OM NAMO BAGAVATI
February 23, 2012
In Beloved Kranti Sangivane ‘INFINITE’ one sees Sri Aurobindo’s
poem Savitri come to life.
In an exposition on Sri Aurobindo’s poem Savitri http://www.scribd.com/doc/13765809/Meaning-of-Birth-and-Quest-in-Sri-Aurobindos-Savitri one sees :
But this birth is no freak event; it is the fruition of a long and unending labour, an
unending recurrence going on forever in the heart of life. Even as it descends from above,
it is at the same time an actualisation of a Will hidden in matter’s core. Coeval with earth
and contemptuously dismissive of time, fate and death, this Will yet awaits its hour of
coming:
Although our fallen minds forget to climb,
Although our human stuff resists or breaks,
She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay;
Once more that Will put on an earthly shape. (354)
Not only in her origins but in her form as well, Savitri is so unlike man’s earthly
phenomenal being. Even in her birth and early years, she is conscious of her transcendent
source, and though living aloof and content, her being is continuously flooded with “slow
conscient light” and heavenly intimacies:
