Traces the various degrees of sight-perception from sightless sight of the inconscience through its ascending grades all the way up to the superconscient sight.
On Savitri
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Part Two
The Ascent of Sight in Savitri
1. Failure of Thought:
Although the intellectuals are rightly proud of their faculty of rational thinking, "thought" fails miserably as an instrument for the acquisition of true Knowledge and Wisdom, also for the discovery of the deeper truths of existence and life. Hence the call of Sri Aurobindo: "Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight..." (276)
Here are a few representative verses from Savitri touching the same theme.
(1)"I groped for the Mystery with the lantern, Thought.
Its glimmerings lighted with the abstract word
A half-visible ground and travelling yard by yard
It mapped a system of the Self and God.
I could not live the truth it spoke and thought." (407)
(2)"But thought nor word can seize eternal Truth:
The whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun.
In our thinking's close and narrow lamp-lit house
The vanity of our shut mortal mind
Dreams that the chains of thought have made her ours;
But only we play with our own brilliant bonds;
Tying her down, it is ourselves we tie.
In our hypnosis by one luminous point
We see not what small figure of her we hold;
We feel not her inspiring boundlessness,
We share not her immortal liberty.
Thus is it even with the seer and sage;
For still the human limits the divine:
Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight..."(276)
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