Book – All can be done - Historical Repository for Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations

Book – All can be done

The leader of the Peace Meditation at the United Nations, SriChinmoy resided in the Sri Aurobindo Community in India for 20 years before he came to the West in 1964.

In 1997 in Honour of Sri Aurobindo he set lines from the Savitri epic to Music. “Savitri” was Sri Aurobindo’s last and greatest work.

“All Can Be Done If the God-Touch Is There”
Sri Aurobindo

Selected mantric utterances from Savitri
set to music by Sri Chinmoy

COMPOSER’S PREFACE
Sri Aurobindo’s last and greatest work is Savitri, the epitome of
spiritual autobiography. An epic of23,814 lines far surpassing in
height, depth and length any epic in Greek, Latin, English, Italian
or German, it is a New Veda for the New Age.
A few selected mantric utterances from Savitri the prayerful
singer-musician in me has set to music.

see also links to lines with Savitri [“Book ?, and Canto ?] reference at:

http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/acb and

http://www.srichinmoysongs.com/all-can-be-done-if-the-god-touch-is-there

Table of Contents

Part A – Selections from ‘Savitri’ 1
A blind god is not destiny’s architect 3
A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light 3
A death-bound littleness is not all we are 4
A few can climb to an unperishing sun 4
A future knowledge is an added pain 5
A giant dance of Shiva tore the past 5
A huge extinction is not God’s last word 6
A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids 6
A moment sees, the ages toil to express 7
A thinking puppet is the mind oflife 7
A touch can alter the fixed front ofFate 8
A traveller between summit and abyss 8
All can be done ifthe God-touch is there 9
All is miracle there and can by miracle change 9
All is too little that the world can give 10
All our earth starts from mud and ends in sky 10
All rose from the silence; all goes back to its hush 11
All things are real that here are only dreams 11
All things hang here between God’s yes and no 12
Although defeated, life must struggle on 12
An idiot hour destroys what centuries made 13
Beyond earth’s longitudes and lati~es 13
Blow your conch shells at the Eternal gate 14
But few are they who tread the sunlit path 14
By Light we live and to the Light we go 15
Death helps us not, vain is the hope to cease 15
Death is a passage, not the goal of our walk 16
Doom is not a close a mystic seal 16
Earth is the chosen place ofmightiest souls 17
Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven ” 17
Escape brings not the victory and the crown 18
Eternity speaks, none understands its word 18
Even the body shall remember God 19
Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will 19
For joy and not for sorrow earth was made 20
God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God 20
God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep 21
He who would save the world must share its pain 21
Table of Contents (cont.)
Heavenin rapture dreams of perfect earth 22
Heaven’s call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds 22
His failure is not failure whom God leads 23
I shall save earth, if earth consents to be saved 23
I wear the face ofKali when I kill 24
IfMindis all, renounce the hope ofbliss 24
IfMindis all, renounce the hope of Truth 25
In absolute silence sleeps an absolute Power 25
In the beginning is prepared the close 26
Love is a yearning ofthe One for the One 26
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse 27
Matter shall reveal the Spirit’s face 27
Men die that manmay live and God be born 28
Mindcan never see the Soul ofGod 28
Mindcan never touch the body ofTruth 29
Mortalitybears ill the eternal’s touch 29
MyGod is Love and sweetly suffers all 30
Night is not our beginning nor our end 30
None can reach heavenwho has not passed through hell 31
Nothing all our own that we create 31
Oh, surelyone day he shallcome to our cry 32
One man’s perfection still can save the world 32
One man’s perfection still can save the world 33
Only a little the God-light can stay 33
Onlythe pure in soul can walk in light 34
Our dead selves come to slay our living soul. 34
Our fate the childof our own acts 35
Our human state cradles the future god 35
Our lifeis a holocaust ofthe Supreme 36
Our life is a march to a victory never won 36
Out ofthe unknownwe move to the unknown 37
Slowly the Light grows greater in the East 37
Spaceis himself and Time is only he 38
The day-bringer must walk in darkest night 38
The gods are stilltoo few in mortal forms 39
The great are strongest when they stand alone 39
The humanin him paced with the Divine 40
The Life that fails and dies must live again 40
The lifeyou lead conceals the light you are 4\
The One by whom all live, who lives by none 41
The soul in manis greater than his fate 42 ‘.<r«

Table of Contents (cont.)
The soul that can live alone with itselfmeets God , .42
The spirit rises mightier by defeat .43
The world is real but ourselves too small … . ..43
There is a purpose in each stumble and fall .44
There is no perfect answer to our hopes .44
There is no rest for the embodied soul .45
To know is best, however hard to bear .45
Truth born too soo n might break the imperfect earth .46
We are greater than our thoughts .46
We are sons of God and must be even as he 47
While there, one is one’s own infinity .47
Whoever is too great must lonely live .48
Part 8 – Tributes to ‘Savitri’ 49
Devi Savitri 51
“Savitri ‘ (The Epic Divine) 53

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