Savitri: BOOK 11 Canto 1 Section 8

The Book of Everlasting Day

The Spirit shall be the master of his world

Lurking no more in form’s obscurity

And Nature shall reverse her action’s rule,

The outward world disclose the Truth it veils;

All things shall manifest the covert God,

All shall reveal the Spirit’s light and might

And move to its destiny of felicity.

Even should a hostile force cling to its reign

And claim its right’s perpetual sovereignty

And man refuse his high spiritual fate,

Yet shall the secret Truth in things prevail.

For in the march of all-fulfilling Time

The hour must come of the Transcendent’s will:

All turns and winds towards his predestined ends

In Nature’s fixed inevitable course

Decreed since the beginning of the worlds

In the deep essence of created things:

Even there shall come as a high crown of all

The end of Death, the death of Ignorance.

But first high Truth must set her feet on earth

And man aspire to the Eternal’s light

And all his members feel the Spirit’s touch

And all his life obey an inner Force.

This too shall be; for a new life shall come,

A body of the Superconscient’s truth,

A native field of Supernature’s mights:

It shall make earth’s nescient ground Truth’s colony,

Make even the Ignorance a transparent robe

Through which shall shine the brilliant limbs of Truth

And Truth shall be a sun on Nature’s head

And Truth shall be the guide of Nature’s steps

And Truth shall gaze out of her nether deeps.

When superman is born as Nature’s king

His presence shall transfigure Matter’s world:

The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation 709

He shall light up Truth’s fire in Nature’s night,

He shall lay upon the earth Truth’s greater law;

Man too shall turn towards the Spirit’s call.

Awake to his hidden possibility,

Awake to all that slept within his heart

And all that Nature meant when earth was formed

And the Spirit made this ignorant world his home,

He shall aspire to Truth and God and Bliss.