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

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The seed of godhead sleeps in
Mortal hearts.

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The flower of godhead grows on
the world tree.

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All Shall discover God in self
and things, but when God's

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messenger comes to help the
world and lead the soul of Earth

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to higher things, he too.
Must carry the Yoke.

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He came to unloose he too must
bear the Pang that he would

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heal.
Exempt, a nun, afflicted by

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Earth's fate, how shall he cure
the ills?

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He never felt.
He covers the world's Agony with

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his calm, but though, to the
outward, I know sign appears and

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piece is given to our torn human
hearts.

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The struggle is there and paid
the Unseen price.

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The fire, The Strife, the
wrestle are within He carries

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the suffering world in his own
breast, it sins way on his

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thoughts.
It's grief is his Earth's

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ancient load lies heavy on his
soul night and its powers

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beleaguer.
His tardy steps, the Titan

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adversaries.
Clutch he bears His March is a

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battle and a pilgrimage life's
evil smites.

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He is stricken with the world's
pain.

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A million wounds gape in his
secret heart, he Journey

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Sleepless through an unending
night antagonist forces crowd

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across his path.
A Siege, a combat is his inner

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life.
Even worse, maybe the cost direr

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the pain, his large identity and
all harboring love shall bring

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the cosmic anguish into his
depths the sorrow of all living

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things shall come and knock at
his doors and live, within his

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house, a dreadful Court of
sympathy can tie all suffering

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into his single grief and make
all Agony in all the world, his

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own.
He meets an ancient adversary

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Force.
He is last with the whips to

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tear the world's Warren heart,
the Weeping of the centuries.

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Visits his eyes, he wears the
blood glued fiery Center shirt,

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the poison of the world has
Stained his throat in the

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marketplace of matters, Capital
amidst, the chaff offerings of

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the affair called life.
He is tied to the stake of a

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perennial fire.
He burns on an unseen, original

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Verge that matter may be turned
to Spirit stuff.

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He is the victim in his own
sacrifice.

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The Immortal bound to Earth's
mortality appearing in

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perishing, on the roads of time
creates God's Moment.

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By eternity' beats, he dies,
that the world may be new born

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and live.
Even if he escapes the fiercest

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fires, even if the world breaks,
not in a drowning, see only by

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hard.
Sacrifices, high heaven earned

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he must face the fight.
The Pang, who would conquer?

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Hell, a dark concealed.
Hostility is lodged in the human

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depths, in the hidden heart of
time.

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That claims the right to change
in, Mar God's work.

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A secret enmity ambushes, the
world's, March it leaves a mark

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on thought and speech and act,
it stamps, stain, and defect on

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all things done.
Till it is.

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Slain piece is forbidden on
Earth.

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There is no visible phone but
the Unseen is round US forces.

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Intangible besiege touches from
Alien Realms thoughts, not our

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own overtake us and compel the
Airing heart.

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Our lives are caught in an
ambiguous.

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Net and adversary force was born
of old, Invader of the life of

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mortal, man, it hides from him,
the straight Immortal path.

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A power came into Vale, the
eternal light up.

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Our opposed to the Eternal will
diverts the messages of the

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infallible word, contorts The
Contours of the cosmic plan, A

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Whisper lures to evil the human
heart.

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It seals up wisdoms eyes, the
souls regard, it is the origin

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of our suffering here.
It binds Earth to Calamity and

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pain.
This.

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All must conquer who would bring
down God's peace.

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This hidden folder lodged in the
human breast man must overcome

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or miss his higher fate.
This is the inner War without

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Escape.