The Winds of Wonder

Calm and strong she stood

Immortal wings covered her self and whole being,

A luminous power that knows no defeat;

Calm and strong she stood Death standing next to her,

The spirit of negation denying God’s creation;

He claimed ownership of the soul as his full right,

Inconscience supporting the prerogative;

But a superlative noon was here to end it all,

In a triumph worked out since the beginning.

29 November 2024

Savitri Book Nine Canto One:

Then suddenly there came on her the change

Which in tremendous moments of our lives

Can overtake sometimes the human soul

And hold it up towards its luminous source. ||134.6||

The veil is torn, the thinker is no more:

Only the spirit sees and all is known. ||134.7||

Then a calm Power seated above our brows

Is seen, unshaken by our thoughts and deeds,

Its stillness bears the voices of the world:

Immobile, it moves Nature, looks on life…. ||134.8||

This in a moment’s depths was born in her…. ||134.14||

Like one who looks up to far heights she saw,

Ancient and strong as on a windless summit

Above her where she had worked in her lone mind

Labouring apart in a sole tower of self,

The source of all which she had seemed or wrought… ||134.18||

That mightiness assumed a symbol form:

Her being’s spaces quivered with its touch,

It covered her as with immortal wings…. ||134.22|

Let us scan the last few lines:

Like one| who looks| up to| far heights| she saw,|
An+cient| and strong| as on| a wind|+less sum+mit|
A+bove| her where| she had worked| in her| lone mind|
La+bour+ing| a+part| in a| sole tow|+er of self,|
The source| of all| which she| had seemed| or wrought,|
Then like| a thought| ful+filled| by some| great word|
That might|+i+ness| as+sumed| a sym|+bol form;|
Her be|+ing’s spac|+es quiv|+ered with| its touch,|
It cov|+ered her| as with| im+mor|+tal wings;| …