Meditations on Savitri Book 7 Canto 6

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Above the cherished head of Satyavan
She saw not now Fate’s dark and lethal orb;
A golden circle round a mystic sun
Disclosed to her new-born predicting sight
The cyclic rondure of a sovereign life. ||128.10||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Once as she sat in deep felicitous muse,
An abyss yawned suddenly beneath her heart. ||128.15||
A formless Dread with shapeless endless wings
Filling the universe with its dangerous breath,
A denser darkness than the Night could bear,
Enveloped the heavens and possessed the earth. ||128.18||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,
The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul,
The voice of Light after the voice of Night:
“O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe; ||128.31||
That all in thee may reach its absolute. ||128.34||
God must be born on earth and be as man
That man being human may grow even as God. ||128.42||
Cast off thy mind, step back from form and name. ||128.49||
Annul thyself that only God may be.” ||128.50||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Thus spoke the mighty and uplifting Voice,
And Savitri heard; she bowed her head and mused
Plunging her deep regard into herself
In her soul’s privacy in the silent Night. ||129.1||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Her body’s thoughts climbed from her conscious limbs
And carried their yearnings to its mystic crown
Where Nature’s murmurs meet the Ineffable. ||129.15||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Only sometimes small thoughts arose and fell
Like quiet waves upon a silent sea
Or ripples passing over a lonely pool
When a starry stone disturbs its dreaming rest. ||129.40||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Then all grew still, nothing moved any more: ||129.42||
Immobile, self-rapt, timeless, solitary
A silent spirit pervaded silent Space. ||129.55||

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Unutterably effaced, no one and null,
A vanished vestige like a violet trace,
A faint record merely of a self now past,
She was a point in the unknowable. ||130.37||