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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 3 The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release, pp. 38-41 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  OFT inspiration with her lightning feet, a sudden
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  messenger from the all seeing tops traversed the soundless
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  corridors of his mind, bringing her rhythmic sense of hidden
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  things. A music spoke, transcending
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  mortal speech, as if from a golden file of the all bliss, a
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  joy of light, a joy of sudden sight, A rapture of the
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  thrilled, undying word poured into his heart as into an empty
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  cup, A repetition of God's first delight, creating in a young and
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  virgin time, in a brief moment caught a little space.
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  All knowledge packed into great wordless thoughts lodged in the
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  expectant stillness of his depths, A crystal of the
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  ultimate absolute, a portion of the inexpressible truth revealed
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  by silence to the silent soul, the intense Creatrix in his
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  stillness wrought her power, fallen speechless, grew more
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  intimate. She looked upon the scene in the
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  unforeseen, unguessed domain. She made her native field, all
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  vision gathered into a single ray, as when the eyes stare at
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  an invisible point till through the intensity of 1 luminous spot
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  an apocalypse of a world of images enters into the Kingdom
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  of the seer. A great nude arm of splendor
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  suddenly rose it rent the gauze opaque of nescience.
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  Her lifted fingers, keen, unthinkable tip, bared with a
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  stab of flame that closed beyond, and I awake in voiceless
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  heights of trance, a mind plucking at the unimaginable,
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  overleaping with a soul and perilous bound the high black
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  wall. Hiding superconscience.
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  She broke in with inspired speech Forsyth, and plundered
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  the unknowable's vast estate, a gleaner of infinitesimal grains
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  of truth, a sheaf binder of infinite experience.
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  She pierced the guarded mysteries of world force and her
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  magic methods wrapped in a thousand veils, where she
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  gathered the lost secrets dropped by time in the dust and
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  crannies of his mounting rout. Mid old forsaken dreams of
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  hastening mind and buried remnants of forgotten space.
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  A traveller between summit and abyss, she joined the distant
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  ends, the viewless deeps or streaked along the roads of
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  heaven and hell, pursuing all knowledge like a questing hound,
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  A reporter and scribe of hidden wisdom talk.
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  Her shining minutes of celestial speech passed through the masked
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  office of the occult mind, transmitting gave to profit and
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  to Seer, the inspired body of the Mystic truth.
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  A recorder of the inquiry of the gods, spokesman of the silent
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  scenes of the Supreme, she brought immortal words to mortal
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  men. Above, the reason's brilliant
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  slender curve released like radiant air dimming a moon.
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  Broad spaces of a vision without line.
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  Where limits swam into his spirits Ken oceans of being met,
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  his voyaging soul calling to infinite discovery.
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  Timeless domains of joy and absolute power stretched out.
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  Surrounded by the eternal hush, the ways that lead to endless
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  happiness ran like dream smiles through meditating vasts.
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  Disclosed Stood up in a gold moment's blaze.
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  White sun steps in the pathless infinite along a naked curve in
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  Boutbournless self. The points that run through the
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  closed heart of things. Shadowed the indeterminable line
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  that carries the everlasting through the years.
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  The magician order of the cosmic mind coercing the freedom of
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  Infinity with the stark array of nature's symbol, Facts and
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  life's incessant signals of event transmuted chance
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  recurrence into laws, a chaos of signs into a universe out of the
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  rich wonders and the intricate whirls of the spirit's dance
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  with matter as its mask. The balance of the world's
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  design grew clear, its symmetry of self arranged effects managed
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  in the deep perspectives of the soul and the realism of its
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  illusive art, its logic of infinite intelligence, its magic
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  of a changing eternity. A glimpse was caught of things
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  forever unknown. The letter stood out of the
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  unmoving word in the immutable nameless origin was seen
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  emerging as from fathomless seas, the trail of ideas that
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  made the world and sown in the black earth of nature's trance,
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  the seed of the spirit's blind and huge desire from which the
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  tree of cosmos was conceived and spread its magic arms.
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  Through a dream of space, immense realities took on a
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  shape. They're looked out from the
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  shadow of the unknown, the bodyless namelessness that saw
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  God born and tries to gain from the mortal's mind and soul a
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  deathless body and a divine name.
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  The immobile lips, the great surreal wings, the visage masked
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  by superconscious sleep, the eyes with their closed lids that
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  see all things appeared, of the architect who builds entrance.
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  The original desire borne in the void peered out.
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  He saw the hope that never sleeps, the feet that run behind
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  a fleeting fate, the ineffable meaning of the endless dream
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  hardly for a moment glimpsed, viewless to mind, as if a torch
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  held by a power of God. The radiant world of the
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  everlasting truth glimmered like a faint star bordering the night
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  above the golden over mine shimmering Ridge.
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  Even we're caught as through a cunning veil, the smile of love
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  that sanctions the long game, the calm indulgence and maternal
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  breasts of wisdom suckling the child.
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  Laughter of chance, Silence, The nurse of the Almighty's power,
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  the omniscient hush womb of the immortal word, and of the
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  timeless, the still brooding face, and the creative eye of
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  eternity.