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Golden Bridge
by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch
On the occasion of Sri Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary, we are launching the podcast as an offering.'Golden Bridge' is a series that will help seekers of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo to immerse themselves in Wideness, Depth, Heights, Beauty, Harmony and Power through the four main aspects of The Divine Mother, as revealed in 'Savitri' in the voice of Ms. Tara Jauhar.Ms. Tara Jauhar is the Chairperson of 'Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch'.
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His was a spirit that stooped from larger spheres
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 3 Section 1 His was a spirit that stooped from larger spheres Into our province of ephemeral sight, A colonist from immortality. A pointing beam on earth’s uncertain roads, His birth held up a symbol and a sign; His human self like a translucent cloak Covered the All-Wise…
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The prescience of a marvellous birth to come.
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 1 Section 1 from 14:19 Almost that day the epiphany was disclosed Of which our thoughts and hopes are signal flares; A lonely splendour from the invisible goal Almost was flung on the opaque Inane. Once more a tread perturbed the vacant Vasts; Infinity’s centre, a Face of...
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Her sight that must break through and liberate the god
Book 7 Canto 2 Pg 486 Section 3 All this the spirit concealed had done in her: A portion of the mighty Mother came Into her as into its own human part: Amid the cosmic workings of the Gods It marked her the centre of a wide-drawn scheme, Dreamed in the passion of her far-seeing spirit To mould...
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One slow move forward on a measureless board
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 2 Section 2 5:43 to For this she had accepted mortal bredth To wrestle with the Shadow she had come And must confront the riddle of man’s birth And life’s brief struggle in dumb Matter’s night. Whether to bear with Ignorance and death Or hew the ways of Immortality, To win…
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The universal Mother’s love was hers.
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 1 Section 2 2:45 to 17:06 Apart, living within, all lives she bore; Aloof, she carried in herself the world: Her dread was one with the great cosmic dread, Her strength was founded on the cosmic mights; The universal Mother’s love was hers. Against the evil at life’s…
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Her nature felt all Nature as its own.
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 1 Section 2 2:45 to 17:06 Too unlike the world she came to help and save, Her greatness weighed upon its ignorant breast And from its dim chasms welled a dire return, A portion of its sorrow, struggle, fall. To live with grief, to confront death on her road,— The mortal’s…
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Her spirit opened to the Spirit in all
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 1 Section 2 2:45 to 17:06 Too unlike the world she came to help and save, Her greatness weighed upon its ignorant breast And from its dim chasms welled a dire return, A portion of its sorrow, struggle, fall. To live with grief, to confront death on her road,— The mortal’s…
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Only they leave behind a splendid Name.
Book 1 Canto 1 Section 2 2:45 to 17:06 She had brought with her into the human form, The calm delight that weds one soul to all, The key to the flaming doors of ecstasy. Earth’s grain that needs the sap of pleasure and tears Rejected the undying rapture’s boon: Offered to the daughter of infinity...
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Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break
Savitri BOOK VI: The Book of Fate 443-44-45 CANTO II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain Section 2 Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come; Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light; Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience Which was thy body’s dumb original base; Already…
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Was then the sun a dream because there is night?
Savitri BOOK VI: The Book of Fate 443-44-45 CANTO II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain Section 2 Then after a silence Narad made reply: Tuning his lips to earthly sound he spoke, And something now of the deep sense of fate Weighted the fragile hints of mortal speech. His forehead shone…
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A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time.
Savitri - CANTO III: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release 25-26-27 A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. For him mind’s limiting firmament ceased above. In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault; The conscious ends of being went rolling back: The...
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A beam of the Eternal smites his heart
Savitri - Book 1, CANTO III: (Section 1 later) At last the traveller in the paths of Time Arrives on the frontiers of eternity. In the transient symbol of humanity draped, He feels his substance of undying self And loses his kinship to mortality. A beam of the Eternal smites his heart, His…
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His days were a long growth to the Supreme.
Savitri - Book 1, CANTO III: Section 1 early His days were a long growth to the Supreme. A skyward being nourishing its roots On sustenance from occult spiritual founts Climbed through white rays to meet an unseen Sun. His soul lived as eternity’s delegate, His mind was like a fire assailing...
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The silent Soul of all the world was there
Savitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 1 The silent Soul of all the world was there: A Being lived, a Presence and a Power, A single Person who was himself and all And cherished Nature’s sweet and dangerous throbs Transfigured into beats divine and pure. One who could love without return for love,...
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I am the Mystery beyond reach of mind
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 O Son of Strength who climbst creation’s peaks, No soul is thy companion in the light; Alone thou standest at the eternal doors. What thou hast won is thine, but ask no more. O Spirit aspiring in an ignorant frame, O Voice arisen from the Inconscient’s world, How...
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Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 3 (very beginning) “O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry. One shall descend and break the iron Law, Change Nature’s doom by the lone spirit’s power. A limitless Mind that can contain the world, A sweet and violent heart of ardent calms Moved by the passions of...
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A greater destiny waits you in your front
Savitri: Book 4 Canto 3 Section 1 “O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race, O petty adventurers in an infinite world And prisoners of a dwarf humanity, How long will you tread the circling tracks of mind Around your little self and petty things? But not for a changeless littleness were you...
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Love in her was wider than the universe
Book 1, Canto II, p. 14-15-16 All in her pointed to a nobler kind. Near to earth’s wideness, intimate with heaven, Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm Overflew the ways of Thought to unborn things. Ardent was her self-poised…
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That hour had fallen now on Savitri.
Savitri: Book 1, Canto 2 Section 1 An absolute supernatural darkness falls On man sometimes when he draws near to God: An hour arrives when fail all Nature’s means; Forced out from the protecting Ignorance And flung back on his naked primal need, He at length must cast from him his surface soul…
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I am thy portion here charged with thy work
Savitri: Book VII, Canto II The parable of the search for the Soul (p.475-76-77) The Voice replied: “Is this enough, O spirit? And what shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows The work was left undone for which it came? Or is this all for thy being born on earth Charged with a mandate from...
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Around her body’s stillness all grew still
Savitri: Book VII, Canto II The parable of the search for the Soul (p.474-75) As the Voice touched, her body became a stark And rigid golden statue of motionless trance, A stone of God lit by an amethyst soul. Around her body’s stillness all grew still: Her heart listened to its slow measured...
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Fate is Truth working out in Ignorance.
Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 6 Fate is Truth working out in Ignorance. O King, thy fate is a transaction done At every hour between Nature and thy soul With God for its foreseeing arbiter. Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny’s book. Man can accept his fate, he can refuse. Even if the One...
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A Greatness working towards a hidden end
Savitri: Book 5 Canto 3 Section 1 31:03 to 36:32 Once were my days like days of other men: To think and act was all, to enjoy and breathe; This was the width and height of mortal hope: Yet there came glimpses of a deeper self That lives behind Life and makes her act its scene. A truth was felt…
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She held their hands, she chose for them their paths
Savitri: Book 4 Canto 2 Section 1 Part 1 So men worship a god too great to know, Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape; They feel a Presence and obey a might, Adore a love whose rapture invades their breasts; To a divine ardour quickening the heart-beats, A law they follow greatening heart...
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She walked in their front towards a greater light
Savitri: Book 4, Canto 2, Section 1, Part 1 A mind daring heavenly experiment, Growing towards some largeness they felt near, Testing the unknown’s bound with eager touch They still were prisoned by their human grain: They could not keep up with her tireless step; Too small and eager for her...
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His spirit was made a vessel of her force
Savitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 3 Part 2 His spirit was made a vessel of her force; Mute in the fathomless passion of his will He outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer. Then in a sovereign answer to his heart A gesture came as of worlds thrown away, And from her raiment’s lustrous…
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The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free.
Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 2 part 2 The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free. There is a clamour of battle, a tramp, a march: A cry arises like a moaning sea, A desperate laughter under the blows of death, A doom of blood and sweat and toil and tears. Men die that man may live and God…
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All creation is her endless act
Savitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 3 Part 1 In a slumber of the voices of the world He of the eternal moment grew aware; His knowledge stripped bare of the garbs of sense Knew by identity without thought or word; His being saw itself without its veils, Life’s line fell from the spirit’s infinity....
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Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break
Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 2 part 1 Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come; Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light; Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience Which was thy body’s dumb original base; Already slept there pain’s subconscient shape: A shadow in a shadowy...
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A vast surrender was his only strength
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 2 Section 3 This was a seed cast into endless Time. A Word is spoken or a Light is shown, A moment sees, the ages toil to express. So flashing out of the Timeless leaped the worlds; An eternal instant is the cause of the years. All he had done was to prepare a field; His…
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She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 2 Section 2 At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate, In their slow round the cycles turn to her call; Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base. Hers is the mystery the Night conceals; The spirit’s alchemist energy is hers; She is the golden bridge, the…
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I live in the glory of the Infinite
Savitri: Book 10 Canto 4 Section 2 end Already the torch becomes the undying ray, Already the life is the Immortal’s force, The house grows of the householder part and one. How sayst thou Truth can never light the human mind And Bliss can never invade the mortal’s heart Or God descend into the...
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The Spirit shall be the master of his world
Savitri: BOOK 11 Canto 1 Section 8 The Book of Everlasting Day The Spirit shall be the master of his world Lurking no more in form’s obscurity And Nature shall reverse her action’s rule, The outward world disclose the Truth it veils; All things shall manifest the covert God, All shall reveal the...
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Mahalakshmi [2]
Mahalakshmi Book -3, Canto- 2, The book of the Divine Mother, Pg-314 A burning Love from white spiritual founts Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths; Suffering was lost in her immortal smile. A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death; To err no more was natural to mind; Wrong could…
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All things shall change in God’s transfiguring hour
Savitri: BOOK 3 Canto 4 Section 1 The Book of the Divine Mother 340 The high gods look on man and watch and choose Today’s impossibles for the future’s base. His transience trembles with the Eternal’s touch, His barriers cede beneath the Infinite’s tread; The Immortals have their entries in his...
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My mortal body is the Eternal’s house
Savitri - Book 10 Canto 4 Section 2 The world is a spiritual paradox Invented by a need in the Unseen, A poor translation to the creature’s sense Of That which for ever exceeds idea and speech, A symbol of what can never be symbolised, A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true. Its powers have...
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He Lifts Himself To Be a Conscious God
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 Illumining breath to think and plasm to feel, He labours with his slow and sceptic brain Helped by the reason’s vacillating fires, To make his thought and will a magic door For knowledge to enter the darkness of the world And love to rule a realm of strife and...
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Painfully He Guards The Heavy Trust
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 His day is a moment in perpetual Time; He is the prey of the minutes and the hours. Assailed on earth and unassured of heaven, Descended here unhappy and sublime, A link between the demigod and the beast, He knows not his own greatness nor his aim; He has…
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A Sound Came Quivering Like a Loved Footfall
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1 THEN suddenly there rose a sacred stir. Amid the lifeless silence of the Void In a solitude and an immensity A sound came quivering like a loved footfall Heard in the listening spaces of the soul; A touch perturbed his fibres with delight. An Influence had...
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She Is The Golden Bridge
Savitri : Book 3 Canto 2 A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare, A burning Love from white spiritual founts Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths; Suffering was lost in her immortal smile. A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death; To err no more was natural to mind; Wrong could...
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Spirit’s Sacred Thirst
Savitri: Book 3 Canto 1 Section 1 ALL IS too little that the world can give: Its power and knowledge are the gifts of Time And cannot fill the spirit’s sacred thirst. Although of One these forms of greatness are And by its breath of grace our lives abide, Although more near to us than nearness’...
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Search Our Nature With Spiritual Fire
Savitri: Book 2 Canto 10 Section 1 This was the first means of our slow ascent From the half-conscience of the animal soul Living in a crowded press of shape-events In a realm it cannot understand nor change; Only it sees and acts in a given scene And feels and joys and sorrows for a while. The...
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The Word Deeply Heard
Savitri: Book 4 Canto 3 Section 1 As when the mantra sinks in Yoga’s ear, Its message enters stirring the blind brain And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound; The hearer understands a form of words And, musing on the index thought it holds, He strives to read it with the labouring mind, But...
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The mind falling silent
Savitri: Book 7 Canto 6 Section 2 This mind is a dynamic small machine Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out, With raw material drawn from the outside world, The patterns sketched out by an artist God. Often our thoughts are finished cosmic wares Admitted by a silent office gate And passed...
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He and She at play
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 4 Section 4 All here where each thing seems its lonely self Are figures of the sole transcendent One: Only by him they are, his breath is their life; An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay. A playmate in the mighty Mother’s game, One came upon the dubious whirling…
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God's hide and seek
Savitri: Book 1 Canto 4 Section 6 The master of existence lurks in us And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force; In Nature’s instrument loiters secret God. The Immanent lives in man as in his house; He has made the universe his pastime’s field, A vast gymnasium of his works of might....
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The Dawn Of Spiritual Beginnings
Savitri: Book 1, Canto 3, Section 2 As so he grew into his larger self, Humanity framed his movements less and less; A greater being saw a greater world. A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase The lines of safety Reason draws that bar Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite. Even his…
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A Mightier Sanction
Savitri: Book Three, Canto Three, Section 1 A MIGHTIER task remained than all he had done. To That he turned from which all being comes, A sign attending from the Secrecy Which knows the Truth ungrasped behind our thoughts And guards the world with its all-seeing gaze. In the unapproachable...
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The Voice Reminded Savitri
Savitri: Book 7 Canto 2 Section 1 A Power within her answered the still Voice: “I am thy portion here charged with thy work, As thou myself seated for ever above, Speak to my depths, O great and deathless Voice, Command, for I am here to do thy will.” The Voice replied: “Remember why thou cam’st:...
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He who is in us
Book 1, Canto 3, Section 1 : This bodily appearance is not all; The form deceives, the person is a mask; Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell. His fragile ship conveys through the sea of years An incognito of the Imperishable. A spirit that is a flame of God abides, A fiery portion of the...
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On the occasion of Sri Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary, we are launching the podcast as an offering.'Golden Bridge' is a series that will help seekers of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo to immerse themselves in Wideness, Depth, Heights, Beauty, Harmony and Power through the four main aspects of The Divine Mother, as revealed in 'Savitri' in the voice of Ms. Tara Jauhar.Ms. Tara Jauhar is the Chairperson of 'Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi Branch'.
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