Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book fo Beginnings, Canto 3 The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release, pp. 30-34

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A low muttering rose from the
subconscient caves.

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The stammer of the primal
ignorance answer to that

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inarticulate questioning.
They're stooped with lightning,

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neck and thunder's wings, a
radiant hymn to the

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inexpressible and the anthem of
the Super conscient light.

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All was revealed there.
None can hear express vision and

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dream.
Were fables spoken by truth or

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symbols more veridical than
fact, or were truths enforced by

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supernatural seals.
Immortal eyes approached and

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looked in his and beings of many
kingdoms neared and spoke.

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The ever living, whom we name as
dead, could leave their glory

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beyond death and birth to utter
the wisdom which exceeds all,

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phrase the kings of evil and the
kings of good.

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Appellants at the reason's
judgment seat proclaim the

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gospel of their opposites, and
all believe themselves.

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Spokesmen of God, the gods of
light, and Titans of the dark

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battled for his soul As for a
costly prize.

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In every hour, loose from the
quiver of time, there rose a

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song of new discovery, a Beau
Twang's home of young

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experiment.
Each day was a spiritual

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romance, as if he was born into
a bright new world.

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Adventure leaped an unexpected
friend, and danger brought a

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keen, sweet Tang of joy.
Each happening was a deep

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experience.
There were high encounters.

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Epic colloquies and counsels
came couched in celestial speech

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and honeyed pleadings, breathed
from occult lips to help the

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heart, to yield to rapture's
call and sweet temptation.

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Stole from beauty's realms and
sudden ecstasies from a world of

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bliss.
It was a region of wonder and

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delight all.
Now his bright, clear audience

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could receive a contact,
thrilled of mighty unknown

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things, awakened to new,
unearthly Closenesses.

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The touch replied to subtle
infinities, and with a silver

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cry of opening gates, Sight's
lightnings leaped into the

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invisible ever.
His consciousness and vision

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grew.
They took an ampler sweep a

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loftier flight.
He passed the border mark for

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matters rule and past the zone
where thought replaces life out

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of this world of signs.
Suddenly he came into a silent

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self where world was not and
looked beyond into a nameless

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vast.
These symbol figures lost their

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right to live.
All tokens dropped.

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Our sense can recognize there
the heartbeat no more at bodies

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touch there the eyes gazed no
more on Beauty's shape in rare

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and lucent intervals of hush
into a sineless region he could

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soar, packed with the deep
contents of formlessness.

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Where world was into a single
being wrapped and all was known

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by the light of identity and
spirit was its own self

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evidence.
The Supreme's gaze looked out

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through human eyes and saw all
things and creatures as itself,

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and knew all thought and word as
its own voice.

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Their unity is too close for
search and clasp, and love is a

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yearning of the one for the one
and beauty is a sweet difference

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of the same and oneness is the
soul of multitude.

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There all the truths unite in a
single truth, and all ideas

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rejoin reality.
There knowing herself by her own

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terminal self, wisdom, supernal,
wordless, absolute, sat,

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uncompanioned in the eternal
calm, all seeing, motionless,

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sovereign and alone.
Their knowledge needs not words

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to embody idea.
Idea seeking a house in

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boundlessness, weary of its
homeless immortality, asks not

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in thoughts carved brilliant
cell to rest, whose single

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windows clipped outlook on
things sees only a little arc of

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God's vast sky.
The boundless with the boundless

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there consorts while there 1 can
be wider than the world, while

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there one is 1's own Infinity.
His centre was no more an

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earthly mind, the power of
seeing Silence filled his limbs,

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caught by a voiceless white
epiphany into a vision that

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surpasses forms into a living
that surpasses life.

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He neared the still
consciousness, sustaining all

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the voice that only by speech
can move.

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The mind became a silent
knowledge in the soul.

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The strength that only in action
feels its truth was lodged now

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in a mute omnipotent peace, a
leisure in the labor of the

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world's.
A pause in the joy and anguish

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of the search restored the
stress of nature to God's calm.

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A vast unanimity ended life's
debate.

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The war of thoughts that fathers
the universe, the clash of

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forces struggling to prevail in
the tremendous shock that lights

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a star, as in the building of a
grain of dust.

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The grooves that turn their dumb
ellipse in space, plowed by the

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seeking of the world's desire.
The long regurgitations of

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time's flood, the torment
edging, the dire force of lust

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that wakes kinetic in Earth's
dullard slime and carves a

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personality out of mud.
The sorrows by which nature's

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hunger is fed, the estrus which
creates with fire of pain the

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fate that punishes virtue.
With defeat, the tragedy that

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destroys long happiness, the
weak weeping of love, the

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quarrel of the gods ceased.
In a truth which lives in its

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own light.
His soul stood free, A witness

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and a king absorbed no more in
the moment ridden flux, where

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mind incessantly drifts as on a
raft hurried from phenomenon to

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phenomenon.
He abode at rest in indivisible

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time, as if a story long
written, but acted now in his

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present.
He held his future and his past,

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felt in the seconds, the
uncounted years, and saw the

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hours like dots upon a page.
An aspect of the unknown reality

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altered the meaning of the
cosmic scene.

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This huge material universe
became a small result of a

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stupendous force overtaking the
moment.

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The eternal ray illumined that
which never yet was made.

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Thought lay down in a mighty
voicelessness, the toiling

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thinker widened and grew still.
Wisdom transcendent touched his

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quivering heart.
His soul could sail beyond

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Thought's luminous bar mind
screamed no more of the

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shoreless infinite.
Across a void retreating sky he

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glimpsed through a last glimmer
and drift of vanishing stars the

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Super conscient realms of
motionless peace, Where judgment

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ceases and the word is mute, and
the unconceived lies pathless

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and alone There came not form or
any mounting voice.

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There only were silence and the
absolute.

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Out of that stillness mine
newborn arose and woke to truths

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once inexpressible and forms
appeared dumbly significant.

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A seeing thought, a self
revealing voice.

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He knew the source from which
his spirit came.

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Movement was married to the
immobile vast.

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He plunged his roots into the
infinite.

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He based his life upon eternity.