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From : Savitri - Book III - Canto II - The Adoration of the Divine Mother

Across the silence of the ultimate Calm,

Out of a marvellous Transcendence' core,

A body of wonder and translucency


As if a sweet mystic summary of her self


Escaping into the original Bliss

Had come enlarged out of eternity,


Someone came infinite and absolute.

A being of wisdom, power and delight,


Even as a mother draws her child to her arms,


Took to her breast Nature and world and soul.

Abolishing the signless emptiness,


Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush,

Piercing the limitless Unknowable,


Into the liberty of the motionless depths


A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole.

The Power, the Light, the Bliss no word can speak


Imaged itself in a surprising beam


And built a golden passage to his heart


Touching through him all longing sentient things.

A moment's sweetness of the All-Beautiful


Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.

A Nature throbbing with a Heart divine


Was felt in the unconscious universe;


It made the breath a happy mystery.

A love that bore the cross of pain with joy


Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,

Made happy the weight of long unending Time,


The secret caught of God's felicity.

Affirming in life a hidden ecstasy


It held the spirit to its miraculous course;

Carrying immortal values to the hours


It justified the labour of the suns.

For one was there supreme behind the God.


A Mother Might brooded upon the world;

A Consciousness revealed its marvellous front


Transcending all that is, denying none:


Imperishable above our fallen heads


He felt a rapturous and unstumbling Force.

The undying Truth appeared, the enduring Power


Of all that here is made and then destroyed,

The Mother of all godheads and all strengths


Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme.