A Blind God

A blind god is not destiny’s architect.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

A Cave of Darkness

A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 1]

A Death-Bound Littleness

A death-bound littleness is not all we are.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 4]

A Few Can Climb

A few can climb to an unperishing sun.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/ Book 11, Canto 1]

A Future Knowledge

A future knowledge is an added pain.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 1]

A Giant Dance of Shiva

A giant dance of Shiva tore the past.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

A Huge Extinction

A huge extinction is not God’s last word.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 2]

A Light There Is That Leads

A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

A Moment Sees

A moment sees, the ages toil to express.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 2]

A Thinking Puppet

A thinking puppet is the mind of life.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 5]

A Touch Can Alter

A touch can alter the fixed front of Fate.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book2, Canto 10]

A Traveller between Summit and Abyss

A traveller between summit and abyss.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 3]

All Can Be Done

All can be done if the God-touch is there.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 1]

All's Miracle Here

All Is Too Little

All is too little that the world can give.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 1]

All Our Earth Starts from Mud

All our earth starts from mud and ends in sky.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 3]

All Rose from the Silence

All rose from the silence; all goes back to its hush.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

All Things Are Real

All things are real that here are only dreams.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 11]

All Things Hang Here

All things hang here between God’s yes and no.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 4]

Although Defeated

Although defeated, life must struggle on.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 6]

An Idiot Hour

An idiot hour destroys what centuries made.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

Beyond Earth's Longitudes and Latitudes

Blow Your Conch-Shells

. . . blow your conch shells at the Eternal’s gate.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 4, Canto 3]

But Few Are They

But few are they who tread the sunlit path.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

By Light We Live

By Light we live and to the Light we go.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 1]

Death Helps Us Not

Death helps us not, vain is the hope to cease.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 6]

Death Is a Passage

Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 6]

Doom Is Not a Close, a Mystic Seal

Earth Is the Chosen Place

Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 11, Canto 1]

Earth Must Transform Herself

Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 7, Canto 2]

Escape Brings Not the Victory

Escape brings not the victory and the crown!

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 2]

Eternity Speaks

Eternity speaks, none understands its word.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 4, Canto 3]

Even the Body Shall Remember God

Even the body shall remember God.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 11, Canto 1]

Fate Shall Be Changed

Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

For Joy and Not for Sorrow

For joy and not for sorrow earth was made.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 3]

God Found in Nature

God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 3]

God Shall Grow Up

God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 4]

He Who Would Save the World

He who would save the world must share its pain.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 7, Canto 6]

Heaven in its Rapture

Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 11, Canto 1]

Heaven's Call Is Rare

His Failure Is Not Failure

His failure is not failure whom God leads.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

I Shall Save Earth

I shall save earth, if earth consents to be saved.

[Savitri, Part Two, 7:4]

I Wear the Face of Kali

I wear the face of Kali when I kill.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 7, Canto 4]

If Mind Is All, Renounce the Hope of Bliss

If Mind is all, renounce the hope of bliss.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 4]

If Mind Is All, Renounce the Hope of Truth

If Mind is all, renounce the hope of Truth.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 4]

In Absolute Silence

In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 2]

In the Beginning

In the beginning is prepared the close.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

Love Is a Yearning

Love is a yearning of the One for the One.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 3]

Man Can Accept His Fate

Man can accept his fate, he can refuse.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

Matter Shall Reveal the Spirit's Face

Men Die That Man May Live

Men die that man may live and God be born.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

Mind Can Never See

Mind can never see the soul of God.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 4]

Mind Can Never Touch

Mind can never touch the body of Truth.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 4]

Mortality Bears Ill the Eternal's Touch

My God Is Love

My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 9, Canto 2]

Night Is Not Our Beginning

Night is not our beginning nor our end.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 1]

None Can Reach Heaven

None can reach heaven who has not passed through hell.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 8]

Nothing Is All Our Own

Nothing is all our own that we create.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 7, Canto 6]

Oh, Surely One Day

Oh, surely one day he shall come to our cry.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 6]

One Man's Perfection (1)

One Man's Perfection (2)

Only a Little

Only a little the god-light can stay.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 1]

Only the Pure in Soul

Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

Our Dead Selves

Our dead selves come to slay our living soul.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 7, Canto 2]

Our Fate the Child

Our fate the child of our own acts.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 4, Canto 3]

Our Human State

Our human state cradles the future god.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 10]

Our Life Is a Holocaust

Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 1]

Our Life Is a March

Our life is a march to a victory never won.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 6]

Out of the Unknown

Out of the unknown we move to the unknown.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 4]

Slowly the Light Grows Greater

Slowly the light grows greater in the East.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

Space Is Himself

Space is himself and Time is only he.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 4]

The Day-Bringer

The day-bringer must walk in darkest night.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 7, Canto 6]

The Gods Are Still Too Few

The gods are still too few in mortal forms.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 4, Canto 3]

The Great Are Strongest

The great are strongest when they stand alone.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

The Human in Him

The human in him paced with the divine.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 3]

The Life That Fails and Dies

The life that fails and dies must live again.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 6]

The Life You Lead

The life you lead conceals the light you are.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 4, Canto 3]

The One By Whom All Live

The One by whom all live, who lives by none.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 1]

The Soul in Man

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 11, Canto 1]

The Soul That Can Live Alone

The soul that can live alone with itself meets God.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

The Spirit Rises Mightier

The spirit rises mightier by defeat.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 2]

The World Is Real

The world is real but ourselves too small.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 2, Canto 5]

There Is a Purpose

There is a purpose in each stumble and fall.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 10, Canto 4]

There Is No Perfect Answer

There is no perfect answer to our hopes.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 5]

There Is No Rest

There is no rest for the embodied soul.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

To Know Is Best

To know is best, however hard to bear.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 6, Canto 1]

Truth Born Too Soon

Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 3, Canto 4]

We Are Greater Than Our Thoughts

We are greater than our thoughts.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 5, Canto 2]

We Are Sons of God

We are sons of God and must be even as he.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 4]

While There

While there, one is one’s own infinity.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 1, Canto 3]

Whoever Is Too Great

Whoever is too great must lonely live.

[Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/, Book 4, Canto 2]

Devi Savitri

Devi Savitri Devi Savitri Devi Savitri
Taba garimai taba sushamai nache dharitri
Atmatyager bhudhar shikhar baridhi banya
Bishwa prabhur tripti fuara dhanya kanya
Sri Aurobindo amar kabya asim chetana
Ati manaser mukti banshari dharar eshana

_Translation <html>Goddess Savitri, Goddess Savitri, Goddess Savitri,<br \></html> <html>The entire world dances in your glory<br \></html> <html>And in your beauty non-pareil.<br \></html> <html>You are the ocean-flood and the mountain-summit<br \></html> <html>Of self-giving.<br \></html> <html>O blessed daughter of the Absolute Supreme,<br \></html> <html>You are His satisfaction-fountain.<br \></html> <html>You embody the infinite consciousness<br \></html> <html>Of Sri Aurobindo’s epic Sri Aurobindo, /Savitri/.<br \></html> <html>You are at once the aspiration-flowers of the world<br \></html> <html>And the liberation-fruit of the Supermind.<br \></html> <html></div></html> <html></div> </div> </div> </html> <html>