Meditations on Savitri Book 2 Canto 2


Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

He came into a magic crystal air
And found a life that lived not by the flesh,
A light that made visible immaterial things. ||28.1||
A fine degree in wonder’s hierarchy,
The kingdom of subtle Matter’s faery craft
Outlined against a sky of vivid hues,
Leaping out of a splendour-trance and haze,
The wizard revelation of its front. ||28.2||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #1


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #1






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

This brilliant roof of our descending plane,
Intercepting the free boon of heaven’s air,
Admits small inrushes of a mighty breath
Or fragrant circuits through gold lattices;...
And bright dews drip from the Immortal’s sky. ||28.9||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #2


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #2






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

In rooms of the young divinity of power
And early play of the eternal Child
The embodiments of his outwinging thoughts
Laved in a bright everlasting wonder’s tints
And lulled by whispers of that lucid air
Take dream-hued rest like birds on timeless trees
Before they dive to float on earth-time’s sea. ||28.12||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #3


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #3






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

This wonder-world with all its radiant boon
Of vision and inviolated happiness,
Only for expression cares and perfect form;...
It lends beauty to the terror of the gulfs
And fascinating eyes to perilous Gods,
Invests with grace the demon and the snake. ||28.26||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #4


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #4






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

A heaven of creative truths above,
A cosmos of harmonious dreams between,
A chaos of dissolving forms below,
It plunges lost in our inconscient base. ||28.31||
Out of its fall our denser Matter came. ||28.32||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #5


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #5






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose,
From her blind unwilling substance must emerge
A beauty that belongs to happier spheres. ||29.6||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #6


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #6






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

In us too the intuitive Fire can burn;
An agent Light, it is coiled in our folded hearts,
On the celestial levels is its home:
Descending, it can bring those heavens here. ||30.36||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #7


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #7






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

Admired for the bright finality of its lines
A blue horizon limited the soul; ||31.13||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #8


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #8






Savitri Book 2 Canto 2 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

Life in its boundaries lingered satisfied ||31.13||
The beautiful body of a soul at ease,
Like one who laughs in sweet and sunlit groves,
Childlike she swung in her gold cradle of joy. ||31.16||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 2 Painting #9


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 2 Sketch #9