Explorations in Savitri

As one who sets his sail towards mysteried shores Driven through huge oceans by the breath of God, The fathomless below, the unknown around, His soul abandoned the blind star-field, Space.

A Bliss, a Light, a Power, a flame-white Love Caught all into a sole immense embrace; Existence found its truth on Oneness' breast And each became the self and space of all.

His words were syllables of the cosmos' speech, His life a field of the vast cosmic stir. He felt the footsteps of a million wills Moving in unison to a single goal.

He saw a hierarchy of lucent planes Enfeoffed to this highest kingdom of God-state. Attuning to one Truth their own right rule Each housed the gladness of a bright degree

Life's rapture kept for ever its flame and cry. All that now passes lived immortal there In the proud beauty and fine harmony Of Matter plastic to spiritual light.

Himself he knew and why his soul had gone Into earth's passionate obscurity To share the labour of an errant Power Which by division hopes to find the One. Two beings he was, one wide and free above, One struggling, bound, intense, its portion here.

"Accepting worship as its single law, Accepting bliss as the sole cause of things, Refusing the austere joy which none can share, Refusing the calm that lives for calm alone, To her it turned for whom it willed to be."

"I am the Mystery beyond reach of mind, I am the goal of the travail of the suns; My fire and sweetness are the cause of life. But too immense my danger and my joy."

"A riddle of opposites is made his field: Freedom he asks but needs to live in bonds, He has need of darkness to perceive some light And need of grief to feel a little bliss; He has need of death to find a greater life."