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The Soul and the Psychic Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his poem Savitry, Sri Aurobindo provides imagery to
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  describe the nature and role of the soul and the significance of
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  the psychic being hidden deep within, carrying our human
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  experience and human life to its eventual fulfilment, Sri
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  Aurobindo writes. But since she knows the toil of
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  mind and life as a mother feels and shares her children's lives,
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  she puts forth a small portion of herself, a being no bigger
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  than the thumb of man, into a hidden region of the heart.
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  To face the pang and to forget the bliss, to share the
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  suffering and endure earth's wounds and labour mid the labour
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  of the stars. This in US laughs and weeps,
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  suffers the stroke, exalts in victory, struggles for the
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  crown, identified with the mind and body and life it takes on
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  itself their anguish and defeat bleeds with fate's whips and
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  hangs upon the cross. Yet is the unwounded and
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  immortal self supporting the actor in the human scene.
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  Through this she sends us her glory and her powers pushes to
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  wisdom's heights. Through misery's gulfs.
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  She gives us strength to do our daily task and sympathy that
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  partakes of others grief and the little strength we have to help
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  our race. We who must fill the role of the
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  universe, acting itself out in a slight human shape and on our
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  shoulders carry the struggling world.
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  This in us the Godhead, small and marred.
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  In this human portion of divinity she seats the greatness
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  of the soul in time to uplift from light to light, from power
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  to power, till on a heavenly peak it stands a king in body
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  week, in its heart an invincible might.
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  It climbed, stumbling, held up by an unseen hand, a toiling
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  spirit in a mortal shape. End Quote Reference Savitri, a
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  legend in a simple book. 7 canto 5 citation.
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  Shriya Robindo and the Mother. The psychic being soul, its
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  nature, mission and evolution. Front matter.