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Readings in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII, Canto 4 The Triple Soul-Forces · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Oh sabitri. I am thy secret soul.
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  I have come down into the human world and the movement watched
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  by a nun sleeping. I and the Dark Country reality
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  of Earth's fate and the battle of the bright and somber powers.
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  I stand upon Earth, path of danger in grief and help the
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  unfortunate and save the doomed to the strong.
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  I bring the guerdon of their strength.
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  To the week, I bring the armor of my Force two.
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  Men, who long? I carry their coveted Joy.
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  I am Fortune justifying the great and wise by the sanction
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  of the plaudits of the crowd, then trampling them with the
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  armed heel of fate. My ear is leaned, to The Cry of
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  the oppressed. I toppled down the Thrones of
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  tyrant Kings. 'Cry comes from proscribed and
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  hunted lives, appealing to me against a pitiless world.
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  A voice of The Forsaken, and desolate, and the lone prisoner
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  in his dungeon cell. Men Halen my coming, the
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  almighty's force or praise with thankful tears, his Save Your
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  Grace, I smite, the Titan, hooba strides, the world and slay, the
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  ogre and his blood-stained in, I am Durga goddess of the proud
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  and strong and Lakshmi, Queen of the fair and fortunate.
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  I wear the face of Kali when I kill.
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  I trample the corpses of the demon hordes.
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  I am charged by God, to do his mighty work uncaring, I serve,
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  his will who sent me forth Reckless of peril and Earthly
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  consequence. I reason not a virtue and of
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  sin, but do the deed. He has put into my heart.
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  I fear not for the angry frown of Heaven.
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  I Flinch not from the red assault of hell.
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  I crush the opposition of the Gods, tread down a million
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  Goblin obstacles. I guide man to the path of the
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  Divine and guard him from the red wolf and the snake.
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  I said in his mortal hand, my heavenly sword and put on him,
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  the breastplate of the Gods. I break the ignorant pride of
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  human mind and lead the thought to the wideness of the truth.
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  Iran man's narrow and successful life and force his sorrowful
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  eyes to gaze at the son that he may die to Earth and live in his
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  soul. I know the goal.
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  I know the secret route. I have studied the map of the
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  invisible world. I am the battles head the
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  journeys star, but the great obstinate World resist my word
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  and the crookedness and evil in man's heart is stronger than
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  reason profounder than the pit and the malignancy of hostile
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  Powers. Put craft lie back, the clock of
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  Destiny. And mightier seems than the
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  Eternal will. The cosmic evil is too deep to
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  unroot. The cosmic suffering is too vast
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  to heal a few. I guide who passed me towards
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  the light of few. I save the mass falls back.
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  Unsaved a few, I help the many strive and fail.
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  But my heart, I have hardened and I do my work slowly, the
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  light grows greater in the East. Slowly the world progresses on
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  God's Road. His seal is on my task.
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  It cannot fail. I shall hear the silver swing of
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  Heaven's Gates when God comes out to meet the soul of the
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  world. But my heart, I have hardened
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  and I do my work slowly, the light grows greater in the East.
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  Slowly the world progresses on God's Road.
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  His seal is on my task. It cannot fail.
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  I shall hear the silver swing of Heaven's Gates when God comes
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  out to meet the soul of the world.