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Das Kollektive Savitri-Projekt: Das Buch vom Yoga

Savitri Buch 7 Canto 2 (ID ist identisch mit Buchzeile rechts!)

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1 As in the vigilance of the sleepless night 1
2 Through the slow heavy-footed silent hours, 2
3 Repressing in her bosom its load of grief, 3
4 She sat staring at the dumb tread of Time 4
5 And the approach of ever-nearing Fate, 5
6 A summons from her being's summit came, 6
7 A sound, a call that broke the seals of Night. 7
8 Above her brows where will and knowledge meet 8
9 A mighty Voice invaded mortal space. 9
10 It seemed to come from inaccessible heights 10
11 And yet was intimate with all the world 11
12 And knew the meaning of the steps of Time 12
13 And saw eternal destiny's changeless scene 13
14 Filling the far prospect of the cosmic gaze. 14
15 As the Voice touched, her body became a stark 15
16 And rigid golden statue of motionless trance, 16
17 A stone of God lit by an amethyst soul. 17
18 Around her body's stillness all grew still: 18
19 Her heart listened to its slow measured beats, 19
20 Her mind renouncing thought heard and was mute: 20
21 "Why camest thou to this dumb deathbound earth, 21
22 This ignorant life beneath indifferent skies 22
23 Tied like a sacrifice on the altar of Time, 23
24 O spirit, O immortal energy, 24
25 If 'twas to nurse grief in a helpless heart 25
26 Or with hard tearless eyes await thy doom? 26
27 Arise, O soul, and vanquish Time and Death." 27
28 But Savitri's heart replied in the dim night: 28
29 "My strength is taken from me and given to Death. 29
30 Why should I lift my hands to the shut heavens 30
31 Or struggle with mute inevitable Fate 31
32 Or hope in vain to uplift an ignorant race 32
33 Who hug their lot and mock the saviour Light 33
34 And see in Mind wisdom's sole tabernacle, 34
35 In its harsh peak and its inconscient base 35
36 A rock of safety and an anchor of sleep? 36
37 Is there a God whom any cry can move? 37
38 He sits in peace and leaves the mortal's strength 38
39 Impotent against his calm omnipotent Law 39
40 And Inconscience and the almighty hands of Death. 40
41 What need have I, what need has Satyavan 41
42 To avoid the black-meshed net, the dismal door, 42
43 Or call a mightier Light into life's closed room, 43
44 A greater Law into man's little world? 44
45 Why should I strive with earth's unyielding laws 45
46 Or stave off death's inevitable hour? 46
47 This surely is best to pactise with my fate 47
48 And follow close behind my lover's steps 48
49 And pass through night from twilight to the sun 49
50 Across the tenebrous river that divides 50
51 The adjoining parishes of earth and heaven. 51
52 Then could we lie inarmed breast upon breast, 52
53 Untroubled by thought, untroubled by our hearts, 53
54 Forgetting man and life and time and its hours, 54
55 Forgetting eternity's call, forgetting God." 55
56 The Voice replied: "Is this enough, O spirit? 56
57 And what shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows 57
58 The work was left undone for which it came? 58
59 Or is this all for thy being born on earth 59
60 Charged with a mandate from eternity, 60
61 A listener to the voices of the years, 61
62 A follower of the footprints of the gods, 62
63 To pass and leave unchanged the old dusty laws? 63
64 Shall there be no new tables, no new Word, 64
65 No greater light come down upon the earth 65
66 Delivering her from her unconsciousness, 66
67 Man's spirit from unalterable Fate? 67
68 Cam'st thou not down to open the doors of Fate, 68
69 The iron doors that seemed for ever closed, 69
70 And lead man to Truth's wide and golden road 70
71 That runs through finite things to eternity? 71
72 Is this then the report that I must make, 72
73 My head bowed with shame before the Eternal's seat,— 73
74 His power he kindled in thy body has failed, 74
75 His labourer returns, her task undone?" 75
76 Then Savitri's heart fell mute, it spoke no word. 76
77 But holding back her troubled rebel heart, 77
78 Abrupt, erect and strong, calm like a hill, 78
79 Surmounting the seas of mortal ignorance, 79
80 Its peak immutable above mind's air, 80
81 A Power within her answered the still Voice: 81
82 "I am thy portion here charged with thy work, 82
83 As thou myself seated for ever above, 83
84 Speak to my depths, O great and deathless Voice, 84
85 Command, for I am here to do thy will." 85
86 The Voice replied: "Remember why thou cam'st: 86
87 Find out thy soul, recover thy hid self, 87
88 In silence seek God's meaning in thy depths, 88
89 Then mortal nature change to the divine. 89
90 Open God's door, enter into his trance. 90
91 Cast Thought from thee, that nimble ape of Light: 91
92 In his tremendous hush stilling thy brain 92
93 His vast Truth wake within and know and see. 93
94 Cast from thee sense that veils thy spirit's sight: 94
95 In the enormous emptiness of thy mind 95
96 Thou shalt see the Eternal's body in the world, 96
97 Know him in every voice heard by thy soul, 97
98 In the world's contacts meet his single touch; 98
99 All things shall fold thee into his embrace. 99
100 Conquer thy heart's throbs, let thy heart beat in God: 100
101 Thy nature shall be the engine of his works, 101
102 Thy voice shall house the mightiness of his Word: 102
103 Then shalt thou harbour my force and conquer Death." 103
104 Then Savitri by her doomed husband sat, 104
105 Still rigid in her golden motionless pose, 105
106 A statue of the fire of the inner sun. 106
107 In the black night the wrath of storm swept by, 107
108 The thunder crashed above her, the rain hissed, 108
109 Its million footsteps pattered on the roof. 109
110 Impassive mid the movement and the cry, 110
111 Witness of the thoughts of mind, the moods of life, 111
112 She looked into herself and sought for her soul. 112
113 A dream disclosed to her the cosmic past, 113
114 The crypt-seed and the mystic origins, 114
115 The shadowy beginnings of world-fate: 115
116 A lamp of symbol lighting hidden truth 116
117 Imaged to her the world's significance. 117
118 In the indeterminate formlessness of Self 118
119 Creation took its first mysterious steps, 119
120 It made the body's shape a house of soul 120
121 And Matter learned to think and person grew; 121
122 She saw Space peopled with the seeds of life 122
123 And saw the human creature born in Time. 123
124 At first appeared a dim half-neutral tide 124
125 Of being emerging out of infinite Nought: 125
126 A consciousness looked at the inconscient Vast 126
127 And pleasure and pain stirred in the insensible Void. 127
128 All was the deed of a blind World-Energy: 128
129 Unconscious of her own exploits she worked, 129
130 Shaping a universe out of the Inane. 130
131 In fragmentary beings she grew aware: 131
132 A chaos of little sensibilities 132
133 Gathered round a small ego's pin-point head; 133
134 In it a sentient creature found its poise, 134
135 It moved and lived a breathing, thinking whole. 135
136 On a dim ocean of subconscient life 136
137 A formless surface consciousness awoke: 137
138 A stream of thoughts and feelings came and went, 138
139 A foam of memories hardened and became 139
140 A bright crust of habitual sense and thought, 140
141 A seat of living personality 141
142 And recurrent habits mimicked permanence. 142
143 Mind nascent laboured out a mutable form, 143
144 It built a mobile house on shifting sands, 144
145 A floating isle upon a bottomless sea. 145
146 A conscious being was by this labour made; 146
147 It looked around it on its difficult field 147
148 In the green wonderful and perilous earth; 148
149 It hoped in a brief body to survive, 149
150 Relying on Matter's false eternity. 150
151 It felt a godhead in its fragile house; 151
152 It saw blue heavens, dreamed immortality. 152
153 A conscious soul in the Inconscient's world, 153
154 Hidden behind our thoughts and hopes and dreams, 154
155 An indifferent Master signing Nature's acts 155
156 Leaves the vicegerent mind a seeming king. 156
157 In his floating house upon the sea of Time 157
158 The regent sits at work and never rests: 158
159 He is a puppet of the dance of Time; 159
160 He is driven by the hours, the moment's call 160
161 Compels him with the thronging of life's need 161
162 And the babel of the voices of the world. 162
163 This mind no silence knows nor dreamless sleep, 163
164 In the incessant circling of its steps 164
165 Thoughts tread for ever through the listening brain; 165
166 It toils like a machine and cannot stop. 166
167 Into the body's many-storeyed rooms 167
168 Endless crowd down the dream-god's messages. 168
169 All is a hundred-toned murmur and babble and stir, 169
170 There is a tireless running to and fro, 170
171 A haste of movement and a ceaseless cry. 171
172 The hurried servant senses answer apace 172
173 To every knock upon the outer doors, 173
174 Bring in time's visitors, report each call, 174
175 Admit the thousand queries and the calls 175
176 And the messages of communicating minds 176
177 And the heavy business of unnumbered lives 177
178 And all the thousandfold commerce of the world. 178
179 Even in the tracts of sleep is scant repose; 179
180 He mocks life's steps in strange subconscient dreams, 180
181 He strays in a subtle realm of symbol scenes, 181
182 His night with thin-air visions and dim forms 182
183 He packs or peoples with slight drifting shapes 183
184 And only a moment spends in silent Self. 184
185 Adventuring into infinite mind-space 185
186 He unfolds his wings of thought in inner air, 186
187 Or travelling in imagination's car 187
188 Crosses the globe, journeys beneath the stars, 188
189 To subtle worlds takes his ethereal course, 189
190 Visits the Gods on Life's miraculous peaks, 190
191 Communicates with Heaven, tampers with Hell. 191
192 This is the little surface of man's life. 192
193 He is this and he is all the universe; 193
194 He scales the Unseen, his depths dare the Abyss; 194
195 A whole mysterious world is locked within. 195
196 Unknown to himself he lives a hidden king 196
197 Behind rich tapestries in great secret rooms; 197
198 An epicure of the spirit's unseen joys, 198
199 He lives on the sweet honey of solitude: 199
200 A nameless god in an unapproachable fane, 200
201 In the secret adytum of his inmost soul 201
202 He guards the being's covered mysteries 202
203 Beneath the threshold, behind shadowy gates 203
204 Or shut in vast cellars of inconscient sleep. 204
205 The immaculate Divine All-Wonderful 205
206 Casts into the argent purity of his soul 206
207 His splendour and his greatness and the light 207
208 Of self-creation in Time's infinity 208
209 As into a sublimely mirroring glass. 209
210 Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God. 210
211 But all is there, even God's opposites; 211
212 He is a little front of Nature's works, 212
213 A thinking outline of a cryptic Force. 213
214 All she reveals in him that is in her, 214
215 Her glories walk in him and her darknesses. 215
216 Man's house of life holds not the gods alone: 216
217 There are occult Shadows, there are tenebrous Powers, 217
218 Inhabitants of life's ominous nether rooms, 218
219 A shadowy world's stupendous denizens. 219
220 A careless guardian of his nature's powers, 220
221 Man harbours dangerous forces in his house. 221
222 The Titan and the Fury and the Djinn 222
223 Lie bound in the subconscient's cavern pit 223
224 And the Beast grovels in his antre den: 224
225 Dire mutterings rise and murmur in their drowse. 225
226 Insurgent sometimes raises its huge head 226
227 A monstrous mystery lurking in life's deeps, 227
228 The mystery of dark and fallen worlds, 228
229 The dread visages of the adversary Kings. 229
230 The dreadful powers held down within his depths 230
231 Become his masters or his ministers; 231
232 Enormous they invade his bodily house, 232
233 Can act in his acts, infest his thought and life. 233
234 Inferno surges into the human air 234
235 And touches all with a perverting breath. 235
236 Grey forces like a thin miasma creep, 236
237 Stealing through chinks in his closed mansion's doors, 237
238 Discolouring the walls of upper mind 238
239 In which he lives his fair and specious life, 239
240 And leave behind a stench of sin and death: 240
241 Not only rise in him perverse drifts of thought 241
242 And formidable formless influences, 242
243 But there come presences and awful shapes: 243
244 Tremendous forms and faces mount dim steps 244
245 And stare at times into his living-rooms, 245
246 Or called up for a moment's passionate work 246
247 Lay a dire custom's claim upon his heart: 247
248 Aroused from sleep, they can be bound no more. 248
249 Afflicting the daylight and alarming night, 249
250 Invading at will his outer tenement, 250
251 The stark gloom's grisly dire inhabitants 251
252 Mounting into God's light all light perturb. 252
253 All they have touched or seen they make their own, 253
254 In Nature's basement lodge, mind's passages fill, 254
255 Disrupt thought's links and musing sequences, 255
256 Break through the soul's stillness with a noise and cry 256
257 Or they call the inhabitants of the abyss, 257
258 Invite the instincts to forbidden joys, 258
259 A laughter wake of dread demoniac mirth 259
260 And with nether riot and revel shake life's floor. 260
261 Impotent to quell his terrible prisoners, 261
262 Appalled the householder helpless sits above, 262
263 Taken from him his house is his no more. 263
264 He is bound and forced, a victim of the play, 264
265 Or, allured, joys in the mad and mighty din. 265
266 His nature's dangerous forces have arisen 266
267 And hold at will a rebel's holiday. 267
268 Aroused from the darkness where they crouched in the depths, 268
269 Prisoned from the sight, they can be held no more; 269
270 His nature's impulses are now his lords. 270
271 Once quelled or wearing specious names and vests 271
272 Infernal elements, demon powers are there. 272
273 Man's lower nature hides these awful guests. 273
274 Their vast contagion grips sometimes man's world. 274
275 An awful insurgence overpowers man's soul. 275
276 In house and house the huge uprising grows: 276
277 Hell's companies are loosed to do their work, 277
278 Into the earth-ways they break out from all doors, 278
279 Invade with blood-lust and the will to slay 279
280 And fill with horror and carnage God's fair world. 280
281 Death and his hunters stalk a victim earth; 281
282 The terrible Angel smites at every door: 282
283 An awful laughter mocks at the world's pain 283
284 And massacre and torture grin at Heaven: 284
285 All is the prey of the destroying force; 285
286 Creation rocks and tremble top and base. 286
287 This evil Nature housed in human hearts, 287
288 A foreign inhabitant, a dangerous guest: 288
289 The soul that harbours it it can dislodge, 289
290 Expel the householder, possess the house. 290
291 An opposite potency contradicting God, 291
292 A momentary Evil's almightiness 292
293 Has straddled the straight path of Nature's acts. 293
294 It imitates the Godhead it denies, 294
295 Puts on his figure and assumes his face. 295
296 A Manichean creator and destroyer, 296
297 This can abolish man, annul his world. 297
298 But there is a guardian power, there are Hands that save, 298
299 Calm eyes divine regard the human scene. 299
300 All the world's possibilities in man 300
301 Are waiting as the tree waits in its seed: 301
302 His past lives in him; it drives his future's pace; 302
303 His present's acts fashion his coming fate. 303
304 The unborn gods hide in his house of Life. 304
305 The daemons of the unknown overshadow his mind 305
306 Casting their dreams into live moulds of thought, 306
307 The moulds in which his mind builds out its world. 307
308 His mind creates around him its universe. 308
309 All that has been renews in him its birth; 309
310 All that can be is figured in his soul. 310
311 Issuing in deeds it scores on the roads of the world, 311
312 Obscure to the interpreting reason's guess, 312
313 Lines of the secret purpose of the gods. 313
314 In strange directions runs the intricate plan; 314
315 Held back from human foresight is their end 315
316 And the far intention of some ordering Will 316
317 Or the order of life's arbitrary Chance 317
318 Finds out its settled poise and fated hour. 318
319 Our surface watched in vain by reason's gaze, 319
320 Invaded by the impromptus of the unseen, 320
321 Helpless records the accidents of Time, 321
322 The involuntary turns and leaps of life. 322
323 Only a little of us foresees its steps, 323
324 Only a little has will and purposed pace. 324
325 A vast subliminal is man's measureless part. 325
326 The dim subconscient is his cavern base. 326
327 Abolished vainly in the walks of Time 327
328 Our past lives still in our unconscious selves 328
329 And by the weight of its hidden influences 329
330 Is shaped our future's self-discovery. 330
331 Thus all is an inevitable chain 331
332 And yet a series seems of accidents. 332
333 The unremembering hours repeat the old acts, 333
334 Our dead past round our future's ankles clings 334
335 And drags back the new nature's glorious stride, 335
336 Or from its buried corpse old ghosts arise, 336
337 Old thoughts, old longings, dead passions live again, 337
338 Recur in sleep or move the waking man 338
339 To words that force the barrier of the lips, 339
340 To deeds that suddenly start and o'erleap 340
341 His head of reason and his guardian will. 341
342 An old self lurks in the new self we are; 342
343 Hardly we escape from what we once had been: 343
344 In the dim gleam of habit's passages, 344
345 In the subconscient's darkling corridors 345
346 All things are carried by the porter nerves 346
347 And nothing checked by subterranean mind, 347
348 Unstudied by the guardians of the doors 348
349 And passed by a blind instinctive memory, 349
350 The old gang dismissed, old cancelled passports serve. 350
351 Nothing is wholly dead that once had lived; 351
352 In dim tunnels of the world's being and in ours 352
353 The old rejected nature still survives; 353
354 The corpses of its slain thoughts raise their heads 354
355 And visit mind's nocturnal walks in sleep, 355
356 Its stifled impulses breathe and move and rise; 356
357 All keeps a phantom immortality. 357
358 Irresistible are Nature's sequences: 358
359 The seeds of sins renounced sprout from hid soil; 359
360 The evil cast from our hearts once more we face; 360
361 Our dead selves come to slay our living soul. 361
362 A portion of us lives in present Time, 362
363 A secret mass in dim inconscience gropes; 363
364 A secret mass in dim inconscience gropes; 363
365 Out of the inconscient and subliminal 365
366 Arisen, we live in mind's uncertain light 366
367 And strive to know and master a dubious world 367
368 Whose purpose and meaning are hidden from our sight. 368
369 Above us dwells a superconscient God 369
370 Hidden in the mystery of his own light: 370
371 Around us is a vast of ignorance 371
372 Lit by the uncertain ray of human mind, 372
373 Below us sleeps the Inconscient dark and mute. 373
374 But this is only Matter's first self-view, 374
375 A scale and series in the Ignorance. 375
376 This is not all we are or all our world. 376
377 Our greater self of knowledge waits for us, 377
378 A supreme light in the truth-conscious Vast: 378
379 It sees from summits beyond thinking mind, 379
380 It moves in a splendid air transcending life. 380
381 It shall descend and make earth's life divine. 381
382 Truth made the world, not a blind Nature-Force. 382
383 For here are not our large diviner heights; 383
384 Our summits in the superconscient's blaze 394
385 Are glorious with the very face of God: 385
386 There is our aspect of eternity, 386
387 There is the figure of the god we are, 387
388 His young unaging look on deathless things, 388
389 His joy in our escape from death and Time, 389
390 His immortality and light and bliss. 390
391 Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: 391
392 There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts 392
393 That wait their hour to step into life's front: 393
394 We feel an aid from deep indwelling Gods; 394
395 One speaks within, Light comes to us from above. 395
396 Our soul from its mysterious chamber acts; 396
397 Its influence pressing on our heart and mind 397
398 Pushes them to exceed their mortal selves. 398
399 It seeks for Good and Beauty and for God; 399
400 We see beyond self's walls our limitless self, 400
401 We gaze through our world's glass at half-seen vasts, 401
402 We hunt for the Truth behind apparent things. 402
403 Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light, 403
404 Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors; 404
405 Our members luminous grow and Wisdom's face 405
406 Appears in the doorway of the mystic ward: 406
407 When she enters into our house of outward sense, 407
408 Then we look up and see, above, her sun. 408
409 A mighty life-self with its inner powers 409
410 Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life; 410
411 It can graft upon our crawl two puissant wings. 411
412 Our body's subtle self is throned within 412
413 In its viewless palace of veridical dreams 413
414 That are bright shadows of the thoughts of God. 414
415 In the prone obscure beginnings of the race 415
416 The human grew in the bowed apelike man. 416
417 He stood erect, a godlike form and force, 417
418 And a soul's thoughts looked out from earth-born eyes; 418
419 Man stood erect, he wore the thinker's brow: 419
420 He looked at heaven and saw his comrade stars; 420
421 A vision came of beauty and greater birth 421
422 Slowly emerging from the heart's chapel of light 422
423 And moved in a white lucent air of dreams. 423
424 He saw his being's unrealised vastnesses, 424
425 He aspired and housed the nascent demigod. 425
426 Out of the dim recesses of the self 426
427 The occult seeker into the open came: 427
428 He heard the far and touched the intangible, 428
429 He gazed into the future and the unseen; 429
430 He used the powers earth-instruments cannot use, 430
431 A pastime made of the impossible; 431
432 He caught up fragments of the Omniscient's thought, 432
433 He scattered formulas of omnipotence. 433
434 Thus man in his little house made of earth's dust 434
435 Grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream 435
436 Looking into the vast vistas of his mind 436
437 On a small globe dotting infinity. 437
438 At last climbing a long and narrow stair 438
439 He stood alone on the high roof of things 439
440 And saw the light of a spiritual sun. 440
441 Aspiring he transcends his earthly self; 441
442 He stands in the largeness of his soul new-born, 442
443 Redeemed from encirclement by mortal things 443
444 And moves in a pure free spiritual realm 444
445 As in the rare breath of a stratosphere; 445
446 A last end of far lines of divinity, 446
447 He mounts by a frail thread to his high source; 447
448 He reaches his fount of immortality, 448
449 He calls the Godhead into his mortal life. 449
450 All this the spirit concealed had done in her: 450
451 A portion of the mighty Mother came 451
452 Into her as into its own human part: 452
453 Amid the cosmic workings of the Gods 453
454 It marked her the centre of a wide-drawn scheme, 454
455 Dreamed in the passion of her far-seeing spirit 455
456 To mould humanity into God's own shape 456
457 And lead this great blind struggling world to light 457
458 Or a new world discover or create. 458
459 Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven 459
460 Or Heaven descend into earth's mortal state. 460
461 But for such vast spiritual change to be, 461
462 Out of the mystic cavern in man's heart 462
463 The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil 463
464 And step into common nature's crowded rooms 464
465 And stand uncovered in that nature's front 465
466 And rule its thoughts and fill the body and life. 466
467 Obedient to a high command she sat: 467
468 Time, life and death were passing incidents 468
469 Obstructing with their transient view her sight, 469
470 Her sight that must break through and liberate the god 470
471 Imprisoned in the visionless mortal man. 471
472 The inferior nature born into ignorance 472
473 Still took too large a place, it veiled her self 473
474 And must be pushed aside to find her soul. 474