About Savitri - The Mother's Commentary (13. The Nature of Savitri) Book 1 Canto 1 скачать в хорошем качестве

About Savitri - The Mother's Commentary (13. The Nature of Savitri) Book 1 Canto 1

1.13 The Nature of Savitri, pp 6-7 And Savitri too awoke among these tribes That hastened to join the brilliant Summoner’s chant And, lured by the beauty of the apparent ways, Acclaimed their portion of ephemeral joy. Akin to the eternity whence she came, No part she took in this small happiness; A mighty stranger in the human field, The embodied Guest within made no response. The call that wakes the leap of human mind, Its chequered eager motion of pursuit, Its fluttering-hued illusion of desire, Visited her heart like a sweet alien note. Time’s message of brief light was not for her. So here there is nothing to say. It is a description of Savitri’s nature. She came from above and didn’t share the smallness of humanity. That’s all. In her there was the anguish of the gods Imprisoned in our transient human mould, The deathless conquered by the death of things. A vaster Nature’s joy had once been hers, But long could keep not its gold heavenly hue Or stand upon this brittle earthly base. A narrow movement on Time’s deep abysm, Life’s fragile littleness denied the power, The proud and conscious wideness and the bliss She had brought with her into the human form, The calm delight that weds one soul to all, The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears Rejected the undying rapture’s boon: Offered to the daughter of infinity Her passion-flower of love and doom she gave. She came to transform the world and make it fit to receive the Higher Light and Power. But in order to transform this world, one must first accept it, and then accept at the same time its insincerity, its weaknesses, its incapacity to live this Higher Consciousness. That gives me the impression, a strong impression, of what has been for ages and centuries, but it is not the final destiny of the earth. Life is expected to transform itself in order to be able to express the divine things — the Divine Consciousness. And that is why She has come upon earth to prepare it.