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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book fo Beginnings, Canto 3 The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release, pp. 30-34 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A low muttering rose from the subconscient caves.
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  The stammer of the primal ignorance answer to that
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  inarticulate questioning. They're stooped with lightning,
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  neck and thunder's wings, a radiant hymn to the
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  inexpressible and the anthem of the Super conscient light.
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  All was revealed there. None can hear express vision and
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  dream. Were fables spoken by truth or
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  symbols more veridical than fact, or were truths enforced by
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  supernatural seals. Immortal eyes approached and
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  looked in his and beings of many kingdoms neared and spoke.
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  The ever living, whom we name as dead, could leave their glory
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  beyond death and birth to utter the wisdom which exceeds all,
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  phrase the kings of evil and the kings of good.
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  Appellants at the reason's judgment seat proclaim the
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  gospel of their opposites, and all believe themselves.
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  Spokesmen of God, the gods of light, and Titans of the dark
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  battled for his soul As for a costly prize.
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  In every hour, loose from the quiver of time, there rose a
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  song of new discovery, a Beau Twang's home of young
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  experiment. Each day was a spiritual
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  romance, as if he was born into a bright new world.
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  Adventure leaped an unexpected friend, and danger brought a
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  keen, sweet Tang of joy. Each happening was a deep
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  experience. There were high encounters.
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  Epic colloquies and counsels came couched in celestial speech
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  and honeyed pleadings, breathed from occult lips to help the
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  heart, to yield to rapture's call and sweet temptation.
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  Stole from beauty's realms and sudden ecstasies from a world of
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  bliss. It was a region of wonder and
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  delight all. Now his bright, clear audience
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  could receive a contact, thrilled of mighty unknown
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  things, awakened to new, unearthly Closenesses.
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  The touch replied to subtle infinities, and with a silver
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  cry of opening gates, Sight's lightnings leaped into the
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  invisible ever. His consciousness and vision
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  grew. They took an ampler sweep a
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  loftier flight. He passed the border mark for
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  matters rule and past the zone where thought replaces life out
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  of this world of signs. Suddenly he came into a silent
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  self where world was not and looked beyond into a nameless
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  vast. These symbol figures lost their
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  right to live. All tokens dropped.
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  Our sense can recognize there the heartbeat no more at bodies
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  touch there the eyes gazed no more on Beauty's shape in rare
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  and lucent intervals of hush into a sineless region he could
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  soar, packed with the deep contents of formlessness.
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  Where world was into a single being wrapped and all was known
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  by the light of identity and spirit was its own self
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  evidence. The Supreme's gaze looked out
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  through human eyes and saw all things and creatures as itself,
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  and knew all thought and word as its own voice.
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  Their unity is too close for search and clasp, and love is a
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  yearning of the one for the one and beauty is a sweet difference
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  of the same and oneness is the soul of multitude.
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  There all the truths unite in a single truth, and all ideas
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  rejoin reality. There knowing herself by her own
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  terminal self, wisdom, supernal, wordless, absolute, sat,
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  uncompanioned in the eternal calm, all seeing, motionless,
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  sovereign and alone. Their knowledge needs not words
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  to embody idea. Idea seeking a house in
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  boundlessness, weary of its homeless immortality, asks not
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  in thoughts carved brilliant cell to rest, whose single
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  windows clipped outlook on things sees only a little arc of
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  God's vast sky. The boundless with the boundless
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  there consorts while there 1 can be wider than the world, while
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  there one is 1's own Infinity. His centre was no more an
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  earthly mind, the power of seeing Silence filled his limbs,
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  caught by a voiceless white epiphany into a vision that
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  surpasses forms into a living that surpasses life.
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  He neared the still consciousness, sustaining all
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  the voice that only by speech can move.
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  The mind became a silent knowledge in the soul.
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  The strength that only in action feels its truth was lodged now
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  in a mute omnipotent peace, a leisure in the labor of the
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  world's. A pause in the joy and anguish
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  of the search restored the stress of nature to God's calm.
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  A vast unanimity ended life's debate.
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  The war of thoughts that fathers the universe, the clash of
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  forces struggling to prevail in the tremendous shock that lights
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  a star, as in the building of a grain of dust.
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  The grooves that turn their dumb ellipse in space, plowed by the
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  seeking of the world's desire. The long regurgitations of
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  time's flood, the torment edging, the dire force of lust
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  that wakes kinetic in Earth's dullard slime and carves a
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  personality out of mud. The sorrows by which nature's
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  hunger is fed, the estrus which creates with fire of pain the
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  fate that punishes virtue. With defeat, the tragedy that
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  destroys long happiness, the weak weeping of love, the
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  quarrel of the gods ceased. In a truth which lives in its
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  own light. His soul stood free, A witness
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  and a king absorbed no more in the moment ridden flux, where
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  mind incessantly drifts as on a raft hurried from phenomenon to
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  phenomenon. He abode at rest in indivisible
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  time, as if a story long written, but acted now in his
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  present. He held his future and his past,
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  felt in the seconds, the uncounted years, and saw the
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  hours like dots upon a page. An aspect of the unknown reality
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  altered the meaning of the cosmic scene.
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  This huge material universe became a small result of a
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  stupendous force overtaking the moment.
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  The eternal ray illumined that which never yet was made.
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  Thought lay down in a mighty voicelessness, the toiling
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  thinker widened and grew still. Wisdom transcendent touched his
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  quivering heart. His soul could sail beyond
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  Thought's luminous bar mind screamed no more of the
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  shoreless infinite. Across a void retreating sky he
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  glimpsed through a last glimmer and drift of vanishing stars the
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  Super conscient realms of motionless peace, Where judgment
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  ceases and the word is mute, and the unconceived lies pathless
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  and alone There came not form or any mounting voice.
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  There only were silence and the absolute.
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  Out of that stillness mine newborn arose and woke to truths
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  once inexpressible and forms appeared dumbly significant.
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  A seeing thought, a self revealing voice.
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  He knew the source from which his spirit came.
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  Movement was married to the immobile vast.
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  He plunged his roots into the infinite.
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  He based his life upon eternity.