The range of Sāvitrī is as wide as the cosmos and includes within it conditions pre-existent to the manifestation of the cosmos and ranges of Eternal and Infinite being and Superconscient levels of consciousness that have not yet manifested here on earth. That is to say, it includes unfathomable abyss of darkness of the Nescience mounting gradually to the realms of Eternal Day. There is very often a kind of parallelism between the lower ranges of Darkness and the higher realms of Light...

The reader will see a kind of parallel opposites which heightens the contrast even when the same words and adjectives are used. Both are voids, but what a difference!

When the whole poem moves on the heights of revelation, inspiration, illumined mind and never comes down to a lower plane than intuitive sight and expression, it is very difficult to make a choice of passages with special poetical merit. But there are single lines, double lines, quartets throughout the poem that have a power of poetic beauty which grips our mind and can go on revealing its wealth like a mine. See how the three lines reach an Upanishadic height and grandeur in the intensity of the Vision in "The Heavens of the Ideal"! Aswapati saw:

A million lotuses swaying on one stem,
World after coloured and ecstatic world
Climbs towards some far unseen epiphany.

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