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

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Oh beautiful.
Body of the Incarnate.

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Word by thoughts are mine.
I have spoken with thy voice.

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My will is dying.
What thou Hast chosen?

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I choose?
All thou Hast asked, I give to

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Earth and Men all shall be
written out in Destiny's book by

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my trusty of thought and plan
and act, the executor of my will

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Eternal time But since thou Hast
refused my nameless calm and

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turn from my term was peace in
which is expunged, the visit of

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space and the shape of time is
lost and from Happy Extinction

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of thy separate self in my
uncompassionate and Loan,

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Eternity for not for thee.
The nameless World, Le snot

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annihilation of thy living soul,
and the end of thought and Hope.

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Hope and life, and love in the
blank, measureless unknowable.

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I lay my hands upon thy soul of
flame.

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I lay my hands upon my heart of
love, a yoke thee to my power of

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work in time because thou Hast
obeyed my Timeless will Because

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there has chosen to share
Earth's struggle in fate and

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leaned in pity over Earthbound
men and turned aside to help and

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yearn to save.
I bind by thy heart's passion,

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thy heart to mine and lay my
Splendid yoke upon my soul.

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Now will I do in the my
marvelous works.

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I will fasten thy nature with my
cords of strength, subdue to My

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delight thy Spirits, Limbs and
make thee, a vivid not of all my

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Bliss and build in thee.
My proud and Crystal home by day

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shall be.
My shafts of Power and Light by

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night.
My story mysteries of joy and

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all my clouds.
Light angled in thy hair and all

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my spring tides Mary in thy
mouth.

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Oh sunward.
Thou hast Thou shalt raise the

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Earth.
Sold to light and bring down

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God.
Into the lives of men Earth

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shall be my work chamber, and my
house, my Garden of Life to

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plant the seed Divine.
When all thy Work in human time

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is done the mind of Earth shall
be a home of light, the life of

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Earth.
The tree growing towards heaven,

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the body of Earth, the
Tabernacle of God, awaken from

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the more Idols, ignorance men
shall be lit with the eternals

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Ray and the glory of my son
lived in their thoughts and feel

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in their hearts, the sweetness
of my love and in their act, my

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Powers miraculous drive.
My will shall be the meaning of

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their lives.
Living For Me By Me.

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In me.
They shall live in the heart of

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my Creations mystery.
I will enact the drama of thy

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Soul, inscribe, the long Romance
of the enemy.

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I will pursue the across the
centuries.

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Thou shalt be hunted through the
World, by love naked of

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ignorance protecting Veil.
And without covert from my

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radiant, God's no shape Shall
Scream thee from my Divine

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desire.
Nowhere shalt thou Escape, my

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living eyes in the nudity.
I discovered self in a bear

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identity with all that is
disrobed of thy covering of

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humanity, divested of the dense.
Veil of human thought, made one

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with every mind and body.
And heart made one with all

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nature and with self and God
swimming in thy single soul, my

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Mystic world, I will possess in
thee my universe, The universe

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find all I am in the Thou shalt
Bear, all things, that all

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things may change.
Thou shalt fill all with my

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Splendor and my Bliss, Thou
shalt meet all with die

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transmuting, Soul assailed by my
infinitude tube of and quivering

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and immensities Below pursued by
me through my mind's Wallace

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vast.
Oceanic with the surges of my

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life, a swimmer lost between
two, leaping seized by my outer,

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pains and inner sweetnesses,
finding my joy in my opposite

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Mysteries.
Thou shalt respond to me from

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every nerve of vision shall
compel thy coursing breath, thy

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heart shall Drive the on the
wheel of works.

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By mind shall urge the Through
the flames of thought.

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To meet me in the abyss and on
the heights to feel me in the

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Tempest and the calm and love me
in the noble and the vial in

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beautiful things and terrible
desire.

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The Pains of Hell shall be to
thee, my kiss, the flowers of

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Heaven persuade, the, with my
touch my fiercest, Mass, shall

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my attractions bring music,
shall find the, in the voice of

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Swords, Beauty pursue thee
through the core of flame.

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Thou shalt know me in the
rolling of the Spheres and cross

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me in the atoms of the world.
The Wheeling forces of My

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Universe shall Cry To Thee the
The Summons of my name Delight

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shall drop down from my
nectarous.

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Moons my fragrance, he's the in
the Jasmine snare.

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My I shall look upon thee, from
the Sun mirror of nature.

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Secret Spirit made Thou shalt
reflect my hidden Heart Of Joy.

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Thou shalt drink down my
sweetness unalloyed in my pure.

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Lotus.
Cup of Starry brim, my Dreadful

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Hands laid on thy bosom, shall
Force die.

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Being bathed in fiercest longing
streams, Thou shalt discover the

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one in quivering, note and cry
the harp of all my Melodies, and

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roll my foaming wave in Seas of
Love.

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Even my disasters.
Clutch shall be to thee the

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ordeal of my raptures.
Contrary shape in pain self

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shall smile on the my secret
face.

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Face Thou shalt bear, my
ruthless Beauty unabridged amid

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the world's intolerable wrongs
trampled by the violent misdeeds

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of time, cry out to the Ecstasy
of my raptures touch.

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All being shall be to thy life.
My emissaries drawn to me on the

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bosom of thy friend compelled to
meet me in thy enemies eyes.

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My creature shall demand me from
thy heart thou Shalt not shrink

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from any brother Soul Thou shalt
be attracted helplessly to all

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men.
Seeing these shall feel my hands

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of joy and Sorrows pangs feel.
Steps of the world's Delight.

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Their life experience its
tumultuous shock in the mutual

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craving of two opposites.
Hearts touched by thy love,

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shall answer to my call.
Discovered the ancient Music of

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the Spheres in the revealing
accents of thy voice and nearer,

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draw to me because Thou Art
enamour'd of thy Spirits

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loveliness.
They shall embrace my body in

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thy Soul here in thy life.
The beauty of my laughs.

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No, the thrilled Bliss with
which I made the world's all

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that thou Hast shall be for
others Bliss.

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All that thou art shall to my
hands belong.

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I will pour Delight from thee as
from a jar.

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I will whirl the, as my Chariot
through the ways, I will use the

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as my sword.
And as my liar, I will play on

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thee my minstrels, he's of
thought and when thou art

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vibrant, with all ecstasy, and
when thou live is one spirit

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with all things, then will I
spare the not.

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I living fires, but make the
channel for my Timeless force.

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My hidden presence, led.
The unknowing on from thy

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beginning and Earth voiceless,
bosom through life and pain and

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time, and will and death through
outer shocks.

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And inner Silence has along the
Mystic roads of space and time

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to the experience, which all
nature hides.

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Who hunts and seizes me.
My captive grows this shalt thou

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henceforth.
Learn from thy, heart beats

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forever love.
Oh, beautiful.

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Slave of God.
Oh, lasso of my raptures.

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Widening news.
Become my court of universal.

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Love the Spirit, ensnared by
thee forced to Delight of

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Creations, Oneness tweet, and
fathomless compelled to embrace

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my myriad.
Unities and all my endless,

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forms and divine Souls.
Oh, mine grow full of the

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Eternal peace.
A word, cry out.

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The immortal litany built is the
golden Tower.

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The flame child born.
Oh, mine grow full of the

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Eternal peace.
A word, cry out.

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The immortal litany built is the
golden Tower.

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The flame child born.