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

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Queen, strive no more to change
the secret will times accidents

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are steps in its vast scheme.
Bring not thy brief and helpless

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human tears across the
fathomless moments of a heart

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that knows its single will and
gods as one.

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It can embrace its hostile
destiny.

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It sits apart with grief and
facing death, affronting adverse

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fate.
Armed and alone in this enormous

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world, standing apart in the
mightiness of her silent

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spirit's will, in the passion of
her soul of sacrifice, her

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lonely strength facing the
universe affronting fate asks

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not man's help, nor God's.
Sometimes one life is charged

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with Earth's destiny.
It cries not for succor.

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From the time bound powers alone
she is equal to her mighty task.

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Intervene not in a strife too
great for thee, the struggle too

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deep for mortal thought to
sound.

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It's question to this nature's
rigid bounds.

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When the soul fronts nude of
garbs, the infinite.

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It's too vast theme of a lonely
mortal will facing the silence

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of eternity as a star
uncompanion moves in heaven.

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Unastonished by the immensities
of space.

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Traveling Infinity by its own
light.

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The great are strongest when
they stand alone, a godgiven

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might of being as their force a
ray from self solitude of light.

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The Guide, the soul that can
live alone with itself meets

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God.
It's lonely universe is their

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rendezvous.
A day may come when she must

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stand unhelped on a dangerous
brink of the world's doom and

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hers carrying the world's future
on her lonely breast, Carrying

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the human hope in a heart left
soul to conquer or fail on a

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last desperate verge, alone with
death and close to extinction's

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edge.
Her single greatness in that

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last dire scene must cross alone
a perilous bridge in time and

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reach an apex of world destiny
where all is 1 or all is lost

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for man.
And that tremendous silence,

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lone and lost, of a deciding
hour in the world's fate, in her

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souls climbing beyond mortal
time, when she stands soul with

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death, or soul with God apart
upon a silent, desperate brink,

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alone with herself and death and
destiny as on some verge between

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time and timelessness.
When being must end or life

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rebuild its base, alone she must
conquer or alone must fall.

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No human aid can reach her in
that hour.

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No armored God stands shining at
her side.

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Cry not to heaven, for she alone
can save for this the silent

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force came missioned down in
her.

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The conscious will took human
shape.

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She only can save herself and
save the world.

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Oh queen, stand back from that
stupendous scene.

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Come not between her and her
hour of fate.

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Her hour must come and none can
intervene.

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Think not to turn her from her
heaven sent task.

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Strive not to save her from her
own high will.

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Thou hast no place in that
tremendous strife.

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Thy love and longing are not
arbiters there.

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Leave the world's fate in her to
God's soul guard, even if he

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seems to leave her to her lone
strength, even though all

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falters and falls and sees and
end, and the heart fails, and

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only are death and night.
God-given her strength can

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battle against doom even on a
brink, where death alone seems

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close and no human strength can
hinder or can help.

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Think not to intercede with the
hidden will.

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Intrude not twixt her spirit and
its force, but leave her to her

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mighty self and fate.