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Readings in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo from Book 1, Canto IV The Secret Knowledge · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  reading from Sri, aurobindo sabitri, a legend and a symbol
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  Book 1, Canto for the secret knowledge.
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  On a height. He stood that looked towards
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  Greater Heights. Our early approaches to the
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  infinite our sunrise, splendors on a marvelous Verge while
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  lingers yet unseen the Glorious son.
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  What? Now we see as a shadow of what
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  must come the Earth's up? Look to a remote, unknown is a
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  preface only of the Epic climb of human soul from its Flat
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  Earth least eight to the discovery of a greater self.
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  And the far glean of an eternal light.
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  This world is a beginning and a base where life and mind erect
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  their structured dreams. And unborn power must build
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  reality. A death bound.
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  Littleness is not all we are. Immortal, our forgotten vastness
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  has await Discovery in our Summit selves.
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  Unmeasured breaths and depths of being are ours, akin to the
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  ineffable, secrecy Mystic Eternal and unrealized time
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  neighbors of Heaven are nature's altitudes.
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  To these high peak Dominion sealed to our search too far
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  from surface Nature's postal routes to lofty for our mortal
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  lives to breathe deep in us, a forgotten kinship points and a
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  faint voice of ecstasy and prayer calls to those Lucent
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  lost immensities. Even when we fail to look into
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  our souls or lie embedded in Earthly, Consciousness still
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  have we parts that grow towards the light yet, are there
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  luminous tracks and Heavens Serene and eldorado's of
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  Splendor and ecstasy? And temples to the godhead.
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  None can see a shapeless memory lingers in a still.
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  And sometimes, when our site is turned Within, Ruth ignorant
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  Veil is lifted from our eyes. There is a short miraculous
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  escape. This narrow Fringe of clamped
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  experience. We Leave Behind needed to us his
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  life. Our little walks, our
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  insufficient reach. Our souls can visit in great,
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  lonely hours, still regions of imperishable light, All-Seeing
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  Eagle peaks of Silent power and moon flame, oceans of Swift.
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  Fathomless Bliss, And calm, immensities of spirit space, in
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  the unfolding process of the self sometimes, the
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  inexpressible mystery at elects a human vessel of descent.
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  A breath comes down from a supernal, are a presence is born
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  a Guiding Light awakes of Stillness falls upon the
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  instruments. Fixed motionless like a marble
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  Monument Stone calm, the body is a pedestal supporting a figure
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  of Eternal peace or a revealing for sweeps blazing in out of
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  some, vast Superior continent. Knowledge, breaks through
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  trailing its Radiance, he's and nature trembles with the power
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  of the flame A greater personality.
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  Sometimes possesses us. Which yet we know, is ours.
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  Or we adore the master of our souls.
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  Then the small bodily, ego, Thins and Falls.
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  No more insisting on its separate self.
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  Losing the punk to Leo of its separate birth. it leaves as one
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  with nature and with God, In moments, when the inner lamps
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  are lit. And the life's cherish guests
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  are left outside. Our Spirits sits alone and
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  speaks to its Gulfs. A wider Consciousness opens than
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  its doors. Invading from spiritual
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  silences, array of the Timeless Glory.
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  Stoops awhile to commune with, are seized illumined, clay, and
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  leaves. Its huge, white stamp Upon Our
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  Lives. In the oblivious field of mortal
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  mind revealed to the closed Prophet eyes of Trance.
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  Or in some deep internal Solitude witnessed by a strange
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  immaterial sense, the signals of Eternity appear.
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  The truth mind could not know. Unveils its face, we hear what
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  Mortal ears have never heard you.
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  Feel? What Earthly sense has never
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  felt. We love what?
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  Common Hearts, repel and Dread. Our minds hush to a bright
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  omniscient. A voice calls from the chambers
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  of the Soul. We meet the Ecstasy of the
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  godhead touch in Golden privacies of immortal fire.
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  These signs are native to a larger self that lives within us
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  by ourselves unseen. Only sometimes a Holier
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  influence comes. A tide of mightier surgeons
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  Bears, our lives and a diviner presence moves.
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  The soul. Or through the Earthly.
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  Coverings, something breaks. A grace and beauty of spiritual
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  light. The murmuring tongue of a
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  Celestial fire. Our self and a high stranger
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  whom we feel it is an axon seen as if it were not it follows the
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  line of some paternal birth yet. Seems to perish with its mortal
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  frame, assured of the Apocalypse to be it reckons, not the
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  moments in the hours. Great patient.
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  Calm. It sees the centuries pass.
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  Awaiting the slow Miracle of our change in the sure, deliberate
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  process of world force, and the Long March of all revealing
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  time. It is the origin and the master
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  clue a silent overhead and inner voice.
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  A Living Image seated in the heart and unwalled wideness and
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  a fathomless point. The truth of all these cryptic
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  shows in Space the real towards which are strivings move, the
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  secret grandiose meaning of Our Lives.
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  A treasure of Honey, in the cons of God, a splendor burning in a
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  tenebrous cloak. It is our glory of the flame of
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  God. Our golden fountain of the
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  world's delight and immortality cowled in the Cape of death.
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  The shape of our Unborn definity.
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  It guards for us our feet in depth within, we're sleeps the
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  Eternal seed of transient things.
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  Always we bear. It us a magic key concealed in
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  life's hermetic envelope, a burning witness in the sanctuary
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  regards through time and the blind walls of form a Timeless
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  light is in his hidden eyes. He sees the secret things, no
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  words can speak and knows the goal of the unconscious world.
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  And the Heart of the mystery of the journeying years.
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  And the Heart of the mystery of the journeying years.