Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 2 The Adoration of the Divine Mother

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A stillness, absolute,
incommunicable, meets the sheer

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selfdiscovery of the soul.
A wall of stillness shuts it

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from the world.
A gulf of stillness swallows up

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the sense and makes unreal all
that mind has known, all that

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the laboring senses still would
weave, prolonging an image to

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unreality.
Self's vast spiritual silence

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occupies space.
Only the inconceivable is left

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only the nameless.
Without space and time abolished

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is the burdening need of life.
Thought falls from us.

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We cease from joy and grief.
The ego is dead.

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We are freed from being and
care.

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We have done with birth and
death and work and fate.

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Oh soul, it is too early to
rejoice.

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Thou hast reached the boundless
silence of the self.

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Thou hast leaped into a glad
divine abyss.

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But where hast thou thrown
Self's mission and self's power?

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On what dead bank on the
eternal's Rd. one was within

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thee, Who was self and world?
What hast thou done for his

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purpose in the stars?
Escape brings not the victory

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and the crown something thou
camest to do from the unknown.

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But nothing is finished, and the
world goes on, because only half

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God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting no has

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neared and stared into thy eyes,
and killed thy heart.

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But where is the lover's
everlasting?

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Yes, and immortality In the
secret heart, The voice, the

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chance to the creator fire.
The symbold ohm, the great

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assenting word, The bridge
between the rapture and the

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calm.
The passion and the beauty of

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the bride.
The chamber where the glorious

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enemies kiss.
The smile that saves.

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The golden peak of things.
This too is truth.

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At the Mystic fount of life, a
black veil has been lifted.

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We have seen the mighty shadow
of the omniscient Lord.

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But who has lifted up the veil
of light?

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And who has seen the body of the
King?

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The mystery of God's birth and
acts remains.

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Leaving unbroken the last
chapter seal unsolved, the

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Riddle of the unfinished play,
the cosmic player laughs within

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his mask, and still the last in
Violet secret hides behind the

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human glory of a form.
Behold, behind the gold idol, on

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of a name a large white line has
figured as a goal.

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But far beyond the ineffable sun
track's blaze, what seemed the

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source and end was a wide gait,
a last bare step into eternity.

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An eye has opened upon
timelessness.

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Infinity takes back the forms it
gave, and through God's darkness

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were his naked light.
His million rays return into the

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sun.
There is a 0 sign of the supreme

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nature left nude and still
uncovers God, but in her

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grandiose nothingness all is
there.

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When her strong garbs are torn
away from us, the soul's

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ignorance is slain, but not the
soul.

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The 0 covers an immortal face.
A high and blank negation is not

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all.
A huge extinction is not God's

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last word, Life's ultimate
sense, the close of beings

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course, the meaning of this
great mysterious world in

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absolute silence sleeps an
absolute power.

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Awaking it can wake the
transbound soul and in the ray

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reveal the parent son.
It can make the world a vessel

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of spirit's force.
It can fashion in the clay.

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God's perfect shape to free the
self is but one radiant pace.

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Here to fulfill himself was
God's desire.