Annul Thyself that only God may be

Annul Thyself that only God may be

Canto Thirty-Nine

The lamp of her soul burned in a fruitful darkness

Where quiet void became a means to dissolve

The inherent issue of first mortality 

Carrying yet in its backward-moving will

The mystery of this creation’s godlessness.

So her luggage of time she left behind.

To bring to it the treasures of the true, 

To thought plenitudes of the silent spirit.

All now vanished in that nirvānic calm

And in the siddhi of this nature’s dissolution 

She joined back with the origin, love alone. 

Then the form behind the impersonal grew bright.

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Siddhi: a settled spiritual realisation

She joined back with the Origin:

The Mother’s experience of 1 October 1958 Agenda, Vol. 1, pp. 198, 202-03

VII:6 Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

But to meet Death the Siddhis Savitri has attained are not sufficient. Her outer nature has yet not undergone any fundamental change and all her relationships are still human. A greater Night must therefore show her a truer Sun. She must recognise that to give a body to the Unknowable, or to burden with active vibrant bliss the static Supreme, or to call down God in human mould is premature. So she is advised to assent to emptiness, that all in her may reach the corresponding absolute. She must annul herself for only God to be. Presently, she stands as a silent witness and observes the birth of thoughts, they coming from outside, the cosmic filed, or from the parts of her subtle body; but in her spiritual immensity she does not allow these thoughts approach her. The result is that, Truth and Bliss and Love and Force are there now with her in their pristine glory.

She has come to that highest Non-being which has the power to strike out the Void, revealing the One who exists Unmanifest behind it. She attains formless liberation with the realisation of the divine beyond the impersonal and is least concerned if she is going to disappear altogether in it, or new-become the All.

[Book Seven Canto Six: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute]

Savitri Book 7 Canto 6 – Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,

The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul,

The voice of Light after the voice of Night:

“O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe; ||128.31||

That all in thee may reach its absolute. ||128.34||

God must be born on earth and be as man

That man being human may grow even as God. ||128.42||

Cast off thy mind, step back from form and name. ||128.49||

Annul thyself that only God may be.” ||128.50||

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