Sri Aurobindo’s poetry is infused not only with most profound and deepest thoughts found in most ancient Sanskrit literature of India, it is also abundant in the imagery found in the literature of ancient Latin, Greek and English poetry making it the most rich and vibrant work of literature in the field of spirituality.
In Savitri his thoughts have bloomed like thousands of lotus flowers covering the entire lake of spiritual poetry. One has to merge deeper and deeper in it and still may not find the depth that Sri Aurobindo has touched through his yoga and inner Psychological experiences.
The passage below talks about the origin of Universe. The power Unknown descending into the matter. The title below is provided just for the sake of the title for the clarity of the topic.
( Savita Tyagi )
The Beginning Of The Universe
At the outset of this enigmatic world
Which seems at once an enormous brute machine
And a slow unmasking of the Spirit in things,
In this revolving chamber without walls
In which God sits impassive everywhere
As if unknown to himself and and by us unseen
In a miracle of inconscient secrecy
Yet is all here his action and his will.
In this whirl and sprawl through infinite vacancy
The Spirit became matter and lay in the whirl
A body sleeping without sense or soul.
A mass phenomenon of visible shapes
Supported by the silence of the Void
Appeared in the eternal Consciousness
And seemed an outward and insensible world.
There was none there to see and feel;
Only the miraculous Inconscient,
A subtle wizard, was at its task.
Inventing ways for magical results,
Managing creation’s marvelous device,
Making mechanically dumb wisdom’s points,
Using the unthought inevitable Idea,
It did the works of God’s intelligence
Or wrought the will of some supreme Unknown.
Still the consciousness was hidden in Nature’s womb,
Unfelt was the bliss whose rapture dreamed the worlds.
Being was an inert substance driven Force.
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