Meditations on Savitri Book 2 Canto 1


Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

There walled apart by its own innerness
In a mystical barrage of dynamic light
He saw a lone immense high-curved world-pile
Erect like a mountain chariot of the Gods
Motionless under an inscrutable sky. ||26.1||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #1


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 1 Sketch #1






Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

Once in the vigil of a deathless gaze
These grades had marked her giant downward plunge,
The wide and prone leap of a godhead’s fall. ||26.14||
Our life is a holocaust of the Supreme. ||26.15||
The great World-Mother by her sacrifice
Has made her soul the body of our state; ||26.16||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #2


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 1 Sketch #2






Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

The divine intention suddenly shall be seen,
The end vindicate intuition’s sure technique. ||26.23||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #3






Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

This faint and fluid sketch of soul called man
Shall stand out on the background of long Time
A glowing epitome of eternity,
A little point reveal the infinitudes. ||26.25||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #4


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 1 Sketch #4






Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

A slow reversal’s movement then took place:
A gas belched out from some invisible Fire,
Of its dense rings were formed these million stars;
Upon earth’s new-born soil God’s tread was heard. ||26.28||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #5


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 1 Sketch #5






Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

A miracle of the Absolute was born,
Infinity put on a finite soul,
All ocean lived within a wandering drop,
A time-made body housed the Illimitable. ||26.32||
To live this Mystery out our souls came here. ||26.33||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #6


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 1 Sketch #6






Savitri Book 2 Canto 1 - The World-Stair

A figure sole on Nature’s giant stair,
He mounted towards an indiscernible end
On the bare summit of created things. ||27.7||



Painting by Huta

Book 2 Canto 1 Painting #7


The Mother's sketch

Book 2 Canto 1 Sketch #7