SRI AURVINDO - SAVITRI A LEGEND AND A SYMBOL

SOME EXTRACTS: canto II THE WAY OF FATE AND THE PROBLEM OF PAIN

HE WOULD STAMP HIS SINGLE FIGURE ON THE WORLD;
OBSESS THE WORLD'S RUMOURS WITH HIS SINGLE NAME;
HIS MOMENTS CENTRE THE VAST UNIVERSE.
HE SEES HIS LITTL3 SELF AS VERY GOD.
HIS LITTLE 'I' HAS SWALLOWED THE WHOLE WORLD,
HIS EGO HAS STRETCHED INTO INFINITY.
HIS MIND, A BEAT IN ORIGINAL NOTHINGNESS,
CIPHERS HIS THOUGHT ON A SLATE OF HOURLESS TIME.
HE BUILDS ON A MIGHT6Y VACANCY OF SOUL
A HUGE PHILOSOPHY OF NOTHINGNESS.

IN HIM NIRVANA LIVES AND SPEAKS AND ACTS
IMPOSSIBLY CREATING A UNIVERSE.
AN ETERNAL ZERO IS HIS FORMLESS SELF,
HIS SPIRIT THE VOID IMPERSONAL ABSOLUTE.
TAKE NOT THAT STRIDE, O GROWING SOUL OF MAN;
CAST NOT THY SELF INTO THAT NIGHT OF GOD.
THE SOUL SUFFERING IS NOT ETERNITY'S KEY, OR RANSOM BY SORROW HEAVEN'S DEMAND ON LIFE.
O MORAL, BEAR, BUT ASK NOT FOR THE STROKE,
TOO SOON WILL GRIEF AND ANGUISH FIND THEE OUT.

TOO ENORMOUS IS THAT VENTURE FOR THY WILL;
ONLY IN LIMITS CAN MAN'S STRENGTH BE SAFE;
YET IS INFINITY THY SPIRIT'S GOAL;
ITS BLISS IS THERE BEHIND THE WORLD'S FACE OF TEARS.
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