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Das Kollektive Savitri-Projekt: Das Buch vom Yoga

Savitri Buch 7 Canto 3 (ID ist identisch mit Buchzeile rechts!)

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300 At first out of the busy hum of mind Zunächst aus dem geschäftigen Gesumme des Mentals, 1
301 As if from a loud thronged market into a cave Wie von einem lauten wimmelnden Markt in eine Höhle, 2
302 By an inward moment's magic she had come. Gelangte sie durch die Magie eines inneren Augenblicks. 3
303 A stark hushed emptiness became her self: Ein streng schweigende Leere ward zu ihrem Selbst: 4
304 Her mind unvisited by the voice of thought Ihr Mental, von der Stimme des Denkens nicht mehr besucht, 5
305 Stared at a void deep's dumb infinity. Starrte auf eine stumme Unermesslichkeit von leerer Tiefe. 6
306 Her heights receded, her depths behind her closed; Ihre Höhen zogen sich zurück, hinter ihr schlossen sich ihre Tiefen; 7
307 All fled away from her and left her blank. Alles entfloh von ihr und ließ sie leer zurück. 8
308 But when she came back to her self of thought, Doch wenn sie zurück in ihr Selbst des Denkens kam, 9
309 Once more she was a human thing on earth, War sie wieder ein menschlicher Teil auf Erden, 10
310 A lump of Matter, a house of closed sight, Ein Klumpen Materie, ein Haus versperrter Sicht, 11
311 A mind compelled to think out ignorance, Ein Mental, gezwungen über Unwissenheit nachzudenken, 12
312 A life-force pressed into a camp of works Eine Lebenskraft, eingepfercht in ein Arbeitslager 13
313 And the material world her limiting field. Und der begrenzte Bereich der materiellen Welt. 14
314 Amazed like one unknowing she sought her way Sie suchte wie eine Unwissende verwundert ihren Weg 15
315 Out of the tangle of man's ignorant past Aus den Wirren der ignoranten Vergangenheit des Menschen, 16
316 That took the surface person for the soul. Der die oberflächliche Person für die Seele hielt. 17
317 Then a Voice spoke that dwelt on secret heights: Dann sprach eine Stimme, die auf geheimen Höhen wohnte: 18
318 "For man thou seekst, not for thyself alone. „Du suchst für den Menschen, nicht für dich allein. 19
319 Only if God assumes the human mind Nur wenn Gott selbst das menschliche Mental annimmt 20
320 And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak Und sterbliche Unwissenheit als sein Gewand anlegt 21
321 And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride, Und sich selbst zum Zwerg mit dem dreifachen Schritte macht, 22
322 Can he help man to grow into the God. Kann er dem Menschen helfen, in Gott emporzuwachsen. 23
323 As man disguised the cosmic Greatness works Als Mensch verkleidet wirkt die kosmische Größe 24
324 And finds the mystic inaccessible gate Und findet die mystische unzugängliche Pforte 25
325 And opens the Immortal's golden door. Und öffnet die goldene Tür des Unsterblichen. 26
326 Man, human, follows in God's human steps. Der Mensch, menschlich, folgt Gottes menschlichen Schritten. 27
327 Accepting his darkness thou must bring to him light, Seine Dunkelheit auf dich nehmend, musst du ihm Licht bringen, 28
328 Accepting his sorrow thou must bring to him bliss. Seine Leiden auf dich nehmend, musst du ihm Seligkeit bringen. 29
329 In Matter's body find thy heaven-born soul." Im Körper der Materie finde deine im Himmel geborene Seele.“ 30
330 Then Savitri surged out of her body's wall Dann schlüpfte Savitri aus der Wandung des Körpers 31
331 And stood a little span outside herself Und stand eine kurze Zeitspanne außerhalb von sich 32
332 And looked into her subtle being's depths Und blickte in die Tiefen ihres subtilen Wesens 33
333 And in its heart as in a lotus-bud Und in dessen Herz wie in eine Lotusknospe, 34
334 Divined her secret and mysterious soul. Indem sie ihre geheime und mysteriöse Seele aufspürte. 35
335 At the dim portal of the inner life An das düstere Portal des inneren Lebens, 36
336 That bars out from our depths the body's mind Das von unseren Tiefen das Mental des Körpers ausschließt 37
337 And all that lives but by the body's breath, Und alles, was nur vom Atem des Körpers lebt, 38
338 She knocked and pressed against the ebony gate. Klopfte sie an und drückte gegen das Tor aus Ebenholz. 39
339 The living portal groaned with sullen hinge: Das lebendige Portal ächzte mit trotziger Türangel: 40
340 Heavily reluctant it complained inert Schwerfällig widerstrebend, klagte es träge 41
341 Against the tyranny of the spirit's touch. Gegen die Tyrannei der Berührung des Geistes. 42
342 A formidable voice cried from within: Von innen her schrie eine eindrucksvolle Stimme: 43
343 "Back, creature of earth, lest tortured and torn thou die." „Zurück, Geschöpf der Erde, dass du nicht gefoltert und zerfetzt stirbst.“ 44
344 A dreadful murmur rose like a dim sea; Ein grässliches Murren erhob sich gleich einem düsteren Meer; 45
345 The Serpent of the threshold hissing rose, Die Schlange der Schwelle erhob sich zischend, 46
346 A fatal guardian hood with monstrous coils, Eine unheilvolle Wächterin mit monströsen Windungen bedeckt, 47
347 The hounds of darkness growled with jaws agape, Die Hunde der Finsternis knurrten mit fletschenden Zähnen 48
348 And trolls and gnomes and goblins scowled and stared Und Trolle und Gnome und Kobolde starrten finster und glotzten 49
349 And wild beast roarings thrilled the blood with fear Und das Heulen wilder Bestien ließ das Blut vor Angst erschaudern 50
350 And menace muttered in a dangerous tongue. Und Drohung brummelte in gefährlichem Ton. 51
351 Unshaken her will pressed on the rigid bars: Unerschüttert stemmte sich ihr Wille gegen die starren Hindernisse: 52
352 The gate swung wide with a protesting jar, Da schwang das Tor sich weit auf mit protestierendem Geknarre, 53
353 The opponent Powers withdrew their dreadful guard; Die opponierenden Mächte ließen ab von ihrer fürchterlichen Wacht; 54
354 Her being entered into the inner worlds. Ihr Wesen trat in die inneren Welten ein. 55
355 In a narrow passage, the subconscient's gate, In einem engen Gang, dem Tor des Unterbewussten, 56
356 She breathed with difficulty and pain and strove Atmete sie mit Mühe und Schmerz und rang danach, 57
357 To find the inner self concealed in sense. Das in den Sinnen verborgene innere Selbst zu finden. 58
358 Into a dense of subtle Matter packed, Eingepackt in die Dichte einer verfeinerten Materie, 59
359 A cavity filled with a blind mass of power, Einer Höhle, voll mit einer blinden Masse von Macht, 60
360 An opposition of misleading gleams, Einen Widerpart von irreführenden Lichtzeichen, 61
361 A heavy barrier of unseeing sight, Einer schweren Barriere nichtsehenden Schauens, 62
362 She forced her way through body to the soul. Erzwang sie sich ihren Weg durch den Körper zur Seele hin. 63
363 Across a perilous border line she passed Sie überquerte eine gefahrvolle Grenzlinie, 64
364 Where Life dips into the subconscient dusk Wo Leben in unterbewusste Dämmerung taucht 65
365 Or struggles from Matter into chaos of mind, Oder sich aus der Materie durchkämpft ins Chaos des Mentals, 66
366 Aswarm with elemental entities Umschwärmt von den elementaren Wesenheiten 67
367 And fluttering shapes of vague half-bodied thought 68
368 And crude beginnings of incontinent force. 69
369 At first a difficult narrowness was there, 70
370 A press of uncertain powers and drifting wills; 71
371 For all was there but nothing in its place. 72
372 At times an opening came, a door was forced; 73
373 She crossed through spaces of a secret self 74
374 And trod in passages of inner Time. 75
375 At last she broke into a form of things, 76
376 A start of finiteness, a world of sense: 77
377 But all was still confused, nothing self-found. 78
378 Soul was not there but only cries of life. 79
379 A thronged and clamorous air environed her. 80
380 A horde of sounds defied significance, 81
381 A dissonant clash of cries and contrary calls; 82
382 A mob of visions broke across the sight, 83
383 A jostled sequence lacking sense and suite, 84
384 Feelings pushed through a packed and burdened heart, 85
385 Each forced its separate inconsequent way 86
386 But cared for nothing but its ego's drive. 87
387 A rally without key of common will, 88
388 Thought stared at thought and pulled at the taut brain 89
389 As if to pluck the reason from its seat 90
390 And cast its corpse into life's wayside drain; 91
391 So might forgotten lie in Nature's mud 92
392 Abandoned the slain sentinel of the soul. 93
393 So could life's power shake from it mind's rule, 94
394 Nature renounce the spirit's government 95
395 And the bare elemental energies 96
396 Make of the sense a glory of boundless joy, 97
397 A splendour of ecstatic anarchy, 98
398 A revel mighty and mad of utter bliss. 99
399 This was the sense's instinct void of soul 100
400 Or when the soul sleeps hidden void of power, 101
401 But now the vital godhead wakes within 102
402 And lifts the life with the Supernal's touch. 103
403 But how shall come the glory and the flame 104
404 If mind is cast away into the abyss? 105
405 For body without mind has not the light, 106
406 The rapture of spirit sense, the joy of life; 107
407 All then becomes subconscient, tenebrous, 108
408 Inconscience puts its seal on Nature's page 109
409 Or else a mad disorder whirls the brain 110
410 Posting along a ravaged nature's roads, 111
411 A chaos of disordered impulses 112
412 In which no light can come, no joy, no peace. 113
413 This state now threatened, this she pushed from her. 114
414 As if in a long endless tossing street 115
415 One driven mid a trampling hurrying crowd 116
416 Hour after hour she trod without release 117
417 Holding by her will the senseless meute at bay; 118
418 Out of the dreadful press she dragged her will 119
419 And fixed her thought upon the saviour Name; 120
420 Then all grew still and empty; she was free. 121
421 A large deliverance came, a vast calm space. 122
422 Awhile she moved through a blank tranquillity 123
423 Of naked Light from an invisible sun, 124
424 A void that was a bodiless happiness, 125
425 A blissful vacuum of nameless peace. 126
426 But now a mightier danger's front drew near: 127
427 The press of bodily mind, the Inconscient's brood 128
428 Of aimless thought and will had fallen from her. 129
429 Approaching loomed a giant head of Life 130
430 Ungoverned by mind or soul, subconscient, vast. 131
431 It tossed all power into a single drive, 132
432 It made its power a might of dangerous seas. 133
433 Into the stillness of her silent self, 134
434 Into the whiteness of its muse of Space 135
435 A spate, a torrent of the speed of Life 136
436 Broke like a wind-lashed driven mob of waves 137
437 Racing on a pale floor of summer sand; 138
438 It drowned its banks, a mountain of climbing waves. 139
439 Enormous was its vast and passionate voice. 140
440 It cried to her listening spirit as it ran, 141
441 Demanding God's submission to chainless Force. 142
442 A deaf force calling to a status dumb, 143
443 A thousand voices in a muted Vast, 144
444 It claimed the heart's support for its clutch at joy, 145
445 For its need to act the witness Soul's consent, 146
446 For its lust of power her neutral being's seal. 147
447 Into the wideness of her watching self 148
448 It brought a grandiose gust of the Breath of Life; 149
449 Its torrent carried the world's hopes and fears, 150
450 All life's, all Nature's dissatisfied hungry cry, 151
451 And the longing all eternity cannot fill. 152
452 It called to the mountain secrecies of the soul 153
453 And the miracle of the never-dying fire, 154
454 It spoke to some first inexpressible ecstasy 155
455 Hidden in the creative beat of Life; 156
456 Out of the nether unseen deeps it tore 157
457 Its lure and magic of disordered bliss, 158
458 Into earth-light poured its maze of tangled charm 159
459 And heady draught of Nature's primitive joy 160
460 And the fire and mystery of forbidden delight 161
461 Drunk from the world-libido's bottomless well, 162
462 And the honey-sweet poison-wine of lust and death, 163
463 But dreamed a vintage of glory of life's gods, 164
464 And felt as celestial rapture's golden sting. 164
465 The cycles of the infinity of desire 166
466 And the mystique that made an unrealised world 167
467 Wider than the known and closer than the unknown 168
468 In which hunt for ever the hounds of mind and life, 169
469 Tempted a deep dissatisfied urge within 170
470 To long for the unfulfilled and ever far 171
471 And make this life upon a limiting earth 172
472 A climb towards summits vanishing in the void, 173
473 A search for the glory of the impossible. 174
474 It dreamed of that which never has been known, 175
475 It grasped at that which never has been won, 176
476 It chased into an Elysian memory 177
477 The charms that flee from the heart's soon lost delight; 178
478 It dared the force that slays, the joys that hurt, 179
479 The imaged shape of unaccomplished things 180
480 And the summons to a Circean transmuting dance 181
481 And passion's tenancy of the courts of love 182
482 And the wild Beast's ramp and romp with Beauty and Life. 183
483 It brought its cry and surge of opposite powers, 184
484 Its moments of the touch of luminous planes, 185
485 Its flame-ascensions and sky-pitched vast attempts, 186
486 Its fiery towers of dream built on the winds, 187
487 Its sinkings towards the darkness and the abyss, 188
488 Its honey of tenderness, its sharp wine of hate, 189
489 Its changes of sun and cloud, of laughter and tears, 190
490 Its bottomless danger-pits and swallowing gulfs, 191
491 Its fear and joy and ecstasy and despair, 192
492 Its occult wizardries, its simple lines 193
493 And great communions and uplifting moves, 194
494 Its faith in heaven, its intercourse with hell. 195
495 These powers were not blunt with the dead weight of earth, 196
496 They gave ambrosia's taste and poison's sting. 197
497 There was an ardour in the gaze of Life 198
498 That saw heaven blue in the grey air of Night: 199
499 The impulses godward soared on passion's wings. 200
500 Mind's quick-paced thoughts floated from their high necks, 201
501 A glowing splendour as of an irised mane, 202
502 A parure of pure intuition's light; 203
503 Its flame-foot gallop they could imitate: 204
504 Mind's voices mimicked inspiration's stress, 205
505 Its ictus of infallibility, 206
506 Its speed and lightning heaven-leap of the Gods. 207
507 A trenchant blade that shore the nets of doubt, 208
508 Its sword of discernment seemed almost divine. 209
509 Yet all that knowledge was a borrowed sun's; 210
510 The forms that came were not heaven's native births: 211
511 An inner voice could speak the unreal's Word; 212
512 Its puissance dangerous and absolute 213
513 Could mingle poison with the wine of God. 214
514 On these high shining backs falsehood could ride; 215
515 Truth lay with delight in error's passionate arms 216
516 Gliding downstream in a blithe gilded barge: 217
517 She edged her ray with a magnificent lie. 218
518 Here in Life's nether realms all contraries meet; 219
519 Truth stares and does her works with bandaged eyes 220
520 And Ignorance is Wisdom's patron here: 221
521 Those galloping hooves in their enthusiast speed 222
522 Could bear to a dangerous intermediate zone 223
523 Where Death walks wearing a robe of deathless Life. 224
524 Or they enter the valley of the wandering Gleam 225
525 Whence, captives or victims of the specious Ray, 226
526 Souls trapped in that region never can escape. 227
527 Agents, not masters, they serve Life's desires 228
528 Toiling for ever in the snare of Time. 229
529 Their bodies born out of some Nihil's womb 230
530 Ensnare the spirit in the moment's dreams, 231
531 Then perish vomiting the immortal soul 232
532 Out of Matter's belly into the sink of Nought. 233
533 Yet some uncaught, unslain, can warily pass 234
534 Carrying Truth's image in the sheltered heart, 235
535 Pluck Knowledge out of error's screening grip, 236
536 Break paths through the blind walls of little self, 237
537 Then travel on to reach a greater life. 238
538 All this streamed past her and seemed to her vision's sight 239
539 As if around a high and voiceless isle 240
540 A clamour of waters from far unknown hills 241
541 Swallowed its narrow banks in crowding waves 242
542 And made a hungry world of white wild foam: 243
543 Hastening, a dragon with a million feet, 244
544 Its foam and cry a drunken giant's din, 245
545 Tossing a mane of Darkness into God's sky, 246
546 It ebbed receding into a distant roar. 247
547 Then smiled again a large and tranquil air: 248
548 Blue heaven, green earth, partners of Beauty's reign, 249
549 Lived as of old, companions in happiness; 250
550 And in the world's heart laughed the joy of life. 251
551 All now was still, the soil shone dry and pure. 352
552 Through it all she moved not, plunged not in the vain waves. 353
553 Out of the vastness of the silent self 354
554 Life's clamour fled; her spirit was mute and free. 355
555 Then journeying forward through the self's wide hush 356
556 She came into a brilliant ordered Space. 357
557 There Life dwelt parked in an armed tranquillity; 358
558 A chain was on her strong insurgent heart. 359
559 Tamed to the modesty of a measured pace, 360
560 She kept no more her vehement stride and rush; 361
561 She had lost the careless majesty of her muse 362
562 And the ample grandeur of her regal force; 363
563 Curbed were her mighty pomps, her splendid waste, 364
564 Sobered the revels of her bacchant play, 365
565 Cut down were her squanderings in desire's bazaar, 366
566 Coerced her despot will, her fancy's dance, 367
567 A cold stolidity bound the riot of sense. 368
568 A royalty without freedom was her lot; 369
569 The sovereign throned obeyed her ministers: 370
570 Her servants mind and sense governed her house: 371
571 Her spirit's bounds they cast in rigid lines 372
572 And guarding with a phalanx of armoured rules 373
573 The reason's balanced reign, kept order and peace. 374
574 Her will lived closed in adamant walls of law, 375
575 Coerced was her force by chains that feigned to adorn, 376
576 Imagination was prisoned in a fort, 377
577 Her wanton and licentious favourite; 378
578 Reality's poise and reason's symmetry 379
579 Were set in its place sentinelled by marshalled facts, 380
580 They gave to the soul for throne a bench of Law, 381
581 For kingdom a small world of rule and line: 382
582 The ages' wisdom, shrivelled to scholiast lines, 383
583 Shrank patterned into a copy-book device. 384
584 The Spirit's almighty freedom was not here: 385
585 A schoolman mind had captured life's large space, 386
586 But chose to live in bare and paltry rooms 387
587 Parked off from the too vast dangerous universe, 388
588 Fearing to lose its soul in the infinite. 389
589 Even the Idea's ample sweep was cut 390
590 Into a system, chained to fixed pillars of thought 391
591 Or rivetted to Matter's solid ground: 392
592 Or else the soul was lost in its own heights: 393
593 Obeying the Ideal's high-browed law 394
594 Thought based a throne on unsubstantial air 395
595 Disdaining earth's flat triviality: 396
596 It barred reality out to live in its dreams. 397
597 Or all stepped into a systemed universe: 398
598 Life's empire was a managed continent, 399
599 Its thoughts an army ranked and disciplined; 400
600 Uniformed they kept the logic of their fixed place 401
601 At the bidding of the trained centurion mind. 402
602 Or each stepped into its station like a star 403
603 Or marched through fixed and constellated heavens 404
604 Or kept its feudal rank among its peers 405
605 In the sky's unchanging cosmic hierarchy. 406
606 Or like a high-bred maiden with chaste eyes 407
607 Forbidden to walk unveiled the public ways, 408
608 She must in close secluded chambers move, 409
609 Her feeling in cloisters live or gardened paths. 410
610 Life was consigned to a safe level path, 411
611 It dared not tempt the great and difficult heights 412
612 Or climb to be neighbour to a lonely star 413
613 Or skirt the danger of the precipice 414
614 Or tempt the foam-curled breakers' perilous laugh, 415
615 Adventure's lyrist, danger's amateur, 416
616 Or into her chamber call some flaming god, 417
617 Or leave the world's bounds and where no limits are 418
618 Meet with the heart's passion the Adorable 419
619 Or set the world ablaze with the inner Fire. 420
620 A chastened epithet in the prose of life, 421
621 She must fill with colour just her sanctioned space, 422
622 Not break out of the cabin of the idea 423
623 Nor trespass into rhythms too high or vast. 424
624 Even when it soared into ideal air, 425
625 Thought's flight lost not itself in heaven's blue: 426
626 It drew upon the skies a patterned flower 427
627 Of disciplined beauty and harmonic light. 428
628 A temperate vigilant spirit governed life: 429
629 Its acts were tools of the considering thought, 430
630 Too cold to take fire and set the world ablaze, 431
631 Or the careful reason's diplomatic moves 432
632 Testing the means to a prefigured end, 433
633 Or at the highest pitch some calm Will's plan 434
634 Or a strategy of some High Command within 435
635 To conquer the secret treasures of the gods 436
636 Or win for a masked king some glorious world, 437
637 Not a reflex of the spontaneous self, 438
638 An index of the being and its moods, 439
639 A winging of conscious spirit, a sacrament 440
640 Of life's communion with the still Supreme 441
641 Or its pure movement on the Eternal's road. 442
642 Or else for the body of some high Idea 443
643 A house was built with too close-fitting bricks; 444
644 Action and thought cemented made a wall 445
645 Of small ideals limiting the soul. 446
646 Even meditation mused on a narrow seat; 447
647 And worship turned to an exclusive God, 448
648 To the Universal in a chapel prayed 449
649 Whose doors were shut against the universe; 450
650 Or kneeled to the bodiless Impersonal 451
651 A mind shut to the cry and fire of love: 452
652 A rational religion dried the heart. 453
653 It planned a smooth life's acts with ethics' rule 454
654 Or offered a cold and flameless sacrifice. 455
655 The sacred Book lay on its sanctified desk 456
656 Wrapped in interpretation's silken strings: 457
657 A credo sealed up its spiritual sense. 458
658 Here was a quiet country of fixed mind, 459
659 Here life no more was all nor passion's voice; 560
660 The cry of sense had sunk into a hush. 461
661 Soul was not there nor spirit but mind alone; 462
662 Mind claimed to be the spirit and the soul. 463
663 The spirit saw itself as form of mind, 464
664 Lost itself in the glory of the thought, 465
665 A light that made invisible the sun. 466
666 Into a firm and settled space she came 467
667 Where all was still and all things kept their place. 468
668 Each found what it had sought and knew its aim. 469
669 All had a final last stability. 470
670 There one stood forth who bore authority 471
671 On an important brow and held a rod; 472
672 Command was incarnate in his gesture and tone; 473
673 Tradition's petrified wisdom carved his speech, 474
674 His sentences savoured the oracle. 475
675 "Traveller or pilgrim of the inner world, 476
676 Fortunate art thou to reach our brilliant air 477
677 Flaming with thought's supreme finality. 478
678 O aspirant to the perfect way of life, 479
679 Here find it; rest from search and live at peace. 480
680 Ours is the home of cosmic certainty. 481
681 Here is the truth, God's harmony is here. 482
682 Register thy name in the book of the elite, 483
683 Admitted by the sanction of the few, 484
684 Adopt thy station of knowledge, thy post in mind, 485
685 Thy ticket of order draw in Life's bureau 486
686 And praise thy fate that made thee one of ours. 487
687 All here, docketed and tied, the mind can know, 488
688 All schemed by law that God permits to life. 489
689 This is the end and there is no beyond. 490
690 Here is the safety of the ultimate wall, 491
691 Here is the clarity of the sword of Light, 492
692 Here is the victory of a single Truth, 493
693 Here burns the diamond of flawless bliss. 494
694 A favourite of Heaven and Nature live." 495
695 But to the too satisfied and confident sage 496
696 Savitri replied casting into his world 497
697 Sight's deep release, the heart's questioning inner voice: 498
698 For here the heart spoke not, only clear daylight 499
699 Of intellect reigned here, limiting, cold, precise. 500
700 "Happy are they who in this chaos of things, 501
701 This coming and going of the feet of Time, 502
702 Can find the single Truth, the eternal Law: 503
703 Untouched they live by hope and doubt and fear. 504
704 Happy are men anchored on fixed belief 505
705 In this uncertain and ambiguous world, 506
706 Or who have planted in the heart's rich soil 507
707 One small grain of spiritual certitude. 508
708 Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock. 509
709 But I must pass leaving the ended search, 510
710 Truth's rounded outcome firm, immutable 511
711 And this harmonic building of world-fact, 512
712 This ordered knowledge of apparent things. 513
713 Here I can stay not, for I seek my soul." 514
714 None answered in that bright contented world, 515
715 Or only turned on their accustomed way 516
716 Astonished to hear questioning in that air 517
717 Or thoughts that could still turn to the Beyond. 518
718 But some murmured, passers-by from kindred spheres: 519
719 Each by his credo judged the thought she spoke. 520
720 "Who then is this who knows not that the soul 521
721 Is a least gland or a secretion's fault 522
722 Disquieting the sane government of the mind, 523
723 Disordering the function of the brain, 524
724 Or a yearning lodged in Nature's mortal house 525
725 Or dream whispered in man's cave of hollow thought 526
726 Who would prolong his brief unhappy term 527
727 Or cling to living in a sea of death?" 528
728 But others, "Nay, it is her spirit she seeks. 529
729 A splendid shadow of the name of God, 530
730 A formless lustre from the Ideal's realm, 531
731 The Spirit is the Holy Ghost of Mind; 532
732 But none has touched its limbs or seen its face. 533
733 Each soul is the great Father's crucified Son, 534
734 Mind is that soul's one parent, its conscious cause, 535
735 The ground on which trembles a brief passing light, 536
736 Mind, sole creator of the apparent world. 537
737 All that is here is part of our own self; 538
738 Our minds have made the world in which we live." 539
739 Another with mystic and unsatisfied eyes 540
740 Who loved his slain belief and mourned its death, 541
741 "Is there one left who seeks for a Beyond? 542
742 Can still the path be found, opened the gate?" 543
743 So she fared on across her silent self. 544
744 To a road she came thronged with an ardent crowd 545
745 Who sped brilliant, fire-footed, sunlight-eyed, 546
746 Pressing to reach the world's mysterious wall, 547
747 And pass through masked doorways into outer mind 548
748 Where the Light comes not nor the mystic voice, 549
749 Messengers from our subliminal greatnesses, 550
750 Guests from the cavern of the secret soul. 551
751 nto dim spiritual somnolence they break 552
752 Or shed wide wonder on our waking self, 553
753 Ideas that haunt us with their radiant tread, 554
754 Dreams that are hints of unborn Reality, 555
755 Strange goddesses with deep-pooled magical eyes, 556
756 Strong wind-haired gods carrying the harps of hope, 557
757 Great moon-hued visions gliding through gold air, 558
758 Aspiration's sun-dream head and star-carved limbs, 559
759 Emotions making common hearts sublime. 560
760 And Savitri mingling in that glorious crowd, 561
761 Yearning to the spiritual light they bore, 562
762 Longed once to hasten like them to save God's world; 563
763 But she reined back the high passion in her heart; 564
764 She knew that first she must discover her soul. 565
765 Only who save themselves can others save. 566
766 In contrary sense she faced life's riddling truth: 567
767 They carrying the light to suffering men 568
768 Hurried with eager feet to the outer world; 569
769 Her eyes were turned towards the eternal source. 570
770 Outstretching her hands to stay the throng she cried: 571
771 "O happy company of luminous gods, 572
772 Reveal, who know, the road that I must tread,— 573
773 For surely that bright quarter is your home,— 574
774 To find the birthplace of the occult Fire 575
775 And the deep mansion of my secret soul." 576
776 One answered pointing to a silence dim 577
777 On a remote extremity of sleep 578
778 In some far background of the inner world. 579
779 "O Savitri, from thy hidden soul we come. 580
780 We are the messengers, the occult gods 581
781 Who help men's drab and heavy ignorant lives 582
782 To wake to beauty and the wonder of things 583
783 Touching them with glory and divinity; 584
784 In evil we light the deathless flame of good 585
785 And hold the torch of knowledge on ignorant roads; 586
786 We are thy will and all men's will towards Light. 587
787 O human copy and disguise of God 588
788 Who seekst the deity thou keepest hid 589
789 And livest by the Truth thou hast not known, 590
790 Follow the world's winding highway to its source. 591
791 There in the silence few have ever reached, 592
792 Thou shalt see the Fire burning on the bare stone 593
793 And the deep cavern of thy secret soul." 594
794 Then Savitri following the great winding road 595
795 Came where it dwindled into a narrow path 596
796 Trod only by rare wounded pilgrim feet. 597
797 A few bright forms emerged from unknown depths 598
798 And looked at her with calm immortal eyes. 599
799 There was no sound to break the brooding hush; 600
800 One felt the silent nearness of the soul. 601