जीवन का अवतरण || SY 080 || सावित्री pp. 128-130

[The descent of life] A Savitri Yagna class with Dr. Alok Pandey reading lines from Sri Aurobindo's 'Savitri' and reflecting on them (in Hindi). Recorded on July 5, 2026. We read the following lines today from Savitri, Book Seven Canto Three (pages 128-130): 'This world of bliss he saw and felt its call, But found no way to enter into its joy; Across the conscious gulf there was no bridge. A darker air encircled still his soul Tied to an image of unquiet life. In spite of yearning mind and longing sense, To a sad Thought by grey experience formed And a vision dimmed by care and sorrow and sleep All this seemed only a bright desirable dream Conceived in a longing distance by the heart Of one who walks in the shadow of earth-pain. Although he once had felt the Eternal's clasp, Too near to suffering worlds his nature lived, And where he stood were entrances of Night. Hardly, too close beset by the world's care, Can the dense mould in which we have been made Return sheer joy to joy, pure light to light. For its tormented will to think and live First to a mingled pain and pleasure woke And still it keeps the habit of its birth: A dire duality is our way to be. In the crude beginnings of this mortal world Life was not nor mind's play nor heart's desire. When earth was built in the unconscious Void And nothing was save a material scene, Identified with sea and sky and stone Her young gods yearned for the release of souls Asleep in objects, vague, inanimate. In that desolate grandeur, in that beauty bare, In the deaf stillness, mid the unheeded sounds, Heavy was the uncommunicated load Of Godhead in a world that had no needs; For none was there to feel or to receive. This solid mass which brooked no throb of sense Could not contain their vast creative urge: Immersed no more in Matter's harmony, The Spirit lost its statuesque repose. In the uncaring trance it groped for sight, Passioned for the movements of a conscious heart, Famishing for speech and thought and joy and love, In the dumb insensitive wheeling day and night Hungered for the beat of yearning and response. The poised inconscience shaken with a touch, The intuitive Silence trembling with a name, They cried to Life to invade the senseless mould And in brute forms awake divinity. A voice was heard on the mute rolling globe, A murmur moaned in the unlistening Void. A being seemed to breathe where once was none: Something pent up in dead insentient depths, Denied conscious existence, lost to joy, Turned as if one asleep since dateless time. Aware of its own buried reality, Remembering its forgotten self and right, It yearned to know, to aspire, to enjoy, to live. Life heard the call and left her native light. Overflowing from her bright magnificent plane On the rigid coil and sprawl of mortal Space, Here too the gracious great-winged Angel poured Her splendour and her swiftness and her bliss, Hoping to fill a fair new world with joy. As comes a goddess to a mortal's breast And fills his days with her celestial clasp, She stooped to make her home in transient shapes; In Matter's womb she cast the Immortal's fire, In the unfeeling Vast woke thought and hope, Smote with her charm and beauty flesh and nerve And forced delight on earth's insensible frame. Alive and clad with trees and herbs and flowers Earth's great brown body smiled towards the skies, Azure replied to azure in the sea's laugh; New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life's glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts, Man dared and thought and met with his soul the world.' * Please leave your comments, questions to Alokda and likes/dislikes. To send Alokda a private letter: '[email protected]' YouTube playlist navigation: https://auromaa.org/youtube-playlists/ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5z25yJQGWCISyO9D0BJxsD Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/auromaa-daily/id1689558152 Amazon Podcasts: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/70a... All AuroMaa Podcasts: https://auromaa.castos.com/network #themother #sriaurobindo #thedivine #spirituality #integralyoga #sriaurobindoashram #divinemother #supramentalconsciousness #thelifedivine #thefutureofhumanity