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Das Kollektive Savitri-Projekt: Das Buch vom Yoga

Savitri Buch 7 Canto 6 (ID ist identisch mit Buchzeile rechts!)

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1700 A calm slow sun looked down from tranquil heavens. 1
1701 A routed sullen rearguard of retreat, 2
1702 The last rains had fled murmuring across the woods 3
1703 Or failed, a sibilant whisper mid the leaves, 4
1704 And the great blue enchantment of the sky 5
1705 Recovered the deep rapture of its smile. 6
1706 Its mellow splendour unstressed by storm-licked heats 7
1707 Found room for a luxury of warm mild days, 8
1708 The night's gold treasure of autumnal moons 9
1709 Came floating shipped through ripples of faery air. 10
1710 And Savitri's life was glad, fulfilled like earth's; 11
1711 She had found herself, she knew her being's aim. 12
1712 Although her kingdom of marvellous change within 13
1713 Remained unspoken in her secret breast, 14
1714 All that lived round her felt its magic's charm: 15
1715 The trees' rustling voices told it to the winds, 16
1716 Flowers spoke in ardent hues an unknown joy, 17
1717 The birds' carolling became a canticle, 18
1718 The beasts forgot their strife and lived at ease. 19
1719 Absorbed in wide communion with the Unseen 20
1720 The mild ascetics of the wood received 21
1721 A sudden greatening of their lonely muse. 22
1722 This bright perfection of her inner state 23
1723 Poured overflowing into her outward scene, 24
1724 Made beautiful dull common natural things 25
1725 And action wonderful and time divine. 26
1726 Even the smallest meanest work became 27
1727 A sweet or glad and glorious sacrament, 28
1728 An offering to the self of the great world 29
1729 Or a service to the One in each and all. 30
1730 A light invaded all from her being's light; 31
1731 Her heart-beats' dance communicated bliss: 32
1732 Happiness grew happier, shared with her, by her touch 33
1733 And grief some solace found when she drew near. 34
1734 Above the cherished head of Satyavan 35
1735 She saw not now Fate's dark and lethal orb; 36
1736 A golden circle round a mystic sun 37
1737 Disclosed to her new-born predicting sight 38
1738 The cyclic rondure of a sovereign life. 39
1739 In her visions and deep-etched veridical dreams, 40
1740 In brief shiftings of the future's heavy screen, 41
1741 He lay not by a dolorous decree 42
1742 A victim in the dismal antre of death 43
1743 Or borne to blissful regions far from her 44
1744 Forgetting the sweetness of earth's warm delight, 45
1745 Forgetting the passionate oneness of love's clasp, 46
1746 Absolved in the self-rapt immortal's bliss. 47
1747 Always he was with her, a living soul 48
1748 That met her eyes with close enamoured eyes, 49
1749 A living body near to her body's joy. 50
1750 But now no longer in these great wild woods 51
1751 In kinship with the days of bird and beast 52
1752 And levelled to the bareness of earth's brown breast, 53
1753 But mid the thinking high-built lives of men 54
1754 In tapestried chambers and on crystal floors, 55
1755 In armoured town or gardened pleasure-walks, 56
1756 Even in distance closer than her thoughts, 57
1757 Body to body near, soul near to soul, 58
1758 Moving as if by a common breath and will 59
1759 They were tied in the single circling of their days 60
1760 Together by love's unseen atmosphere, 61
1761 Inseparable like the earth and sky. 62
1762 Thus for a while she trod the Golden Path; 63
1763 This was the sun before abysmal Night. 64
1764 Once as she sat in deep felicitous muse, 65
1765 Still quivering from her lover's strong embrace, 66
1766 And made her joy a bridge twixt earth and heaven, 67
1767 An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart. 68
1768 A vast and nameless fear dragged at her nerves 69
1769 As drags a wild beast its half-slaughtered prey; 70
1770 It seemed to have no den from which it sprang: 71
1771 It was not hers, but hid its unseen cause. 72
1772 Then rushing came its vast and fearful Fount. 73
1773 A formless Dread with shapeless endless wings 74
1774 Filling the universe with its dangerous breath, 75
1775 A denser darkness than the Night could bear, 76
1776 Enveloped the heavens and possessed the earth. 77
1777 A rolling surge of silent death, it came 78
1778 Curving round the far edge of the quaking globe; 79
1779 Effacing heaven with its enormous stride 80
1780 It willed to expunge the choked and anguished air 81
1781 And end the fable of the joy of life. 82
1782 It seemed her very being to forbid, 83
1783 Abolishing all by which her nature lived, 84
1784 And laboured to blot out her body and soul, 85
1785 A clutch of some half-seen Invisible, 86
1786 An ocean of terror and of sovereign might, 87
1787 A person and a black infinity. 88
1788 It seemed to cry to her without thought or word 89
1789 The message of its dark eternity 90
1790 And the awful meaning of its silences: 91
1791 Out of some sullen monstrous vast arisen, 92
1792 Out of an abysmal deep of grief and fear 93
1793 Imagined by some blind regardless self, 94
1794 A consciousness of being without its joy, 95
1795 Empty of thought, incapable of bliss, 96
1796 That felt life blank and nowhere found a soul, 97
1797 A voice to the dumb anguish of the heart 98
1798 Conveyed a stark sense of unspoken words; 99
1799 In her own depths she heard the unuttered thought 100
1800 That made unreal the world and all life meant. 101
1801 "Who art thou who claimst thy crown of separate birth, 102
1802 The illusion of thy soul's reality 103
1803 And personal godhead on an ignorant globe 104
1804 In the animal body of imperfect man? 105
1805 Hope not to be happy in a world of pain 106
1806 And dream not, listening to the unspoken Word 107
1807 And dazzled by the inexpressible Ray, 108
1808 Transcending the mute Superconscient's realm, 109
1809 To give a body to the Unknowable, 110
1810 Or for a sanction to thy heart's delight 111
1811 To burden with bliss the silent still Supreme 112
1812 Profaning its bare and formless sanctity, 113
1813 Or call into thy chamber the Divine 114
1814 And sit with God tasting a human joy. 115
1815 I have created all, all I devour; 116
1816 I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life, 117
1817 I am Kali black and naked in the world, 118
1818 I am Maya and the universe is my cheat. 119
1819 I lay waste human happiness with my breath 120
1820 And slay the will to live, the joy to be 121
1821 That all may pass back into nothingness 122
1822 And only abide the eternal and absolute. 123
1823 For only the blank Eternal can be true. 124
1824 All else is shadow and flash in Mind's bright glass, 125
1825 Mind, hollow mirror in which Ignorance sees 126
1826 A splendid figure of its own false self 127
1827 And dreams it sees a glorious solid world. 128
1828 O soul, inventor of man's thoughts and hopes, 129
1829 Thyself the invention of the moments' stream, 130
1830 Illusion's centre or subtle apex point, 131
1831 At last know thyself, from vain existence cease." 132
1832 A shadow of the negating Absolute, 133
1833 The intolerant Darkness travelled surging past 134
1834 And ebbed in her the formidable Voice. 135
1835 It left behind her inner world laid waste: 136
1836 A barren silence weighed upon her heart, 137
1837 Her kingdom of delight was there no more; 138
1838 Only her soul remained, its emptied stage, 139
1839 Awaiting the unknown eternal Will. 140
1840 Then from the heights a greater Voice came down, 141
1841 The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul, 142
1842 The voice of Light after the voice of Night: 143
1843 The cry of the Abyss drew Heaven's reply, 144
1844 A might of storm chased by the might of the Sun. 145
1845 "O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe; 146
1846 Consent to hide thy royalty of bliss 147
1847 Lest Time and Fate find out its avenues 148
1848 And beat with thunderous knock upon thy gates. 149
1849 Hide whilst thou canst thy treasure of separate self 150
1850 Behind the luminous rampart of thy depths 151
1851 Till of a vaster empire it grows part. 152
1852 But not for self alone the Self is won: 153
1853 Content abide not with one conquered realm; 154
1854 Adventure all to make the whole world thine, 155
1855 To break into greater kingdoms turn thy force. 156
1856 Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all; 157
1857 Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme 158
1858 That all in thee may reach its absolute. 159
1859 Accept to be small and human on the earth, 160
1860 Interrupting thy new-born divinity, 161
1861 That man may find his utter self in God. 162
1862 If for thy own sake only thou hast come, 163
1863 An immortal spirit into the mortal's world, 164
1864 To found thy luminous kingdom in God's dark, 165
1865 In the Inconscient's realm one shining star, 166
1866 One door in the Ignorance opened upon light, 167
1867 Why hadst thou any need to come at all? 168
1868 Thou hast come down into a struggling world 169
1869 To aid a blind and suffering mortal race, 170
1870 To open to Light the eyes that could not see, 171
1871 To bring down bliss into the heart of grief, 172
1872 To make thy life a bridge twixt earth and heaven; 173
1873 If thou wouldst save the toiling universe, 174
1874 The vast universal suffering feel as thine: 175
1875 Thou must bear the sorrow that thou claimst to heal; 176
1876 The day-bringer must walk in darkest night. 177
1877 He who would save the world must share its pain. 178
1878 If he knows not grief, how shall he find grief's cure? 179
1879 If far he walks above mortality's head, 180
1880 How shall the mortal reach that too high path? 181
1881 If one of theirs they see scale heaven's peaks, 182
1882 Men then can hope to learn that titan climb. 183
1883 God must be born on earth and be as man 184
1884 That man being human may grow even as God. 185
1885 He who would save the world must be one with the world, 186
1886 All suffering things contain in his heart's space 187
1887 And bear the grief and joy of all that lives. 188
1888 His soul must be wider than the universe 189
1889 And feel eternity as its very stuff, 190
1890 Rejecting the moment's personality 191
1891 Know itself older than the birth of Time, 192
1892 Creation an incident in its consciousness, 193
1893 Arcturus and Belphegor grains of fire 194
1894 Circling in a corner of its boundless self, 195
1895 The world's destruction a small transient storm 196
1896 In the calm infinity it has become. 197
1897 If thou wouldst a little loosen the vast chain, 198
1898 Draw back from the world that the Idea has made, 199
1899 Thy mind's selection from the Infinite, 200
1900 Thy senses' gloss on the Infinitesimal's dance, 201
1901 Then shalt thou know how the great bondage came. 202
1902 Banish all thought from thee and be God's void. 203
1903 Then shalt thou uncover the Unknowable 204
1904 And the Superconscient conscious grow on thy tops; 205
1905 Infinity's vision through thy gaze shall pierce; 206
1906 Thou shalt look into the eyes of the Unknown, 207
1907 Find the hid Truth in things seen null and false, 208
1908 Behind things known discover Mystery's rear. 209
1909 Thou shalt be one with God's bare reality 210
1910 And the miraculous world he has become 211
1911 And the diviner miracle still to be 212
1912 When Nature who is now unconscious God 213
1913 Translucent grows to the Eternal's light, 214
1914 Her seeing his sight, her walk his steps of power 215
1915 And life is filled with a spiritual joy 216
1916 And Matter is the Spirit's willing bride. 217
1917 Consent to be nothing and none, dissolve Time's work, 218
1918 Cast off thy mind, step back from form and name. 219
1919 Annul thyself that only God may be." 220
1920 Thus spoke the mighty and uplifting Voice, 221
1921 And Savitri heard; she bowed her head and mused 222
1922 Plunging her deep regard into herself 223
1923 In her soul's privacy in the silent Night. 224
1924 Aloof and standing back detached and calm, 225
1925 A witness of the drama of herself, 226
1926 A student of her own interior scene, 227
1927 She watched the passion and the toil of life 228
1928 And heard in the crowded thoroughfares of mind 229
1929 The unceasing tread and passage of her thoughts. 230
1930 All she allowed to rise that chose to stir; 231
1931 Calling, compelling nought, forbidding nought, 232
1932 She left all to the process formed in Time 233
1933 And the free initiative of Nature's will. 234
1934 Thus following the complex human play 235
1935 She heard the prompter's voice behind the scenes, 236
1936 Perceived the original libretto's set 237
1937 And the organ theme of the composer Force. 238
1938 All she beheld that surges from man's depths, 239
1939 The animal instincts prowling mid life's trees, 240
1940 The impulses that whisper to the heart 241
1941 And passion's thunder-chase sweeping the nerves; 242
1942 She saw the Powers that stare from the Abyss 243
1943 And the wordless Light that liberates the soul. 244
1944 But most her gaze pursued the birth of thought. 245
1945 Affranchised from the look of surface mind 246
1946 She paused not to survey the official case, 247
1947 The issue of forms from the office of the brain, 248
1948 Its factory of thought-sounds and soundless words 249
1949 And voices stored within unheard by men, 250
1950 Its mint and treasury of shining coin. 251
1951 These were but counters in mind's symbol game, 252
1952 A gramophone's discs, a reproduction's film, 253
1953 A list of signs, a cipher and a code. 254
1954 In our unseen subtle body thought is born 255
1955 Or there it enters from the cosmic field. 256
1956 Oft from her soul stepped out a naked thought 257
1957 Luminous with mysteried lips and wonderful eyes; 258
1958 Or from her heart emerged some burning face 259
1959 And looked for life and love and passionate truth, 260
1960 Aspired to heaven or embraced the world 261
1961 Or led the fancy like a fleeting moon 262
1962 Across the dull sky of man's common days, 263
1963 Amidst the doubtful certitudes of earth's lore, 264
1964 To the celestial beauty of faith gave form, 265
1965 As if at flower-prints in a dingy room 266
1966 Laughed in a golden vase one living rose. 267
1967 A thaumaturgist sat in her heart's deep, 268
1968 Compelled the forward stride, the upward look, 269
1969 Till wonder leaped into the illumined breast 270
1970 And life grew marvellous with transfiguring hope. 271
1971 A seeing will pondered between the brows; 272
1972 Thoughts, glistening Angels, stood behind the brain 273
1973 In flashing armour, folding hands of prayer, 274
1974 And poured heaven's rays into the earthly form. 275
1975 Imaginations flamed up from her breast, 276
1976 Unearthly beauty, touches of surpassing joy 277
1977 And plans of miracle, dreams of delight: 278
1978 Around her navel lotus clustering close 279
1979 Her large sensations of the teeming worlds 280
1980 Streamed their dumb movements of the unformed Idea; 281
1981 Invading the small sensitive flower of the throat 282
1982 They brought their mute unuttered resonances 283
1983 To kindle the figures of a heavenly speech. 284
1984 Below, desires formed their wordless wish, 285
1985 And longings of physical sweetness and ecstasy 286
1986 Translated into the accents of a cry 287
1987 Their grasp on objects and their clasp on souls. 288
1988 Her body's thoughts climbed from her conscious limbs 289
1989 And carried their yearnings to its mystic crown 290
1990 Where Nature's murmurs meet the Ineffable. 291
1991 But for the mortal prisoned in outward mind 292
1992 All must present their passports at its door; 293
1993 Disguised they must don the official cap and mask 294
1994 Or pass as manufactures of the brain, 295
1995 Unknown their secret truth and hidden source. 296
1996 Only to the inner mind they speak direct, 297
1997 Put on a body and assume a voice, 298
1998 Their passage seen, their message heard and known, 299
1999 Their birthplace and their natal mark revealed, 300
2000 And stand confessed to an immortal's sight, 301
2001 Our nature's messengers to the witness soul. 302
2002 Impenetrable, withheld from mortal sense, 303
2003 The inner chambers of the spirit's house 304
2004 Disclosed to her their happenings and their guests; 305
2005 Eyes looked through crevices in the invisible wall 306
2006 And through the secrecy of unseen doors 307
2007 There came into mind's little frontal room 308
2008 Thoughts that enlarged our limited human range, 309
2009 Lifted the ideal's half-quenched or sinking torch 310
2010 Or peered through the finite at the infinite. 311
2011 A sight opened upon the invisible 312
2012 And sensed the shapes that mortal eyes see not, 313
2013 The sounds that mortal listening cannot hear, 314
2014 The blissful sweetness of the intangible's touch; 315
2015 The objects that to us are empty air, 316
2016 Are there the stuff of daily experience 317
2017 And the common pabulum of sense and thought. 318
2018 The beings of the subtle realms appeared 319
2019 And scenes concealed behind our earthly scene; 320
2020 She saw the life of remote continents 321
2021 And distance deafened not to voices far; 322
2022 She felt the movements crossing unknown minds; 323
2023 The past's events occurred before her eyes. 324
2024 The great world's thoughts were part of her own thought, 325
2025 The feelings dumb for ever and unshared, 326
2026 The ideas that never found an utterance. 327
2027 The dim subconscient's incoherent hints 328
2028 Laid bare a meaning twisted, deep and strange, 329
2029 The bizarre secret of their fumbling speech, 330
2030 Their links with underlying reality. 331
2031 The unseen grew visible and audible: 332
2032 Thoughts leaped down from a superconscient field 333
2033 Like eagles swooping from a viewless peak, 334
2034 Thoughts gleamed up from the screened subliminal depths 335
2035 Like golden fishes from a hidden sea. 336
2036 This world is a vast unbroken totality, 337
2037 A deep solidarity joins its contrary powers; 338
2038 God's summits look back on the mute Abyss. 339
2039 So man evolving to divinest heights 340
2040 Colloques still with the animal and the Djinn; 341
2041 The human godhead with star-gazer eyes 342
2042 Lives still in one house with the primal beast. 343
2043 The high meets the low, all is a single plan. 344
2044 So she beheld the many births of thought, 345
2045 If births can be of what eternal is; 346
2046 For the Eternal's powers are like himself, 347
2047 Timeless in the Timeless, in Time ever born. 348
2048 This too she saw that all in outer mind 349
2049 Is made, not born, a product perishable, 350
2050 Forged in the body's factory by earth-force. 351
2051 This mind is a dynamic small machine 352
2052 Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out, 353
2053 With raw material drawn from the outside world, 354
2054 The patterns sketched out by an artist God. 355
2055 Often our thoughts are finished cosmic wares 356
2056 Admitted by a silent office gate 357
2057 And passed through the subconscient's galleries, 358
2058 Then issued in Time's mart as private make. 359
2059 For now they bear the living person's stamp; 360
2060 A trick, a special hue claims them his own. 361
2061 All else is Nature's craft and this too hers. 362
2062 Our tasks are given, we are but instruments; 363
2063 Nothing is all our own that we create: 364
2064 The Power that acts in us is not our force. 365
2065 The genius too receives from some high fount 366
2066 Concealed in a supernal secrecy 367
2067 The work that gives him an immortal name. 368
2068 The word, the form, the charm, the glory and grace 369
2069 Are missioned sparks from a stupendous Fire; 370
2070 A sample from the laboratory of God 371
2071 Of which he holds the patent upon earth, 372
2072 Comes to him wrapped in golden coverings; 373
2073 He listens for Inspiration's postman knock 374
2074 And takes delivery of the priceless gift 375
2075 A little spoilt by the receiver mind 376
2076 Or mixed with the manufacture of his brain; 377
2077 When least defaced, then is it most divine. 378
2078 Although his ego claims the world for its use, 379
2079 Man is a dynamo for the cosmic work; 380
2080 Nature does most in him, God the high rest: 381
2081 Only his soul's acceptance is his own. 382
2082 This independent, once a power supreme, 383
2083 Self-born before the universe was made, 384
2084 Accepting cosmos, binds himself Nature's serf 385
2085 Till he becomes her freedman—or God's slave. 386
2086 This is the appearance in our mortal front; 387
2087 Our greater truth of being lies behind: 388
2088 Our consciousness is cosmic and immense, 389
2089 But only when we break through Matter's wall 390
2090 In that spiritual vastness can we stand 391
2091 Where we can live the masters of our world 392
2092 And mind is only a means and body a tool. 393
2093 For above the birth of body and of thought 394
2094 Our spirit's truth lives in the naked self 395
2095 And from that height, unbound, surveys the world. 396
2096 Out of the mind she rose to escape its law 397
2097 That it might sleep in some deep shadow of self 398
2098 Or fall silent in the silence of the Unseen. 399
2099 High she attained and stood from Nature free 400
2100 And saw creation's life from far above, 401
2101 Thence upon all she laid her sovereign will 402
2102 To dedicate it to God's timeless calm: 403
2103 Then all grew tranquil in her being's space, 404
2104 Only sometimes small thoughts arose and fell 405
2105 Like quiet waves upon a silent sea 406
2106 Or ripples passing over a lonely pool 407
2107 When a stray stone disturbs its dreaming rest. 408
2108 Yet the mind's factory had ceased to work, 409
2109 There was no sound of the dynamo's throb, 410
2110 There came no call from the still fields of life. 411
2111 Then even those stirrings rose in her no more; 412
2112 Her mind now seemed like a vast empty room 413
2113 Or like a peaceful landscape without sound. 414
2114 This men call quietude and prize as peace. 415
2115 But to her deeper sight all yet was there, 416
2116 Effervescing like a chaos under a lid; 417
2117 Feelings and thoughts cried out for word and act 418
2118 But found no response in the silenced brain: 419
2119 All was suppressed but nothing yet expunged; 420
2120 At every moment might explosion come. 421
2121 Then this too paused; the body seemed a stone. 422
2122 All now was a wide mighty vacancy, 423
2123 But still excluded from eternity's hush; 424
2124 For still was far the repose of the Absolute 425
2125 And the ocean silence of Infinity. 426
2126 Even now some thoughts could cross her solitude; 427
2127 These surged not from the depths or from within 428
2128 Cast up from formlessness to seek a form, 429
2129 Spoke not the body's need nor voiced life's call. 430
2130 These seemed not born nor made in human Time: 431
2131 Children of cosmic Nature from a far world, 432
2132 Idea's shapes in complete armour of words 433
2133 Posted like travellers in an alien space. 434
2134 Out of some far expanse they seemed to come 435
2135 As if carried on vast wings like large white sails, 436
2136 And with easy access reached the inner ear 437
2137 As though they used a natural privileged right 438
2138 To the high royal entries of the soul. 439
2139 As yet their path lay deep-concealed in light. 440
2140 Then looking to know whence the intruders came 441
2141 She saw a spiritual immensity 442
2142 Pervading and encompassing the world-space 443
2143 As ether our transparent tangible air, 444
2144 And through it sailing tranquilly a thought. 445
2145 As smoothly glides a ship nearing its port, 446
2146 Ignorant of embargo and blockade, 447
2147 Confident of entrance and the visa's seal, 448
2148 It came to the silent city of the brain 449
2149 Towards its accustomed and expectant quay, 450
2150 But met a barring will, a blow of Force 451
2151 And sank vanishing in the immensity. 452
2152 After a long vacant pause another appeared 453
2153 And others one by one suddenly emerged, 454
2154 Mind's unexpected visitors from the Unseen 455
2155 Like far-off sails upon a lonely sea. 456
2156 But soon that commerce failed, none reached mind's coast. 457
2157 Then all grew still, nothing moved any more: 458
2158 Immobile, self-rapt, timeless, solitary 459
2159 A silent spirit pervaded silent Space. 460
2160 In that absolute stillness bare and formidable 461
2161 There was glimpsed an all-negating Void Supreme 462
2162 That claimed its mystic Nihil's sovereign right 463
2163 To cancel Nature and deny the soul. 464
2164 Even the nude sense of self grew pale and thin: 465
2165 Impersonal, signless, featureless, void of forms 466
2166 A blank pure consciousness had replaced the mind. 467
2167 Her spirit seemed the substance of a name, 468
2168 The world a pictured symbol drawn on self, 469
2169 A dream of images, a dream of sounds 470
2170 Built up the semblance of a universe 471
2171 Or lent to spirit the appearance of a world. 472
2172 This was self-seeing; in that intolerant hush 473
2173 No notion and no concept could take shape, 474
2174 There was no sense to frame the figure of things, 475
2175 A sheer self-sight was there, no thought arose. 476
2176 Emotion slept deep down in the still heart 477
2177 Or lay buried in a cemetery of peace: 478
2178 All feelings seemed quiescent, calm or dead, 479
2179 As if the heart-strings rent could work no more 480
2180 And joy and grief could never rise again. 481
2181 The heart beat on with an unconscious rhythm 482
2182 But no response came from it and no cry. 483
2183 Vain was the provocation of events; 484
2184 Nothing within answered an outside touch, 485
2185 No nerve was stirred and no reaction rose. 486
2186 Yet still her body saw and moved and spoke; 487
2187 It understood without the aid of thought, 488
2188 It said whatever needed to be said, 489
2189 It did whatever needed to be done. 490
2190 There was no person there behind the act, 491
2191 No mind that chose or passed the fitting word: 492
2192 All wrought like an unerring apt machine. 493
2193 As if continuing old habitual turns, 494
2194 And pushed by an old unexhausted force 495
2195 The engine did the work for which it was made: 496
2196 Her consciousness looked on and took no part; 497
2197 All it upheld, in nothing had a share. 498
2198 There was no strong initiator will; 499
2199 An incoherence crossing a firm void 500
2200 Slipped into an order of related chance. 501
2201 A pure perception was the only power 502
2202 That stood behind her action and her sight. 503
2203 If that retired, all objects would be extinct, 504
2204 Her private universe would cease to be, 505
2205 The house she had built with bricks of thought and sense 506
2206 In the beginning after the birth of Space. 507
2207 This seeing was identical with the seen; 508
2208 It knew without knowledge all that could be known, 509
2209 It saw impartially the world go by, 510
2210 But in the same supine unmoving glance 511
2211 Saw too its abysmal unreality. 512
2212 It watched the figure of the cosmic game, 513
2213 But the thought and inner life in forms seemed dead, 514
2214 Abolished by her own collapse of thought: 515
2215 A hollow physical shell persisted still. 516
2216 All seemed a brilliant shadow of itself, 517
2217 A cosmic film of scenes and images: 518
2218 The enduring mass and outline of the hills 519
2219 Was a design sketched on a silent mind 520
2220 And held to a tremulous false solidity 521
2221 By constant beats of visionary sight. 522
2222 The forest with its emerald multitudes 523
2223 Clothed with its show of hues vague empty Space, 524
2224 A painting's colours hiding a surface void 525
2225 That flickered upon dissolution's edge; 526
2226 The blue heavens, an illusion of the eyes, 527
2227 Roofed in the mind's illusion of a world. 528
2228 The men who walked beneath an unreal sky 529
2229 Seemed mobile puppets out of cardboard cut 530
2230 And pushed by unseen hands across the soil 531
2231 Or moving pictures upon Fancy's film: 532
2232 There was no soul within, no power of life. 533
2233 The brain's vibrations that appear like thought, 534
2234 The nerve's brief answer to each contact's knock, 535
2235 The heart's quiverings felt as joy and grief and love 536
2236 Were twitchings of the body, their seeming self, 537
2237 That body forged from atoms and from gas 538
2238 A manufactured lie of Maya's make, 539
2239 Its life a dream seen by the sleeping Void. 540
2240 The animals lone or trooping through the glades 541
2241 Fled like a passing vision of beauty and grace 542
2242 Imagined by some all-creating Eye. 543
2243 Yet something was there behind the fading scene; 544
2244 Wherever she turned, at whatsoever she looked, 545
2245 It was perceived, yet hid from mind and sight. 546
2246 The One only real shut itself from Space 547
2247 And stood aloof from the idea of Time. 548
2248 Its truth escaped from shape and line and hue. 549
2249 All else grew unsubstantial, self-annulled, 550
2250 This only everlasting seemed and true, 551
2251 Yet nowhere dwelt, it was outside the hours. 552
2252 This only could justify the labour of sight, 553
2253 But sight could not define for it a form; 554
2254 This only could appease the unsatisfied ear 555
2255 But hearing listened in vain for a missing sound; 556
2256 This answered not the sense, called not to Mind. 557
2257 It met her as the uncaught inaudible Voice 558
2258 That speaks for ever from the Unknowable. 559
2259 It met her like an omnipresent point 560
2260 Pure of dimensions, unfixed, invisible, 561
2261 The single oneness of its multiplied beat 562
2262 Accentuating its sole eternity. 563
2263 It faced her as some vast Nought's immensity, 564
2264 An endless No to all that seems to be, 565
2265 An endless Yes to things ever unconceived 566
2266 And all that is unimagined and unthought, 567
2267 An eternal zero or untotalled Aught, 568
2268 A spaceless and a placeless Infinite. 569
2269 Yet eternity and infinity seemed but words 570
2270 Vainly affixed by mind's incompetence 571
2271 To its stupendous lone reality. 572
2272 The world is but a spark-burst from its light, 573
2273 All moments flashes from its Timelessness, 574
2274 All objects glimmerings of the Bodiless 575
2275 That disappear from Mind when That is seen. 576
2276 It held, as if a shield before its face, 577
2277 A consciousness that saw without a seer, 578
2278 The Truth where knowledge is not nor knower nor known, 579
2279 The Love enamoured of its own delight 580
2280 In which the Lover is not nor the Beloved 581
2281 Bringing their personal passion into the Vast, 582
2282 The Force omnipotent in quietude, 583
2283 The Bliss that none can ever hope to taste. 584
2284 It cancelled the convincing cheat of self; 585
2285 A truth in nothingness was its mighty clue. 586
2286 If all existence could renounce to be 587
2287 And Being take refuge in Non-being's arms 588
2288 And Non-being could strike out its ciphered round, 589
2289 Some lustre of that Reality might appear. 590
2290 A formless liberation came on her. 591
2291 Once sepulchred alive in brain and flesh 592
2292 She had risen up from body, mind and life; 593
2293 She was no more a Person in a world, 594
2294 She had escaped into infinity. 595
2295 What once had been herself had disappeared; 596
2296 There was no frame of things, no figure of soul. 597
2297 A refugee from the domain of sense, 598
2298 Evading the necessity of thought, 599
2299 Delivered from Knowledge and from Ignorance 600
2300 And rescued from the true and the untrue, 601
2301 She shared the Superconscient's high retreat 602
2302 Beyond the self-born Word, the nude Idea, 603
2303 The first bare solid ground of consciousness; 604
2304 Beings were not there, existence had no place, 605
2305 There was no temptation of the joy to be. 606
2306 Unutterably effaced, no one and null, 607
2307 A vanishing vestige like a violet trace, 608
2308 A faint record merely of a self now past, 609
2309 She was a point in the unknowable. 610
2310 Only some last annulment now remained, 611
2311 Annihilation's vague indefinable step: 613
2312 A memory of being still was there 613
2313 And kept her separate from nothingness: 614
2314 She was in That but still became not That. 615
2315 This shadow of herself so close to nought 616
2316 Could be again self's point d'appui to live, 617
2317 Return out of the Inconceivable 618
2318 And be what some mysterious vast might choose. 619
2319 Even as the Unknowable decreed, 620
2320 She might be nought or new-become the All, 621
2321 Or if the omnipotent Nihil took a shape 622
2322 Emerge as someone and redeem the world. 623
2323 Even, she might learn what the mystic cipher held, 624
2324 This seeming exit or closed end of all 625
2325 Could be a blind tenebrous passage screened from sight, 626
2326 Her state the eclipsing shell of a darkened sun 627
2327 On its secret way to the Ineffable. 628
2328 Even now her splendid being might flame back 629
2329 Out of the silence and the nullity, 630
2330 A gleaming portion of the All-Wonderful, 631
2331 A power of some all-affirming Absolute, 632
2332 A shining mirror of the eternal Truth 633
2333 To show to the One-in-all its manifest face, 634
2334 To the souls of men their deep identity. 635
2335 Or she might wake into God's quietude 636
2336 Beyond the cosmic day and cosmic night 637
2337 And rest appeased in his white eternity. 638
2338 But this was now unreal or remote 639
2339 Or covered in the mystic fathomless blank. 640
2340 In infinite Nothingness was the ultimate sign 641
2341 Or else the Real was the Unknowable. 642
2342 A lonely Absolute negated all: 643
2343 It effaced the ignorant world from its solitude 644
2344 And drowned the soul in its everlasting peace. 645