar on mystery's verge. 3 26
The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak
From the reclining body of a god. 3 29-30
Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues
And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours. 4 3-4
......her luminous smile
Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds. 4 30-31
A spark of deity lost in Matter's crypt 5 23
Outcast from her inborn felicity,
Accepting life's obscure terrestrial robe...
The godhead greater by a human fate. 8 1-2,5
The sacrifice of suffering and desire
Earth offers to the immortal Ecstasy
Began again beneath the eternal Hand. 10 14-16
As in a many-hued flaming inner dawn,
Her life's broad highways and its sweet bypaths
Lay mapped to her sun-clear recording view, 11 16-18
The world unknowing, for the world she stood: 13 22
A dense magnificent coloured self-wrapped life 13 30
A spot for the eternal's tread on earth . . .
Appeared through an aureate opening in Time 14 15,18
Changing to rapture the dull earthly round,
Love came to her hiding the shadow, Death 14 23,24
A priestess of immaculate ecstasies. . .
Moves in some prophet cavern of the gods, 15 4,6
A heart of silence in the hands of joy
Inhabited with rich creative beats
A body like a parable of dawn
That seemed a niche for veiled divinity 15 7-10
In a haven of safety and splendid soft repose
One could drink life back in streams of honey-fire. 15 25-26
An ocean of untrembling virgin fire:
The strength, the silence of the gods were hers. 16 5,6
His high warm subtle ether he refound
And moved in her as in his natural home. 16 8-9
...wondered at this world of fragile forms
Carried on canvas strips of shimmering Time, 16 17-18
The white-fire dragon bird of endless bliss
Drifting with burning wings above her days: 16 29-30
Years like gold raiment of the gods that pass;
Her youth sat throned in calm felicity. 16 33-34
Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life. 18 28
A prayer, a master act, a king idea
Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force. 20 11-12
A pointing beam on earth's uncertain roads,
His birth held up a symbol and a sign; 22 12-13
His mind was like a fire assailing heaven,
His will a hunter in the trails of light. 23 4-5
He seeks through a penumbra shot with flame
A veiled reality half-known, ever missed, 24 22-23
Modelled in inward Time his rhythmic parts. 25 9
A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. 25 17
He sat in secret chambers looking out
Into the luminous countries of the unborn 27 31-32
He saw the Perfect in their starry homes . . .
Lain in the arms of the Eternal's peace,
Rapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy. 27-28 35,1-2
...heard the footsteps of the undreamed Idea
In the far avenues of the Beyond. 28 17,18
The wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant 30 6
And love is a yearning of the One for the One,
And beauty is a sweet difference of the Same 32 1-2
Thought lay down in a mighty voicelessness; 33 28
There grew in him as grows a waxing moon
The glory of the integer of his soul. 35 30-31
A safety in the Silence and the Ray, 36 5
The illusion and mystery of the Inconscient
In whose black pall the Eternal wraps his head 36 30,31
Experience was a tale of blaze and fire,
Air rippled round the argosies of the Gods, 37 13-14
Visits of beauty, storm-sweeps of delight
Rained from the all-powerful Mystery above. 37 19-20
A wisdom-cry from rapt transcendences
Sang on the mountains of an unseen world; 37 24-25
Oft inspiration with her lightning feet, . . .
Traversed the soundless corridors of his mind 38 7,9
Her lifted finger's keen unthinkable tip
Bared with a stab of flame the closed Beyond. 38-39 36,1
The radiant world of the everlasting Truth
Glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
Above the golden Overmind's shimmering ridge. 41 9-11
Silence the nurse of the Almighty's power, 41 16
Time's secrets were to him an oft-read book; 44 18
Lonely his days and splendid like the sun's. 45 5
Our early approaches to the Infinite
Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge 46 2-3
Immortal our forgotten vastnesses
Await discovery in our summit selves; 46 15-16
Our souls can visit in great lonely hours
Still regions of imperishable Light, . . .
And moon-flame oceans of swift fathomless Bliss 47 9,10,12
Knowledge breaks through trailing its radiant seas 47 25
In moment when the inner lamps are lit . . .
Our spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs. 47 34,36
We meet the ecstasy of the Godhead's touch
In golden privacies of immortal fire. 48 17-18
A treasure of honey in the combs of God 49 8
An immortality cowled in the cape of death,
The shape of our unborn divinity. 49 12-13
An aspiration in the Night's profound, . . .
Uplifts its lonely tongue of conscious fire 50 12,14
In Matter shall be lit the spirit's glow,
In body and body kindled the sacred birth; 55 13-14
Alive in a dead rotating universe
We whirl not here upon a casual globe 58 35-36
An outstretched Hand is felt upon our lives. 59 4
She wraps him in the magic of her moods
And makes of his myriad truths her countless dreams. 61 4-5
Author and actor with himself as scene,
He moves there as the Soul, as Nature she. 61 32-33
He burns the incense of his night and days
Offering his life, a splendour of sacrifice. 62 27-28
This whole wide world is only he and she. 63 10
His journey through the days is her sun-march; 63 28
Our life is a paradox with God for key. 67 32
A seeker of the islands of the Blest, . . .
He turns to eternal things his symbol quest; 70 28,30
He found the occult cave, the mystic door . . .
And entered where the Wings of Glory brood
In the sunlit space where all is for ever known. 74 4,6-7
The will to live under a reign of death,
The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh, 75 26,27
Pacing the vast cathedral of his thoughts
Under its arches dim with infinity
And heavenward brooding of invisible wings. 79 6-8
The Immobile's ocean-silence saw him pass,
An arrow leaping through eternity 79 28-29
A ray returning to its parent sun. 79 31
Death lay beneath him like a gate of sleep. 79 36
Questing for God as for a splendid prey,
He mounted burning like a cone of fire. 80 2-3
And driven by a pointing hand of Light
Across his soul's unmapped immensitudes. 80 8-9
A lone forerunner of the Godward earth, 80 25
A Beauty half-visible with deathless eyes
A violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire, 81 5-6
His nature shuddered in the Unknown's grasp. 81 10
The heavenly wideness of a Godhead's gaze. 82 5
The python coils of the restricting Law
Could not restrain the swift arisen God: 83 3-4
It lodged upon an edge of hourless Time, . . .
Its shadows gleaming with the birth of gods, 88 9,11
Her gulfs stood nude, her far transcendences
Flamed in transparencies of crowded light. 88 19-20
In its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep,
The light began of the Trinity supreme. 89 25-26
A paean swelled from the lost musing deeps; . . .
A cry of the moments to the Immortal's bliss. 90-91 36,2
Across the unfolding of the seas of self
Appeared the deathless countries of the One. 91 11-12
Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight
Stretched out in an ecstasy of widenesses 91 21-22
His self-discovery's flaming witnesses,
Offering their marvel and their multitude. 97 7-8
The wide and prone leap of a godhead's fall. 99 26
Divinity's lapse from its own splendours wove
The many-patterned ground of all we are. 99 31-32
In that lucent ambiance mystically clear
The eyes were doors to a celestial sense, 103 15-16
A gossamer marriage-hall of Mind with Form
Is hidden by a tapestry of dreams; 104 13-14
A brilliant passage for the infallible Flame 108 27
A ripple of light and glory wraps the brain,
And travelling down the moment's vanishing route
The figures of eternity arrive. 110 6-8
The Spirit's greatness is our timeless source
And it shall be our crown in endless Time. 110 27-28
In a gallop of thunder-hooved vicissitudes
She swept through the race-fields of Circumstance, 117 15-16
Above him in a new celestial vault . . .
An archipelago of laughter and fire,
Swam stars apart in a rippled sea of sky. 119 2,5-6
In a swift eternal moment fixed there live . . .
Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
Illumined continents of violet peace,
Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God
And griefless countries under purple suns. 120 12,14-17
Above was a monarchy of unfallen self,
Beneath was the gloomy trance of the abyss, 122 11-12
The light of God she has parted from his dark
To test the savour of bare opposites 122 25-26
Pure mystic voices in beatitude's hush
Appealed to Love's immaculate sweetnesses,
Calling his honeyed touch to thrill the worlds, 123 20-22
Beauty unimaginable moved heaven-bare
Absolved from boundaries in the vasts of dream; 124 3-4
Power laid its head upon the breasts of Bliss. 124 23
An immortal moth in happy and endless fire,
She burned in his sweet intolerable blaze. 125 25-26
Made forms his inward vision's rhythmic shapes
And her acts the living body of his will. 125 35-36
A flaming thunder, a creator flash
His victor Light rode on her deathless Force: 126 1-2
The nude God-children in their play-fields ran
Smiting the winds with splendour and with speed; 126 26-27
No guide she needed but her luminous heart:
No fall debased the godhead of her steps, 127 4-5
At will she wove her wizard wonder-dance,
A Dionysian goddess of delight,
A Bacchant of creative ecstasy. 128 14-16
A voice was heard on the mute rolling globe,
A murmur moaned in the unlistening Void. 129 28-29
Here too the gracious great-winged Angel poured
Her splendour and her sweetness and her bliss, 130 4-5
In her obscure cathedral of delight
To dim dwarf gods she offers secret rites. 134 16-17
A foundling of the gods she wanders here
Like a child-soul left near the gates of Hell
Fumbling through fog in search of Paradise. 135 5-7
The world's senseless beauty mirrors God's delight. 139 11
All lurking things were torn out of their veils
And held up in his vision's sun-white blaze. 151 26-27
A dream of living woke in Matter's heart, 156 19
The illumined soul-ray fell on heart and flesh
And touched with semblances of ideal light
The stuff of which our earthly dreams are made. 159 10-12
In a narrow plot he has pitched his tent of life
Beneath the wide gaze of the starry Vast. 166 7-8
The world quivers with a God-light at its core, 168 14
The unfelt Self within who is the guide,
The unknown Self above who is the goal. 168 31-32
Across the cosmic fields through narrow lanes
Asking a scanty dole from Fortune's hands
And garbed in beggar's robes there walks the One. 169 11-13
An Infant playing in the magic woods,
Fluting to rapture by the Spirit's streams, 169 26-27
Acquaint our depths with the supernal Ray
And cleave the darkness with the mystic Fire. 172 2-3
His only sunlight was his spirit's flame. 172 25
Dim tokens of a Splendour sealed above,
Awoke the passion of the eyes' desire, 174 12-13
A hierophant of the bodiless Secrecy . . .
Half captured a sealed sweetness of desire
That yearned from a bosom of mysterious Bliss. 176 5,10-11
Across a luminous dream of spirit-space
She builds creation like a rainbow bridge 182 13-14
Across the leaping springs of death and birth . . .
A hunter on the Spirit's creative track,
He followed in life's fine and mighty trails 188 4,6-7
In the sleepy splendour of her noons he saw,. . .
Thought's dance of dragon-flies on mystery's stream 190 23,25
Impassioned he bore the sorceries of her might,
Felt laid on him her abrupt mysterious will, 191 18-19
The spirit lost in the splendour of a dream
Listens to a thousand-voiced illusion's ode. 193 23-24
Only were safe who kept God in their hearts:. . . 211 3,7
Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light.
He was alone with the grey python Night. 217 31
He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:
He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. 219 6-7
A yoke is laid upon the world's dim heart;
Masked are its beats from the supernal Bliss,
And the closed peripheries of brilliant Mind
Block the fine entries of celestial Fire. 225 31-34
He entered into dumb despairing Night
Challenging the darkness with his luminous soul. 227 9-10
Pinned to the black inertia of our base
He treasured between his hands his flickering soul. 230 33-34
The diamond script of the Imperishable. . .
The lyric of the love that waits through Time 232 12,18
Hell split across its huge abrupt facade
As if a magic building were undone,
Night opened and vanished like a gulf of dream. 232 23-25
The soul lit the conscious body with its ray,
Matter and Spirit mingled and were one. 232 32-33
Thrilled by the clasp of the warm satisfied sense
And the swift wonder-rush and flame and cry
Of the life-impulse's red magnificent race,
It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God 233 19-22
Repeating its sweet involuntary note
A sob of rapture flowed along the hours. 234 2-3
Dream walked along the highway of the stars 235 9
A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,
The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,
And hints leaped down of white beatitudes. 237 3-5
Eternity drew close disguised as Love
And laid its hand upon the body of Time. 237 6-7
A memory soft as grass and faint as sleep,
The beauty and call receding sank behind 239 2-3
Escaping over a wide and shimmering bridge,
He came into a realm of early Light 241 1-2
Its gold-horned herds trooped into earth's cave-heart, 243 12
Its morning rays illume our twilight's eyes,
Its young formations move the mind of earth
To labour and to dream and new-create, 243 13-15
A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate. 256 8
Crossing out of some far omniscience
On lustrous seas from the still rapt Alone 258 17-18
Across a gleaming ether's golden laugh
A light falls on our vexed unsatisfied lives, 261 35-36
Form luminous leaps from the all-shaping beam 264 5
...Life, a splendour-stream of musing Force,
Carries the voices of the mystic Suns. 264 7-8
In gleaming clarities of amethyst air
The chainless and omnipotent Spirit of Mind
Brooded on the blue lotus of the Idea. 264 15-17
On meditation's mounting edge of trance
Great stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heights
Where Time's last ridges touch eternity's skies 264 23-25
A light of liberating Knowledge shone
Across the gulfs of silence in their eyes; 268 16-17
Truth smiled upon the gracious golden game. 275 14
Out of her hushed eternal spaces leaned
The great and boundless Goddess feigned to yield
The sunlit sweetness of her secrecies. 275 15-17
She has lowered her heights to the stature of our souls
And dazzled our lids with her celestial gaze. 275 29-30
But thought nor word can seize eternal Truth; 276 1
A new rung formed in Being's mighty stair,
A great wide step trembling with jewelled fire
As if a burning spirit quivered there 277 13-15
The heavens of the ideal Mind were seen
In a blue lucency of dreaming space
Like strips of brilliant sky clinging to the moon. 277 21-23
A body of the cosmic beauty and joy . . .
Climbing from Nature's deep surrendered heart
It blooms for ever at the feet of God, 278 3,5-6
Time's sunflowers gaze at gold Eternity: 279 20
A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
World after coloured and ecstatic world
Climbs towards some far unseen epiphany. 279 22-24
Lonely mounts up to heaven the deathless Flame. 279 29-30
A fire along the mystic paths of earth...
It enters the occult eternal Light
And clambers whitening to the invisible Throne. 279-80 36, 3-4
In secrecy wraps the seed the Eternal sows
Silence, the mystic birthplace of the soul. 283 30-21
A rumour and a movement and a call,
A foaming mass, a cry innumerable
Rolled ever upon the ocean surge of Life
Along the coasts of mortal Ignorance. 287 18-21
As if a beckoning finger of secrecy
Outstretched into a crystal mood of air, 289 15-16
There shimmered stealing out into the Mind
A mute and quivering ecstasy of light, 289 21-22
The immortal cry ravished the captive ear,
It marked with shrill melody night's moonless hush 290 4,11
A jingling silver laugh of anklet bells
Travelled the roads of a solitary heart;. . .
An old forgotten sweetness sobbing came. 290 14-15,17
An incense floated in the quivering air,
A mystic happiness trembled in the breast
As if the invisible Beloved had come
Assuming the sudden loveliness of a face 290 25-28
Infinite, coeval with the mind of God,
It bore within itself a seed, a flame, 291 16,17
A constant touch of sweetness linked all hearts,
The throb of one adoration's single bliss
In a rapt ether of undying love. 291 25-27
A fragrance wandered in a coloured haze
As if the scent and hue of all sweet flowers
Had mingled to copy heaven's atmosphere. 293 1-3
A single being in two bodies clasped. . .
Their trance of bliss sustained the mobile world. 295 8,11
Mute in the fathomless passion of his will
He outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer. 295 29-30
Tossed towards the shores of her ocean ecstasy,
Drunk with a deep golden spiritual wine,
He cast from the rent stillness of his soul
A cry of adoration and desire 296 6-9
A thousand roads leaped into Eternity
Or singing ran to meet God's veilless face 298 7-8
He saw the splendour of the spirit's realms. . .
The rapture of its movement and its rest,
And its fire-sweet miracle of transcendent life, 298 13,16-17
There knowledge called him to her mystic peaks
Where thought is held in a vast internal sense
And feeling swims across a sea of peace 299 1-3
Ablaze the triple heavens revealed their suns,
The obscure Abyss exposed its monstrous rule. 300 19-20
He was a vast that soon became a Sun. 301 26
All glory of outline, sweetness of harmony, . . .
Expunged from Being's silence nude, austere,
Died into a fine and blissful Nothingness 307 20,22-23
His feet firm-based on Life's stupendous wings,
Omnipotent, a lonely seer of Time,
Inward, inscrutable, with diamond gaze. 307 31-33
The One by whom all live, who lives by none,
An immeasurable luminous secrecy 309 9-10
Only the everlasting No has neared. . .
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes, 310 26,28
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word, 310 30-31
A body of wonder and translucency
As if a sweet mystic summary of her self
Escaping into the original Bliss
Had come enlarged out of eternity, 312 12-15
A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole,
Imaged itself in a surprising beam
And built a golden passage to his heart 312 24-26
A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful
Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl. 312 28-29
The Mother of all godheads and all strengths
Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme. 313 15-16
Her body of beauty mooned the seas of bliss, 314 12
Alone her hands can change Time's dragon base. 314 15
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. 314 18
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God; 314 19-20
The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts 314 23-24
All Nature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching throb of life. . .
And kindle her fire in the closed heart of things. 314 27-28
Amazement fell upon his ravished sense;
His spirit was caught in her intolerant flame. 315 7-8
In the unapproachable stillness of his soul,
Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone,
Patient he sat like an incarnate hope
Motionless on a pedestal of prayer. 317 6-9
His soul was all in front like a great sea
Flooding the mind and body with its waves; 318 24-25
Infinity swallowed him into shoreless trance. 320 15
On sorrowless heights no winging cry disturbs,
Pure and untouched above the mortal play
Is spread the spirit's hushed immobile air. 320 32-34
Existence found its truth on Oneness' breast
And each became the self and space of all. 323 2-3
A splendid centre of infinity's whirl
Pushed to its zenith's height, its last expense,
Felt the divinity of its own self-bliss 323 30-32
All struggle was turned to a sweet strife of love
In the harmonised circle of a sure embrace. 324 18-19
There Mind, a splendid sun of vision's rays,
Shaped substance by the glory of its thoughts
And moved amidst the grandeur of its dreams. 327 13
Imagination's great ensorcelling rod . . .
Outspread luxuriantly in golden air
Truth's iris-coloured wings of fantasy, 327 14, 16-17
Phenomenon built Reality's summer-house
On the beaches of the sea of Infinity. 329 21-22
His heart lay somewhere conscious and alone
Far down below him like a lamp in night; 331 34-35
My fire and sweetness are the cause of life.
But too immense my danger and my joy, 335 17-18
Speak not my secret name to hostile Time;
Man is too weak to bear the Infinite's weight. 335 20-21
Obey thy spirit's wide omnipotent urge. 340 28
All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour. 341 12
I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth; 343 28-30
Out of the paths of the morning star they came
Into the little room of mortal life. . .
The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn, 343 32-33,35
...dancers within rapture's golden doors,
Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth
And justify the light on Nature's face. 344 18-20
Linger not long with thy transmuting hand
Pressed vainly on one gold bar of Time, 345 10-11
O radiant fountain of the world's delight . . .
Incarnate the white passion of thy force,
Mission to earth some living form of thee. 345 13, 18-19
Beauty shall walk celestial on the earth,
Delight shall sleep in the cloud-net of her hair 346 11-12
The streams of Heaven shall murmur in her laugh,
Her lips shall be the honeycombs of God,
Her limbs his golden jars of ecstasy, 346 17-19
Strength shall be with her like a conqueror's sword
And from her eyes the Eternal's bliss shall gaze. 346 22-23
A seed shall be sown in Death's tremendous hour, 346 24
The warm-lipped sentient soft terrestrial wave,
A quick and many-murmured moan and laugh,
Came gliding in upon white feet of sound. 347 8-10
Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves
And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp; 351 25-26
Changed by the passion of his divine outbreak
He made her body beautiful with his kiss. 352 6-7
Pure like the breath of an unstained desire
White jasmines haunted the enamoured air, 352 30-31
Survivor of death and the aeonic years,
Once more with her fathomless heart she fronted Time. 353 20-21
A world translated was her gleaming mind,
And marvel-mooned bright crowding fantasies 356 23-24
Celestial-human deep warm slumbrous fires
Woke in the long fringed glory of her eyes
Like altar-burnings in a mysteried shrine. 357 30-32
A brooding world of reverie and trance, . . .
Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame. 359 6,10]
She laid the secrecies of her heart's deep muse
Upon the altar of the Wonderful; 360 12-13
Her measure they could not reach but bore her touch,
Answering with the flower's answer to the sun
They gave themselves to her and asked no more. 364 16-18
Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men
Exalted and sweet like an inspired verse
Struck from the epic lyre of rumour's winds 367 21-23
Her beauty and flaming strength were seen afar
Like lightning playing with the fallen day,
A glory unapproachably divine. 367 27-29
Her heart was a crowded temple of delight. 368 14
A word that leaped from some far sky of thought . .
Traversed the echoing passages of his brain 369-70 31,2
Heaven's flaming lights descend and back return,
The luminous Eye approaches and retires;. . .
Fate is unwilling and the Abyss denies; 371 31-32, 34
Carved like a nectar-cup for thirsty gods,
This breathing Scripture of the Eternal's joy,
This net of sweetness woven of aureate fire. 372 21-23
The long eyes shadowed as by wings of Night
Under that moon-gold forehead's dreaming breadth
Were seas of love and thought that held the world; 372 33-35
One light shall be around you and within;
Hand in strong hand confront Heaven's question, life:
Challenge the ordeal of the immense disguise. 374-5 35-36,1
Cast from its sapphire pinnacle of trance
Day sank into the burning gold of eve; 375 34-35
Night lit the watch-fires of eternity. 376 2
The world was fibred with their own heart-strings; 381 32
As floats a sunbeam through a shady place,
The golden virgin in her carven car
Came gliding among meditation's seats. 384 11-13
Below there crouched a dream of emerald woods. . .
Pale waters ran like glimmering threads of pearl. 389 26,28
Earth couched alone with her great lover Heaven, 390 5
Magician of her rapt felicities,
Blithe, sensuous-hearted, careless and divine,
Life ran or hid in her delightful rooms; 390 15-17
As if a weapon of the living Light,
Erect and lofty like a spear of God
His figure led the splendour of the morn. 393 8-10
All in a moment was surprised and seized,
All in inconscient ecstasy lain wrapped 395 19-20
Feelings as when a universe takes birth,
Swept through the turmoil of her bosom's space
Invaded by a swarm of golden gods: 395 29-31
Mastered by the honey of a strange flower-mouth,
Drawn to soul-spaces opening round a brow,
He turned to the vision like a sea to the moon 396 12-14
The splendid lonely idols of his brain
Fell prostrate from their bright sufficiencies, 396 21-22
He met in her regard his future's gaze
A promise and a presence and a fire, 396-7 36, 1
Abased, disfigured, mocked by baser mights
That steal his name and shape and ecstasy,
He is still the Godhead by which all can change. 397 33-35
Love dwells in us like an unopened flower
Awaiting a rapid moment of the soul, 398 2-3
The winds have shown to me their trampling lords,
I have beheld the princes of the Sun
Burning in thousand-pillared homes of light. 401 23-25
A slow swan silvering the azure lake,
A shape of magic whiteness, sailed through dream; 405 4-5
I groped for the Mystery with the lantern, Thought. 407 8
Descend, O Happiness, with thy moon-gold feet,
Enrich earth's floors upon whose sleep we lie. 408 26-27
On the high glowing cupola of the day
Fate tied a knot with morning's halo threads 411 3-4
He sang no more the deathless heart of love,
His chant was a hymn of Ignorance and Fate. 416 10-11
A mighty shuddering coil of ecstasy
Crept through the deep heart of the universe. 417 35-36
........O ruby-eyed and snow-winged dove,
Flitting through thickets of thy pure desires
In the unwounded beauty of thy soul. 420 7-9
A flame of radiant happiness she was born,
And surely will that flame set earth alight: 423 5-6
As brilliant as a lonely moon in heaven,
Gentle like the sweet bud that spring desires,
Pure like a stream that kisses silent banks,. . .
A living knot of golden Paradise, 430 5-7,9
Death is the gardener of this wonder-tree;
Love's sweetness sleeps in his pale marble hand. 431 28-29
Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way,
Each dawn opens into a larger Light. 434 27-29
Pain is the hammer of the gods to break
A dead resistance in the mortal's heart,
His slow inertia as of living stone. 443 30-32
The Eternal suffers in a human form,
He has signed salvation's testament with his blood:
He has opened the doors of his undying peace. 445 16-18
The Immortal bound to earth's mortality
Appearing and perishing on the roads of Time
Creates God's moment by eternity's beats. 447 11-13
But few are those who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light. 448 22-23
A little bliss is lent thee from above,
A touch divine upon they human days: 451 27-28
Bliss is the Godhead's crown, eternal, free,. . .
Pain is the signature of the Ignorance 453 30,32
Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways, 454 10-11
The spirit rises mightier by defeat;. . .
Its splendid failures sum to victory. 458 22,24
The great are strongest when they stand alone. 460 35
A day may come when she must stand unhelped. . .
Carrying the world's future on her lonely breast, 461 4,6
She must cross alone a perilous bridge in Time
And reach an apex of world-destiny 461 11-12
Cry not to heaven, for she alone can save. 461 25
The luminous body of the eternal seer
Assailed the purple glory of the noon
And disappeared like a receding star 462 14-16
A high and far imperishable voice
Chanted the anthem of eternal love. 462 20-21
The moon-gold sweetness of heaven's earth-born child. 466 9
Night was a chrysoprase on velvet cloth, . . .
Day was a purple pageant and a hymn, 468 18,20
Two lives were locked within an earthly heaven
And fate and grief fled from that fiery hour. 468 29-30
Her deepest grief from sweetest gulfs arose. 469 20
Each day a golden leaf torn cruelly out
From her too slender book of love and joy. 469 22-23
Into a simplest movement she could bring
A oneness with earth's glowing robe of light,
A lifting up of common acts by love. 470 34-36
Her spirit like a sea of living fire 471 9
A stone of God lit by an amethyst soul. 474 17
Our body's subtle self is throned within
In its viewless palace of veridical dreams 485 21-22
Out of the mystic cavern in man's heart
The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil 486 35-36
A spate, a torrent of the speed of Life
Broke like a wind-lashed driven mob of waves
Racing on a pale floor of summer sand; 491 33-35
There was an ardour in the gaze of Life
That saw heaven blue in the grey air of Night:
The impulses godward soared on passion's wings. 493 23-25
Truth lay with delight in error's passionate arms
Gliding downstream in a blithe gilded barge:
She edged her ray with a magnificent lie. 494 4-6
I am Prometheus under the vulture's beak,
Man, the discoverer of the undying Fire,
In the flame he kindled burning like a moth; 506 2-4
His streams of force shall triumph in thy limbs. . .
Misery shall pass abolished from the earth; 507 30,34
The Mother of Might looked down on passing things. . .
Saw the irresistible wheeling of the suns
And heard the thunder of the march of God. 508 29, 30-31
In a frozen grandeur lone and desolate
Call me not to die the great eternal Death,
Left naked of my own humanity 520 4-6
Because thou art, love grows in spite of hate
And knowledge walks unslain in the pit of Night. 520 26-27
A rose of splendour on a tree of dreams,
The face of Dawn out of mooned twilight grew. 523 14-15
An awful dimness wrapped the great rock-doors
Carved in the massive stone of Matter's trance 524 1-2-
Love chanting its pure hymeneal hymn
Made life and body mirrors of sacred joy
And all the emotions gave themselves to God. 529 34-36
The beloved despot of our thoughts and acts,
She streams into us with her unbound force, 530 33-34
Each thought is a ripple on a sea of Light. 531 2
A camp of God is pitched in human time. 531 28
The night's gold treasure of autumnal moons
Came floating shipped through ripples of fairy air. 532 9-10
A golden circle round a mystic sun
Disclosed to her new-born predicting sight
The cyclic rondure of a sovereign life. 533 7-9
When Nature who is now unconscious God
Translucent grows to the Eternal's light, . . .
And Matter is the Spirit's willing bride. 538 3-4,7
As if at flower-prints in a dingy room
Laughed in a golden vase one living rose. 539 21-22
Thoughts, glistening Angels, stood behind the brain
In flashing armour, folding hands of prayer,
And poured heaven's rays into the earthly form. 539 28-30
The word, the form, the charm, the glory and grace
Are missioned sparks from a stupendous Fire; 542 16-17
The One only real shut itself from Space
And stood aloof from the idea of Time. 547 15-16
The original Mystery wore her human face. 552 10
Being that never willed to bear a world
Restored to its original loneliness
Impassive, sole, silent, intangible. 552 24-26
Mind was a single innumerable look
Upon himself and all that he became,
Life was his drama and the Vast a stage,
The universe was his body, God its soul. 556 6-9
The cosmos flowered in her, she was its bed. 557 22
The Shadow of a remote uncaring god
Doomed to his Nought the illusory universe,
Cancelling its show of idea and act in Time
And its imitation of eternity. 565 29-32
To mate with the Glory it sees, the spirit grows:. . .
The moments on great wings of lightning come
And godlike thoughts surprise the mind of earth. 571-2 29,31,1
Large quiverings of godhead seeking run
And weave upon a puissant field of calm
A high and lonely ecstasy of will. 572 12-14
The Spirit who had hidden in Nature soared
Out of his luminous nest within the worlds 572 18-19
A sovereignty, a silence and a swiftness,
One brooded over abysses who was she. 572 33-34
Something stood there, unearthly, sombre, grand,
A limitless denial of all being
That wore the terror and wonder of a shape. 574 8-10
A fiery-footed splendour puissant-winged
Watched flaming-silent with her voiceless soul
Like a still sail upon a windless sea. 575 30-32
Then flaming from her body's nest, alarmed,
Her violent spirit soared at Satyavan....
A fierce she-eagle threatened in her brood,
Borne on a rush of puissance and a cry,
Outwinging like a mass of golden fire. 578 20-21,26-28
Her sovereign prisoned in her being's core,
He beat there like a rhythmic heart, -- herself 579 5-6
Still like a statue on its pedestal,
Lone in the silence and to vastness bared,. . .
A columned shaft of fire and light she rose. 581 15-16,18
But still in its lone niche of templed strength
Motionless, her flame-bright spirit, mute, erect,
Burned like a torch-fire from a windowed room 582 12-14
Immortal, unappalled her spirit faced
The danger of the ruthless eyeless waste. 582 20-21
A fragile miracle of thinking clay,
Armed with illusions walks the child of Time. 586 28-29
Like moonlight ridges on a shuddering flood
A stir of thoughts out of some silence born
Across the sea of her dumb fathomless heart. 588 9-11
My unwept tears have turned to pearls of strength:
I have transformed my ill-shaped brittle clay
Into the hardness of a statued soul. 588 22-24
I will bear with him the ancient Mother's load
I will follow with him earth's path that leads to God. 590 4-5
The eyes of love gaze starlike through death's night,
The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds. 592 6-7
And thou, who art thou, soul, thou glorious dream
Of brief emotions made and glittering thoughts, . . .
A sparkling ferment in life's sunlit mire? 592 25-28
That which thou seest as thy immortal self. . .
Is Death in thee dreaming of eternity. 593 16,18
A golden fire came in and burnt Night's heart;
Her dusky mindlessness began to dream; 601 16-17
Adversary of the slow struggling Dawn
Defending its ground of tortured mystery,
It trailed its coils through the dead martyred air
And curving fled down a grey slope of Time. 601 24-27
The gleaming shoulder of some godlike hope,
The flying feet of exquisite desires. 604 8-9
Pain grew a trembling undertone of bliss
And transience immortality's floating hem, 605 29-30
What is this love thy thought has deified,
This sacred legend and immortal myth?
It is a conscious yearning of thy flesh,. . .
A rose of dream-splendour petalling thy mind,
A great red rapture and torture of thy heart. 610 10-12,14,15
A ravishing edge of sweetness and of pain,
A thrill in its yearning makes it seem divine, 610 18-19
Love cannot live by heavenly food alone,
Only on sap of earth can it survive. 611 6-7
One day I shall behold my great sweet world
Put off the dire disguises of the gods,
Unveil from terror and disrobe from sin, 613 10-12
Then shall we clasp the ecstasy we chase,
Then shall we shudder with the long-sought god, 613 15-16
Ever he comes to us across the years
Bearing a sweet new face that is the old. 613 35-34
He rose like a wild wave out of the floods
And dragged me helpless into seas of bliss. 614 16-17
I cherish God the Fire, not god the Dream. 614 33
As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God. 626 33-36
Philosophy climbs up Thought's cloud-bank peaks 627 3
On heights unreached by mind's most daring soar,
Upon a dangerous edge of failing Time
The soul draws back into its deathless Self; 627 8-10
Delight, God's sweetest sign and Beauty's twin, 629 9
Indifferent to the threat of karmic law,
Joy dares to grow upon forbidden soil, 630 27-28
Time thrills to the sapphics of her amour song
And Space fills with a white beatitude. 632 3-4
In the vast golden laughter of Truth's sun
Like a great heaven-bird on a motionless sea
Is poised her winged ardour of creative joy
On the still deep of the Eternal's peace. 632 14-17
Out of the Void this grand creation rose,
For this the Spirit came into the Abyss 632 21-22
Love is the far Transcendent's angel here;
Love is man's lien on the Absolute. 633 35-36
The great stars burn with my unceasing fire
And life and death are both its fuel made. 638 23-24
Life only was my blind attempt to love:
Earth saw my struggle, heaven my victory; 638 25-26
All utterance, all mood must there become
An unenduring tissue sewn by mind
To make a gossamer robe of beautiful change. 639 14-16
Intent upon her silent will she walked. . .
A trailing robe of dreams behind her feet. 639 17,20
Borne like a coloured and embosomed fire,
By spirits carried in a pearl-hued cave,
On through the enchanted dimness moved her soul. 640 5-7
...in bodies motionless like statues, fixed
In tranced cessations of their sleepless thought
Sat sleeping souls, and this too was a dream. 642-3 35-36,1
How shall the mighty Mother her calm delight
Keep fragrant in this narrow fragile vase
Or lodge her sweet unbroken ecstasy
In hearts which earthly sorrow can assail 647 1-4
Dream not to change the world that God has planned. 647 6
I run where his sweet dreadful voice commands
And I am driven by the reins of God. 653 1-2
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea. 654 13
All things hang here between God's yes and no,
Two Powers real but to each other untrue,
Two consort stars in the mooned night of mind 654-5 36,1-2
Thought there has revelation's sun-bright eyes; 660 19
The Word, a mighty and inspiring Voice,
Enters Truth's inmost cabin of privacy
And tears away the veil from God and life. 660 20-22
The prostrate earth perhaps shall lift her gaze
And feel near her the secret body of God
And love and joy overtake fleeing Time. 664 18-20
Her forehead's span vaulted the Omniscient's gaze, 665 3
As glides God's sun into the mystic cave
Where hides his light from the pursuing gods,
It glided into the lotus of her heart
And woke in it the Force that alters Fate. 665 19-22
Eternity looked into the eyes of Death,
And Darkness saw God's living Reality. 665 33-34
Light was a luminous torture in his heart,
Light coursed, a splendid agony, through his nerves;
His darkness muttered perishing in her blaze. 667 15-17
In the dream twilight of that symbol world
The dire universal Shadow disappeared
Vanishing into the Void from which it came. 667-8 36, 1-2
A dancing chaos, an iridescent sea
Eternised to Heaven's ever wakeful sight
The crowding petal-glow of marvel's tints
Which float across the curtained lids of dream. 674 11-14
Heaven's cup bearers bore round the Eternal's wine; 676 26
There lightning-filled with glory and with flame,
Melting in waves of sympathy and sight,. . .
She beheld the clasp to earth denied and bore
The imperishable eyes of veilless love. 677 21-22,26-27
Experience mounted on joy's coloured breast
To inaccessible spheres in spiral flight. 678 19-20
Night the dim mask had grown a wonderful face. 679 8
Fled was the error that arms the hands of grief,
And lighted the ignorant gulf whose hollow deeps
Had given to nothingness a dreadful voice. 679 12-14
The nectar spilled by love with trembling hands,
The joy the cup of Nature cannot hold,
Had crowded to the beauty of his face,
Were waiting in the honey of his laugh. 682 16-19
I am the inviolable Ecstasy;
They who have looked on me shall grieve no more. 684 4-5
On the pale shores of conscious foaming straits. . .
Two powers from one original ecstasy born
Pace near, but parted in the life of man; 684 7,9-10
Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth,
Earth in its sorrow dreams of perfect heaven. 684 12-13
Wait patient of the brittle bars of form
Making division your delightful means
Of happy oneness rapturously enhanced
By attraction in the throbbing air between. 684-5 35-36,1-2
Fashion to beauty, point us through the world.
Break not the lyre before the song is found; 687 17-18
O thunderer with the lightnings of the soul,
Give not to darkness and to death thy sun,
Achieve thy wisdom's hidden firm decree
And the mandate of thy secret world-wide love. 687 32-35
In her heart there move celestial seekings soft
And beautiful like fluttering wings of birds,
Visions of joy that she can never win
Traverse the fading mirror of her dreams. 688 17-20
Heaven's call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds; 689 17
Melt, Lightning, into thy invisible flame.
Clasp, Ocean, deep into thyself thy wave,
Happy for ever in the embosoming surge. 692 3-5
To raise the world to God in deathless Light,
To bring down God to the world on earth we came,
To change the earthly life to life divine. 692 17-19
Choired in calm seas she heard the eternal Thought
Rhythming itself abroad unutterably
In spaceless orbits and on timeless roads. 695 18-20
A thousand doors of oneness was her heart,
A crypt and sanctuary of brooding light
Appeared, the last recess of things beyond. 695-6 35-36, 1
"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. 696 26-28
"Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain,
Thy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe,
Thy magic flowing waters of deep love,
Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men." 697 33-36
Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will
I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame,
I lay my hands upon thy heart of love, 698 23-25
I bind by thy heart's passion thy heart to mine
And lay my splendid yoke upon thy soul. 698 31-32
Thy days shall be my shafts of power and light,
Thy nights my starry mysteries of joy
And all my clouds lie tangled in thy hair
And all my springtides marry in thy mouth. 699 2-5
Thy heart shall drive thee on the wheel of works,
Thy mind shall urge thee through the flames of thought,
To meet me in the abyss and on the heights, 670 15-17
The pains of hell shall be to thee my kiss,
The flowers of heaven persuade thee with my touch. 670 21-22
Delight shall drop down from my nectarous moon. . .
My eye shall look upon thee from the sun. 670 30,32
Thou shalt discover the one and quivering note
And cry, the harp of all my melodies,
And roll, my foaming wave in seas of love. 701 3-5
For ever love, O beautiful slave of God! 702 13
O Word, cry out the immortal litany:
Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born. 702 21-22
Life's tops shall flame with the Immortal's thoughts,
Light shall invade the darkness of its base. 707 7-8
For knowledge shall pour down its radiant streams
And even darkened mind quiver with new life
And kindle and burn with the Ideal's fire 710 14-16
The prophet moment covered limitless Space
And cast into the heart of hurrying Time
A diamond light of the Eternal's peace,
A crimson seed of God's felicity; 12 22-24
A key turned in a mystic lock of Time. 712 29
Over wide earth brooded the infinite bliss. 712 36
My life a whisper of thy dreaming thoughts,
My morns a gleaming of thy spirit's wings,
And day and night are of thy beauty part. 718 34-36
Lo, we have looked upon the face of God,
Our life has opened with divinity. 719 17-18
Two fires that burn towards that parent Sun,
Two rays that travel to the original Light. 720 30-31
Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven
In silver peace, possessed her luminous reign. 724 24-25
She brooded through her stillness on a thought
Deep-guarded by her mystic folds of light,
And in her bosom nursed a greater dawn. 724 26-28
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