Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII The Book of Yoga, Canto 5 The Finding of the Soul, pp. 522-526

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Onward she passed, seeking the
soul's Mystic cave.

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At first she stepped into a
night of God.

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The light was quenched that
helps the labouring world, The

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power that struggles and
stumbles in our life.

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This inefficient mind gave up
its thoughts, the striving

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heart, its unavailing hopes.
All knowledge failed, and the

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ideas, forms and wisdom screened
in awe.

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Her lowly head feeling a truth
too great for thought or speech.

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Formless, ineffable, forever the
same, an innocent and holy

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ignorance, adored like one who
worships formless God.

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The unseen light she could not
claim nor own.

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In a simple purity of emptiness,
her mind knelt down before the

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unknowable.
All was abolished, save her

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naked self and the prostate
yearnings of her surrendered

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heart.
There was no strength in her, no

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pride of force.
The lofty burning of desire had

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sunk.
Ashamed of vanity, of separate

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self, the hope of spiritual
greatness fled.

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Salvation.
She asked not, nor a heavenly

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crown.
Humility seemed now too proud a

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state.
Herself was nothing, God alone

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was all.
Yet God she knew not, but only

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knew He was.
A sacred darkness brooded now

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within the world was a deep
darkness, great and nude.

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This void held more than all the
teeming worlds, this blank felt

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more than all the time has borne
this dark new, dumbly, immensely

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the unknown.
But all was formless, voiceless,

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infinite, as might a shadow walk
in a shadowy scene, a small knot

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passing through a mightier knot,
a knight of person in a bare

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outline crossing a fathomless,
impersonal night.

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Silent she moved, empty and
absolute.

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In endless time her soul reached
a wide end.

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The spaceless vast became her
spirit's place.

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At last a change approached.
The emptiness broke.

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A wave rippled within.
The world had stirred once more.

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Her inner self became her space.
There was felt a blissful

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nearness to the goal.
Heaven leaned low to kiss the

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sacred hill.
The air trembled with passion

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and delight.
A rose of splendor on a tree of

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dreams.
The face of dawn out of moon.

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Twilight grew.
Day came, priest of a sacrifice

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of joy into the worshipping
silence of her world.

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He carried immortal lustre as
his robe trailed heaven like a

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purple scarf, and wore, as his
Vermilion cast mark a red sun as

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if an old remembered dream come
true.

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She recognized in her prophetic
mind the imperishable lustre of

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that sky, the tremulous
sweetness of that happy air, and

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covered from mine's view and
life's approach the Mystic

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cavern and the sacred hill, and
knew the dwelling of her secret

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soul.
As if in some Elysian occult

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depth, Truth's last retreat from
thought's profaning touch, as if

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in a rock temple solitude hid
God's refuge from an ignorant

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worshipping world.
It lay withdrawn even from

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life's inner sense, receding
from the entangled heart's

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desire.
A marvellous brooding twilight

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met the eyes, and a holy
stillness held that voiceless

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space.
An awful dimness wrapped the

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great rock doors carved in the
massive stone of matters Trance

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2 Golden serpents round the
lentil curved, enveloping it

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with their pure and dreadful
strength, looked out with

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wisdoms deep and luminous eyes.
An eagle covered it with wide

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conquering wings.
Flames of self lost immobile

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reverie.
Doves crowded the Gray musing

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cornices like sculptured
postures of white bosom to peace

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across the threshold Sleep.
She entered in and found herself

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amid great figures of gods,
conscious in stone and living

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without breath, watching with
fixed regard the soul of man,

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executive figures of the cosmic
self world, symbols of immutable

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potency on the walls, covered
with significant shapes, looked

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at her the life scene of man and
beast and the high meaning of

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the life of gods.
The power and necessity of these

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numberless worlds and faces of
beings and stretches of world

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space spoke the succinct and
inexhaustible iradic message of

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the climbing plains.
In their immensitude signing

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Infinity, they were the
extension of the Self of God and

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housed impassively, receiving
all His figures and his small

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and mighty acts and His passion
and His birth and life and death

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and His return.
To immortality, to the abiding

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and eternal is their clime, to
the pure existence everywhere

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the same, To the sheer
consciousness and the absolute

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force and the unimaginable and
formless bliss, To the mirth in

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time and the timeless mystery of
the Triune Being who is all and

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One, and yet is no one but
Himself a part.

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There was no step of breathing
men, no sound, only the living

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nearness of the soul.
Yet all the world's and God

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Himself were there, for every
symbol was a reality and brought

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the presence which had given it
life.

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All this she saw and inly felt
and knew, not by some thought of

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mind, but by the Self.
A light not born of sun or moon

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or fire, a light that dwelt
within and saw within, shedding

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an intimate visibility, made
secrecy more revealing than the

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Word.
Our sight and sense are a

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fallible gaze and touch, and
only the Spirit's vision is

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wholly true.
As thus she passed in that

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mysterious place, through room
and room, through door and rock

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hewn door, she felt herself made
one with all she saw, a sealed

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identity within her.
Woke she knew herself the

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beloved of the Supreme.
These gods and goddesses were he

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and she.
The Mother was she of beauty and

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delight.
The word in Brahma's vast

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creating clasp, the world
poescence on almighty Shiva's

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lap, the Master and the Mother
of all lives watching the

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world's their twin regard had
made, And Krishna and Radha

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forever entwined in bliss.
The adorer and adored Self lost

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and won.
In the last chamber, on a golden

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seat one sat whose shape no
vision could define.

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Only one felt the world's
unattainable fount, a power of

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which she was a straying force,
and invisible beauty, goal of

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the world's desire, a son of
which all knowledge is a beam, a

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greatness without whom no life
could be.

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Thence all departed into silent
self, and all became formless

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and pure and bare.
Then through a tunnel dug in the

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last rock she came out, where
there shone a deathless sun, a

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house was there, all made of
flame and light.

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And crossing a wall of doorless
living fire, there suddenly she

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met her secret soul.