Readings in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII, Canto 4 The Triple Soul-Forces

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Oh sabitri.
I am thy secret soul.

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I have come down into the human
world and the movement watched

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by a nun sleeping.
I and the Dark Country reality

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of Earth's fate and the battle
of the bright and somber powers.

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I stand upon Earth, path of
danger in grief and help the

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unfortunate and save the doomed
to the strong.

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I bring the guerdon of their
strength.

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To the week, I bring the armor
of my Force two.

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Men, who long?
I carry their coveted Joy.

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I am Fortune justifying the
great and wise by the sanction

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of the plaudits of the crowd,
then trampling them with the

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armed heel of fate.
My ear is leaned, to The Cry of

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the oppressed.
I toppled down the Thrones of

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tyrant Kings.
'Cry comes from proscribed and

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hunted lives, appealing to me
against a pitiless world.

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A voice of The Forsaken, and
desolate, and the lone prisoner

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in his dungeon cell.
Men Halen my coming, the

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almighty's force or praise with
thankful tears, his Save Your

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Grace, I smite, the Titan, hooba
strides, the world and slay, the

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ogre and his blood-stained in, I
am Durga goddess of the proud

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and strong and Lakshmi, Queen of
the fair and fortunate.

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I wear the face of Kali when I
kill.

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I trample the corpses of the
demon hordes.

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I am charged by God, to do his
mighty work uncaring, I serve,

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his will who sent me forth
Reckless of peril and Earthly

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consequence.
I reason not a virtue and of

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sin, but do the deed.
He has put into my heart.

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I fear not for the angry frown
of Heaven.

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I Flinch not from the red
assault of hell.

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I crush the opposition of the
Gods, tread down a million

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Goblin obstacles.
I guide man to the path of the

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Divine and guard him from the
red wolf and the snake.

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I said in his mortal hand, my
heavenly sword and put on him,

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the breastplate of the Gods.
I break the ignorant pride of

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human mind and lead the thought
to the wideness of the truth.

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Iran man's narrow and successful
life and force his sorrowful

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eyes to gaze at the son that he
may die to Earth and live in his

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soul.
I know the goal.

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I know the secret route.
I have studied the map of the

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invisible world.
I am the battles head the

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journeys star, but the great
obstinate World resist my word

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and the crookedness and evil in
man's heart is stronger than

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reason profounder than the pit
and the malignancy of hostile

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Powers.
Put craft lie back, the clock of

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Destiny.
And mightier seems than the

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Eternal will.
The cosmic evil is too deep to

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unroot.
The cosmic suffering is too vast

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to heal a few.
I guide who passed me towards

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the light of few.
I save the mass falls back.

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Unsaved a few, I help the many
strive and fail.

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But my heart, I have hardened
and I do my work slowly, the

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light grows greater in the East.
Slowly the world progresses on

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God's Road.
His seal is on my task.

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It cannot fail.
I shall hear the silver swing of

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Heaven's Gates when God comes
out to meet the soul of the

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world.
But my heart, I have hardened

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and I do my work slowly, the
light grows greater in the East.

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Slowly the world progresses on
God's Road.

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His seal is on my task.
It cannot fail.

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I shall hear the silver swing of
Heaven's Gates when God comes

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out to meet the soul of the
world.