Savitri Archives — AuroInspirations

Towards a greater destiny

O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race, O petty adventurers in an infinite world And prisoners of a dwarf humanity, How long

The master of existence lurks in us And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force; In Nature’s instrument loiters secret

Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience Which was thy body’s dumb original base; Already slept there pain’s subconscient shape:

A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: His nature we must put on as he put ours; We are

But only when we break through Matter’s wall In that spiritual vastness can we stand Where we can live the

This Light comes not by struggle or by thought; In the mind’s silence the Transcendent acts And the hushed heart

All could be seen that shuns the mortal eye, All could be known the mind has never grasped; All could

He has need of darkness to perceive some light And need of grief to feel a little bliss; He has

The Great who came to save this suffering world And rescue out of Time’s shadow and the Law, Must pass