Category Archives: Savitri Offering

Ups or Downs The Pilgrimage Must Go On — Sri Aurobindo

O mortal , bear this great world’s law of pain,In thy hard passage through a suffering worldLean for thy soul’s support on Heaven’s strength,Turn towards high Truth, aspire to love and peace.A little bliss is lent thee from above,A touch … Continue reading →

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A Mutual Debt Binds Man To The Supreme — Sri Aurobindo

The Absolute, the Perfect, the AloneHas called out of the Silence his mute ForceWhere she lay in the featureless and formless hushGuarding from Time by her immobile sleepThe ineffable puissance of his solitude. The Absolute, the Perfect, the AloneHas entered … Continue reading →

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The Price That Avatar Pays — Sri Aurobindo

He who would save himself lives bare and calm;He who would save the race must share its pain:This he shall know who obeys that grandiose urge. The Great who came to save this suffering worldAnd rescue out of Time’s shadow … Continue reading →

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The Dark Agreement By Which All is Ruled — Sri Aurobindo

The body’s rules bound not the spirit’s powers:When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in;He dared to live when breath and thought were still. … In the glow of the spirit’s room of memoriesHe could recover the luminous … Continue reading →

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Tethered By The Inconscient, Will The Human Race Evolve?

He seeks through words and images the Truth,And, poring on surfaces and brute outsidesOr dipping cautious feet in shallow seas,Even his Knowledge is an Ignorance. He is barred out from his own inner depths;He cannot look on the face of … Continue reading →

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Soul’s Aspiration and The Divine Descent in Savitri: The Call and A Helping Hand

But all is screened, subliminal, mystical;It needs the intuitive heart, the inward turn,It needs the power of a spiritual gaze. Else to our waking mind’s small moment lookA goalless voyage seems our dubious courseSome Chance has settled or hazarded some … Continue reading →

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Soul’s Aspiration and The Divine Descent in Savitri: Part 2

In moments when the inner lamps are litAnd the life’s cherished guests are left outside,Our spirit sits alone and speaks to its gulfs. A wider consciousness opens then its doors;Invading from spiritual silencesA ray of the timeless Glory stoops awhileTo … Continue reading →

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Soul’s Aspiration and The Divine Descent in Savitri: Part 1

On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights. Our early approaches to the InfiniteAre sunrise splendours on a marvellous vergeWhile lingers yet unseen the glorious sun. What now we see is a shadow of what must come. The … Continue reading →

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Savitri’s Dream Part 2: Hostile Forces & The Guardian Power

But all is there, even God’s opposites;He(man) is a little front of Nature’s works,A thinking outline of a cryptic Force. All she reveals in him that is in her,Her glories walk in him and her darknesses. Man’s house of life … Continue reading →

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