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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol QUOTES

Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol QUOTES

1 " My God is love and sweetly suffers all. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

2 " The great are strongest when they stand alone,
A God-given might of being is their force. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

3 " But though hast come and all will surely change. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

4 " The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

5 " Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

6 " A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

7 " Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

8 " All can be done if the god-touch is there "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

9 " A million lotuses swaying on one stem, "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

10 " Thus shall the earth open to divinity
And common natures feel the wide uplift,
Illumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray
And meet the deity in common things.
Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
This earthly life become the life divine.
(Savitri, Book 11, Canto 1, pp. 710-711) "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

11 " Mountains and trees stood there like thoughts from God. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

12 " Her smile could persuade a dead lacerated heart "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

13 " But few are those who tread the sunlit path;
Only the pure in soul can walk in light. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

14 " A thinking puppet is the mind of life:
Its choice is the work of elemental strengths
That know not their own birth and end and cause
And glimpse not the immense intent they serve.
In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull,
Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things,
The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways
And feels the push but not the hands that drive.
For none can see the masked ironic troupe
To whom our figure-selves are marionettes,
Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp,
Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

15 " As a star, uncompanioned, moves in heaven
Unastonished by the immensities of space,
Travelling infinity by its own light,
The great are strongest when they stand alone.
A God-given might of being is their force,
A ray from self‘s solitude of light the guide;
The soul that can live alone with itself meets God;
Its lonely universe is their rendezvous. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

16 " All-vision gathered into a single ray,
As when the eyes stare at an invisible point
Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
An apocalypse of a world of images
Enters into the kingdom of the seer. "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

17 " A voice of the eternal Ecstasy. One "

― Sri Aurobindo , Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol