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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book XI, Canto 1 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Oh beautiful. Body of the Incarnate.
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  Word by thoughts are mine. I have spoken with thy voice.
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  My will is dying. What thou Hast chosen?
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  I choose? All thou Hast asked, I give to
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  Earth and Men all shall be written out in Destiny's book by
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  my trusty of thought and plan and act, the executor of my will
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  Eternal time But since thou Hast refused my nameless calm and
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  turn from my term was peace in which is expunged, the visit of
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  space and the shape of time is lost and from Happy Extinction
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  of thy separate self in my uncompassionate and Loan,
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  Eternity for not for thee. The nameless World, Le snot
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  annihilation of thy living soul, and the end of thought and Hope.
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  Hope and life, and love in the blank, measureless unknowable.
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  I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame.
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  I lay my hands upon my heart of love, a yoke thee to my power of
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  work in time because thou Hast obeyed my Timeless will Because
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  there has chosen to share Earth's struggle in fate and
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  leaned in pity over Earthbound men and turned aside to help and
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  yearn to save. I bind by thy heart's passion,
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  thy heart to mine and lay my Splendid yoke upon my soul.
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  Now will I do in the my marvelous works.
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  I will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength, subdue to My
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  delight thy Spirits, Limbs and make thee, a vivid not of all my
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  Bliss and build in thee. My proud and Crystal home by day
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  shall be. My shafts of Power and Light by
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  night. My story mysteries of joy and
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  all my clouds. Light angled in thy hair and all
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  my spring tides Mary in thy mouth.
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  Oh sunward. Thou hast Thou shalt raise the
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  Earth. Sold to light and bring down
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  God. Into the lives of men Earth
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  shall be my work chamber, and my house, my Garden of Life to
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  plant the seed Divine. When all thy Work in human time
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  is done the mind of Earth shall be a home of light, the life of
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  Earth. The tree growing towards heaven,
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  the body of Earth, the Tabernacle of God, awaken from
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  the more Idols, ignorance men shall be lit with the eternals
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  Ray and the glory of my son lived in their thoughts and feel
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  in their hearts, the sweetness of my love and in their act, my
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  Powers miraculous drive. My will shall be the meaning of
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  their lives. Living For Me By Me.
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  In me. They shall live in the heart of
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  my Creations mystery. I will enact the drama of thy
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  Soul, inscribe, the long Romance of the enemy.
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  I will pursue the across the centuries.
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  Thou shalt be hunted through the World, by love naked of
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  ignorance protecting Veil. And without covert from my
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  radiant, God's no shape Shall Scream thee from my Divine
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  desire. Nowhere shalt thou Escape, my
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  living eyes in the nudity. I discovered self in a bear
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  identity with all that is disrobed of thy covering of
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  humanity, divested of the dense. Veil of human thought, made one
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  with every mind and body. And heart made one with all
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  nature and with self and God swimming in thy single soul, my
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  Mystic world, I will possess in thee my universe, The universe
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  find all I am in the Thou shalt Bear, all things, that all
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  things may change. Thou shalt fill all with my
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  Splendor and my Bliss, Thou shalt meet all with die
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  transmuting, Soul assailed by my infinitude tube of and quivering
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  and immensities Below pursued by me through my mind's Wallace
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  vast. Oceanic with the surges of my
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  life, a swimmer lost between two, leaping seized by my outer,
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  pains and inner sweetnesses, finding my joy in my opposite
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  Mysteries. Thou shalt respond to me from
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  every nerve of vision shall compel thy coursing breath, thy
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  heart shall Drive the on the wheel of works.
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  By mind shall urge the Through the flames of thought.
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  To meet me in the abyss and on the heights to feel me in the
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  Tempest and the calm and love me in the noble and the vial in
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  beautiful things and terrible desire.
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  The Pains of Hell shall be to thee, my kiss, the flowers of
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  Heaven persuade, the, with my touch my fiercest, Mass, shall
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  my attractions bring music, shall find the, in the voice of
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  Swords, Beauty pursue thee through the core of flame.
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  Thou shalt know me in the rolling of the Spheres and cross
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  me in the atoms of the world. The Wheeling forces of My
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  Universe shall Cry To Thee the The Summons of my name Delight
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  shall drop down from my nectarous.
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  Moons my fragrance, he's the in the Jasmine snare.
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  My I shall look upon thee, from the Sun mirror of nature.
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  Secret Spirit made Thou shalt reflect my hidden Heart Of Joy.
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  Thou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed in my pure.
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  Lotus. Cup of Starry brim, my Dreadful
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  Hands laid on thy bosom, shall Force die.
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  Being bathed in fiercest longing streams, Thou shalt discover the
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  one in quivering, note and cry the harp of all my Melodies, and
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  roll my foaming wave in Seas of Love.
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  Even my disasters. Clutch shall be to thee the
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  ordeal of my raptures. Contrary shape in pain self
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  shall smile on the my secret face.
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  Face Thou shalt bear, my ruthless Beauty unabridged amid
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  the world's intolerable wrongs trampled by the violent misdeeds
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  of time, cry out to the Ecstasy of my raptures touch.
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  All being shall be to thy life. My emissaries drawn to me on the
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  bosom of thy friend compelled to meet me in thy enemies eyes.
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  My creature shall demand me from thy heart thou Shalt not shrink
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  from any brother Soul Thou shalt be attracted helplessly to all
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  men. Seeing these shall feel my hands
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  of joy and Sorrows pangs feel. Steps of the world's Delight.
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  Their life experience its tumultuous shock in the mutual
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  craving of two opposites. Hearts touched by thy love,
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  shall answer to my call. Discovered the ancient Music of
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  the Spheres in the revealing accents of thy voice and nearer,
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  draw to me because Thou Art enamour'd of thy Spirits
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  loveliness. They shall embrace my body in
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  thy Soul here in thy life. The beauty of my laughs.
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  No, the thrilled Bliss with which I made the world's all
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  that thou Hast shall be for others Bliss.
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  All that thou art shall to my hands belong.
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  I will pour Delight from thee as from a jar.
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  I will whirl the, as my Chariot through the ways, I will use the
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  as my sword. And as my liar, I will play on
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  thee my minstrels, he's of thought and when thou art
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  vibrant, with all ecstasy, and when thou live is one spirit
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  with all things, then will I spare the not.
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  I living fires, but make the channel for my Timeless force.
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  My hidden presence, led. The unknowing on from thy
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  beginning and Earth voiceless, bosom through life and pain and
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  time, and will and death through outer shocks.
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  And inner Silence has along the Mystic roads of space and time
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  to the experience, which all nature hides.
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  Who hunts and seizes me. My captive grows this shalt thou
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  henceforth. Learn from thy, heart beats
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  forever love. Oh, beautiful.
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  Slave of God. Oh, lasso of my raptures.
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  Widening news. Become my court of universal.
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  Love the Spirit, ensnared by thee forced to Delight of
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  Creations, Oneness tweet, and fathomless compelled to embrace
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  my myriad. Unities and all my endless,
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  forms and divine Souls. Oh, mine grow full of the
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  Eternal peace. A word, cry out.
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  The immortal litany built is the golden Tower.
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  The flame child born. Oh, mine grow full of the
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  Eternal peace. A word, cry out.
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  The immortal litany built is the golden Tower.
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  The flame child born.