Explorations in Savitri

"All forms are tokens of some veiled idea Whose covert purpose lurks from mind’s pursuit, Yet is a womb of sovereign consequence. There every thought and feeling is an act, And every act a symbol and a sign, And every symbol hides a living power."

"This wider world our greater movements gives, Its strong formations build our growing selves; Its creatures are our brighter replicas...."

"There beat a throb of living interchange: Being felt being even when afar And consciousness replied to consciousness. And yet the ultimate oneness was not there."

"In the sleepy splendour of her noons he saw, A perpetual repetition through the hours, Thought’s dance of dragonflies on mystery’s stream That skim but never test its murmurs’ race, And heard the laughter of her rose desires [...], Jingling sweet anklet-bells of fantasy."

"Life’s meanings fled from the pursuing eye. Life’s visage hides life’s real self from sight; Life’s secret sense is written within, above. The thought that gives it sense lives far beyond; It is not seen in its half-finished design. In vain we hope to read the baffling signs"

"... nothing is truly vain the One has made: In our defeated hearts God’s strength survives And victory’s star still lights our desperate road; Our death is made a passage to new worlds."

"Our being must move eternally through Time; Death helps us not, vain is the hope to cease; A secret Will compels us to endure. Our life’s repose is in the Infinite; It cannot end, its end is Life supreme."

“Oh, surely one day he shall come to our cry, One day he shall create our life anew And utter the magic formula of peace And bring perfection to the scheme of things. One day he shall descend to life and earth..."

"... The seal of tears, the bond of ignorance, He turned to find that wide world-failure’s cause. Away he looked from Nature’s visible face And sent his gaze into the viewless Vast,"