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. 87-91

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A border sovereign is the occult
force.

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A threshold guardian of the
earth seems beyond.

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She has canalized the outbreaks
of the gods and cut through

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vistas of intuitive sight, a
long road of shimmering

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discoveries.
The worlds of a marvellous

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unknown were near behind her an
ineffable presence stood.

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Her reign received their Mystic
influences, their lion forces

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crouched beneath her feet.
The future sleeps unknown behind

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their doors.
Abysm's Infernal gaped round the

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soul steps and called to its
mounting vision.

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Peak's divine, an endless climb
and adventure of the idea there

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tirelessly tempted the explorer
mind, and countless voices

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visited the charmed ear.
A million figures passed and

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were seen no more.
This was a forefront of God's

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thousandfold house, beginnings
of the half screened invisible.

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A magic porch of entry
glimmering quivered in a

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penumbra of screened light.
A court of the mystical traffic

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of the world's, a balcony and
miraculous facade.

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Above her lightened high
immensities.

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All the unknown looked out from
boundlessness.

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It lodged upon an edge of
hourless time, gazing out of

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some everlasting now, its
shadows gleaming with the birth

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of gods, its bodies signalling
the bodyless, its foreheads

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glowing with the oversoul, its
forms projected from the

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unknowable, its eyes dreaming of
the ineffable, its faces staring

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into eternity.
Life and him learned its huge

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subconscient rear, the little
fronts unlocked to the unseen

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vasts.
Her gulfs stood nude, her far

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transcendences flamed in
transparencies of crowded light.

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A giant order was discovered
here, of which the tassel and

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extended fringe are the scant
stuff of our material lives.

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This overt universe, whose
figures hide the secrets merged

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in superconcient light, wrote
clear the letters of its glowing

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code.
A map of subtle signs surpassing

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thought was hung upon a wall of
inmost mind, illumining the

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world's concrete images into
significant symbols.

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By its gloss it offered to the
intuitive exigent its reflex of

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the eternal mystery.
Ascending and descending twixt

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life's poles, the serried
kingdoms of the Graded Law

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plunged from the everlasting
into time.

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Then, glad of a glory of
multitudinous mind and rich with

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life's adventure and delight,
and packed with the beauty of

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matter, shapes and hues climbed
back from time into undying

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self, up a golden ladder,
carrying the soul, tying with

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diamond threads to spirit's
extremes.

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In this drop from consciousness
to consciousness, each leaned on

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the occult in conscience power,
the fountain of its needed

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ignorance, Arch Mason of the
limits by which it lives.

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In this sore from consciousness
to consciousness, each lifted

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tops to that from which it came,
origin of all that it had ever

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been, and home of all that it
could still become.

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An organ scale of the Eternal's
acts mounting to their climax in

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an endless calm paces of the
many visaged.

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Wonderful predestined stadia of
the evolving way, measures of

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the stature of the growing soul.
They interpreted existence to

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itself and mediating Twix the
heights and deeps united the

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veiled married opposites and
linked creation to the

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ineffable.
A last high world was seen,

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where all worlds meet.
In its summit gleam where night

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is not, nor sleep.
The light began of the Trinity

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Supreme.
All there discovered what it

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seeks for here it freed the
finite into boundlessness and

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rose into its own eternities.
The inconscient found its heart

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of consciousness.
The idea and feeling groping and

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ignorance, at last clutched
passionately the body of truth,

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the music born in matter's
silences, plucked nude out of

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the ineffable's fathomlessness.
The meaning it had held but

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could not voice.
The perfect rhythm now only

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sometimes dreamed an answer
brought to the torn earth's

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hungry need rending the night
that had concealed the unknown.

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Giving to her her lost,
forgotten soul.

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A grand solution closed the long
impasse in which the heights of

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mortal effort end.
A reconciling wisdom looked on

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life.
It took the striving undertones

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of mine and took the confused
refrain of human hopes, and made

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of them a sweet and happy call.
It lifted from an underground of

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pain the inarticulous murmur of
our lives, and found for it a

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sense illimitable, a mighty
oneness, its perpetual theme.

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It caught the soul's faint
scattered utterances, read

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hardly twixt our lines of rigid
thought, or mid this drowse and

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coma on matter's breast heard
like disjointed mutterings in

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sleep.
It grouped the golden lynx that

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they had lost and showed to them
their divine unity, saving from

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the error of divided self.
The deep spiritual cry in all

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that is, all the great words
that toiled to express the One,

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were lifted into an absoluteness
of light, an ever burning

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revelation's fire, and the
immortality of the Eternal

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Voice.
There was no quarrel more of

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truth with truth.
The endless chapter of their

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differences retold in light by
an omniscient scribe, travelled

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through difference towards
unity.

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Mind's winding search lost every
tinge of doubt led to its end by

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an all seeing speech that garbed
the initial and original thought

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with the finality of an ultimate
phrase.

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United were time's creative mood
and tense to the style and

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syntax of identity.
A pain swelled from the lost

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musing deeps.
An anthem pealed to the triune

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ecstasies, a cry of the moments
to the immortal's bliss, as if

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the strophies of a cosmic ode.
A hierarchy of climbing

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harmonies peopled with voices
and with visages, aspired in a

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crescendo of the gods from
matter's abysses to the spirit's

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peaks.
Above were the immortal's

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changeless seats, white chambers
of dalliance with eternity and

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the stupendous gates of the
alone.

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Across the unfolding of the Seas
of self appeared the deathless

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countries of the 1A.
Many miracled consciousness

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unrolled, vast aim and process
and unfettered norms.

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A larger nature's great familiar
roads, a franchise from the net

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of earthly sense.
Calm continents of potency were

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glimpsed.
Homelands of beauty shut to

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human eyes, half seen at first
through wonders.

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Gleaming lids surprised the
vision with Felicity.

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Sunbelts of knowledge, moonbelts
of delight, stretched out in an

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ecstasy of widenesses beyond our
indigent corporeal range.

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There he could enter there a
while, abide a Voyager upon

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uncharted routes, fronting the
viewless danger of the unknown.

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Adventuring across enormous
realms, he broke into another

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space and time.