Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, by Sri Aurobindo, Book IX The Book of Eternal Night, Canto 1 Towards the Black Void, pp. 571-573

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So was she left alone in the
huge wood, surrounded by a dim,

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unthinking world, her husband's
corpse on her forsaken breast.

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In her vast silent spirit,
motionless, she measured not her

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loss with helpless thoughts, nor
rent with tears the marble seals

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of pain.
She rose, not yet to face the

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dreadful God over the body she
loved.

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Her soul leaned out in a great
stillness, without stir or

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voice, as if her mind had died
with Satyavan, but still the

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human heart in her beat on,
aware still of his being near to

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hers.
Closely she clasped to her the

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mute, lifeless form, as though
to guard the oneness they had

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been and keep the spirit still
within its frame.

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Then suddenly there came on her
the change which in tremendous

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moments of our lives can
overtake sometimes the human

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soul and hold it up towards its
luminous source.

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The veil is torn.
The thinker is no more.

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Only the Spirit sees, and all is
known.

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Then a calm power, seated above
our brows is seen unshaken by

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our thoughts and deeds.
Its stillness bears the voices

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of the world.
Immobile it moves.

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Nature looks on life.
It shapes immutably its far seen

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ends untouched and tranquil amid
error and tears, and measureless

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above our striving wills.
Its gaze controls the turbulent

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whirl of things to mate with the
glory it sees.

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The spirit grows.
The voice of life is tuned to

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infinite sounds.
The moments on great wings of

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lightning come, and God like
thoughts surprise the mind of

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earth.
Into the soul's splendor and

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intensity a Crescent of
miraculous birth is tossed,

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whose horn of mystery floats in
a bright void as into a heaven

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of strength and silence.
Thought is ravished.

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All this living mortal clay is
seized, and in a swift and fiery

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flood of touches shaped by a
harmonist unseen, a new sight

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comes.
New voices in US form a body of

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the music of the gods.
Immortal yearnings without name

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leaped down large quiverings of
Godhead, seeking run and weave

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upon a poisoned field of calm, A
high and lonely ecstasy of will.

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This in a moment's depths was
born in her now to the limitless

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gaze disclosed that sees things
barred from human thinking's

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earthly lids, The spirit who had
hidden in nature's sword out of

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his luminous nest within the
worlds like a vast fire it

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climbed the skies of night.
Thus were the cords of self

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oblivion, torn like one who
looks up to far heights she saw,

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ancient and strong as on a
windless summit above her where

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she had worked in her lone mind,
laboring apart in a soul tower

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of self, the source of all which
she had seemed or wrought.

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A power projected into cosmic
space, A slow embodiment of the

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Ionic will, a starry fragment of
the eternal truth, the

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passionate instrument of an
unmoved power.

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A presence was there that filled
the listening world.

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A central all assumed her
boundless life, a sovereignty, a

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silence and a swiftness.
One brooded over abysses.

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Who was she?
As in a coric robe of unheard

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sounds a force descended,
trailing endless lights, linking

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times seconds to Infinity.
Illimitably it girt the earth

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and her.
It sank into her soul, and she

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was changed.
Then, like a thought fulfilled

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by some great word that
mightiness assumed a symbol form

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her beings, spaces quivered with
its touch.

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It covered her as with immortal
wings on its lips, the curve of

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the unuttered truth, a Halo of
wisdom's lightnings for its

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crown.
It entered the Mystic Lotus in

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her head. 1000 Peddled home of
power and light, immortal leader

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of her mortality, doer of her
works and fountain of her words.

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Invulnerable by time,
omnipotent.

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It stood above her, calm,
immobile, mute.