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Savitri Book 1, Canto 2: Aura of Savitri

 Page 15, Savitri (A Legend, Symbol, the Mantric Epic of Sri Aurobindo):


As might a soul fly like a hunted bird,
Escaping with tired wings from a world of storms,
And a quiet reach like a remembered breast,
In a haven of safety and splendid soft repose
One could drink life back in streams of honey-fire,
Recover the lost habit of happiness,
Feel her bright nature’s glorious ambience,
And preen joy in her warmth and colour’s rule.
- (Book 1 Canto 2 Painting No. 7)



In these lines Sri Aurobindo is referring to the soul as a bird in the vicinity of Savitri's aura. He says: Just like a poor tired bird that is being hunted, finally escaping from the earthly world of storms and troubles into a quiet place of safe sanctuary and splendid leisure as if having found its true home from where it came; a soul could find its home near Savitri. The natural state of a soul is joy yet in the dense material world it often loses this natural state. Savitri being a radiant centre of high vibrational spiritual energies could recharge such a soul. One could absorb the sweetness of honey (bliss) with a fire of pure aspiration in her glorious presence. And the soul like a bird could clean and groom itself in her colorful and warm aura.

These words of Sri Aurobindo remind us of the analogous description of the radiant auras of those (which theosophists call as Elder Brothers or Mahatmas or Masters of Compassion and Wisdom or representing Savitri) who have climbed the ladder of evolution little higher than us. We are like that bird in search and hope of finding Savitri and recharging ourselves. To quote Djwal Khul and Bailey from the Letters on occult meditation :

"We sense beauties and glories surrounding us that as yet we cannot revel in; they flit into our vision, and we touch the glory at a lofty moment only again to lose the contact and to sink back again into the murky gloom that envelopes. But we know that outside and further on is something to be desired; we learn also the mystery that that external wonder can only be contacted by withdrawing within, till the centre of consciousness is found that vibrates in tune with those dimly realised wonders, and with those radiant Souls Who call Themselves our Elder Brothers. Only by trampling on the external sheaths that veil and hide the inner centre do we achieve the goal, and find the Ones we seek. Only by the domination of all forms, and the bringing of those forms under the rule of the God within, can we find the God in all, for it is only the sheaths in which we move upon the plane of being that hide from us our inner God, and that shut us off from Those in Whom the God transcends all outer forms.

The great Initiate, Who voiced the words I quote, added still other words of radiant truth: "Then shall we know even as we are known." The future holds for each and all who duly strive, who unselfishly serve and occultly meditate, the promise of knowing Those Who already have full knowledge of the struggler. Therein lies the hope for the student of meditation; as he struggles, as he fails, as he perseveres, and as he laboriously reiterates from day to day the arduous task of concentration and of mind control, there stand on the inner side Those Who know him, and Who watch with eager sympathy the progress that be makes."


Image: A common kingfisher from India in a haven of safety and splendid soft repose - Credit Sane Door.



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