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THE LONGEST PASSAGE READ BY THE MOTHER IN SRI AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI BK 11 CANTO 1 LINES 898-1123 P 696

"Choose,spirit,thy supreme choice not given again; For now from my highest being looks at thee The nameless formless peace where all things rest. In a happy vast sublime cessation know,— An immense extinction in eternity, A point that disappears in the infinite,—Felicity of the extinguished flame, Last sinking of a wave in a boundless sea, End of the trouble of thy wandering thoughts, Close of the journeying of thy pilgrim soul. Accept,O music, weariness of thy notes, O stream,wide breaking of thy channel banks." The moments fell into eternity. But someone yearned within a bosom unknown And silently the woman's heart replied: "Thy peace,O Lord,a boon within to keep Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time For the magnificent soul of man on earth. Thy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy." Limitless like ocean round a lonely isle A second time the eternal cry arose: "Wide open are the ineffable gates in front. My spirit leans down to break the knot of earth, Amorous of oneness without thought or sign To cast down wall and fence, to strip heaven bare, See with the large eye of infinity, Unweave the stars and into silence pass." In an immense and world-destroying pause She heard a million creatures cry to her. Through the tremendous stillness of her thoughts Immeasurably the woman's nature spoke: "Thy oneness, Lord, in many approaching hearts, My sweet infinity of thy numberless souls." Mightily retreating like a sea in ebb A third time swelled the great admonishing call: "I spread abroad the refuge of my wings. Out of its incommunicable deeps My power looks forth of mightiest splendour, stilled Into its majesty of sleep, withdrawn Above the dreadful whirlings of the world." A sob of things was answer to the voice, And passionately the woman's heart replied: "Thy energy, Lord, to seize on woman and man, To take all things and creatures in their grief And gather them into a mother's arms." Solemn and distant like a seraph's lyre A last great time the warning sound was heard: "I open the wide eye of solitude To uncover the voiceless rapture of my bliss, Where in a pure and exquisite hush it lies Motionless in its slumber of ecstasy, Resting from the sweet madness of the dance Out of whose beat the throb of hearts was born." Breaking the Silence with appeal and cry A hymn of adoration tireless climbed, A music beat of winged uniting souls, Then all the woman yearningly replied: "Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain, Thy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe, Thy magic flowing waters of deep love, Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men." Then after silence a still blissful cry Began, such as arose from the Infinite When the first whisperings of a strange delight Imagined in its deep the joy to seek, The passion to discover and to touch, The enamoured laugh which rhymed the chanting worlds: "O beautiful body of the incarnate Word, Thy thoughts are mine,I have spoken with thy voice. My will is thine, what thou hast chosen I choose: All thou hast asked I give to earth and men. All shall be written out in destiny's book By my trustee of thought and plan and act, The executor of my will,eternal Time. But since thou hast refused my maimless Calm And turned from my termless peace in which is expunged The visage of Space and the shape of Time is lost, And from happy extinction of thy separate self In my uncompanioned lone eternity,— For not for thee the nameless worldless Nought, Annihilation of thy living soul And the end of thought and hope and life and love In the blank measureless Unknowable,— I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame, I lay my hands upon thy heart of love, I yoke thee to my power of work in Time. Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will, Because thou hast chosen to share earth's struggle and fate And leaned in pity over earth-bound men And turned aside to help and yearned to save, I bind by thy heart's passion thy heart to mine And lay my splendid yoke upon thy soul. Now will I do in thee my marvellous works. I will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength, Subdue to my delight thy spirit's limbs And make thee a vivid knot of all my bliss And build in thee my proud and crystal home. Thy days shall be my shafts of power and light, Thy nights my starry mysteries of joy And all my clouds lie tangled in thy hair And all my springtides marry in thy mouth. O Sun-Word,thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light And bring down God into the lives of men; Earth shall be my work-chamber and my house, My garden of life to plant a seed divine. When all thy work in human time is done The mind of earth shall be a home of light, The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven, The body of earth a tabernacle of God. Awakened from the mortal's ignorance Men shall be lit with the Eternal's ray And the glory of my sun-lift in their thoughts And feel in their hearts the sweetness of my love And in their acts my Power's miraculous drive. My will shall be the meaning of their days; Living for me, by.....