⁠Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol ⁠by Sri Aurobindo, Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, Canto 2 The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, pp. 113-115

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In that fair, subtle realm
behind our own, the form is all,

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and physical gods are kings.
The inspiring light plays in

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fine boundaries.
A faultless beauty comes by

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nature's grace.
Their liberty is perfection's

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guarantee.
Although the absolute image

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lacks the Word Incarnate, the
sheer spiritual ecstasy all is a

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miracle of symmetric charm, a
fantasy of perfect line and

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rule.
There all feel satisfied in

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themselves and whole.
A rich completeness is by limit

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made marvel.
In an utter littleness abounds

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an intricate rapture, riots in a
small space.

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Each rhythm is kin to its
environment.

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Each line is perfect and
inevitable, each object

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faultlessly built for charm and
use.

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All is enamoured of its own
delight.

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In tact.
It lives of its perfection, sure

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in a heaven pleased self glad
immunity content to be, it has

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need of nothing more.
Here was not futile efforts,

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broken heart exempt from the
ordeal and the test, empty of

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opposition and of pain.
It was a world that could not

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fear nor grieve.
It had no grace of error or

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defeat.
It had no room for fault, no

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power to fail out of some packed
self bliss.

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It drew at once its formed
discoveries of the mute idea and

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the miracle of its rhythmic
thoughts and acts, its clear

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technique of firm and rounded
lives, its gracious people of

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inanimate shapes and glory, of
breathing bodies like our own.

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Amazed, his senses ravished with
delight, he moved in a divine

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yet kindred world, admiring
marvellous forms so near to

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ours, yet perfect like the
playthings of a God, deathless

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in the aspect of mortality, in
their narrow and exclusive

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absolutes, the finite's ranked
supremacies thrown to abide it,

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dreams not ever of what might
have been.

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Only in boundaries can this
absolute live in a supremeness,

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bound to its own plan, where all
was finished and no withs were

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left.
No space for shadows of the

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immeasurable, no room for the
incalculable surprise, a captive

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of its own beauty and ecstasy in
a magic circle wrought the

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enchanted mite.
The spirit stood back, effaced

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behind its frame, admired for
the bright finality of its

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lines.
A blue horizon limited the soul

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thought moved in luminous
facilities.

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The outer ideals shallows its
swim range.

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Life in its boundaries lingered,
satisfied with the small

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happiness of the body's acts
assigned as force to a bound

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corner mind attached to the safe
paucity of her room, she did her

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little works and played and
slept, and thought not of a

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greater work undone.
Forgetful of her violent, vast

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desires, forgetful of the
heights to which she rose.

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Her walk was fixed within a
radiant groove, the beautiful

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body of a soul at ease like one
who laughs in sweet and sunlit

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Groves.
Childlike, she swung in her gold

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cradle of joy.
The space's call reached not her

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charmed abode.
She had no wings for wide and

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dangerous flight.
She faced no peril of sky or of

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abyss.
She knew no vistas and no mighty

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dreams, no yearning for her.
Lost in finitudes, a perfect

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picture and a perfect frame.
This fairy artistry could not

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keep his will.
Only a moment's fine release it

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gave.
A careless hour was spent in a

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slight bliss.
Our spirit tires of being's

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surfaces, transcended in the
splendor of the form.

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It turns to hidden powers and
deeper states.

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So now he looked beyond for
greater light.

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His soul's peak climb,
abandoning in its rear this

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brilliant courtyard of the House
of Days.

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He left that fine material
paradise.

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His destiny lay beyond in larger
space.