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

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  All is too little that the world can give.
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  It's power and knowledge or the gifts of time and cannot fill
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  the spirits sacred thirst. Although of one, these forms of
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  greatness are and by its breadth of Grace, Our Lives abide,
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  although more near to us than nearness self, It is some utter
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  truth of what we are hidden by its own works.
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  It seemed far off, impenetrable occult voiceless obscure.
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  The presence was lost by which all things have charm the glory
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  lacked of which they are dim signs.
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  The world lived on made empty of its cause like love when the
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  beloved's face is gone the labor to know seem to vein Strife of
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  mind all knowledge ended in the unknowable, the effort to rule
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  seem to Vain pride of will A trivial achievement scorned, by
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  time all power retired into the omnipotent, a cave of Darkness
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  guards. The Eternal Light, the silence
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  settled on his striving heart absolved from the voices of the
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  world's desire. He turned to the ineffable
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  Timeless call. a being intimate and unnamable a wide compelling,
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  ecstasy and peace felt in himself and all and yet ungh
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  rasped Approached and Faded from his Souls Pursuit as if forever
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  luring him Beyond. Near it retreated far at called
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  him, still nothing could satisfy.
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  But it's Delight. Its absence left.
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  The greatest actions dull, its presence made the smallest seem
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  Divine when it was there, the hearts of Miss was filled but
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  when the uplifting deity withdrew existence lost its aim
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  in the inane. The order of the immemorial
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  planes, the Godlike. Fullness of the instruments were
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  turned to props for an impermanent seen.
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  But who that? Mightiness, was he knew not yet?
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  Impalpable yet, filling all that, is it made and blotted out
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  a million worlds and took and lost a thousand shapes and
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  names. It wore the guise of an
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  indiscernible vast or was a subtle colonel in the soul, a
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  distant greatness left, it huge and dim, a Mystic closeness.
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  Shut it sweetly in. It seems sometimes a figment or
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  a robe and seem sometimes his own colossal shade.
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  A giant doubt, overshadowed his advance.
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  Across a neutral all supporting void whose blankness nursed, his
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  loan Immortal Spirit, allured towards some recondite, Supreme
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  aided coerced by enigmatic Powers aspiring and half sinking
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  in the up. Born invincibly, he ascended
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  without pause. Always a sinus, vague immensity
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  brooded without approach Beyond response, condemning finite,
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  things to nothingness, fronting him with the in commensurable.
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  Then to the ascent, there came a mighty term, a height was
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  reached where nothing made could live a line where every hope and
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  search must cease neared, some intolerant bear reality.
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  A zero formed pregnant with boundless change on a dizzy
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  Verge. We're all disguises fail and
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  human mind must abdicate in light.
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  Or die like a moth and the naked blaze of Truth.
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  He stood compelled to a tremendous choice.
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  All he had been in all towards which he grew must.
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  Now be left behind or else transform into a self of that,
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  which has no name. Alone and fronting an intangible
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  Force, which offered nothing to the grasp, of thought, his
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  Spirit face, the adventure of the inane, abandoned by the
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  worlds of form. He strove, a fruitful worldwide.
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  Ignorance foundered here. thoughts long far circling
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  Journey touched its clothes and ineffective paused the actor
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  Will the symbol modes of being helped no more, the structures,
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  nescient builds, collapsing failed, and even the spirit that
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  holds the universe fainted in luminous insufficiency In an
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  abysmal lapse of all things built.
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  Transcending every perishable support and joining it.
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  Last. It's mighty, origin.
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  The separate self must melt or be reborn into a truth beyond
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  the minds appeal. All glory of outline, sweetness
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  of Harmony rejected, like a Grace of trivial notes.
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  Expunged from being silenced, nude austere.
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  Died into a fine and Blissful nothingness.
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  The demiurge has lost their names and forms the great
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  schemed worlds that they had planned and wrought past taken
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  and abolished one by one. The universe removed, it's
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  colored Veil. And at the unimaginable, end of
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  the huge, riddle of created things appeared, the far, seen
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  God Head of the whole his feet firm.
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  Based on life, stupendous Wings, omnipotent, a lonely Seer of
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  time. In word inscrutable with diamond
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  gaze attracted by the unfathomable reason.
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  Regard the unsolved slow Cycles, to their found returned to Rise
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  Again from that invisible sea. All from his positions born was
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  now undone nothing remained the cosmic mind conceives, eternity
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  prepared to fade and seem to Hugh.
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  And imposition on the void space was the fluttering of a dream
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  that sank before it's ending into nothing's deeps.
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  The spirit that dies not and the godhead.
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  Self seemed myths, projected from the unknowable from it all
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  spraying in. It is called to cease.
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  But what that was no thought nor site could tell only a formless
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  form of self was left a tenuous ghost of something that had been
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  the last experience of elapsing wave before it sinks into a born
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  loose see as if it kept even on the brink of not, it's bear.
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  Feeling of the ocean whence it came.
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  A vastness brooded free from sense of space and
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  everlastingness cut off from time.
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  A strange Sublime and alterable peace.
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  Silent rejected from IT world and soul a stark.
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  Companionless reality answered at last with his Souls,
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  passionate search. Passionless wordless absorbed in
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  its fathomless hush. Keeping the mystery, none.
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  Whatever pierce it brooded, inscrutable and intangible
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  facing him with its dumb, tremendous calm.
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  It had no kinship with the universe.
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  There was no act, no movement in its vast.
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  Life's question met by its silence died on her lips.
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  The world's efforts East convicted of ignorance.
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  Finding no sanction of supernal light.
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  There was no mind there with its need to know, there was no heart
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  there with its need to love all person perished in its
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  namelessness. There was no second.
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  It had no partner or peer. Only itself was real to itself.
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  A pure existence safe from thought and mood, a
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  consciousness of unshared immortal Bliss.
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  It, dwelt aloof and it's bear infinite one and unique
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  unutterably soul of being formless, futureless and mute
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  that new Itself by its own Timeless self-aware forever.
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  And it's motionless, depths Uhn creating Dated and unborn the
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  one by whom all live, who lives by none and immeasurable
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  luminous secrecy guarded by the veils of the unmanifest.
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  Above the changing Cosmic interlude Abode Supreme
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  immutably the same. A silent.
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  Cause a cult impenetrable infinite Eternal unthinkable.
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  Alone. Alone.