Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 3 The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul's Release, pp. 34-38

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Only a while at first, these
heavenlier states, these large,

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wide, poised upliftings, could
endure.

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The high and luminous tension
breaks too soon the body's stone

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stillness and the life's hushed
trance, the breathless might and

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calm of silent mind.
Or slowly they fail.

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As sets a golden day, the
restless nether members tire of

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peace, a nostalgia of old little
works and joys.

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A need to call back small
familiar selves to tread the

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accustomed and inferior way.
The need to rest in a natural

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pose of fall as a child who
learns to walk can walk not long

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replace the Titan will forever
to climb on the heart's altar,

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dim the sacred fire, An old pull
of subconscious chords renews

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it, draws the unwilling spirit
from the heights or a dull

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gravitation drags us down to the
blind driven inertia of our

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base.
This too the Supreme Diplomat

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can use.
He makes our fall a means for

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greater rise, for into ignorant
nature's gusty field into the

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half ordered chaos of mortal
life.

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The formless power the self of
eternal light follow in the

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shadow of the Spirit's descent
the twin duality for everyone

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chooses its home mid the tumults
of the scents.

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He comes unseen into our darker
parts and curtained by the

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darkness does his work.
A subtle and all knowing guest

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and guide till they too feel the
need and will to change.

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All here must learn to obey a
higher law.

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Our body cells must hold the
immortal's flame, else would the

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spirit reach alone its source,
leaving 1/2 saved world to its

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dubious fate.
Nature would ever labor

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unredeemed.
Our earth would ever spin

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unhelped in space, and this
immense creation's purpose fail,

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till at last the frustrate
universe sank, undone, Even his

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God like strength to rise must
fall.

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His greater consciousness
withdrew behind, dim and

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eclipsed.
His human outside strove to feel

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again.
The old sublimities bring the

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high saving touch.
The ethereal flame call back to

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its dire need, the divine force.
Always the power poured back

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like sudden rain, or slowly in
his breast a presence grew.

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It clamoured back to some
remembered height, or soared

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above the peak from which it
fell.

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Each time he rose there was a
larger poise, a dwelling on a

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higher spirit plane.
The light remained in him, a

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longer space in this oscillation
between earth and heaven.

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In this ineffable Communion's
climb, there grew in him as

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grows A waxing moon, the glory
of the integer of his soul, a

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union of the real with the
unique, a gaze of the alone from

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every face.
The presence of the eternal in

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the hours widening the mortal
mind's half look on things,

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bridging the gap between man's
force and fate, made whole the

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fragment.
Being we are here at last was

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one a firm spiritual poise, a
constant lodging in the

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eternal's realm, a safety in the
silence and the ray, a

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settlement in the immutable.
His heights of being lived in

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the still self.
His mind could rest on a

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supernal ground and look down on
the magic and the play, where

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the God Child lies on the lap of
night and dawn and the

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everlasting puts on time's
disguise.

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To the still heights and to the
troubled depths.

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His equal spirit gave its vast
ascent A poised serenity of

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tranquil strength, a wide,
unshaken look on time's unrest.

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Faced all experience with
unaltered peace, indifferent to

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the sorrow and delight,
untempted by the marvel and the

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call, immobile, it beheld the
flux of things calm and apart,

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supported all that is his
spirit.

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Stillness helped the toiling
world.

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Inspired by silence and the
closed eyes sight, his force

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could work with a new luminous
art on the crude material from

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which all is made, and the
refusal of Inertia's mass and

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the grey front of the world's
ignorance and nessient matter,

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and the huge error of life.
As a sculptor Chisels, a deity

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out of stone.
He slowly chipped off the dark

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envelope line of defense of
nature's ignorance, the illusion

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and mystery of the Inconscient,
in whose black Paul the Eternal

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wraps his head that he may act
unknown in cosmic time, a

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splendor of self, creation from
the peaks, a transfiguration in

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the Mystic depths, A happier
cosmic working could begin and

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fashion the world's shape in him
anew, God found in nature,

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nature fulfilled, In God Already
in him was seen that task of

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power.
Life made its home on the high

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tops of self.
His soul, mind, heart became a

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single sun.
Only life's lower reaches

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remained dim.
But there too, in the uncertain

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shadow of life, there was a
labor and a fiery breath.

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The ambiguous cowled celestial
puissance worked.

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Watched by the inner witnesses,
moveless peace.

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Even on the struggling nature
left below strong periods of

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illumination came lightnings of
glory after glory burned.

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Experience was a tale of blaze
and fire ere rippled round the

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argosies of the gods.
Strange riches sailed to him

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from the unseen.
Splendors of insight filled the

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blank of thought.
Knowledge spoke to the

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inconscient stillnesses.
Rivers poured down of bliss and

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luminous force visits of beauty.
Storm sweeps of delight reigned

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from the all powerful mystery
above.

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Thence stooped the Eagles of
omniscience.

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A dense veil was rent, a mighty
whisper heard repeated in the

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privacy of his soul.
A wisdom cry from rapt

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transcendences sang on the
mountains of an unseen world.

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The voices that an inner
listening hears conveyed to him

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their prophet.
Utterances and flame wrapped

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outbursts of the Immortal word,
and flashes of an occult

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revealing light approached him
from the unreachable secrecy.

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An inspired knowledge sat
enthroned within, whose seconds

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illumined more than reason's
years.

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An ictus of revealing luster
fell as if a pointing accent

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upon truth, and like a sky flare
showing all the ground, a swift

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intuitive discernment shown.
One could separate the true and

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false, or raise its rapid torch
fire in the dark to check the

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claimants crowding through
mines.

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Gates, covered by the forged
signatures of the gods detect

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the magic bride in her disguise
were scanned the apparent face

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of thought and life.