Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 3 The Yoga of the Soul's Release, pp. 41-45

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The inspiring goddess entered
Immortal's breast, made there

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her study of divining thought
and sanctuary of prophetic

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speech, and sat upon the tripod
seat of mind.

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All was made wide above, all lit
below in darkness.

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Course she dugout wells of light
and the undiscovered depths

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imposed a form, lent A vibrant
cry to the unuttered vasts, and

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through great shoreless,
voiceless, starless breaths bore

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earthward fragments of revealing
thought.

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Hewn from the silence of the
ineffable, A voice in the heart

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uttered the unspoken name.
A dream of seeking thought,

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wandering through space, entered
the invisible and forbidden

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house.
The treasure was found of a

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supernal day in the deep
subconscient glowed her jewel

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lamp lifted.
It showed the riches of The Cave

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whereby the miser traffickers of
sense unused guarded beneath

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Knight's dragon paws in folds of
velvet, darkness draped they

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sleep whose priceless value
could have saved the world.

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A darkness carrying mourning in
its breast looked for the

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eternal wide returning gleam,
weighing the advent of a larger

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ray and rescue of the lost herds
of the sun.

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In a splendid extravagance of
the waste of God, dropped

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carelessly in creation's
spendthrift work, Left in the

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Chantiers of the bottomless
world, and stolen by the robbers

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of the deep, the golden shekels
of the eternal lie hoarded from

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touch and view and thoughts,
desire locked in blind anters of

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the ignorant flood, lest men
should find them and be even as

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gods.
A vision lightened on the

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viewless heights.
A wisdom illumined from the

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voiceless depths.
A deeper interpretation.

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Greatent truth.
A grand reversal of the night

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and day.
All the world's values changed,

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heightening life's aim.
A wiser word, a larger thought

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came in than what the slow labor
of human mind can bring.

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A secret sense awoke that could
perceive A presence and a

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greatness everywhere the
universe was not now this

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senseless whirl borne round,
inert on an immense machine.

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It castaway its grandiose
lifeless front, a mechanism no

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more or work of chance, but a
living movement of the body of

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God, a spirit hid in forces and
informs was the spectator of the

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mobile scene.
The beauty and the ceaseless

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miracle let in a glow of the
unmanifest.

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The formless everlasting moved
in it, seeking its own perfect

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form.
In souls and things.

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Life kept no more a dull and
meaningless shape in the

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struggle and upheaval of the
world.

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He saw the labour of a Godhead's
birth, a secret knowledge masked

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as ignorance, fate covered with
an unseen necessity, the game of

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chance of an omnipotent will, a
glory and a rapture and a charm.

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The all blissful sat unknown
within the heart.

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Earth's pains were the ransom of
its prisoned delight.

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A glad communion tinged the
passing hours.

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The days were travellers on a
destined Rd.

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The Knight's companions of his
musing spirit.

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A heavenly impetus quickened all
his breast.

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The trudge of time changed to a
splendid March.

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The divine dwarf towered to
unconquered worlds.

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Earth grew too narrow for his
victory, once only registering

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the heavy tread of a blind power
on human littleness.

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Life now became a sure approach
to God, existence, a divine

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experiment, and cosmos, the
soul's opportunity.

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The world was a conception and a
birth of spirit and matter into

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living forms, and nature bore
the immortal in her womb that

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she might climb through him to
eternal life.

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His being lay down in bright,
immobile peace, and bathed in

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wells of pure spiritual light.
It wandered in wide fields of

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wisdom, self lit by the rays of
an everlasting sun.

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Even his body's subtle self
within could raise the earthly

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parts towards higher things, and
feel on it the breath of

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heavenlier air.
Already it journeyed towards

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divinity, up buoyed upon winged
winds of rapid joy, upheld to a

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light it could not always hold.
It left mind's distance from the

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truth supreme and lost life's
incapacity for bliss.

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All now suppressed in US, began
to emerge.

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Thus came his soul's release
from ignorance, his mind and

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body's first spiritual change, a
wide God.

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Knowledge poured down from
above, a new world.

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Knowledge broadened from within.
His daily thoughts looked up to

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the true and one.
His commonest doings welled from

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an inner light awakened to the
lines that nature hides.

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Attuned to her movements that
exceed our Ken, he grew one with

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a covert universe.
His grasp surprised her

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mightiest energy springs.
He spoke with the unknown

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guardians of the worlds forms he
described.

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Our mortal eyes see not his wide
eyes bodied viewless entities.

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He saw the cosmic forces at
their work and felt the occult

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impulse behind man's will.
Time's secrets were to him an

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OFT read book.
The Records of the Future and

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the Past outlined their excerpts
on the etheric page.

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One and harmonious by the
maker's skill, the human in him

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paced with the divine.
His axe betrayed not the

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interior flame thus forged the
greatness of his front to earth.

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A genius heightened in his
body's cells that knew the

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meaning of his fate, hedged
works akin to the March of

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unaccomplished powers beyond
life's arc and Spirit's

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immensities, a part he lived in
his mind's solitude, a demigod

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shaping the lives of men.
One soul's ambition lifted up

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the race.
A power worked, but none knew

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whence it came.
The universal strengths were

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linked to his filling earth's
smallness with their boundless

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breaths.
He drew the energies that

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transmute and age immeasurable
by the common look.

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He made great dreams, a mould
for coming things, and cast his

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deeds like bronze to front the
years.

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His walk through time
outstripped the human stride,

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lonely his days and splendid
like the sun's.