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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol from book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Was then the Sun a dream because there is night.
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  Hidden in The Mortals heart. The Eternal lives.
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  He lives secret in the chamber of thy Soul, a light shines
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  there, nor pain, or grief can cross a Darkness stands between
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  thyself and him. Thou canst not hear, or feel The
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  Marvelous guest accounts. Not see the beatific son.
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  Oh, Queen though, I thought is a light of the ignorance.
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  It's brilliant curtain hides from the God's face.
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  It'll umm the world born from the incontinence but hides The
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  Immortals meaning in the world die mines light hides from Thee.
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  The Eternal thought the hearts hopes hide from Thee.
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  The eternals will Earth Joy shut from Thee.
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  The Immortals Bliss. Then throws the need of a dark.
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  Intruding God, the world's dread teacher, the Creator pain.
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  We're ignorant. Is there suffering too must
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  come? That grief is a cry of Darkness
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  to the light. Pain was the firstborn of the
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  incontinence which was they bodies dumb original base.
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  Already slept there. Pain subcontinent shape a shadow
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  in a shadowy tenebrous womb till life shall move.
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  It waits to wake and be In one call with joy came forth, the
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  Dreadful power. In life's pressed.
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  It was born. Hiding its twin but pain came
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  first, then only joy could be Pain.
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  Plowed, the first hard ground of the World, drowse by pain.
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  A spirit started from the clawed by pain life stirred.
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  In the subliminal deep in turned, submerged hidden is
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  matters. Trance awoke to itself.
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  The dreamer sleeping mind, it made a visible realm out of its
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  dreams. It drew it shapes from the
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  sub-continent depths Then turn to look upon the world.
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  It had made by pain and joy. The bright and tenebrous twins
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  the inanimate World perceived its sentient soul else, had the
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  incontinent never suffered change.
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  Pain is the Hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in
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  The Mortals, heart his slow inertia as of living Stone.
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  If the heart were not forced to want and weep, his soul would
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  have Lain down content at ease and never thought to exceed the
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  Human start and never learned to climb towards the sun.
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  This Earth is full of Labor packed with pain.
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  Throes of an endless birth. Coerce her still, the Century's
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  end. The ages vainly passed.
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  And yet the God had in her is not born the ancient mother
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  faces all with joy calls for the Ardent Pang.
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  The grandiose thrill for with pain and labor.
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  All creation comes This Earth is full of the anguish of the Gods
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  ever. They travailed driven by X goad
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  and streamed strive to work out. The Eternal will and shape the
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  life. Divine in Mortal forms, his will
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  must be worked out in human breasts against the evil that
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  rises from the golf's against the world's ignorance and it's
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  obstinate strength Against The Stumbling out of man's Vert will
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  against the Deep Folly of his human mind against the blind
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  reluctance of his heart. The spirit is doomed to paint
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  ill. Man is free.
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  There is a clamor of battle, a tramp of March I cry a rising
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  like a moaning, see a desperate laughter under the blows of
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  death, a doom of blood and sweat, and toil and tears.
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  Men died, that man may live and God be born.
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  And awful silence watches tragic time.
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  Pain is the hand of nature. Sculpturing men to Greatness and
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  inspired labor chisels with Heavenly cruelty and unwilling
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  mold implacable in the passion of their will lifting.
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  The Hammers of Titanic toil the demiurges of the universe work.
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  They shape with drunk giant Strokes.
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  Their own. Their sons are marked with their
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  enormous. Amos stamp of fire, although the
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  shaping God's tremendous touch is torture unbearable to Mortal
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  nerves. The fiery Spirit, grows in
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  strength within and feels a joy in every Titan Pang.
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  He who would save himself lived bear and calm.
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  He who would save the race must share its pain.
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  This, he shall know who obeys that grandiose urge.
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  The great who came to save this suffering world and rescue Out
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  of Time shadow and the law. Must pass beneath the Yoke of
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  grief and pain. They're caught by the wheel that
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  they had hoped to break on their shoulders.
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  They must bear man's load of Fate Heavens riches.
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  They bring their sufferings count the price.
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  Or they pay the gift of knowledge with their lives.
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  The Son of God, born as the son of man has drunk.
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  The bitter cup owned godheads dead.
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  The death Eternal owes to the Fallen kind his will has bound
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  to death and struggling life that yearns in vain for rest and
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  endless. Peace.
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  Now is the debt, paid wiped off. The original score, the Eternal
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  suffers in a human form. He has signed salvations
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  Testament with his blood. He has opened the doors of his
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  undying piece. The deity, compensates, the
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  creatures claimed the Creator Bears, the law of pain and
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  death, a retribution smites, the Incarnate God, his love has
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  paved The Mortals Road To Heaven.
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  He has given his life and light to balance here, the dark
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  account of mortal ignorance. It is finished.
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  The dread mysterious sacrifice offered by God's martyred body
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  for the world Gethsemane and Calvary are his lot.
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  He carries the cross on which man soul is nailed.
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  His escort is the curses of the crowd insult, and jeer are his
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  rights. Acknowledgement two thieves,
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  slain with him, mock his mighty death.
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  He is trod with bleeding brow, the savior's way.
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  He has found his identity with God, pays with the body's death,
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  his Souls vast light, his knowledge Immortal triumphs by
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  his death. June, quartered on the scaffold,
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  as he falls, is crucified voice proclaims.
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  I am God, Yes, all is God peels back.
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  Heaven's deathless call. Yes, all is God peels back.
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  Heaven's deathless call.