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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 5 The Yoga of the King: the Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, pp. 76-78 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A will, a hope immense now seized his heart, and to discern
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  the superhuman's form he raised his eyes to unseen spiritual
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  heights, aspiring to bring down a greater world.
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  The glory he had glimpsed must be his home.
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  A brighter, heavenlier sun must soon illume this dusk room with
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  its dark internal stare. The infant's soul in its small
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  nursery school, mid objects meant for a lesson hardly
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  learned, outgrow its early grammar of intellect and its
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  imitation of earth. Nature's art, its earthly
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  dialect to God, language, change in living symbols, study reality
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  and learn the logic of the infinite.
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  The ideal must be nature's common truth.
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  The body illumined with the indwelling God.
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  The heart and mind feel one with all that is a conscious soul.
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  Live in a conscious world as through a mist a sovereign peak
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  is seen. The greatness of the Eternal
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  Spirit appeared. Exiled in a fragmented universe
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  amid half semblances of Diviner things, these now could serve no
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  more his regal turn, the Immortal's pride refused the
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  doom to live. A miser of the scanty bargain
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  made between our littleness and bounded hopes and the
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  compassionate infinitudes. His height repelled the lowness
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  of Earth's state. A wideness discontented with its
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  frame resiled from poor assent to nature's terms.
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  The harsh contract spurned and the diminished lease Only
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  beginnings are accomplished here.
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  Our bases matter seems alone complete.
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  An absolute machine without a soul or all.
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  Seems a misfit of half ideas, where we saddle with the vice of
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  earthly form, a hurried, imperfect glimpse of heavenly
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  things, guesses and travesties of celestial types.
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  Here chaos sorts itself into a world, a brief formation
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  drifting in the void. Apings of knowledge, unfinished
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  arcs of power, Flamings of beauty into earthly shapes.
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  Love's broken reflexes of unity, swim fragment.
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  Mirrorings of a floating sun, A packed assemblage of crude,
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  tentative lives are pieced into a tessellated hole.
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  There is no perfect answer to our hopes.
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  There are blind, voiceless doors that have no key Thought climbs
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  in vain and brings a borrowed light.
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  Cheated by counterfeits sold to us in life's Mart, our hearts
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  clutch at a forfeited heavenly bliss.
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  There is a provender for the mind's satiety.
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  There are thrills of the flesh, but not the soul's desire.
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  Here even the highest rapture time can give is a mimicry of
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  ungrasped beatitudes, a mutilated statue of ecstasy, a
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  wounded happiness that cannot live, a brief Felicity of mind
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  or sense thrown by the world power to her body slave, or a
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  simulacrum of enforced delight in the Seragelios of ignorance.
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  For all we have acquired soon loses worth an old disvalued
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  credit. In times bank, imperfections
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  checked, drawn on the inconscient, and in consequence
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  dogs every effort made, and chaos waits on every cosmos
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  formed. In each success a seed of
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  failure lurks. He saw the doubtfulness of all
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  things here, the in certitude of man's proud, confident thought,
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  the transience of the achievements of his force, a
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  thinking being in an unthinking world, an island in the sea of
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  the unknown. He is a smallness, trying to be
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  great, an animal with some instincts of a God, his life a
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  story too common to be told, his deeds, a number summing up to
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  naughty, his consciousness, a torch lit to be quenched, his
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  hope, a star above a cradle engrave.
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  And yet a greater destiny may be his, for the eternal spirit is
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  his truth. He can recreate himself and all
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  around and fashion new the world in which he lives.
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  He ignorant is the knower beyond time.
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  He is the self above nature, above fate.