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The Exploration of Powers Within · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his epic poem Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol, Sri
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  Aurobindo explores the vast field of human consciousness and
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  development. Along the way, he provides
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  numerous references to hidden latent powers within each of us,
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  psychic powers, powers of mind, vital powers and powers of the
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  physical being, powers latent and emergent powers, secret and
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  powers revealed. Here are just a few of the
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  references which can whet our appetite for the exploration of
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  the powers that dwell within our own being that can be
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  discovered, revealed, released and developed in our lives.
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  Quote Enhance Sustained by a transfiguring might, he caught
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  up lightly, like a giant's bow left slumbering in a sealed and
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  secret cave. The powers that sleep unused in
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  Man Within, Book 1, Cantor 3, page 26.
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  In a body obscuring the immortal spirit.
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  A nameless resident vesting unseen powers with matter,
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  shapes and motives beyond thought, and the hazard of an
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  unguessed consequence. An omnipotent, indiscernible
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  influence. He sits unfelt by the form in
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  which he lives, and veils his knowledge by the groping mind.
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  Book 1, Canto 4, page 68. In our body cells there sits a
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  hidden power that sees the unseen and plans eternity.
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  Book Two, Canto 5, page 169. There is a power within that
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  knows beyond our knowings. Book 5, Canto 2, page 397.
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  A seer, a strong creator is within.
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  The Immaculate grandeur broods upon your days.
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  All mighty powers are shut in nature's cells.
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  Book 4 Canto 3, Page 370 reference Shriya Rabindu and the
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  Mother Powers within page Roman 5.