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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 5 The Yoga of the King: the Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, pp. 80-83 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In a divine retreat from mortal thought, in a prodigious gesture
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  of soul sight his being towered into pathless heights, naked of
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  its vesture of humanity, as thus it rose to meet him, bare and
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  pure. A strong descent leaped down a
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  mite, a flame, a beauty half visible with deathless eyes, a
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  violent ecstasy. The sweetness dire enveloped him
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  with its stupendous limbs, and penetrated nerve and heart and
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  brain that thrilled and fainted with the epiphany.
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  His nature shuddered in the unknown's grasp.
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  In a moment shorter than death, longer than time, by a power
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  more ruthless than love, happier than heaven, taken sovereignly
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  into eternal arms, hailed and coerced by a stark absolute
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  bliss in a whirlwind circuit of delight and force.
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  Hurried into unimaginable depths, upborne into
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  immeasurable heights, it was torn out from its mortality, and
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  underwent a new and born less change, an omniscient knowing
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  without sight or thought, an indecipherable omnipotence, a
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  Mystic form that could contain the world's yet make one human
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  breast. Its passionate shrine drew him
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  out of his seeking loneliness into the magnitudes of God's
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  embrace, as when a timeless eye annuls the hours, abolishing the
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  agent and the ACT. So now his spirits shone out
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  wide blank, pure. His wakened mind became an empty
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  slate on which the universal and soul could write.
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  All that represses our fallen consciousness was taken from him
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  like a forgotten load. A fire that seemed the body of a
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  God consumed the limiting figures of the past, and made
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  large room for a new self to live.
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  Eternity's contact broke the moulds of sense, a greater force
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  than the earthly held his limbs. Huge workings bared his
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  undiscovered sheaths. Strange energies wrought and
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  screened, tremendous hands unwound the triple cord of mind,
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  and freed the heavenly wideness of a godhead's gaze as through a
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  dress. The wearer shape is seen there,
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  reached through forms to the hidden absolute, a cosmic
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  feeling and transcendent sight. Increased and heightened were
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  the instruments. Illusion lost her aggrandizing
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  lens, as from her failing hand the measures fell.
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  Atomic looked the things that loomed so large the little ego's
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  ring could join no more in the enormous spaces of the self.
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  The body now seemed only a wandering shell, his mind the
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  many frescoed outer court of an imperishable inhabitant.
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  His spirit breathed the superhuman air.
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  The imprisoned deity rent its magic fence as with a sound of
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  Thunder and of seas. Vast barriers crashed around the
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  huge escape, immutably coeval with the world circle and end of
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  every hope and toil inexorably drawn round thought and act, The
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  fixed immovable peripheries efface themselves beneath the
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  incarnates tread the dire of a lamin and the bottomless crypt,
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  between which life and thought forever move.
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  Forbidden still to cross the dim dread bounds, the Guardian
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  darknesses mute and formidable, empowered to circumscribe the
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  wingless spirit in the boundaries of mind and ignorance
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  protecting no more. A dual eternity vanished,
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  rescinding their enormous role. Once figure of creation's vain
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  ellipse, the expanding 0, lost its giant curve.
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  The old adamantine vitoes stood no more.
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  Overpowered were Earth and nature's obsolete rule.
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  The Python coils of the restricting law could not
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  restrain the swift arisen God. Abolished were the scripts of
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  destiny. There was no small death haunted
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  creature more no fragile form of being to preserve from an all
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  swallowing immensity. The great hammer beats of a pent
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  up world heart burst open the narrow dams that keep us safe
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  against the forces of the universe.
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  The soul and cosmos faced as equal powers.
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  A boundless being in a measureless time invaded nature
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  with the infinite he saw unpathed, unwalled his Titan
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  scope.