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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 2 The Adoration of the Divine Mother · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A stillness, absolute, incommunicable, meets the sheer
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  selfdiscovery of the soul. A wall of stillness shuts it
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  from the world. A gulf of stillness swallows up
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  the sense and makes unreal all that mind has known, all that
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  the laboring senses still would weave, prolonging an image to
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  unreality. Self's vast spiritual silence
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  occupies space. Only the inconceivable is left
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  only the nameless. Without space and time abolished
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  is the burdening need of life. Thought falls from us.
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  We cease from joy and grief. The ego is dead.
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  We are freed from being and care.
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  We have done with birth and death and work and fate.
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  Oh soul, it is too early to rejoice.
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  Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the self.
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  Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss.
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  But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and self's power?
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  On what dead bank on the eternal's Rd. one was within
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  thee, Who was self and world? What hast thou done for his
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  purpose in the stars? Escape brings not the victory
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  and the crown something thou camest to do from the unknown.
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  But nothing is finished, and the world goes on, because only half
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  God's cosmic work is done. Only the everlasting no has
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  neared and stared into thy eyes, and killed thy heart.
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  But where is the lover's everlasting?
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  Yes, and immortality In the secret heart, The voice, the
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  chance to the creator fire. The symbold ohm, the great
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  assenting word, The bridge between the rapture and the
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  calm. The passion and the beauty of
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  the bride. The chamber where the glorious
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  enemies kiss. The smile that saves.
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  The golden peak of things. This too is truth.
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  At the Mystic fount of life, a black veil has been lifted.
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  We have seen the mighty shadow of the omniscient Lord.
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  But who has lifted up the veil of light?
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  And who has seen the body of the King?
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  The mystery of God's birth and acts remains.
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  Leaving unbroken the last chapter seal unsolved, the
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  Riddle of the unfinished play, the cosmic player laughs within
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  his mask, and still the last in Violet secret hides behind the
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  human glory of a form. Behold, behind the gold idol, on
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  of a name a large white line has figured as a goal.
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  But far beyond the ineffable sun track's blaze, what seemed the
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  source and end was a wide gait, a last bare step into eternity.
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  An eye has opened upon timelessness.
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  Infinity takes back the forms it gave, and through God's darkness
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  were his naked light. His million rays return into the
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  sun. There is a 0 sign of the supreme
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  nature left nude and still uncovers God, but in her
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  grandiose nothingness all is there.
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  When her strong garbs are torn away from us, the soul's
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  ignorance is slain, but not the soul.
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  The 0 covers an immortal face. A high and blank negation is not
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  all. A huge extinction is not God's
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  last word, Life's ultimate sense, the close of beings
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  course, the meaning of this great mysterious world in
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  absolute silence sleeps an absolute power.
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  Awaking it can wake the transbound soul and in the ray
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  reveal the parent son. It can make the world a vessel
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  of spirit's force. It can fashion in the clay.
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  God's perfect shape to free the self is but one radiant pace.
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  Here to fulfill himself was God's desire.