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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Was then the Sun a dream because
there is night.

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Hidden in The Mortals heart.
The Eternal lives.

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He lives secret in the chamber
of thy Soul, a light shines

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there, nor pain, or grief can
cross a Darkness stands between

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thyself and him.
Thou canst not hear, or feel The

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Marvelous guest accounts.
Not see the beatific son.

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Oh, Queen though, I thought is a
light of the ignorance.

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It's brilliant curtain hides
from the God's face.

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It'll umm the world born from
the incontinence but hides The

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Immortals meaning in the world
die mines light hides from Thee.

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The Eternal thought the hearts
hopes hide from Thee.

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The eternals will Earth Joy shut
from Thee.

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The Immortals Bliss.
Then throws the need of a dark.

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Intruding God, the world's dread
teacher, the Creator pain.

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We're ignorant.
Is there suffering too must

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come?
That grief is a cry of Darkness

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to the light.
Pain was the firstborn of the

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incontinence which was they
bodies dumb original base.

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Already slept there.
Pain subcontinent shape a shadow

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in a shadowy tenebrous womb till
life shall move.

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It waits to wake and be In one
call with joy came forth, the

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Dreadful power.
In life's pressed.

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It was born.
Hiding its twin but pain came

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first, then only joy could be
Pain.

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Plowed, the first hard ground of
the World, drowse by pain.

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A spirit started from the clawed
by pain life stirred.

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In the subliminal deep in
turned, submerged hidden is

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matters.
Trance awoke to itself.

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The dreamer sleeping mind, it
made a visible realm out of its

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dreams.
It drew it shapes from the

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sub-continent depths Then turn
to look upon the world.

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It had made by pain and joy.
The bright and tenebrous twins

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the inanimate World perceived
its sentient soul else, had the

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incontinent never suffered
change.

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Pain is the Hammer of the Gods
to break a dead resistance in

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The Mortals, heart his slow
inertia as of living Stone.

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If the heart were not forced to
want and weep, his soul would

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have Lain down content at ease
and never thought to exceed the

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Human start and never learned to
climb towards the sun.

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This Earth is full of Labor
packed with pain.

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Throes of an endless birth.
Coerce her still, the Century's

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end.
The ages vainly passed.

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And yet the God had in her is
not born the ancient mother

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faces all with joy calls for the
Ardent Pang.

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The grandiose thrill for with
pain and labor.

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All creation comes This Earth is
full of the anguish of the Gods

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ever.
They travailed driven by X goad

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and streamed strive to work out.
The Eternal will and shape the

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life.
Divine in Mortal forms, his will

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must be worked out in human
breasts against the evil that

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rises from the golf's against
the world's ignorance and it's

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obstinate strength Against The
Stumbling out of man's Vert will

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against the Deep Folly of his
human mind against the blind

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reluctance of his heart.
The spirit is doomed to paint

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ill.
Man is free.

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There is a clamor of battle, a
tramp of March I cry a rising

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like a moaning, see a desperate
laughter under the blows of

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death, a doom of blood and
sweat, and toil and tears.

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Men died, that man may live and
God be born.

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And awful silence watches tragic
time.

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Pain is the hand of nature.
Sculpturing men to Greatness and

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inspired labor chisels with
Heavenly cruelty and unwilling

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mold implacable in the passion
of their will lifting.

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The Hammers of Titanic toil the
demiurges of the universe work.

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They shape with drunk giant
Strokes.

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Their own.
Their sons are marked with their

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enormous.
Amos stamp of fire, although the

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shaping God's tremendous touch
is torture unbearable to Mortal

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nerves.
The fiery Spirit, grows in

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strength within and feels a joy
in every Titan Pang.

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He who would save himself lived
bear and calm.

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He who would save the race must
share its pain.

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This, he shall know who obeys
that grandiose urge.

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The great who came to save this
suffering world and rescue Out

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of Time shadow and the law.
Must pass beneath the Yoke of

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grief and pain.
They're caught by the wheel that

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they had hoped to break on their
shoulders.

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They must bear man's load of
Fate Heavens riches.

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They bring their sufferings
count the price.

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Or they pay the gift of
knowledge with their lives.

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The Son of God, born as the son
of man has drunk.

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The bitter cup owned godheads
dead.

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The death Eternal owes to the
Fallen kind his will has bound

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to death and struggling life
that yearns in vain for rest and

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endless.
Peace.

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Now is the debt, paid wiped off.
The original score, the Eternal

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suffers in a human form.
He has signed salvations

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Testament with his blood.
He has opened the doors of his

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undying piece.
The deity, compensates, the

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creatures claimed the Creator
Bears, the law of pain and

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death, a retribution smites, the
Incarnate God, his love has

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paved The Mortals Road To
Heaven.

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He has given his life and light
to balance here, the dark

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account of mortal ignorance.
It is finished.

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The dread mysterious sacrifice
offered by God's martyred body

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for the world Gethsemane and
Calvary are his lot.

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He carries the cross on which
man soul is nailed.

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His escort is the curses of the
crowd insult, and jeer are his

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rights.
Acknowledgement two thieves,

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slain with him, mock his mighty
death.

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He is trod with bleeding brow,
the savior's way.

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He has found his identity with
God, pays with the body's death,

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his Souls vast light, his
knowledge Immortal triumphs by

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his death.
June, quartered on the scaffold,

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as he falls, is crucified voice
proclaims.

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I am God, Yes, all is God peels
back.

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Heaven's deathless call.
Yes, all is God peels back.

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Heaven's deathless call.