The following lines are taken from book four “The Book of Birth and Quest” canto two “The Growth of the Flame” (pages 362 – 365). This canto describes exquisitely the growth of Savitri the princess of Madra. Savitri was aware of her inner Divinity that slowly manifested with more and more intensity as she grew up. Savitri had sufficient soul maturity to inspire and guide all who came into contact with her. The following passages describe the various relationship that men entered into with Savitri. These lines also echoes the inner state and the relationship of us as devotees of Mother have towards Her. The lines themselves are self explanatory. The following passage describes the inner desire that Savitri had to help and guide people around her.
Overcoming invisible hedge and masked defence
And the loneliness that separates soul from soul,
She wished to make all one immense embrace
That she might house in it all living things
Raised into a splendid point of seeing light
Out of division's dense inconscient cleft,
And make them one with God and world and her.
Only a few people could respond to the inner call.
Only a few responded to her call:
Still fewer felt the screened divinity
And strove to mate its godhead with their own,
Approaching with some kinship to her heights.
Only a few could respond to her call and still fewer could embark on the spiritual adventure.
Uplifted towards luminous secrecies
Or conscious of some splendour hidden above
They leaped to find her in a moment's flash,
Glimpsing a light in a celestial vast,
But could not keep the vision and the power
And fell back to life's dull ordinary tone.
Men try to leap and grasp the spiritual splendour. Their effort is limited and momentary and they fall back unable to hold the truth for long.
A mind daring heavenly experiment,
Growing towards some largeness they felt near,
Testing the unknown's bound with eager touch
They still were prisoned by their human grain:
They could not keep up with her tireless step;
Too small and eager for her large-paced will,
Too narrow to look with the unborn Infinite's gaze
Their nature weary grew of things too great.
Men are bound by human nature and were unable to keep up with Savitri’s tireless action and will. They grew weary of things too great.
For even the close partners of her thoughts
Who could have walked the nearest to her ray,
Worshipped the power and light they felt in her
But could not match the measure of her soul.
Unable to match her mightiness of her soul, they resorted worshiping her as a deity.
A friend and yet too great wholly to know,
She walked in their front towards a greater light,
Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls,
One close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.
She was their friend but walked ahead of them to lead their hearts and souls.
Admiring and amazed they saw her stride
Attempting with a godlike rush and leap
Heights for their human stature too remote
Or with a slow great many-sided toil
Pushing towards aims they hardly could conceive;
Yet forced to be the satellites of her sun
They moved unable to forego her light,
Desiring they clutched at her with outstretched hands
Or followed stumbling in the paths she made.
Or longing with their self of life and flesh
They clung to her for heart's nourishment and support:
The rest they could not see in visible light;
Vaguely they bore her inner mightiness.
Savitri moved with a great stride and a god like rush and leap and attempted to reach heights too remote for the human nature to reach. She led them to goals they could never have possibly conceived. People clung to and their lives revolved around Savitri as does all planets around the Sun. They took their heart’s nourishment and support from Her.
Or bound by the senses and the longing heart,
Adoring with a turbid human love,
They could not grasp the mighty spirit she was
Or change by closeness to be even as she.
Some people responded to Savitri’s splendour with their vital, adoring her with a turbid human love. They failed to grasp her mighty spirit and could not change and progress like others.
Some felt her with their souls and thrilled with her,
A greatness felt near yet beyond mind's grasp;
To see her was a summons to adore,
To be near her drew a high communion's force.
Only a blessed few could respond to her with their soul and felt the greatness beyond mind’s grasp near!
So men worship a god too great to know,
Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape;
They feel a Presence and obey a might,
Adore a love whose rapture invades their breasts;
To a divine ardour quickening the heart-beats,
A law they follow greatening heart and life.
The rest of the men worshiped her and obeyed her might and adored her with love. This adoration brought a greatening of their heart and life. (Most of us as devotees of Mother who worship her have been blessed with a wonderful life and a lighter and happier heart reflected as harmony in life.)
Opened to the breath is a new diviner air,
Opened to man is a freer, happier world:
He sees high steps climbing to Self and Light.
By adoration of Her, newer spiritual possibilities open to us in our lives.
Her divine parts the soul's allegiance called:
It saw, it felt, it knew the deity.
Our inner soul is capable of identifying Her and it adored the Deity that she was.
Her will was puissant on their nature's acts,
Her heart's inexhaustible sweetness lured their hearts,
A being they loved whose bounds exceeded theirs;
Her measure they could not reach but bore her touch,
Answering with the flower's answer to the sun
They gave themselves to her and asked no more.
Mother’s Will acted on their nature and forced a transformation. Her inexhaustible sweetness lured their hearts. They responded to her call like a flower towards the sun and offered themselves totally to Her and asked no more.
One greater than themselves, too wide for their ken,
Their minds could not understand nor wholly know,
Their lives replied to hers, moved at her words:
They felt a godhead and obeyed a call,
Answered to her lead and did her work in the world;
Their lives, their natures moved compelled by hers
As if the truth of their own larger selves
Put on an aspect of divinity
To exalt them to a pitch beyond their earth's.
Describes the lives of those who completely give themselves to the Mother being moved by her secret Will which lets the hidden truths of their larger selves manifest in their lives.
They felt a larger future meet their walk;
She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:
They were moved by her towards great unknown things,
Faith drew them and the joy to feel themselves hers;
They lived in her, they saw the world with her eyes.
Mother guides them as if by holding their hands and chose for them their paths. Greater future was their possibility. Faith and the joy to feel they belonging to Mother are prerequisites to be guided by Her.
Some turned to her against their nature's bent;
Divided between wonder and revolt,
Drawn by her charm and mastered by her will,
Possessed by her, her striving to possess,
Impatient subjects, their tied longing hearts
Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,
Murmured at a yoke they would have wept to lose,
The splendid yoke of her beauty and her love:
Some felt attracted to her which was against their general nature. they were divided between a sense of wonder for her and a revolt towards her will. They are impatient and are unable to hold her love and beauty.
Others pursued her with life's blind desires
And claiming all of her as their lonely own,
Hastened to engross her sweetness meant for all.
As earth claims light for its lone separate need
Demanding her for their sole jealous clasp,
They asked from her movements bounded like their own
And to their smallness craved a like response.
Or they repined that she surpassed their grip,
And hoped to bind her close with longing's cords.
Or finding her touch desired too strong to bear
They blamed her for a tyranny they loved,
Shrank into themselves as from too bright a sun,
Yet hankered for the splendour they refused.
Angrily enamoured of her sweet passionate ray
The weakness of their earth could hardly bear,
They longed but cried out at the touch desired
Inapt to meet divinity so close,
Intolerant of a Force they could not house.
Some people were filled with desire and desired Mother for the sake of their desire. They are limited beings and demand Her for their jealous clasp.
Some drawn unwillingly by her divine sway
Endured it like a sweet but alien spell;
Unable to mount to levels too sublime,
They yearned to draw her down to their own earth.
Or forced to centre round her their passionate lives,
They hoped to bind to their heart's human needs
Her glory and grace that had enslaved their souls.
These lines describe the state of people who have sufficient maturity of their soul to respond to Mother’s call but since they are filled with desire, use the force to accomplish their heart’s needs in their lives. They do not open themselves to the higher possibility of spiritual transformation.
Thank you anna.
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