⁠Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol⁠ by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 4 The Secret Knowledge pp. 66-69

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The master of existence lurks in
US, and plays at hide and seek

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with his own force in nature's
instrument.

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Loiters, secret God, the
Imminent lives in man, as in his

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house, He has made the universe
his pastimes field, a vast

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gymnasium of his works of might.
All knowing he accepts our

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darkened state, Divine where
shapes of animal or man eternal,

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He assents to fate and time.
Immortal dallies with mortality.

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The all conscious ventured into
ignorance, the all blissful bore

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to be insensible Incarnate in a
world of strife and pain.

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He puts on joy and sorrow like a
robe, and drinks experience like

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a strengthening wine.
He whose transcendence rules the

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pregnant vasts prescient, now
dwells in our subliminal depths.

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A luminous individual power
alone, the absolute, the

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perfect, the alone, has called
out of the silence his mute

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force.
Where she lay in the featureless

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and formless hush, guarding from
time by her immobile sleep the

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ineffable poescence of his
solitude, the Absolute, the

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perfect, the alone, has entered
with his silence into space.

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He has fashioned these countless
persons of oneself.

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He has built a million figures
of his power.

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He lives in all who lived in his
vast alone.

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Space is Himself, and time is
only He, the Absolute, the

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perfect, the immune.
One who is in us as our secret

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self, our mask of imperfection,
has assumed.

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He has made this tenement of
flesh his own, His image in the

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human measure.
Cast that to His divine measure.

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We might rise then in a figure
of divinity.

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The Maker shall recast us and
impose a plan of Godhead on the

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mortal's mold, lifting our
finite minds to His infinite,

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touching the moment with
eternity.

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This transfiguration is earth
due to heaven.

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A mutual debt binds man to the
Supreme His nature we must put

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on as He put ours.
We are sons of God, and must be

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even as He his human portion we
must grow divine.

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Our life is a paradox, with God
for key, but meanwhile all is a

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shadow cast by a dream.
And to the musing and immobile

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spirit life and himself donned
the aspect of a myth, the burden

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of a long unmeaning tale.
For the key is hid, and by the

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inconscient kept.
The secret God beneath the

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threshold dwells in a body
obscuring the immortal spirit, a

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nameless resident vesting unseen
powers with matter shapes and

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motives beyond thought, and the
hazard of an unguessed

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consequence.
An omnipotent, indiscernible

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influence, he sits unfelt by the
form in which he lives and veils

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his knowledge by the groping
mind.

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A wanderer in a world his
thoughts have made, he turns in

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a cheer, a scurrow of error and
truth, to find a wisdom that on

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high is his as one.
Forgetting, he searches for

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himself as if he had lost an
inner light.

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He seeks as a sojourner,
lingering amid alien scenes.

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He journeys to a home.
He knows no more, his own self's

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truth.
He seeks who is the truth.

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He is the player who became the
play.

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He is the thinker who became the
thought.

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He is the many who was the
silent one.

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In the symbol figures of the
Cosmic Force, and in her living

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and inanimate signs, and in her
complex tracery of events, he

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explores the ceaseless miracle
of himself till the thousandfold

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enigma has been solved in the
single light of an all

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witnessing soul.
This was his compact with his

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mighty mate for love of her, and
joined to her forever to follow

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the course of time's eternity.
Amid magic dramas of her sudden

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moods and the surprises of her
masked idea and the vicissitudes

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of her vast Caprice, 2 seem his
goals.

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Yet ever are they one and gaze
at each other over born less.

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Time, spirit and matter are
their end and source.

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A seeker of hidden meanings in
life's forms, of the Great

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Mother's wide uncharted will and
the rude enigma of her

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terrestrial ways, he is the
explorer and the mariner on a

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secret inner ocean without born.
He is the adventurer and

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cosmologist of a magic earth's
obscure geography in her

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material orders fixed design.
We're all seem sure, and even

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when changed the same, even
though the end is left forever

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unknown and ever unstable is
life's shifting flow.

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His paths are found for him by
silent fate as stations in the

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ages.
Weltering flood, firm lands

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appear that tempt and stay
awhile.

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Then New Horizons lure the
mind's advance.

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There comes no close to the
finite's boundlessness.

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There is no last certitude in
which thought can pause and no

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terminus to the soul's
experience.

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A limit of farness never wholly
reached and unattained.

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Perfection calls to him from
distant boundaries.

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In the unseen, a long beginning
only has been made.