‘An Immortal Tale’ – an introductory talk of the new series ‘Savitri Yagna’, a line-by-line reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri with notes in Hindi by Dr Alok Pandey.
The lines read are:
‘It was the hour before the Gods awake.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night,
alone In her unlit temple of eternity,
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge.
Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable,
In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse
The abysm of the unbodied Infinite;
A fathomless zero occupied the world.
A power of fallen boundless self awake
Between the first and the last Nothingness,
Recalling the tenebrous womb from which it came,
Turned from the insoluble mystery of birth
And the tardy process of mortality
And longed to reach its end in vacant Nought.’
[Savitri: 1]
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