Meditations on Savitri Book 2 Canto 10

Savitri Book 2 Canto 10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

But first he met a silver-grey expanse
Where Day and Night had wedded and were one: ||66.11||
Escaping over a wide and shimmering bridge,
He came into a realm of early Light
And the regency of a half-risen sun. ||66.21||
Out of its rays our mind’s full orb was born. ||66.22||

Savitri Book 2 Canto 10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

Thus streamed down from the realm of early Light
Ethereal thinkings into Matter’s world;
Its gold-horned herds trooped into earth’s cave-heart. ||66.39||
Its morning rays illume our twilight’s eyes,
Its young formations move the mind of earth
To labour and to dream and new-create,
To feel beauty’s touch and know the world and self:
The Golden Child began to think and see. ||66.40||

Savitri Book 2 Canto 10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

A small keen instrument the great Puissance chose, ||67.6||
A dwarf three-bodied trinity was her serf. ||68.1||
First, smallest of the three, but strong of limb,
A low-brow with a square and heavy jowl,
A pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds
For ever stooped to hammer fact and form. ||68.2||
Absorbed and cabined in external sight,
It takes its stand on Nature’s solid base. ||68.3||

Savitri Book 2 Canto 10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

A fiery spirit came, next of the three. ||68.15||
A hunchback rider of the red Wild-Ass,
A rash Intelligence leaped down lion-maned
From the great mystic Flame that rings the worlds
And with its dire edge eats at being’s heart. ||68.16||
Thence sprang the burning vision of Desire. ||68.17||

Savitri Book 2 Canto 10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

Of all these Powers the greatest was the last. ||68.35||
Came Reason, the squat godhead artisan,
To her narrow house upon a ridge in Time. ||68.36||
Armed with her lens and measuring-rod and probe,
She looked upon an object universe ||68.38||

Savitri Book 2 Canto 10 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

Above in a high breathless stratosphere,
Overshadowing the dwarfish trinity,
Lived, aspirants to a limitless Beyond,...
Two sun-gaze Daemons witnessing all that is. ||69.1||
A power to uplift the laggard world,
Imperious rode a huge high-winged Life-Thought ||69.2||
Beyond in wideness where no footing is,...
A pure Thought-Mind surveyed the cosmic act. ||69.6||
Archangel of a white transcending realm,
It saw the world from solitary heights ||69.7||