My Recitation - Sri Aurobindo's Savitri.

                 Yesterday (19/07/2011) I was selected in the Preliminary Recitation Competition, conducted by our School. A week before, Suni miss came to our class & told us to select any one poem for the preliminary selection competition. I thought immediately of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. I love this. I thank Sri Aurobindo & Sri Mother for giving me this wonderful opportunity to prove my talents in the school.

                 Prelims held on July 18, afternoon. I gave the printed poem, that was kept in a folder, to Flavia Miss, as both Nithya Miss & Flavia Miss, sat opposite to each other & in the middle, I have to recite. I did very well. Nithya Miss asked me why I have chosen, a long poem. I told her its because of the time management, as we have to recite a poem for 2 to 3 mins.

                  

 

SRI AUROBINDO’S SAVITRI

 

Book XI - The Book of Everlasting Day.                                                      

Canto I - The Eternal Day: The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation

Page -  710

 And see awake the dumb divinity.

 Intuitive beams shall touch the nature's peaks,

 A revelation stir the nature's depths;

 The Truth shall be the leader of their lives,

 Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act,

 They shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky,

 As if a little lower than the gods.

 For knowledge shall pour down in radiant streams

 And even darkened mind quiver with new life

 And kindle and burn with the Ideal's fire

 And turn to escape from mortal ignorance.

 The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,

 More and more souls shall enter into light,

 Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear

 And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame

 And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight

 And human wills tune to the divine will,

 These separate selves the Spirit's oneness feel, 

 These senses of heavenly sense grow capable,

 The flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy

 And mortal bodies of immortality.

 A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell

 And take the charge of breath and speech and act

 And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns

 And every feeling a celestial thrill.

 Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come

 Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;

 A sudden bliss shall run through every limb

 And Nature with a mightier Presence fill.

 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.