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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo. Reading from Book 1, Canto 1 The Symbol Dawn · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Reading from sabitri, a legend and a symbol, by SRI aurobindo
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  book. One Canto, one, the symbol Dawn.
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  It was the hour before the gods awake.
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  Across the path of the Divine event.
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  The huge foreboding mind of night alone in her unlit Temple
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  of Eternity. Lay stretched immobile upon
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  silence, Marge. Almost one felt opaque
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  impenetrable in the sombre symbol of her eyeless, Muse the
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  abysm of the un-- bodied, infinite, a fathomless zero
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  occupied the world. A power of Fallen boundless self
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  awake between the first and the last nothingness recalling.
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  The tenebrous womb from which it came turned from the insoluble
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  mystery of birth. And the tardy process of
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  mortality. And longed to reach its end in
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  vacant not. As in a dark, beginning of all
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  things, a mute feature list, semblance of the unknown
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  repeating forever, the unconscious act prolonging
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  forever, the unseeing will cradled the cosmic drowse of
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  ignorant Force, whose moved creative Slumber, Kindles the
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  sons and Carries our lives in its somnambulist world.
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  Athwart. The vein enormous trance of
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  space, it's formless stupor without mind or life, a shadow
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  spinning through a soulless void thrown back once more into
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  unthinking dreams. Earth, we old abandoned in the
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  hollow gulf's. Forgetful of her spirit.
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  And her fate, the impassive skies were neutral.
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  Empty still. Then something in the
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  inscrutable Darkness stirred, a nameless movement and unthought
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  idea, insistent to satisfied without a name, Something that
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  wished but knew not how to be teased the incontinent to wake
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  ignorance. A throw that came and left a
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  quivering Trace gave room for an old tired, want unfilled at
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  peace and it's subconscient moonless cave to raise its head
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  and look for apps and light straining closed eyes or
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  vanished memory like one who searches for a bygone self.
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  And only meets the corpse of his desire.
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  It was as though even in this knots profound, even in this
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  ultimate dissolution score there.
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  Lurked an done remembering entity Survivor of a slain and
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  buried past condemned to resume the effort and the Pang Reviving
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  in another frustrate world. And unshaped Consciousness.
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  Desired light And a blank prescient urine towards distant
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  change as if a child like finger laid on a cheek reminded of the
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  Endless. Need in things.
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  The heedless mother of the universe and infant longing
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  clutched the sombre vast. Insensibly somewhere.
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  A breach began a long loan line of hesitating Hue, like a vague
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  smiled, tempting, a desert heart troubled.
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  The far rim of life's obscure sleep.
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  Arrived from the other side of boundlessness, and I have deity
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  peered through the dumb. Deeps, a scout in a
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  reconnaissance from the sun. It's it seemed amid a heavy
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  Cosmic, rest the torpor of a sick, and weary world to seek
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  for a spirit soul and desolate to Fallen to recollect,
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  forgotten Bliss. Intervening in a Mindless
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  Universe. Its message, crept Through The
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  Reluctant hush calling the adventure of Consciousness and
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  joy and conquering nature, Nature's disillusion, breast
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  compelled renewed consent to see and feel A thought was sown in
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  the unsounded void. A sense was born within the
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  darkness depths a memory quivered in the heart of time as
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  if a soul long-dead were moved to live.
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  But the Oblivion that succeeds the fall had blotted, the
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  crowded tablets of the past and all that was destroyed must be
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  rebuilt. And old experience, labored out
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  once more. All can be done if the God
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  touches their a hope stole in that hardly dared to be amid.
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  The knights forlorn indifference as if solicited in an alien
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  world with timid and hazardous instinctive Grace orphaned and
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  driven out to seek a home and errant Marvel with no place to
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  live into a far-off. No, talk of Heaven.
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  There came The slow miraculous gestures dim appeal, the
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  persistent thrill of a transfiguring, touch persuaded
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  the inert black quietude and beauty and wonder Disturbed the
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  fields of God. I wandering hand of pale and
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  chanted light, that glowed. A long of fading moments Brink
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  fixed with gold panel and opalescent, hinge a gate of
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  Dreams a jar on Mysteries, Verge one Lucent Corner, windowing
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  hidden things, forced the world. Blind immensity to sight The
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  darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak from the
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  reclining body of a god. Then through the pallid.
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  Riff that seemed at first hardly enough for a trickle from the
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  sun's out poured, the Revelation and the flame.
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  Then through the pallid. Riff that seemed at first hardly
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  enough for a trickle from the sun's out poured, the Revelation
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  and the flame.