Readings in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo from Book 1, Canto IV The Secret Knowledge

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reading from Sri, aurobindo
sabitri, a legend and a symbol

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Book 1, Canto for the secret
knowledge.

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On a height.
He stood that looked towards

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Greater Heights.
Our early approaches to the

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infinite our sunrise, splendors
on a marvelous Verge while

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lingers yet unseen the Glorious
son.

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What?
Now we see as a shadow of what

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must come the Earth's up?
Look to a remote, unknown is a

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preface only of the Epic climb
of human soul from its Flat

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Earth least eight to the
discovery of a greater self.

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And the far glean of an eternal
light.

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This world is a beginning and a
base where life and mind erect

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their structured dreams.
And unborn power must build

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reality.
A death bound.

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Littleness is not all we are.
Immortal, our forgotten vastness

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has await Discovery in our
Summit selves.

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Unmeasured breaths and depths of
being are ours, akin to the

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ineffable, secrecy Mystic
Eternal and unrealized time

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neighbors of Heaven are nature's
altitudes.

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To these high peak Dominion
sealed to our search too far

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from surface Nature's postal
routes to lofty for our mortal

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lives to breathe deep in us, a
forgotten kinship points and a

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faint voice of ecstasy and
prayer calls to those Lucent

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lost immensities.
Even when we fail to look into

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our souls or lie embedded in
Earthly, Consciousness still

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have we parts that grow towards
the light yet, are there

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luminous tracks and Heavens
Serene and eldorado's of

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Splendor and ecstasy?
And temples to the godhead.

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None can see a shapeless memory
lingers in a still.

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And sometimes, when our site is
turned Within, Ruth ignorant

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Veil is lifted from our eyes.
There is a short miraculous

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escape.
This narrow Fringe of clamped

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experience.
We Leave Behind needed to us his

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life.
Our little walks, our

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insufficient reach.
Our souls can visit in great,

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lonely hours, still regions of
imperishable light, All-Seeing

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Eagle peaks of Silent power and
moon flame, oceans of Swift.

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Fathomless Bliss, And calm,
immensities of spirit space, in

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the unfolding process of the
self sometimes, the

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inexpressible mystery at elects
a human vessel of descent.

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A breath comes down from a
supernal, are a presence is born

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a Guiding Light awakes of
Stillness falls upon the

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instruments.
Fixed motionless like a marble

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Monument Stone calm, the body is
a pedestal supporting a figure

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of Eternal peace or a revealing
for sweeps blazing in out of

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some, vast Superior continent.
Knowledge, breaks through

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trailing its Radiance, he's and
nature trembles with the power

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of the flame A greater
personality.

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Sometimes possesses us.
Which yet we know, is ours.

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Or we adore the master of our
souls.

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Then the small bodily, ego,
Thins and Falls.

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No more insisting on its
separate self.

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Losing the punk to Leo of its
separate birth. it leaves as one

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with nature and with God, In
moments, when the inner lamps

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are lit.
And the life's cherish guests

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are left outside.
Our Spirits sits alone and

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speaks to its Gulfs.
A wider Consciousness opens than

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its doors.
Invading from spiritual

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silences, array of the Timeless
Glory.

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Stoops awhile to commune with,
are seized illumined, clay, and

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leaves.
Its huge, white stamp Upon Our

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Lives.
In the oblivious field of mortal

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mind revealed to the closed
Prophet eyes of Trance.

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Or in some deep internal
Solitude witnessed by a strange

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immaterial sense, the signals of
Eternity appear.

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The truth mind could not know.
Unveils its face, we hear what

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Mortal ears have never heard
you.

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Feel?
What Earthly sense has never

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felt.
We love what?

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Common Hearts, repel and Dread.
Our minds hush to a bright

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omniscient.
A voice calls from the chambers

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of the Soul.
We meet the Ecstasy of the

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godhead touch in Golden
privacies of immortal fire.

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These signs are native to a
larger self that lives within us

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by ourselves unseen.
Only sometimes a Holier

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influence comes.
A tide of mightier surgeons

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Bears, our lives and a diviner
presence moves.

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The soul.
Or through the Earthly.

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Coverings, something breaks.
A grace and beauty of spiritual

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light.
The murmuring tongue of a

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Celestial fire.
Our self and a high stranger

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whom we feel it is an axon seen
as if it were not it follows the

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line of some paternal birth yet.
Seems to perish with its mortal

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frame, assured of the Apocalypse
to be it reckons, not the

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moments in the hours.
Great patient.

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Calm.
It sees the centuries pass.

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Awaiting the slow Miracle of our
change in the sure, deliberate

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process of world force, and the
Long March of all revealing

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time.
It is the origin and the master

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clue a silent overhead and inner
voice.

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A Living Image seated in the
heart and unwalled wideness and

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a fathomless point.
The truth of all these cryptic

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shows in Space the real towards
which are strivings move, the

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secret grandiose meaning of Our
Lives.

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A treasure of Honey, in the cons
of God, a splendor burning in a

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tenebrous cloak.
It is our glory of the flame of

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God.
Our golden fountain of the

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world's delight and immortality
cowled in the Cape of death.

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The shape of our Unborn
definity.

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It guards for us our feet in
depth within, we're sleeps the

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Eternal seed of transient
things.

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Always we bear.
It us a magic key concealed in

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life's hermetic envelope, a
burning witness in the sanctuary

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regards through time and the
blind walls of form a Timeless

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light is in his hidden eyes.
He sees the secret things, no

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words can speak and knows the
goal of the unconscious world.

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And the Heart of the mystery of
the journeying years.

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And the Heart of the mystery of
the journeying years.