Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 4 The Secret Knowledge pp. 52-55

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But few can look beyond the
present state or overleap this

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matted hedge of sense.
All that transpires on Earth and

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all beyond are parts of an
illimitable plan the one keeps

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in his heart and knows alone.
Our outward happenings have

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their seed within, and even this
random fate that imitates

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chance.
This mass of unintelligible

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results are the dumb graph of
truths that work unseen.

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The laws of the unknown create
the known.

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The events that shape the
appearance of our lives are a

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cipher of subliminal quiverings,
which, rarely we surprise or

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vaguely feel, are an outcome of
suppressed realities that hardly

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rise into material day.
They are born from the spirit

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sun of hidden powers, digging a
tunnel through emergency.

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But who shall Pierce into the
cryptic gulf and learn what deep

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necessity of the soul determined
casual deed and consequence

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absorbed in a routine of daily
acts, our eyes are fixed on an

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external scene.
We hear the crash of the wheels

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of circumstance and wonder at
the hidden cause of things.

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Yet a foreseeing knowledge might
be ours if we could take our

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spirits stand within, if we
could hear the muffled demon

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voice.
Too seldom is the shadow of what

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must come cast in an instant on
the secret sense which feels the

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shock of the invisible, and
seldom in the few who answer

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give the mighty process of the
cosmic will communicates its

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image to our sight, identifying
the world's mind with ours.

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Our range is fixed within the
crowded arc of what we observe

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and touch and thought can guess,
and rarely dawns the light of

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the unknown Waking in us the
prophet and the seer.

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The outward and the immediate
are our field.

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The dead past is our background
and support.

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Mine keeps the soul prisoner.
We are slaves to our acts.

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We cannot free our gaze to reach
Wisdom's son, inheritor of the

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brief animal mind.
Man, still a child in nature's

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mighty hands in the succession
of the moments, lives to a

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changing present is his narrow
right.

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His memory stares back at a
phantom past.

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The future flees before him.
As he moves, he sees imagined

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garments, not a face.
Armed with a limited, precarious

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strength, he saves his fruits of
work from adverse chance.

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A struggling ignorance is his
wisdom's mate.

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He waits to see the consequence
of his acts.

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He waits to weigh the certitude
of his thoughts.

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He knows not what he shall
achieve, or when.

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He knows not whether at last he
shall survive or end like the

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Mastodon and the sloth, and
perish from the earth where he

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was king.
He is ignorant of the meaning of

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his life.
He is ignorant of his high and

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splendid fate.
Only the immortals on their

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deathless heights, dwelling
beyond the walls of time and

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space, masters of living free
from the bonds of thought, who

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are overseers of fate and chance
and will.

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And experts of the theorem of
world need can see the idea.

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The might that change time's
course come maimed with the

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light from undiscovered worlds.
Here, while the world toils on

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with its deep blind heart.
The galloping hooves of the

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unforeseen event, bearing the
superhuman rider near and

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impassive to earth's din and
startled cry, return to the

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silence of the hills of God.
As lightning leaps, as Thunder

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sweeps, they pass and leave
their mark on the trampled

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breast of life above the world.
The world creators stand in the

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phenomenon.
See its Mystic source.

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These heed not the deceiving
outward play.

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They turn not to the moment's
busy tramp, but Lizen with the

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still patience of the unborn,
for the slow footsteps of far

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destiny, approaching through
huge distances of time, unmarked

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by the eye that sees effect and
cause unheard mid the clamour of

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the human plane.
Attentive to an unseen truth,

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they seize as sound as of
invisible auger wings, voices of

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an unplumbed significance,
mutterings that brewed in the

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core of matter's sleep.
In the heart's profound audition

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they can catch the murmurs lost
by life's uncaring ear.

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A prophet's speech in thoughts,
omniscient trance above the

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illusion of the hopes that pass
behind the appearance and the

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overt act behind this clockwork
chance and vague surmise amid

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the wrestle of force, the
trampling feet across the cries

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of anguish and of joy across the
triumph, fighting and despair.

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They watched the bliss for which
earth's heart has cried on the

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long road which cannot see its
end winding undetected through

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the skeptic days, and to meet it
guide the unheedful moving

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world.
Thus will the mass transcendent

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mount his throne When darkness
deepens.

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Strangling the earth's breast.
And man's corporeal mind is the

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only lamp.
As a thief's in the night shall

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be the covert tread of one who
steps unseen into his house.

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A voice I'll heard shall speak
the soul obey a power into

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mind's inner chamber steel a
charm and sweetness open life's

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closed doors, and beauty conquer
the resisting world.

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The truth.
Light captured nature by

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surprise.
A stealth of God compel the

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heart to bliss and earth grow
unexpectedly.

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Divine In matter shall be lit.
The spirits glow in body and

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body kindled.
The sacred birth night shall

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awake to the anthem of the
stars.

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The days become a happy Pilgrim
March.

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Our will a force of the
eternal's power and thought the

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rays of a spiritual sun.
A few shall see what nun yet

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understands.
God shall grow up while the wise

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men talk and sleep, For man
shall not know the coming till

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its hour, and belief shall be
not till the work is done.