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⁠Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol⁠ by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 4 The Secret Knowledge pp. 66-69 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The master of existence lurks in US, and plays at hide and seek
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  with his own force in nature's instrument.
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  Loiters, secret God, the Imminent lives in man, as in his
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  house, He has made the universe his pastimes field, a vast
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  gymnasium of his works of might. All knowing he accepts our
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  darkened state, Divine where shapes of animal or man eternal,
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  He assents to fate and time. Immortal dallies with mortality.
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  The all conscious ventured into ignorance, the all blissful bore
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  to be insensible Incarnate in a world of strife and pain.
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  He puts on joy and sorrow like a robe, and drinks experience like
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  a strengthening wine. He whose transcendence rules the
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  pregnant vasts prescient, now dwells in our subliminal depths.
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  A luminous individual power alone, the absolute, the
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  perfect, the alone, has called out of the silence his mute
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  force. Where she lay in the featureless
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  and formless hush, guarding from time by her immobile sleep the
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  ineffable poescence of his solitude, the Absolute, the
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  perfect, the alone, has entered with his silence into space.
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  He has fashioned these countless persons of oneself.
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  He has built a million figures of his power.
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  He lives in all who lived in his vast alone.
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  Space is Himself, and time is only He, the Absolute, the
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  perfect, the immune. One who is in us as our secret
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  self, our mask of imperfection, has assumed.
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  He has made this tenement of flesh his own, His image in the
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  human measure. Cast that to His divine measure.
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  We might rise then in a figure of divinity.
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  The Maker shall recast us and impose a plan of Godhead on the
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  mortal's mold, lifting our finite minds to His infinite,
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  touching the moment with eternity.
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  This transfiguration is earth due to heaven.
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  A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme His nature we must put
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  on as He put ours. We are sons of God, and must be
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  even as He his human portion we must grow divine.
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  Our life is a paradox, with God for key, but meanwhile all is a
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  shadow cast by a dream. And to the musing and immobile
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  spirit life and himself donned the aspect of a myth, the burden
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  of a long unmeaning tale. For the key is hid, and by the
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  inconscient kept. The secret God beneath the
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  threshold dwells in a body obscuring the immortal spirit, a
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  nameless resident vesting unseen powers with matter shapes and
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  motives beyond thought, and the hazard of an unguessed
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  consequence. An omnipotent, indiscernible
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  influence, he sits unfelt by the form in which he lives and veils
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  his knowledge by the groping mind.
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  A wanderer in a world his thoughts have made, he turns in
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  a cheer, a scurrow of error and truth, to find a wisdom that on
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  high is his as one. Forgetting, he searches for
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  himself as if he had lost an inner light.
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  He seeks as a sojourner, lingering amid alien scenes.
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  He journeys to a home. He knows no more, his own self's
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  truth. He seeks who is the truth.
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  He is the player who became the play.
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  He is the thinker who became the thought.
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  He is the many who was the silent one.
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  In the symbol figures of the Cosmic Force, and in her living
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  and inanimate signs, and in her complex tracery of events, he
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  explores the ceaseless miracle of himself till the thousandfold
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  enigma has been solved in the single light of an all
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  witnessing soul. This was his compact with his
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  mighty mate for love of her, and joined to her forever to follow
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  the course of time's eternity. Amid magic dramas of her sudden
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  moods and the surprises of her masked idea and the vicissitudes
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  of her vast Caprice, 2 seem his goals.
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  Yet ever are they one and gaze at each other over born less.
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  Time, spirit and matter are their end and source.
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  A seeker of hidden meanings in life's forms, of the Great
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  Mother's wide uncharted will and the rude enigma of her
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  terrestrial ways, he is the explorer and the mariner on a
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  secret inner ocean without born. He is the adventurer and
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  cosmologist of a magic earth's obscure geography in her
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  material orders fixed design. We're all seem sure, and even
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  when changed the same, even though the end is left forever
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  unknown and ever unstable is life's shifting flow.
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  His paths are found for him by silent fate as stations in the
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  ages. Weltering flood, firm lands
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  appear that tempt and stay awhile.
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  Then New Horizons lure the mind's advance.
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  There comes no close to the finite's boundlessness.
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  There is no last certitude in which thought can pause and no
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  terminus to the soul's experience.
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  A limit of farness never wholly reached and unattained.
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  Perfection calls to him from distant boundaries.
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  In the unseen, a long beginning only has been made.