Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, by Sri Aurobindo, Book VI The Book of Fate, Canto 2 The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, pp. 451-454

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Till then must life carry its
seed of death and sorrows.

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Plaint be heard in the slow
night.

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O mortal, bear this great
world's law of pain.

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In thy hard passage through a
suffering world, lean for thy

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sole support.
On Heaven's strength turn

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towards high truth.
Aspire to love and peace.

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A little bliss is lengthy from
above, a touch divine upon thy

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human days.
Make of thy daily way a

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pilgrimage, for through small
joys and griefs thou moveest

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towards God.
Haste not towards Godhead on a

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dangerous Rd.
Open not thy doorways to a

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nameless power.
Climb not to Godhead by the

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Titan's road against the law He
pits his single will across its

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way.
He throws his pride of might

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heavenward.
He clamours on a stair of

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storms, aspiring to live near
the deathless sun.

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He strives with a giant strength
to rest by force from life and

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nature, the immortals right.
He takes by storm the world and

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fate and heaven.
He comes not to the high world

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Maker's seat, he waits not for
the outstretched hand of God to

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raise him out of his mortality.
All he would make his own leave

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nothing free, stretching his
small self to cope with the

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infinite obstructing the gods
open ways.

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He makes his own estate of the
earth's air and light.

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A monopolist of the world
energy.

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He dominates the life of common
men.

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His pain and others pain, he
makes his means on death and

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suffering.
He builds his throne in the

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hurry and clangor of his acts of
might, in a riot and excess, of

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fame and shame, by his
magnitudes of hate and violence,

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by the quaking of the world
beneath his tread.

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He matches himself against the
Eternals calm and feels in

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himself the greatness of a God.
Power is his image of celestial

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self.
The Titan's heart is a sea of

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fire and force.
He exalts in the death of things

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and ruin and fall.
He feeds his strength with his

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own and other's pain.
In the world's pathos and

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passion he takes delight.
His pride, his might call for

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the struggle and pang.
He glories in the sufferings of

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the flesh and covers the
stigmata with the Stoic's name.

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His eyes, blinded and
visionless, stare at the sun.

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The Seeker's sight, receding
from his heart, can find no more

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the light of eternity.
He sees the beyond as an

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emptiness void of soul, and
takes his night for a dark

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infinite.
His nature magnifies the

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unreal's blank and sees in
naughty the sole reality.

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He would stamp his single figure
on the world, obsess the world's

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rumors with his single name.
His moments center the vast

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universe.
He sees his little self as very

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God.
His little eye has swallowed the

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whole world.
His ego has stretched into

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Infinity.
His mind, a beat in original

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nothingness, ciphers his thought
on a slate of hourless time.

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He builds on a mighty vacancy of
soul, a huge philosophy of

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nothingness.
In him Nirvana lives and speaks

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and acts impossibly, creating a
universe, an eternal. 0 is his

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formless self, his spirit, the
void, impersonal, absolute.

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Take not that stride, O growing
soul of man.

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Cast not thyself into that night
of God, the soul.

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Suffering is not eternity's key,
or ransom by sorrow Heavens

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demand on life, O mortal bear,
but ask not for the stroke.

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Too soon will grief and anguish
find thee out.

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Too enormous is that venture for
thy will.

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Only in limits can man's
strength be safe.

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Yet is Infinity thy Spirit's
goal?

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Its bliss is there behind the
world's face of tears.

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A power is in thee that thou
knowest not.

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Thou art a vessel of the
imprisoned spark.

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It seeks relief from time's
envelopment.

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And while thou shutst it in the
seal is pain bliss?

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Is the Godhead's crown eternal
free, unburdened by life's blind

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mystery of pain?
Pain is the signature of the

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ignorance attesting the secret
God denied by life until life

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finds him.
Pain can never end.

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Calm is self's victory
overcoming fate.

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Bear thou shalt find at last I
rode to bliss.

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Bliss is the secret stuff of all
that lives.

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Even pain and grief are garbs of
world delight.

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It hides behind thy sorrow and
thy cry, because thy strength is

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a part and not God's whole.
Because, afflicted by the little

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self, thy consciousness forgets
to be divine as it walks in the

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vague penumbra of the flesh, and
cannot bear the world's

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tremendous touch.
Thou cryest out and sayest that

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there is pain, indifference,
pain and joy.

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A triple disguise attire of the
rapturous dancer in the waves.

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Withhold from thee the body of
God's bliss.

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Thy Spirit's strength shall make
thee one with God.

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Thy agony shall change to
ecstasy.

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Indifference deepened into
infinity's calm and joy.

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Laugh nude on the peaks of the
Absolute.