03.04 - The Vision and the Boon

1:Desire, the troubled seed of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

2:A god come down and greater by the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

3:The Enigma's knot is tied in human kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

4:Speak not my secret name to hostile Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

5:Assent to thy high self, create, endure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

6:He has need of death to find a greater life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

7:Man is too weak to bear the Infinite's weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

8:An immutable Power has made this mutable world; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

9:All was a limitless sea that heaved to the moon. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

10:He has need of darkness to perceive some light
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

11:Truth born too soon might break the imperfect earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

12:All things shall change in God's transfiguring hour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, [T5],

13:All we have done is ever still to do.
All breaks and all renews and is the same. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

14:The Dragon of the dark foundations keeps
Unalterable the law of Chance and Death; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

15:Obey thy nature and fulfil thy fate:
Accept the difficulty and godlike toil
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon, [T5],

16:Man, sole awake in an unconscious world,
Aspires in vain to change the cosmic dream. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

17:Above blind fate and the antagonist powers
Moveless there stands a high unchanging Will; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

18:He has need of darkness to perceive some light
And need of grief to feel a little bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

19:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

20:The high gods look on man and watch and choose
Today's impossibles for the future's base. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

21:A Light there is that leads, a Power that aids;
Unmarked, unfelt it sees in him and acts:
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

22:Always he journeys, but nowhere arrives;
He would guide the world, himself he cannot guide ...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

23:However man's mind may tire or fail his flesh,
A will prevails cancelling his conscious choice .
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

24:All life is fixed in an ascending scale
And adamantine is the evolving Law;
In the beginning is prepared the close. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

25:Wisdom attracts him with her luminous masks,
But never has he seen the face behind:
A giant Ignorance surrounds his lore. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

26:His failure is not failure whom God leads; ...
It knows its steps, its way is inevitable,
And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

27:A divinising stream possessed his veins,
His body's cells awoke to spirit sense,
Each nerve became a burning thread of joy:
Tissue and flesh partook beatitude. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

28:O Wisdom-Splendour, Mother of the universe,
Creatrix, the Eternals artist Bride,
Linger not long with thy transmuting hand.
Pressed vainly on one golden bar of Time.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

29:Though Necessity dons the garb of Chance,
Hidden in the blind shifts of Fate she keeps
The slow calm logic of Infinity's pace
And the inviolate sequence of its will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

30:On his long way through Time and Circumstance
The grey-hued riddling nether shadow-Sphinx,
Her dreadful paws upon the swallowing sands,
Awaits him armed with the soul-slaying word: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

31:A giant dance of Shiva tore the past;
There was a thunder as of worlds that fall;
Earth was o'errun with fire and the roar of Death
Clamouring to slay a world his hunger had made;
There was a clangour of Destruction's wings: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

32:'O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry.
One shall descend and break the iron Law,
Change Nature's doom by the lone spirit's power.
A limitless Mind that can contain the world,
A sweet and violent heart of ardent calms
Moved by the passions of the gods shall come.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

33:High priests of wisdom, sweetness, might and bliss,
Discoverers of beauty's sunlit ways
And swimmers of Love's laughing fiery floods
And dancers within rapture's golden doors,
Their tread one day shall change the suffering earth
And justify the light on Nature's face.
Although Fate lingers in the high Beyond
And the work seems vain on which our heart's force was spent,
All shall be done for which our pain was borne.
Even as of old man came behind the beast
This high divine successor surely shall come
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

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1:Desire, the troubled seed of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

2:A god come down and greater by the fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

3:The Enigma’s knot is tied in human kind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

4:Speak not my secret name to hostile Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

5:Assent to thy high self, create, endure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

6:He has need of death to find a greater life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,

7:Man is too weak to bear the Infinite’s weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Vision and the Boon,