When it comes to the question of spiritual poetry, aglow with several suns of beauty, joy, life, power, truth 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, sound held by the deep and luminous hush. We may have ample poetic intelligence and creative insight, an unfailing aesthetic sense too, yet the vision and language and rhythm of the mantra may be quite lacking. A direct perception 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 times, dimensions of the infinite joining the aspiring soul’s, and in the answering benediction of the Gracious, are in Savitri. To get that kind of poetry one has to be a Yogi-Poet indeed.

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