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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 Soul's Release, pp. 41-45 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The inspiring goddess entered Immortal's breast, made there
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  her study of divining thought and sanctuary of prophetic
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  speech, and sat upon the tripod seat of mind.
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  All was made wide above, all lit below in darkness.
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  Course she dugout wells of light and the undiscovered depths
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  imposed a form, lent A vibrant cry to the unuttered vasts, and
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  through great shoreless, voiceless, starless breaths bore
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  earthward fragments of revealing thought.
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  Hewn from the silence of the ineffable, A voice in the heart
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  uttered the unspoken name. A dream of seeking thought,
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  wandering through space, entered the invisible and forbidden
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  house. The treasure was found of a
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  supernal day in the deep subconscient glowed her jewel
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  lamp lifted. It showed the riches of The Cave
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  whereby the miser traffickers of sense unused guarded beneath
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  Knight's dragon paws in folds of velvet, darkness draped they
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  sleep whose priceless value could have saved the world.
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  A darkness carrying mourning in its breast looked for the
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  eternal wide returning gleam, weighing the advent of a larger
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  ray and rescue of the lost herds of the sun.
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  In a splendid extravagance of the waste of God, dropped
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  carelessly in creation's spendthrift work, Left in the
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  Chantiers of the bottomless world, and stolen by the robbers
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  of the deep, the golden shekels of the eternal lie hoarded from
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  touch and view and thoughts, desire locked in blind anters of
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  the ignorant flood, lest men should find them and be even as
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  gods. A vision lightened on the
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  viewless heights. A wisdom illumined from the
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  voiceless depths. A deeper interpretation.
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  Greatent truth. A grand reversal of the night
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  and day. All the world's values changed,
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  heightening life's aim. A wiser word, a larger thought
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  came in than what the slow labor of human mind can bring.
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  A secret sense awoke that could perceive A presence and a
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  greatness everywhere the universe was not now this
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  senseless whirl borne round, inert on an immense machine.
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  It castaway its grandiose lifeless front, a mechanism no
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  more or work of chance, but a living movement of the body of
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  God, a spirit hid in forces and informs was the spectator of the
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  mobile scene. The beauty and the ceaseless
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  miracle let in a glow of the unmanifest.
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  The formless everlasting moved in it, seeking its own perfect
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  form. In souls and things.
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  Life kept no more a dull and meaningless shape in the
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  struggle and upheaval of the world.
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  He saw the labour of a Godhead's birth, a secret knowledge masked
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  as ignorance, fate covered with an unseen necessity, the game of
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  chance of an omnipotent will, a glory and a rapture and a charm.
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  The all blissful sat unknown within the heart.
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  Earth's pains were the ransom of its prisoned delight.
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  A glad communion tinged the passing hours.
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  The days were travellers on a destined Rd.
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  The Knight's companions of his musing spirit.
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  A heavenly impetus quickened all his breast.
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  The trudge of time changed to a splendid March.
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  The divine dwarf towered to unconquered worlds.
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  Earth grew too narrow for his victory, once only registering
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  the heavy tread of a blind power on human littleness.
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  Life now became a sure approach to God, existence, a divine
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  experiment, and cosmos, the soul's opportunity.
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  The world was a conception and a birth of spirit and matter into
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  living forms, and nature bore the immortal in her womb that
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  she might climb through him to eternal life.
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  His being lay down in bright, immobile peace, and bathed in
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  wells of pure spiritual light. It wandered in wide fields of
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  wisdom, self lit by the rays of an everlasting sun.
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  Even his body's subtle self within could raise the earthly
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  parts towards higher things, and feel on it the breath of
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  heavenlier air. Already it journeyed towards
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  divinity, up buoyed upon winged winds of rapid joy, upheld to a
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  light it could not always hold. It left mind's distance from the
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  truth supreme and lost life's incapacity for bliss.
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  All now suppressed in US, began to emerge.
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  Thus came his soul's release from ignorance, his mind and
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  body's first spiritual change, a wide God.
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  Knowledge poured down from above, a new world.
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  Knowledge broadened from within. His daily thoughts looked up to
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  the true and one. His commonest doings welled from
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  an inner light awakened to the lines that nature hides.
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  Attuned to her movements that exceed our Ken, he grew one with
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  a covert universe. His grasp surprised her
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  mightiest energy springs. He spoke with the unknown
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  guardians of the worlds forms he described.
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  Our mortal eyes see not his wide eyes bodied viewless entities.
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  He saw the cosmic forces at their work and felt the occult
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  impulse behind man's will. Time's secrets were to him an
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  OFT read book. The Records of the Future and
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  the Past outlined their excerpts on the etheric page.
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  One and harmonious by the maker's skill, the human in him
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  paced with the divine. His axe betrayed not the
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  interior flame thus forged the greatness of his front to earth.
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  A genius heightened in his body's cells that knew the
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  meaning of his fate, hedged works akin to the March of
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  unaccomplished powers beyond life's arc and Spirit's
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  immensities, a part he lived in his mind's solitude, a demigod
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  shaping the lives of men. One soul's ambition lifted up
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  the race. A power worked, but none knew
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  whence it came. The universal strengths were
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  linked to his filling earth's smallness with their boundless
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  breaths. He drew the energies that
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  transmute and age immeasurable by the common look.
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  He made great dreams, a mould for coming things, and cast his
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  deeds like bronze to front the years.
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  His walk through time outstripped the human stride,
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  lonely his days and splendid like the sun's.