Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 1

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All is too little that the world
can give.

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It's power and knowledge or the
gifts of time and cannot fill

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the spirits sacred thirst.
Although of one, these forms of

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greatness are and by its breadth
of Grace, Our Lives abide,

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although more near to us than
nearness self, It is some utter

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truth of what we are hidden by
its own works.

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It seemed far off, impenetrable
occult voiceless obscure.

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The presence was lost by which
all things have charm the glory

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lacked of which they are dim
signs.

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The world lived on made empty of
its cause like love when the

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beloved's face is gone the labor
to know seem to vein Strife of

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mind all knowledge ended in the
unknowable, the effort to rule

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seem to Vain pride of will A
trivial achievement scorned, by

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time all power retired into the
omnipotent, a cave of Darkness

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guards.
The Eternal Light, the silence

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settled on his striving heart
absolved from the voices of the

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world's desire.
He turned to the ineffable

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Timeless call. a being intimate
and unnamable a wide compelling,

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ecstasy and peace felt in
himself and all and yet ungh

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rasped Approached and Faded from
his Souls Pursuit as if forever

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luring him Beyond.
Near it retreated far at called

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him, still nothing could
satisfy.

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But it's Delight.
Its absence left.

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The greatest actions dull, its
presence made the smallest seem

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Divine when it was there, the
hearts of Miss was filled but

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when the uplifting deity
withdrew existence lost its aim

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in the inane.
The order of the immemorial

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planes, the Godlike.
Fullness of the instruments were

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turned to props for an
impermanent seen.

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But who that?
Mightiness, was he knew not yet?

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Impalpable yet, filling all
that, is it made and blotted out

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a million worlds and took and
lost a thousand shapes and

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names.
It wore the guise of an

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indiscernible vast or was a
subtle colonel in the soul, a

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distant greatness left, it huge
and dim, a Mystic closeness.

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Shut it sweetly in.
It seems sometimes a figment or

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a robe and seem sometimes his
own colossal shade.

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A giant doubt, overshadowed his
advance.

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Across a neutral all supporting
void whose blankness nursed, his

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loan Immortal Spirit, allured
towards some recondite, Supreme

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aided coerced by enigmatic
Powers aspiring and half sinking

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in the up.
Born invincibly, he ascended

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without pause.
Always a sinus, vague immensity

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brooded without approach Beyond
response, condemning finite,

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things to nothingness, fronting
him with the in commensurable.

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Then to the ascent, there came a
mighty term, a height was

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reached where nothing made could
live a line where every hope and

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search must cease neared, some
intolerant bear reality.

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A zero formed pregnant with
boundless change on a dizzy

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Verge.
We're all disguises fail and

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human mind must abdicate in
light.

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Or die like a moth and the naked
blaze of Truth.

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He stood compelled to a
tremendous choice.

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All he had been in all towards
which he grew must.

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Now be left behind or else
transform into a self of that,

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which has no name.
Alone and fronting an intangible

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Force, which offered nothing to
the grasp, of thought, his

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Spirit face, the adventure of
the inane, abandoned by the

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worlds of form.
He strove, a fruitful worldwide.

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Ignorance foundered here.
thoughts long far circling

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Journey touched its clothes and
ineffective paused the actor

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Will the symbol modes of being
helped no more, the structures,

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nescient builds, collapsing
failed, and even the spirit that

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holds the universe fainted in
luminous insufficiency In an

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abysmal lapse of all things
built.

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Transcending every perishable
support and joining it.

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Last.
It's mighty, origin.

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The separate self must melt or
be reborn into a truth beyond

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the minds appeal.
All glory of outline, sweetness

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of Harmony rejected, like a
Grace of trivial notes.

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Expunged from being silenced,
nude austere.

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Died into a fine and Blissful
nothingness.

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The demiurge has lost their
names and forms the great

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schemed worlds that they had
planned and wrought past taken

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and abolished one by one.
The universe removed, it's

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colored Veil.
And at the unimaginable, end of

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the huge, riddle of created
things appeared, the far, seen

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God Head of the whole his feet
firm.

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Based on life, stupendous Wings,
omnipotent, a lonely Seer of

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time.
In word inscrutable with diamond

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gaze attracted by the
unfathomable reason.

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Regard the unsolved slow Cycles,
to their found returned to Rise

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Again from that invisible sea.
All from his positions born was

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now undone nothing remained the
cosmic mind conceives, eternity

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prepared to fade and seem to
Hugh.

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And imposition on the void space
was the fluttering of a dream

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that sank before it's ending
into nothing's deeps.

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The spirit that dies not and the
godhead.

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Self seemed myths, projected
from the unknowable from it all

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spraying in.
It is called to cease.

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But what that was no thought nor
site could tell only a formless

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form of self was left a tenuous
ghost of something that had been

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the last experience of elapsing
wave before it sinks into a born

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loose see as if it kept even on
the brink of not, it's bear.

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Feeling of the ocean whence it
came.

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A vastness brooded free from
sense of space and

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everlastingness cut off from
time.

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A strange Sublime and alterable
peace.

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Silent rejected from IT world
and soul a stark.

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Companionless reality answered
at last with his Souls,

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passionate search.
Passionless wordless absorbed in

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its fathomless hush.
Keeping the mystery, none.

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Whatever pierce it brooded,
inscrutable and intangible

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facing him with its dumb,
tremendous calm.

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It had no kinship with the
universe.

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There was no act, no movement in
its vast.

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Life's question met by its
silence died on her lips.

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The world's efforts East
convicted of ignorance.

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Finding no sanction of supernal
light.

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There was no mind there with its
need to know, there was no heart

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there with its need to love all
person perished in its

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namelessness.
There was no second.

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It had no partner or peer.
Only itself was real to itself.

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A pure existence safe from
thought and mood, a

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consciousness of unshared
immortal Bliss.

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It, dwelt aloof and it's bear
infinite one and unique

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unutterably soul of being
formless, futureless and mute

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that new Itself by its own
Timeless self-aware forever.

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And it's motionless, depths Uhn
creating Dated and unborn the

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one by whom all live, who lives
by none and immeasurable

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luminous secrecy guarded by the
veils of the unmanifest.

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Above the changing Cosmic
interlude Abode Supreme

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immutably the same.
A silent.

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Cause a cult impenetrable
infinite Eternal unthinkable.

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Alone.
Alone.