Pages

From Savitri

He looked at heaven and saw his comrade stars;


A vision came of beauty and greater birth

Slowly emerging from the heart’s chapel of light

And moved in a white lucent air of dreams.

He saw his being’s unrealized vastnesses,

He aspired and housed the nascent demi-god.

Out of the dim recesses of the self

The occult seeker into the open came:

He heard the far and touched the intangible,

He gazed into the future and the unseen;

He used the powers earth-instruments cannot use,

A pastime made of the impossible;

He caught up fragments of the Omniscient’s thought,

He scattered formulas of omnipotence.

Thus man in his little house made of earth’s dust

Grew towards the unseen heaven of thought and dream

Looking into the vast vistas of his mind

On a small globe dotting infinity.



(Savitri, Book 7 Canto 2)

No comments:

Post a Comment