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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 3 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Then suddenly, there came a downward look, as if a sea
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  exploring its own depth, a living oneness, widened at its
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  core and joined him to unnumbered multitudes.
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  A bliss, a light, a power, a flame.
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  White love caught all in its sole immense embrace.
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  Existence found its truth on oneness breast and each became
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  the self and space of all the great world.
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  Rhythms were heartbeats of 1 soul.
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  To feel was a flame discovery of God.
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  All mind was a single harp of many strings, all life a song of
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  many. Meeting lives for worlds were
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  many, but the self was one. This knowledge now was made a
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  cosmos seed. This seed was cased in the
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  safety of the light. It needed not a sheath of
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  ignorance. Then from the trance of that
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  tremendous clasp, and from the throbbings of that single heart,
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  and from the naked spirits victory, a new and marvelous
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  creation, rose incalculable outflowing infinitudes, laughing
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  out an unmeasured happiness, live there innumerable unity,
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  worlds where the being is unbound and wide bodied.
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  Unthinkably the egoless self rapture of beatific energies
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  join time to the timeless poles of a single joy.
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  White vasts were seen where all is wrapped in all.
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  There were no contraries, no sundered parts.
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  All by spiritual links were joined to all and bound
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  indissolubly to the One. Each was unique, but took all
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  lives as his own, and following out these tones of the infinite
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  recognized in himself. The universe, a splendid center
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  of infinities, were all pushed to its zenith's height, Its last
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  expanse felt the divinity of its own self, bliss repeated in its
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  numberless other selves. It took up tirelessly into its
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  scope persons and figures of the impersonal, as if prolonging in
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  a ceaseless count, in a rapturous multiplication sum,
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  the recurring decimals of eternity.
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  None was a part. None lived for himself alone.
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  Each lived for God in him, and God in all.
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  Each soleness inexpressibly held the whole.
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  Their oneness was not tied to monotone.
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  It showed 1000 aspects of itself, its column immutable
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  stability up bore on a changeless ground forever safe,
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  compelled to a spontaneous servitude.
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  The ever changing incalculable steps, the seeming reckless
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  dances, subtle plan of immense world forces in their perfect
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  play appearance look back to its hidden truth and made of
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  difference. One smiling play.
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  It made all persons fractions of the unique, yet all were beings
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  secret integers. All struggle was turned to a
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  sweet strife of love in the harmonized circle of a sure
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  embrace identities. Reconciling happiness gave a
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  rich security to difference. On a meeting line of hazardous
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  extremes. The game of games was played to
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  its breaking point where through self finding by divine self loss
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  there leaps out Unity's supreme delight, whose blissful
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  undivided sweetness feels a communality of the absolute.
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  There was no sob of suffering anywhere.
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  Experience ran from point to point of joy.
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  Bliss was the pure undying truth of things.
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  All nature was a conscious front of God.
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  A wisdom worked in all self moved self sure, a plenitude of
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  illimitable light and authenticity, of intuitive
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  truths, a glory and passion of creative force, infallible,
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  leaping from eternity. The moment's thought inspired
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  the passing act. A word, a laughter sprang from
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  silence breast. A rhythm of beauty in the calm
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  of space, A knowledge in the fathomless heart of time.
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  All turned to all without reserves recoil a single ecstasy
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  without a break. Love was a close and thrilled
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  identity in the throbbing heart of all that luminous life.
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  A universal vision that unites A sympathy of nerve replying to
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  nerve hearing, that listens to thoughts inner sound and follows
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  the rhythmic meanings of the heart.
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  A touch that needs not hands to feel, to clasp where they're the
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  native means of consciousness and heightened the intimacy of
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  soul with soul. A grand orchestra of spiritual
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  powers, a diapazon of soul. Interchange harmonized.
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  A oneness deep, immeasurable in these new worlds projected.
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  He became a portion of the universal gaze, a station of the
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  all inhabiting light, a ripple on a single sea of peace.
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  His mind answered to countless communing minds.
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  His words were syllables of the cosmos, speech, his life, a
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  field of the vast cosmic stir. He felt the footsteps of a
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  million wills moving in unison to a single goal, a stream, ever
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  newborn, that never dies, caught in its thousandfold currents,
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  ravishing flow with eddies of immortal sweetness.
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  Thrilled, he bore, coiling through his members as they
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  passed, calm movements of interminable delight, the bliss
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  of a myriad myriads who are one.