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⁠Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol ⁠by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII The Book of Yoga, Canto 5 The Finding of the Soul, pp. 526-527 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A being stood immortal, intransience, deathless,
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  dallying with momentary things, in whose wide eyes of tranquil
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  happiness, which pity and sorrow could not abrogate Infinity
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  turned its gaze on finite shapes.
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  Observer of the silent steps of the hours.
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  Eternity upheld the minutes, acts, and the passing scenes of
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  the Everlasting's play in the mystery of its selecting will in
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  the Divine Comedy. A participant, the Spirit's
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  conscious representative, God's delegate in our humanity,
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  comrade of the universe, the transcendence Ray.
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  She had come into the mortal body's room to play at ball with
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  time and circumstance. A joy in the world, her Master
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  movement. Here, the passion of the game
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  lighted her eyes. A smile on her lips welcomed
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  Earth's bliss and grief. A laugh was her return to
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  pleasure and pain. All things she saw as a
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  masquerade of truth disguised in the costumes of ignorance.
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  Crossing the years to immortality.
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  All she could front with the strong Spirit's peace, But since
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  she knows the toil of mind and life as a mother feels and
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  shares her children's lives, she puts forth a small portion of
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  herself, a being no bigger than the thumb of man, into a hidden
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  region of the heart, to face the pang and to forget the bliss, to
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  share the suffering and endure earth's wounds and labour mid
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  the labour of the stars. This in US laughs and weeps,
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  suffers the stroke, exalts in victory, struggles for the
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  crown, identified with the mind and body and life.
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  It takes on itself their anguish and defeat, bleeds with fate's
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  whips and hangs upon the cross. It is the unwounded and immortal
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  self supporting the actor in the human scene.
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  Through this she sends us her glory and her powers, pushes to
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  wisdom's heights. Through misery's gulfs.
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  She gives us strength to do our daily task and sympathy, but
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  that partakes of others grief and the little strength we have
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  to help our race. We who must fill the role of the
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  universe, acting itself out in a slight human shape and on our
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  shoulders carry the struggling world.
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  This is in us the Godhead, small and marred.
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  In this human portion of divinity she seats the greatness
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  of the soul in time to uplift from light to light, from power
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  to power, till on a heavenly peak it stands, a king in body,
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  weak in its heart and invincible might.
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  It climbed, stumbling, held up by an unseen hand, a toiling
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  spirit in a mortal shape. Here, in this Chamber of flame
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  and light they met. They looked upon each other,
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  knew themselves, the secret deity and its human part, the
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  calm and mortal and the struggling soul.
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  Then with a magic transformation speed, they rushed into each
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  other and grew 1.