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Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 5 The Yoga of the King: the Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, pp. 87-91 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A border sovereign is the occult force.
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  A threshold guardian of the earth seems beyond.
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  She has canalized the outbreaks of the gods and cut through
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  vistas of intuitive sight, a long road of shimmering
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  discoveries. The worlds of a marvellous
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  unknown were near behind her an ineffable presence stood.
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  Her reign received their Mystic influences, their lion forces
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  crouched beneath her feet. The future sleeps unknown behind
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  their doors. Abysm's Infernal gaped round the
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  soul steps and called to its mounting vision.
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  Peak's divine, an endless climb and adventure of the idea there
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  tirelessly tempted the explorer mind, and countless voices
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  visited the charmed ear. A million figures passed and
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  were seen no more. This was a forefront of God's
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  thousandfold house, beginnings of the half screened invisible.
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  A magic porch of entry glimmering quivered in a
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  penumbra of screened light. A court of the mystical traffic
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  of the world's, a balcony and miraculous facade.
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  Above her lightened high immensities.
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  All the unknown looked out from boundlessness.
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  It lodged upon an edge of hourless time, gazing out of
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  some everlasting now, its shadows gleaming with the birth
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  of gods, its bodies signalling the bodyless, its foreheads
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  glowing with the oversoul, its forms projected from the
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  unknowable, its eyes dreaming of the ineffable, its faces staring
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  into eternity. Life and him learned its huge
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  subconscient rear, the little fronts unlocked to the unseen
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  vasts. Her gulfs stood nude, her far
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  transcendences flamed in transparencies of crowded light.
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  A giant order was discovered here, of which the tassel and
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  extended fringe are the scant stuff of our material lives.
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  This overt universe, whose figures hide the secrets merged
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  in superconcient light, wrote clear the letters of its glowing
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  code. A map of subtle signs surpassing
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  thought was hung upon a wall of inmost mind, illumining the
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  world's concrete images into significant symbols.
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  By its gloss it offered to the intuitive exigent its reflex of
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  the eternal mystery. Ascending and descending twixt
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  life's poles, the serried kingdoms of the Graded Law
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  plunged from the everlasting into time.
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  Then, glad of a glory of multitudinous mind and rich with
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  life's adventure and delight, and packed with the beauty of
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  matter, shapes and hues climbed back from time into undying
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  self, up a golden ladder, carrying the soul, tying with
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  diamond threads to spirit's extremes.
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  In this drop from consciousness to consciousness, each leaned on
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  the occult in conscience power, the fountain of its needed
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  ignorance, Arch Mason of the limits by which it lives.
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  In this sore from consciousness to consciousness, each lifted
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  tops to that from which it came, origin of all that it had ever
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  been, and home of all that it could still become.
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  An organ scale of the Eternal's acts mounting to their climax in
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  an endless calm paces of the many visaged.
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  Wonderful predestined stadia of the evolving way, measures of
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  the stature of the growing soul. They interpreted existence to
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  itself and mediating Twix the heights and deeps united the
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  veiled married opposites and linked creation to the
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  ineffable. A last high world was seen,
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  where all worlds meet. In its summit gleam where night
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  is not, nor sleep. The light began of the Trinity
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  Supreme. All there discovered what it
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  seeks for here it freed the finite into boundlessness and
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  rose into its own eternities. The inconscient found its heart
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  of consciousness. The idea and feeling groping and
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  ignorance, at last clutched passionately the body of truth,
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  the music born in matter's silences, plucked nude out of
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  the ineffable's fathomlessness. The meaning it had held but
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  could not voice. The perfect rhythm now only
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  sometimes dreamed an answer brought to the torn earth's
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  hungry need rending the night that had concealed the unknown.
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  Giving to her her lost, forgotten soul.
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  A grand solution closed the long impasse in which the heights of
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  mortal effort end. A reconciling wisdom looked on
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  life. It took the striving undertones
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  of mine and took the confused refrain of human hopes, and made
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  of them a sweet and happy call. It lifted from an underground of
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  pain the inarticulous murmur of our lives, and found for it a
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  sense illimitable, a mighty oneness, its perpetual theme.
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  It caught the soul's faint scattered utterances, read
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  hardly twixt our lines of rigid thought, or mid this drowse and
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  coma on matter's breast heard like disjointed mutterings in
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  sleep. It grouped the golden lynx that
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  they had lost and showed to them their divine unity, saving from
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  the error of divided self. The deep spiritual cry in all
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  that is, all the great words that toiled to express the One,
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  were lifted into an absoluteness of light, an ever burning
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  revelation's fire, and the immortality of the Eternal
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  Voice. There was no quarrel more of
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  truth with truth. The endless chapter of their
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  differences retold in light by an omniscient scribe, travelled
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  through difference towards unity.
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  Mind's winding search lost every tinge of doubt led to its end by
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  an all seeing speech that garbed the initial and original thought
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  with the finality of an ultimate phrase.
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  United were time's creative mood and tense to the style and
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  syntax of identity. A pain swelled from the lost
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  musing deeps. An anthem pealed to the triune
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  ecstasies, a cry of the moments to the immortal's bliss, as if
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  the strophies of a cosmic ode. A hierarchy of climbing
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  harmonies peopled with voices and with visages, aspired in a
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  crescendo of the gods from matter's abysses to the spirit's
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  peaks. Above were the immortal's
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  changeless seats, white chambers of dalliance with eternity and
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  the stupendous gates of the alone.
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  Across the unfolding of the Seas of self appeared the deathless
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  countries of the 1A. Many miracled consciousness
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  unrolled, vast aim and process and unfettered norms.
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  A larger nature's great familiar roads, a franchise from the net
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  of earthly sense. Calm continents of potency were
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  glimpsed. Homelands of beauty shut to
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  human eyes, half seen at first through wonders.
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  Gleaming lids surprised the vision with Felicity.
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  Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts of delight, stretched out in an
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  ecstasy of widenesses beyond our indigent corporeal range.
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  There he could enter there a while, abide a Voyager upon
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  uncharted routes, fronting the viewless danger of the unknown.
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  Adventuring across enormous realms, he broke into another
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  space and time.