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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. 34-38 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Only a while at first, these heavenlier states, these large,
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  wide, poised upliftings, could endure.
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  The high and luminous tension breaks too soon the body's stone
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  stillness and the life's hushed trance, the breathless might and
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  calm of silent mind. Or slowly they fail.
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  As sets a golden day, the restless nether members tire of
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  peace, a nostalgia of old little works and joys.
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  A need to call back small familiar selves to tread the
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  accustomed and inferior way. The need to rest in a natural
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  pose of fall as a child who learns to walk can walk not long
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  replace the Titan will forever to climb on the heart's altar,
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  dim the sacred fire, An old pull of subconscious chords renews
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  it, draws the unwilling spirit from the heights or a dull
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  gravitation drags us down to the blind driven inertia of our
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  base. This too the Supreme Diplomat
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  can use. He makes our fall a means for
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  greater rise, for into ignorant nature's gusty field into the
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  half ordered chaos of mortal life.
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  The formless power the self of eternal light follow in the
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  shadow of the Spirit's descent the twin duality for everyone
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  chooses its home mid the tumults of the scents.
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  He comes unseen into our darker parts and curtained by the
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  darkness does his work. A subtle and all knowing guest
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  and guide till they too feel the need and will to change.
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  All here must learn to obey a higher law.
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  Our body cells must hold the immortal's flame, else would the
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  spirit reach alone its source, leaving 1/2 saved world to its
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  dubious fate. Nature would ever labor
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  unredeemed. Our earth would ever spin
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  unhelped in space, and this immense creation's purpose fail,
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  till at last the frustrate universe sank, undone, Even his
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  God like strength to rise must fall.
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  His greater consciousness withdrew behind, dim and
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  eclipsed. His human outside strove to feel
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  again. The old sublimities bring the
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  high saving touch. The ethereal flame call back to
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  its dire need, the divine force. Always the power poured back
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  like sudden rain, or slowly in his breast a presence grew.
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  It clamoured back to some remembered height, or soared
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  above the peak from which it fell.
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  Each time he rose there was a larger poise, a dwelling on a
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  higher spirit plane. The light remained in him, a
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  longer space in this oscillation between earth and heaven.
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  In this ineffable Communion's climb, there grew in him as
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  grows A waxing moon, the glory of the integer of his soul, a
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  union of the real with the unique, a gaze of the alone from
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  every face. The presence of the eternal in
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  the hours widening the mortal mind's half look on things,
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  bridging the gap between man's force and fate, made whole the
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  fragment. Being we are here at last was
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  one a firm spiritual poise, a constant lodging in the
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  eternal's realm, a safety in the silence and the ray, a
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  settlement in the immutable. His heights of being lived in
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  the still self. His mind could rest on a
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  supernal ground and look down on the magic and the play, where
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  the God Child lies on the lap of night and dawn and the
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  everlasting puts on time's disguise.
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  To the still heights and to the troubled depths.
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  His equal spirit gave its vast ascent A poised serenity of
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  tranquil strength, a wide, unshaken look on time's unrest.
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  Faced all experience with unaltered peace, indifferent to
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  the sorrow and delight, untempted by the marvel and the
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  call, immobile, it beheld the flux of things calm and apart,
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  supported all that is his spirit.
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  Stillness helped the toiling world.
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  Inspired by silence and the closed eyes sight, his force
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  could work with a new luminous art on the crude material from
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  which all is made, and the refusal of Inertia's mass and
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  the grey front of the world's ignorance and nessient matter,
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  and the huge error of life. As a sculptor Chisels, a deity
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  out of stone. He slowly chipped off the dark
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  envelope line of defense of nature's ignorance, the illusion
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  and mystery of the Inconscient, in whose black Paul the Eternal
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  wraps his head that he may act unknown in cosmic time, a
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  splendor of self, creation from the peaks, a transfiguration in
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  the Mystic depths, A happier cosmic working could begin and
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  fashion the world's shape in him anew, God found in nature,
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  nature fulfilled, In God Already in him was seen that task of
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  power. Life made its home on the high
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  tops of self. His soul, mind, heart became a
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  single sun. Only life's lower reaches
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  remained dim. But there too, in the uncertain
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  shadow of life, there was a labor and a fiery breath.
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  The ambiguous cowled celestial puissance worked.
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  Watched by the inner witnesses, moveless peace.
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  Even on the struggling nature left below strong periods of
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  illumination came lightnings of glory after glory burned.
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  Experience was a tale of blaze and fire ere rippled round the
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  argosies of the gods. Strange riches sailed to him
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  from the unseen. Splendors of insight filled the
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  blank of thought. Knowledge spoke to the
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  inconscient stillnesses. Rivers poured down of bliss and
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  luminous force visits of beauty. Storm sweeps of delight reigned
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  from the all powerful mystery above.
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  Thence stooped the Eagles of omniscience.
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  A dense veil was rent, a mighty whisper heard repeated in the
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  privacy of his soul. A wisdom cry from rapt
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  transcendences sang on the mountains of an unseen world.
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  The voices that an inner listening hears conveyed to him
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  their prophet. Utterances and flame wrapped
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  outbursts of the Immortal word, and flashes of an occult
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  revealing light approached him from the unreachable secrecy.
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  An inspired knowledge sat enthroned within, whose seconds
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  illumined more than reason's years.
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  An ictus of revealing luster fell as if a pointing accent
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  upon truth, and like a sky flare showing all the ground, a swift
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  intuitive discernment shown. One could separate the true and
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  false, or raise its rapid torch fire in the dark to check the
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  claimants crowding through mines.
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  Gates, covered by the forged signatures of the gods detect
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  the magic bride in her disguise were scanned the apparent face
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  of thought and life.