SAVITRI Sri Aurobindo(47) Canto 3 Lines 463-491|The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release

Canto Three | The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release Lines 463 - 491 (Page No. 35) (Session 47) He comes unseen into our darker parts And, curtained by the darkness, does his work, A subtle and all-knowing guest and guide, Till they too feel the need and will to change. All here must learn to obey a higher law, Our body’s cells must hold the Immortal’s flame. Else would the spirit reach alone its source Leaving a half-saved world to its dubious fate. Nature would ever labour unredeemed; Our earth would ever spin unhelped in Space, And this immense creation’s purpose fail Till at last the frustrate universe sank undone. Even his godlike strength to rise must fall: His greater consciousness withdrew behind; Dim and eclipsed, his human outside strove To feel again the old sublimities, Bring the high saving touch, the ethereal flame, Call back to its dire need the divine Force. Always the power poured back like sudden rain, Or slowly in his breast a presence grew; It clambered back to some remembered height Or soared above the peak from which it fell. Each time he rose there was a larger poise, A dwelling on a higher spirit plane; The Light remained in him a longer space. In this oscillation between earth and heaven, In this ineffable communion’s climb There grew in him as grows a waxing moon The glory of the integer of his soul. SAVITRI : A Legend and a Symbol - Sri Aurobindo Book One - The Book of Beginnings: Canto III - The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release Session Date: 11th July 2026