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

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Oh, mortal.
Who complain assist of death and

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feet accused.
None of the harms thyself Hast

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called this troubled World thou
Hast chosen for thy home, Thou

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Art thyself, the author of thy
pain once in the immortal

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boundlessness of self and a vast
of Truth and Consciousness and

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light, the soul looked out from
its Felicity It felt the spirit

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interminable Bliss.
It new itself, deathless

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Timeless, spaceless one.
It saw the Eternal lived in the

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infinite, then curious of a
shadow thrown by truth.

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It's train towards some other
nice of self.

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It was drawn to an unknown face
peering through night.

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It sensed a negative Infinity.
Avoid supernal whose immense

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success, imitating.
God, and everlasting time.

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Offered a ground for Nature's,
adverse birth and matters.

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Rigid hard unconsciousness
harboring, the Brilliance of a

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transient soul that lights up
birth and death And ignorant

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life. a mind arose that stared
at nothingness, till figures

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formed of what could never be it
housed, the contrary of all that

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is a not appeared as being huge
sealed cause it's dumb support

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in a blank infinite in who's a
bism spirit must disappear, a

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darkened nature, lived and held
the seed of spirit hidden and

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feigning not to B.
Eternal Consciousness became a

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freak of an unsold Almighty in
content and breathe, no.

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More as Spirits native are
Bliss, was an incident of a

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mortal, our a stranger in the in
sentient universe as one drawn

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by the Grandeur of the Void, the
soul attracted, lean to the

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abyss, it long for the adventure
of ignorance.

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And the Marvel and surprise of
the unknown.

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And the endless possibility that
lurked in the womb of chaos and

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in nothing's Gulf where looked
from the unfathomed eyes of

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chance, it tired of its
unchanging happiness.

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It turned away from immortality,
it was drawn to hazards, call

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and dangerous charm.
It yearn to the pathos of grief.

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The drama of pain perdition's
Peril the Wounded, bear escaped,

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the music of Ruin, and its
Glamour, and crash, the savour

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of pity, and the gamble of love
and passion, and the ambiguous

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face of Fate, a world of hard
Endeavour and difficult toil and

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battle on extinctions, perilous
Verge a clash of forces vast in

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certitude.
The joy of creation out of

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nothingness.
Strange meetings on the roads of

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ignorance and the companionship
of half-known souls or the

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solitary greatness and lonely
force of a separate being,

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conquering its world called it
from its to Safe.

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Eternity.
A huge descent began a giant

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Fall For What the spirit sees
creates a truth.

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And what the soul imagined is.
Made a world. of thought that

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leapt from the Timeless can
become indicator of cosmic

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consequence and the itinerary of
the Gods, a cyclic movement in

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Eternal time, Thus came born
from a blind, tremendous choice.

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This great perplexed and
discontented world.

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This haunt of ignorance, this
home of pain.

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There are pitched desires,
tense, griefs headquarters, a

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vast disguise conceals the
eternals Bliss.