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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, Book VI, Canto 2 The Book of Fate, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Oh, mortal. Who complain assist of death and
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  feet accused. None of the harms thyself Hast
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  called this troubled World thou Hast chosen for thy home, Thou
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  Art thyself, the author of thy pain once in the immortal
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  boundlessness of self and a vast of Truth and Consciousness and
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  light, the soul looked out from its Felicity It felt the spirit
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  interminable Bliss. It new itself, deathless
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  Timeless, spaceless one. It saw the Eternal lived in the
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  infinite, then curious of a shadow thrown by truth.
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  It's train towards some other nice of self.
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  It was drawn to an unknown face peering through night.
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  It sensed a negative Infinity. Avoid supernal whose immense
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  success, imitating. God, and everlasting time.
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  Offered a ground for Nature's, adverse birth and matters.
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  Rigid hard unconsciousness harboring, the Brilliance of a
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  transient soul that lights up birth and death And ignorant
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  life. a mind arose that stared at nothingness, till figures
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  formed of what could never be it housed, the contrary of all that
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  is a not appeared as being huge sealed cause it's dumb support
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  in a blank infinite in who's a bism spirit must disappear, a
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  darkened nature, lived and held the seed of spirit hidden and
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  feigning not to B. Eternal Consciousness became a
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  freak of an unsold Almighty in content and breathe, no.
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  More as Spirits native are Bliss, was an incident of a
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  mortal, our a stranger in the in sentient universe as one drawn
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  by the Grandeur of the Void, the soul attracted, lean to the
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  abyss, it long for the adventure of ignorance.
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  And the Marvel and surprise of the unknown.
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  And the endless possibility that lurked in the womb of chaos and
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  in nothing's Gulf where looked from the unfathomed eyes of
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  chance, it tired of its unchanging happiness.
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  It turned away from immortality, it was drawn to hazards, call
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  and dangerous charm. It yearn to the pathos of grief.
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  The drama of pain perdition's Peril the Wounded, bear escaped,
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  the music of Ruin, and its Glamour, and crash, the savour
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  of pity, and the gamble of love and passion, and the ambiguous
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  face of Fate, a world of hard Endeavour and difficult toil and
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  battle on extinctions, perilous Verge a clash of forces vast in
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  certitude. The joy of creation out of
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  nothingness. Strange meetings on the roads of
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  ignorance and the companionship of half-known souls or the
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  solitary greatness and lonely force of a separate being,
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  conquering its world called it from its to Safe.
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  Eternity. A huge descent began a giant
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  Fall For What the spirit sees creates a truth.
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  And what the soul imagined is. Made a world. of thought that
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  leapt from the Timeless can become indicator of cosmic
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  consequence and the itinerary of the Gods, a cyclic movement in
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  Eternal time, Thus came born from a blind, tremendous choice.
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  This great perplexed and discontented world.
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  This haunt of ignorance, this home of pain.
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  There are pitched desires, tense, griefs headquarters, a
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  vast disguise conceals the eternals Bliss.