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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, Book VI, The Book of Fate, Canto 2, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, pages 448-451 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Hard is the world, redeemers heavy task, the world itself
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  becomes his adversary. Those he would save our his
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  antagonists. This world is in love with its
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  own ignorance. Its darkness turns away from the
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  Savior light, it gives the cross in payment for the crown his
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  work as a trickle of Splendor in a long night.
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  He sees the Long March of time, the little one, a fewer saved,
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  the rest strive on and fail the Sun.
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  Has passed on Earth night Shadow Falls.
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  Yes, there are happy ways near to God, Son, but few are they
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  who tread the sunlit path? Only the pure in Soul can walk
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  in light. And exit is shown a road of hard
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  escape from the sorrow and the Darkness and the chain.
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  But how shall a few escaped released the world?
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  The human Mass lingers beneath the Yoke Escape.
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  However, High redeems, not life, life that is left behind on a
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  Fallen Earth. Escape cannot uplift.
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  The abandoned race were bring to it Victory and the reign of God
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  A greater power must come a larger light although light
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  grows on Earth and night, recedes yet till the evilest
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  slain in its own home and light invades.
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  The world's incontinent base and perished as the adversary Force.
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  He still must labor on his work. Half done one yet.
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  May come armored Invincible his will immobile meet the mobile
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  hour. The world's blows cannot bend,
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  that Victor head. Calm and sure are his steps in
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  the growing night. The goal, recedes, he hurries.
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  Not his Pace. He turns not too high voices in
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  the night. He asks no aid from the inferior
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  Gods. His eyes are fixed on his
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  immutable aim. Man, turns aside or chooses
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  easier paths. He keeps to the one high and
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  difficult road that Soul can climb to the eternals Peaks.
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  The ineffable planes already have felt his tread.
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  He is made Heaven and Earth his instruments.
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  But the limits fall from him of Earth and Heaven There law, he
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  transcends. But uses as his means, he has
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  seized life's hands, he has mastered his own heart.
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  The faints of nature mislead. Not his sight and flexible.
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  His look towards truths far end. Fate deaf resistance, cannot
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  break his will in the Dreadful passages, the Fatal paths
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  invulnerable, his soul, his heart on slain, he lived through
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  the opposition of Earth's powers and Nature's ambushes and the
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  world's attacks. His Spirit stature transcending
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  pain and Bliss. He front evil and good with calm
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  and equalize. He too.
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  Must grapple with the Riddling Sphinx and plunge into her long.
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  Obscurity, he has broken into the unconscious depths that Veil
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  themselves, even from their own regard.
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  He has seen God Slumber shape these magic worlds.
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  He has watched the dumb, God fashioning matters, frame
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  dreaming the dreams of its unknowing sleep and watch.
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  The unconscious force that built the Stars.
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  He has learned the incontinence workings and it's law.
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  Its incoherent, thoughts and rigid acts its Hazard, wastes of
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  impulse and idea the chaos of its mechanic frequencies.
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  It's random calls, its Whispers falsely To miss leaders of the
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  hooded, listening Soul, all things come to a tear, but
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  nothing abides, all Rose from the silence.
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  All goes back to its hush, it's somnolence founded the universe.
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  Its obscure waking makes the world seem vain Arisen from
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  nothingness and towards nothingness, turned it's dark
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  and potent. Nescient was Earth start.
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  It is the way stuff from, which all was made into its deep
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  creation can collapse. Its opposition clogs, the march
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  of the Soul, it is the mother of our ignorance, he must call
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  light into its dark abysm. 'S else never can truth conquer
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  matters. Sleep and all Earth.
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  Look into the eyes of God. All things, obscure his
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  knowledge must real. Umm, all things perverse.
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  His power must unknot. He must pass to the other shore
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  of falsehood. See, he must enter the world
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  dark to bring their light. The heart of evil must be bear
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  to his eyes. He must learn its Cosmic,
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  Darkness Essa T. It's right.
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  And it's dire, roots in nature soil.
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  He must know the thought that moves the demon act and
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  justifies the Titans airing pride and the falsehood lurking
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  in Earth's crooked dreams. He must enter The Eternity of
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  night and know God's Darkness as he knows his son for this.
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  He must go down into the pit for this.
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  He must invade the dolorous vasts imperishable and wise and
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  infinite. He still must travel hell the
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  world to save into the Eternal Light.
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  He shall emerge on borders of the meeting of all worlds.
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  They're on the verge of nature Summit steps.
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  The secret law of each thing is fulfilled all contraries healed,
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  their long, dissidents, their meat and clasp, the Eternal
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  opposites. Their pain becomes a violent,
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  fiery, Joy, evil turned back to its original good and sorrow
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  lies upon the breasts of bliss. She has learned to weep glad
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  tears of happiness, her gaze is charged with a wistful, ecstasy
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  then shall be ended here. The law of pain Earth shall be
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  made a home of Heavens light, a seer heaven-born Lodge in human
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  breasts. The supercontinent beam shall
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  touch men's eyes and the truth conscious world come down to
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  earth invading matter with the spirits Ray, awaking its silence
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  to a Mortal Thoughts. Awaking the dumb heart to The
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  Living Word. This Mortal life shall house
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  eternity' Bliss. The body self taste immortality
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  Then shall the world redeemers task be done.
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  Then shall the world redeemers task be done.