Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 5 The Yoga of the King: the Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness, pp. 80-83

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In a divine retreat from mortal
thought, in a prodigious gesture

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of soul sight his being towered
into pathless heights, naked of

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its vesture of humanity, as thus
it rose to meet him, bare and

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pure.
A strong descent leaped down a

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mite, a flame, a beauty half
visible with deathless eyes, a

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violent ecstasy.
The sweetness dire enveloped him

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with its stupendous limbs, and
penetrated nerve and heart and

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brain that thrilled and fainted
with the epiphany.

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His nature shuddered in the
unknown's grasp.

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In a moment shorter than death,
longer than time, by a power

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more ruthless than love, happier
than heaven, taken sovereignly

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into eternal arms, hailed and
coerced by a stark absolute

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bliss in a whirlwind circuit of
delight and force.

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Hurried into unimaginable
depths, upborne into

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immeasurable heights, it was
torn out from its mortality, and

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underwent a new and born less
change, an omniscient knowing

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without sight or thought, an
indecipherable omnipotence, a

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Mystic form that could contain
the world's yet make one human

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breast.
Its passionate shrine drew him

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out of his seeking loneliness
into the magnitudes of God's

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embrace, as when a timeless eye
annuls the hours, abolishing the

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agent and the ACT.
So now his spirits shone out

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wide blank, pure.
His wakened mind became an empty

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slate on which the universal and
soul could write.

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All that represses our fallen
consciousness was taken from him

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like a forgotten load.
A fire that seemed the body of a

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God consumed the limiting
figures of the past, and made

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large room for a new self to
live.

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Eternity's contact broke the
moulds of sense, a greater force

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than the earthly held his limbs.
Huge workings bared his

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undiscovered sheaths.
Strange energies wrought and

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screened, tremendous hands
unwound the triple cord of mind,

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and freed the heavenly wideness
of a godhead's gaze as through a

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dress.
The wearer shape is seen there,

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reached through forms to the
hidden absolute, a cosmic

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feeling and transcendent sight.
Increased and heightened were

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the instruments.
Illusion lost her aggrandizing

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lens, as from her failing hand
the measures fell.

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Atomic looked the things that
loomed so large the little ego's

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ring could join no more in the
enormous spaces of the self.

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The body now seemed only a
wandering shell, his mind the

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many frescoed outer court of an
imperishable inhabitant.

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His spirit breathed the
superhuman air.

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The imprisoned deity rent its
magic fence as with a sound of

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Thunder and of seas.
Vast barriers crashed around the

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huge escape, immutably coeval
with the world circle and end of

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every hope and toil inexorably
drawn round thought and act, The

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fixed immovable peripheries
efface themselves beneath the

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incarnates tread the dire of a
lamin and the bottomless crypt,

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between which life and thought
forever move.

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Forbidden still to cross the dim
dread bounds, the Guardian

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darknesses mute and formidable,
empowered to circumscribe the

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wingless spirit in the
boundaries of mind and ignorance

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protecting no more.
A dual eternity vanished,

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rescinding their enormous role.
Once figure of creation's vain

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ellipse, the expanding 0, lost
its giant curve.

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The old adamantine vitoes stood
no more.

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Overpowered were Earth and
nature's obsolete rule.

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The Python coils of the
restricting law could not

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restrain the swift arisen God.
Abolished were the scripts of

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destiny.
There was no small death haunted

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creature more no fragile form of
being to preserve from an all

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swallowing immensity.
The great hammer beats of a pent

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up world heart burst open the
narrow dams that keep us safe

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against the forces of the
universe.

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The soul and cosmos faced as
equal powers.

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A boundless being in a
measureless time invaded nature

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with the infinite he saw
unpathed, unwalled his Titan

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scope.