This ever she meant since the first dawn of life, This constant will she covered with her sport, To evoke a Person in the impersonal Void, With the Truth-Light strike earth’s massive roots of trance, Wake a dumb self in the inconscient depths And raise a lost Power from its python sleep That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time And the world manifest the unveiled Divine. For this he left his white infinity And laid on the spirit the burden of the flesh, That Godhead’s seed might flower in mindless Space. Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book I, Canto IV, pages 72-73 |