Descend
to life with him thy heart desires.
O
Satyavan, O luminous Savitri,
I
sent you forth of old beneath the stars,
A dual
power of God in an ignorant world,
In a
hedged creation shut from limitless self,
Bringing
down God to the insentient globe,
Lifting
earth-beings to immortality.
In
the world of my knowledge and my ignorance
Where
God is unseen and only is heard a Name
And
knowledge is trapped in the boundaries of mind
And
life is hauled in the drag-net of desire
And
Matter hides the soul from its own sight,
You
are my Force to work to uplift earth’s fate,
My
self that moves up the immense incline
Between the extremes of the spirit’s night and day.
(Savitri, Book 11 Canto 1)
A
shoreless sweep was lent to the mortal’s acts,
And
art and beauty sprang from the human depths;
Nature
and soul vied in nobility.
(Savitri, Book 4 Canto 1)
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