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Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book VI, Canto 2 The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Queen, strive no more to change the secret will times accidents
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  are steps in its vast scheme. Bring not thy brief and helpless
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  human tears across the fathomless moments of a heart
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  that knows its single will and gods as one.
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  It can embrace its hostile destiny.
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  It sits apart with grief and facing death, affronting adverse
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  fate. Armed and alone in this enormous
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  world, standing apart in the mightiness of her silent
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  spirit's will, in the passion of her soul of sacrifice, her
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  lonely strength facing the universe affronting fate asks
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  not man's help, nor God's. Sometimes one life is charged
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  with Earth's destiny. It cries not for succor.
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  From the time bound powers alone she is equal to her mighty task.
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  Intervene not in a strife too great for thee, the struggle too
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  deep for mortal thought to sound.
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  It's question to this nature's rigid bounds.
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  When the soul fronts nude of garbs, the infinite.
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  It's too vast theme of a lonely mortal will facing the silence
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  of eternity as a star uncompanion moves in heaven.
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  Unastonished by the immensities of space.
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  Traveling Infinity by its own light.
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  The great are strongest when they stand alone, a godgiven
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  might of being as their force a ray from self solitude of light.
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  The Guide, the soul that can live alone with itself meets
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  God. It's lonely universe is their
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  rendezvous. A day may come when she must
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  stand unhelped on a dangerous brink of the world's doom and
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  hers carrying the world's future on her lonely breast, Carrying
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  the human hope in a heart left soul to conquer or fail on a
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  last desperate verge, alone with death and close to extinction's
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  edge. Her single greatness in that
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  last dire scene must cross alone a perilous bridge in time and
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  reach an apex of world destiny where all is 1 or all is lost
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  for man. And that tremendous silence,
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  lone and lost, of a deciding hour in the world's fate, in her
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  souls climbing beyond mortal time, when she stands soul with
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  death, or soul with God apart upon a silent, desperate brink,
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  alone with herself and death and destiny as on some verge between
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  time and timelessness. When being must end or life
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  rebuild its base, alone she must conquer or alone must fall.
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  No human aid can reach her in that hour.
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  No armored God stands shining at her side.
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  Cry not to heaven, for she alone can save for this the silent
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  force came missioned down in her.
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  The conscious will took human shape.
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  She only can save herself and save the world.
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  Oh queen, stand back from that stupendous scene.
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  Come not between her and her hour of fate.
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  Her hour must come and none can intervene.
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  Think not to turn her from her heaven sent task.
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  Strive not to save her from her own high will.
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  Thou hast no place in that tremendous strife.
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  Thy love and longing are not arbiters there.
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  Leave the world's fate in her to God's soul guard, even if he
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  seems to leave her to her lone strength, even though all
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  falters and falls and sees and end, and the heart fails, and
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  only are death and night. God-given her strength can
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  battle against doom even on a brink, where death alone seems
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  close and no human strength can hinder or can help.
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  Think not to intercede with the hidden will.
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  Intrude not twixt her spirit and its force, but leave her to her
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  mighty self and fate.