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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol from Book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The seed of godhead sleeps in Mortal hearts.
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  The flower of godhead grows on the world tree.
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  All Shall discover God in self and things, but when God's
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  messenger comes to help the world and lead the soul of Earth
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  to higher things, he too. Must carry the Yoke.
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  He came to unloose he too must bear the Pang that he would
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  heal. Exempt, a nun, afflicted by
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  Earth's fate, how shall he cure the ills?
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  He never felt. He covers the world's Agony with
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  his calm, but though, to the outward, I know sign appears and
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  piece is given to our torn human hearts.
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  The struggle is there and paid the Unseen price.
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  The fire, The Strife, the wrestle are within He carries
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  the suffering world in his own breast, it sins way on his
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  thoughts. It's grief is his Earth's
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  ancient load lies heavy on his soul night and its powers
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  beleaguer. His tardy steps, the Titan
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  adversaries. Clutch he bears His March is a
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  battle and a pilgrimage life's evil smites.
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  He is stricken with the world's pain.
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  A million wounds gape in his secret heart, he Journey
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  Sleepless through an unending night antagonist forces crowd
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  across his path. A Siege, a combat is his inner
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  life. Even worse, maybe the cost direr
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  the pain, his large identity and all harboring love shall bring
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  the cosmic anguish into his depths the sorrow of all living
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  things shall come and knock at his doors and live, within his
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  house, a dreadful Court of sympathy can tie all suffering
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  into his single grief and make all Agony in all the world, his
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  own. He meets an ancient adversary
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  Force. He is last with the whips to
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  tear the world's Warren heart, the Weeping of the centuries.
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  Visits his eyes, he wears the blood glued fiery Center shirt,
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  the poison of the world has Stained his throat in the
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  marketplace of matters, Capital amidst, the chaff offerings of
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  the affair called life. He is tied to the stake of a
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  perennial fire. He burns on an unseen, original
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  Verge that matter may be turned to Spirit stuff.
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  He is the victim in his own sacrifice.
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  The Immortal bound to Earth's mortality appearing in
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  perishing, on the roads of time creates God's Moment.
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  By eternity' beats, he dies, that the world may be new born
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  and live. Even if he escapes the fiercest
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  fires, even if the world breaks, not in a drowning, see only by
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  hard. Sacrifices, high heaven earned
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  he must face the fight. The Pang, who would conquer?
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  Hell, a dark concealed. Hostility is lodged in the human
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  depths, in the hidden heart of time.
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  That claims the right to change in, Mar God's work.
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  A secret enmity ambushes, the world's, March it leaves a mark
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  on thought and speech and act, it stamps, stain, and defect on
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  all things done. Till it is.
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  Slain piece is forbidden on Earth.
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  There is no visible phone but the Unseen is round US forces.
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  Intangible besiege touches from Alien Realms thoughts, not our
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  own overtake us and compel the Airing heart.
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  Our lives are caught in an ambiguous.
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  Net and adversary force was born of old, Invader of the life of
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  mortal, man, it hides from him, the straight Immortal path.
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  A power came into Vale, the eternal light up.
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  Our opposed to the Eternal will diverts the messages of the
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  infallible word, contorts The Contours of the cosmic plan, A
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  Whisper lures to evil the human heart.
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  It seals up wisdoms eyes, the souls regard, it is the origin
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  of our suffering here. It binds Earth to Calamity and
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  pain. This.
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  All must conquer who would bring down God's peace.
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  This hidden folder lodged in the human breast man must overcome
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  or miss his higher fate. This is the inner War without
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  Escape.