The Winds of Wonder

The birth of Thought

अभिवेगाचा जन्म

​(विचाराचे मूळ — सावित्रीचा अनुभव)

ऐकले आवाज अंधारदरीतून येणारे 

आणि पाहिलाही प्रकाश उंचावरचा;

पण होई कुठे जन्म ह्या अभिवेगांचे

हे खोल गूढ जाणण्यास पाहे वाट ती;

असे एकतर सूक्ष्म देहात त्यांचा उगम 

अथवा भल्या वैश्विक क्षेत्रातूनी येति तें;

गूढ ओठ आणि अद्भुत डोळ्यांनी तेजस्वी

ह्या नग्न विचारांचे असे मूळ आत्म्यात;

किंवा शोधत जीवन, प्रेम, उत्कट सत्य

पडे बाहेर स्मिताचा चेहरा हृदयातून;

भुवया ओलांडून एक दर्शनशील विचार,

विचार, चमकणारे देवदूत मेंदूच्या मागे;

चमकणारे कवच घालून, प्रार्थनेचे हात जोडून,

स्वर्गाचे किरण पार्थिव स्वरूपात ओती;

आल्या उफाळून छातीतून कल्पना,

अलौकिक सौंदर्य, परम आनंदाचे स्पर्श;

घशाच्या संवेदनशील ​केंद्रावर आक्रमत

घूमती त्यांचे मूक अव्यक्त प्रतिध्वनी​;

नसामासातून वाहती ते अभिवेग 

​उत्फुल्लूनी स्वर्गीय भाषणाच्या आकृत्या​. 

२२ एप्रिल २०२५

अभिवेग: मनात उत्पन्न होणारी गोष्ट, विचार; consideration, thought, determination.

A Note:

This is a rendering of a passage from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, The Book of Yoga, Book Seven Canto Six. Savitri was told by a mighty and uplifting Voice to annul herself that only God may be. She sets herself to follow the instructions and observes the origin of Thought. She sees that it comes either from the subtle body or from the cosmic field. Here is a presentation in Marathi of that significantly occult passage, the details revealed absolutely for the first time in the spiritual revelations. The original in snaps is here:

She saw the Powers that stare from the Abyss

And the wordless Light that liberates the soul. ||129.5||

But most her gaze pursued the birth of thought. ||129.6||

 In our unseen subtle body thought is born

Or there it enters from the cosmic field. ||129.9||

Oft from her soul stepped out a naked thought

Luminous with mysteried lips and wonderful eyes;

Or from her heart emerged some burning face

And looked for life and love and passionate truth, … ||129.10||

 A seeing will pondered between the brows;

Thoughts, glistening Angels stood behind the brain

In flashing armour, folding hands of prayer,

And poured heaven’s rays into the earthly form. ||129.12||

Imaginations flamed up from her breast,

Unearthly beauty, touches of surpassing joy…

Invading the small sensitive flower of the throat

They brought their mute, unuttered resonances

To kindle the figures of a heavenly speech. ||129.13||

Featured image: Book 7 Canto 6 Painting #5:

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||

Featured image is a painting by Huta

Book 7 Canto 6 Painting #6; Painting by Huta:

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||

Sketch by the Mother, Book 7 Canto 6 Painting #6: