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02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind
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1:There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
2:There is a meaning in each play of Chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
3:We live self-exiled from our heavenlier home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
4:Adventurers, we have colonised Matter’s night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
5:When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
6:She made earth her home, for whom heaven was too small. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
7:Our thoughts;Where a free Wisdom works, they seek for a rule. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
8:Our dwarf will and cold pragmatic senseAdmit not the celestial visitants: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
9:Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight, Breathe her divine illimitable air, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
10:A single law simplessed the cosmic theme,Compressing Nature into a formula. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
11:Mind unwitting serves a higher Power;It is a channel, not the source of all. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
12:A light of liberating knowledge shoneAcross the gulfs of silence in their eyes; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
13:A Wisdom knows and guides the mysteried world;A Truth-gaze shapes its beings and events; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
14:But thought nor word can seize eternal Truth:The whole world lives in a lonely ray of her sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
15:Our souls can climb into the shining planes,The breadths from which they came can be our home. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
16:Thought-mindWhere Knowledge is the leader of the actAnd Matter is of thinking substance made, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
17:A stripped imperative of conceptual phraseArchitectonic and inevitableTranslated the unthinkable into thought: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
18:He who Is grows manifest in the yearsAnd the slow Godhead shut within the cellClimbs from the plasm to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
19:The cosmos is no accident in Time;There is a meaning in each play of Chance,There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
20:An errant ray from the immortal MindAccepted the earth’s blindness and becameOur human thought, servant of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
21:In gleaming clarities of amethyst airThe chainless and omnipotent Spirit of MindBrooded on the blue lotus of the Idea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
22:The unseizable forces of the cosmic whirlBear in their bacchant limbs the fixityOf an original foresight that is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
23:Under a blue veil of eternityThe splendours of ideal Mind were seenOutstretched across the boundaries of things known. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
24:The All-containing was contained in form,Oneness was carved into units measurable,The limitless built into a cosmic sum: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
25:Yet is it a conscious power that moves in us,A seed-idea is parent of our actsAnd destiny the unrecognised child of Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
26:Thus is it even with the seer and sage;For still the human limits the divine:Out of our thoughts we must leap up to sight, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
27:Infallibly by Truth’s directing gazeAll creatures here their secret self disclose,Forced to become what in themselves they hide. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
28:Mystic, ineffable is the spirit’s truth,Unspoken, caught only by the spirit’s eye.When naked of ego and mind it hears the Voice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
29:A sight withdrawn in the concentrated heartCould pierce behind the screen of Time’s resultsAnd the rigid cast and shape of visible things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
30:Truths they could find and hold but not the one Truth:The Highest was to them unknowable.By knowing too much they missed the whole to be known: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
31:An ear of mind withdrawn from the outward’s rhymesDiscovered the seed-sounds of the eternal Word,The rhythm and music heard that built the worlds, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
32:For the spirit is eternal and unmadeAnd not by thinking was its greatness born,And not by thinking can its knowledge come.It knows itself and in itself it lives, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
33:Into thought’s narrow limits she has come;Her greatness she has suffered to be pressedInto the little cabin of the Idea,The closed room of a lonely thinker’s grasp: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
34:In its vast ambit of ideal SpaceWhere beauty and mightiness walk hand in hand,The Spirit’s truths take form as living GodsAnd each can build a world in its own right. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
35:Thought transcends the circles of mortal mind,It is greater than its earthly instrument:The godhead crammed into mind’s narrow spaceEscapes on every side into some vast ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
36:On meditation’s mounting edge of tranceGreat stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heightsWhere Time’s last ridges touch eternity’s skiesAnd Nature speaks to the spirit’s absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
37:Contradicted by the human law,A faith in things that are not and must beLives comrade of this world’s delight and pain,The child of the secret soul’s forbidden desireBorn of its amour with eternity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
38:This was the play of the bright gods of Thought.Attracting into time the timeless Light,Imprisoning eternity in the hours,This they have planned, to snare the feet of TruthIn an aureate net of concept and of phrase ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
39:Obeying the Eternal’s deep commandThey have built in the material front of thingsThis wide world-kindergarten of young soulsWhere the infant spirit learns through mind and senseTo read the letters of the cosmic script ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
40:The mighty wardens of the ascending stairWho intercede with the all-creating Word,There waited for the pilgrim heaven-bound soul;Holding the thousand keys of the BeyondThey proffered their knowledge to the climbing mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
41:Imposing schemes of knowledge on the VastThey clamped to syllogisms of finite thoughtThe free logic of an infinite Consciousness,Grammared the hidden rhythms of Nature’s dance,Critiqued the plot of the drama of the worlds,Made figure and nu ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.11 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
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