When the mystical doors open out they do not necessarily take the poet to mantric utterance, nor do the emotion-charged devotional songs to the high-winging lyricism of the spirit. Occult ranges have their own snow-white peaks of achievements, their own grandeurs, but they may yet miss the pure ethereality of the seeing word and hearing sight. When it comes to the question of spiritual poetry aglow with several suns of beauty, of joy, power, truth, life, spirit, knowledge in manifold combinations or severally, one has to rise much above the human level, spend years of intense effort to enter into the world of the original sound where revelation and inspiration find their native expression. We may have ample poetic intelligence and creative insight, an unfailing aesthetic sense too, deeper and genuine perceptions, swift and luminous intuition of things, yet the vision and language and rhythm of the mantra may be quite lacking. A direct, an experienced awareness not only of the mysterious and the divinely haunting, a living contact with the reality is that which alone can give us such poetry. One large sustained example is in the ancient poetry of the Rig Veda; in our own time dimensions of the infinite joining the aspiring soul and the answering benediction is in Savitri. To get that kind of poetry one has to be a Yogi-Poet indeed.   more »