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⁠Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol ⁠by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII The Book of Yoga, Canto 5 The Finding of the Soul, pp. 527-531 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Once more she was human upon earthly soil.
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  In the muttering night, amid the rain swept woods and the rude
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  cottage where she sat in trance, that subtle world withdrew
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  deeply within behind the sun Vale of the inner site.
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  But now the half open Lotus bud of her heart had bloomed and
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  stood disclosed to the earthly ray in an image shown revealed
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  her secret soul. There was no wall severing the
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  soul and mind, no Mystic fence guarding from the claims of life
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  in its deep Lotus home. Her being SAT as if on
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  concentration's marble seat, calling the mighty Mother of the
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  world's to make this earthly tenement her house.
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  As in a flash, from a supernal light, a living image of the
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  original power, a face, a form, came down into her heart and
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  made of it its temple in pure abode.
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  But when its feet had touched the quivering bloom, a mighty
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  movement rocked the inner space, as if a world were shaken and
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  found its soul. Out of the inconscient,
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  soulless, mindless night a flaming serpent rose.
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  Released from sleep it rose, billowing its coils, and stood
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  erect and climbing mightily, stormily on its way.
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  It touched her centres with its flaming mouth, as if a fiery
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  kiss had broken their sleep. They bloomed and laughed,
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  surcharged with light and bliss. Then at the crown it joined the
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  Eternal's space in the flower of the head, in the flower of
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  matter's base, in each divine stronghold and nature not, it
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  held together the Mystic stream which joins the viewless summits
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  with the unseen depths, the string of forts that make the
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  frail defense safeguarding US against the enormous world.
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  Our lines of self-expression in its vast an image sat of the
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  original power, wearing the mighty Mother's form and face,
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  armed bearer of the weapon and the sign whose occult might no
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  magic can imitate manifold yet one she sat a guardian force, a
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  saviour gesture stretched her lifted arm and symbol of some
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  native cosmic strength. A sacred beast lay prone below
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  her feet a silent, flame eyed mass of living force.
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  All underwent a high celestial change, breaking the black in
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  conscience. Blind, mute wall effacing the
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  circles of the ignorance, powers and divinities burst, flaming
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  forth. Each part of the being,
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  trembling with delight, lay overwhelmed with tides of
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  happiness, and saw her hand in every circumstance, and felt her
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  touch in every limb and cell. In the country of the Lotus of
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  the head, which thinking mind has made its busy space in the
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  castle of the Lotus, twixt the brows whence it shoots the
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  arrows of its sight and will. In the passage of the Lotus of
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  the throat, where speech must rise, and the expressing mind
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  and the heart's impulse run towards word and act, a glad
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  uplift and a new working came. The immortal's thoughts
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  displaced our bounded view. The Immortal's thoughts, earth,
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  drab idea and sense. All things now bore a deep
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  heavenlier sense. A glad clear harmony marked
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  their truth's outline. Reset the balance and measures
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  of the world. Each shape showed its occult
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  design, unveiled God's meaning in it for which it was made, and
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  the vivid splendor of his artist's thought.
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  A channel of the mighty Mother's choice.
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  The Immortal's will took into its calm control our blind or
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  erring government of life, a loose Republic, wants of wants
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  and needs, then bowed to the uncertain sovereign mind.
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  Life now obeyed to a diviner rule, and every act became an
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  act of God in the Kingdom of the Lotus of the heart.
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  Love chanting its pure hymenial hymn, made life and body mirrors
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  of sacred joy, and all the emotions gave themselves to God.
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  In the naval Lotus broad imperial range, its proud
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  ambitions and its master lusts were tamed into instruments of a
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  great calm sway to do a work of God on earthly soil.
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  In the narrow nether centre's petty parts, its childish game
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  of daily dwarf desires was changed into a sweet and
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  boisterous play, a romp of little gods with life.
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  In time. In the deep place where once the
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  serpent slept, there came a grip on matter's giant powers for
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  large utilities in life's little space A firm ground was made for
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  Heaven's descending might. Behind all reigned her
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  sovereign, deathless soul. Casting aside its veil of
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  ignorance, Allied to gods and cosmic beings and powers, it
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  built the harmony of its human state.
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  Surrendered into the great world, Mother's hands only she
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  obeyed her soul supreme behest. In the enigma of the
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  inconscience world, the secret soul behind supporting all is
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  master and witness of our ignorant life.
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  Admits the person's look and nature's role.
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  But once the hidden doors are flung apart, then the veiled
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  King steps out in Nature's front.
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  A light comes down into the ignorance.
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  Its heavy, painful knot loosens its grasp.
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  The mind becomes a mastered instrument, and life a hue and
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  figure of the soul. All happily grows towards
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  knowledge and towards bliss. A divine poescence then takes
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  Nature's place and pushes the movements of our body and mind.
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  Possessor of our passionate hopes and dreams, the beloved
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  despot of our thoughts and acts, she streams into us with her
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  unbound force into mortal limbs. The immortal's rapture and
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  power, an inner law of beauty shapes our lives.
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  Our words become the natural speech of truth.
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  Each thought is a ripple on a sea of light.
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  Than sin and virtue leave the cosmic lists.
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  They struggle no more in our delivered hearts.
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  Our acts chime with God's simple natural good, or serve the rule
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  of a supernal right. All moods, unlovely, evil and
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  untrue, forsake their stations in fiery disarray and hide their
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  shame in the subconscious. Dusk then lifts the mind, a cry
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  of victory. O soul, my soul, we have created
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  heaven within. We have found the Kingdom here
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  of God, His fortress built in a loud, ignorant world.
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  Our life is entrenched between two rivers of light.
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  We have turned space into a gulf of peace and made the body a
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  capital of bliss. What more?
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  What more, if more, must still be done in the slow process of
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  the evolving spirit? In the brief stayed between a
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  death and birth, a first perfection stage is reached at
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  last. Out of the wood and stone of our
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  nature's stuff, a temple is shaped where the high gods could
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  live. Even if the struggling world is
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  left outside, one man's perfection still can save the
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  world. There is one a new proximity to
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  the skies, a first betrothal of the earth to heaven, a deep
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  concordat between truth and life, A camp of God is pitched
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  in human time.