Savitri stepped out of Sri Aurobindo’s room for the first time on 25 October 1936. A few lines—16—by way of an example of spiritual-mystic poetry were sent to Amal Kiran at his persistent request. The sequel leading to this favour from Sri Aurobindo is described by him in Sri Aurobindo—the Poet. These lines as they stood in 1936 are as follows:

It was the hour before the Gods awake.
Across the path of the divine Event
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone
In her unlit temple of immensity,
Lay stretched immobile upon silence’ marge,
Mute with the unplumbed prevision of her change.
The impassive skies were neutral, waste and still.
Then a faint hesitating glimmer broke.
A slow miraculous gesture dimly came,
The insistence thrill of a transfiguring touch
Persuaded the inert black quietude
And beauty and wonder disturbed the fields of God.
A wandering hand of pale enchanted light
That glowed along the moment’s fading brink
Fixed with gold panel and opalescent hinge
A gate of dreams ajar on mystery’s verge.

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