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. 76-78

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A will, a hope immense now
seized his heart, and to discern

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the superhuman's form he raised
his eyes to unseen spiritual

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heights, aspiring to bring down
a greater world.

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The glory he had glimpsed must
be his home.

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A brighter, heavenlier sun must
soon illume this dusk room with

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its dark internal stare.
The infant's soul in its small

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nursery school, mid objects
meant for a lesson hardly

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learned, outgrow its early
grammar of intellect and its

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imitation of earth.
Nature's art, its earthly

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dialect to God, language, change
in living symbols, study reality

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and learn the logic of the
infinite.

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The ideal must be nature's
common truth.

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The body illumined with the
indwelling God.

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The heart and mind feel one with
all that is a conscious soul.

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Live in a conscious world as
through a mist a sovereign peak

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is seen.
The greatness of the Eternal

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Spirit appeared.
Exiled in a fragmented universe

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amid half semblances of Diviner
things, these now could serve no

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more his regal turn, the
Immortal's pride refused the

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doom to live.
A miser of the scanty bargain

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made between our littleness and
bounded hopes and the

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compassionate infinitudes.
His height repelled the lowness

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of Earth's state.
A wideness discontented with its

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frame resiled from poor assent
to nature's terms.

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The harsh contract spurned and
the diminished lease Only

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beginnings are accomplished
here.

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Our bases matter seems alone
complete.

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An absolute machine without a
soul or all.

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Seems a misfit of half ideas,
where we saddle with the vice of

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earthly form, a hurried,
imperfect glimpse of heavenly

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things, guesses and travesties
of celestial types.

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Here chaos sorts itself into a
world, a brief formation

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drifting in the void.
Apings of knowledge, unfinished

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arcs of power, Flamings of
beauty into earthly shapes.

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Love's broken reflexes of unity,
swim fragment.

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Mirrorings of a floating sun, A
packed assemblage of crude,

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tentative lives are pieced into
a tessellated hole.

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There is no perfect answer to
our hopes.

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There are blind, voiceless doors
that have no key Thought climbs

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in vain and brings a borrowed
light.

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Cheated by counterfeits sold to
us in life's Mart, our hearts

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clutch at a forfeited heavenly
bliss.

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There is a provender for the
mind's satiety.

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There are thrills of the flesh,
but not the soul's desire.

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Here even the highest rapture
time can give is a mimicry of

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ungrasped beatitudes, a
mutilated statue of ecstasy, a

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wounded happiness that cannot
live, a brief Felicity of mind

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or sense thrown by the world
power to her body slave, or a

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simulacrum of enforced delight
in the Seragelios of ignorance.

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For all we have acquired soon
loses worth an old disvalued

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credit.
In times bank, imperfections

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checked, drawn on the
inconscient, and in consequence

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dogs every effort made, and
chaos waits on every cosmos

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formed.
In each success a seed of

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failure lurks.
He saw the doubtfulness of all

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things here, the in certitude of
man's proud, confident thought,

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the transience of the
achievements of his force, a

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thinking being in an unthinking
world, an island in the sea of

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the unknown.
He is a smallness, trying to be

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great, an animal with some
instincts of a God, his life a

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story too common to be told, his
deeds, a number summing up to

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naughty, his consciousness, a
torch lit to be quenched, his

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hope, a star above a cradle
engrave.

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And yet a greater destiny may be
his, for the eternal spirit is

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his truth.
He can recreate himself and all

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around and fashion new the world
in which he lives.

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He ignorant is the knower beyond
time.

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He is the self above nature,
above fate.