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49 Sri Aurobindo
1:Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
2:Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
3:Our sympathies become our torturers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
4:To know is best, however hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
5:Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
6:Must fire always test the great of soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
7:The gods make use of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
8:Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
9:Out of the darkness we still grow to light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #KEYS
10:I am stronger than death and greater than my fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
11:Joy that throbs behind
The marvel and the mystery of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
12:For each his difficult goal
Hewn out of infinite possibility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
13:In him soul and Nature, equal Presences,
Balance and fuse in a wide harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
14:Too heavy falls a Shadow on man's heart;
It dares not be too happy upon earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
15:A single word lets loose vast agencies;
A casual act determines the world's fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
16:Love dies before the lover in our breast:
Our joys are perfumes in a brittle vase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
17:Too often here the careless Mother leaves
Her chosen in the envious hands of Fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
18:A mighty shuddering coil of ecstasy
Crept through the deep heart of the universe.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
19:This cosmic Nature's balance is not ours
Nor the mystic measure of her need and use. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
20:Whether it seem good or evil to men's eyes,
Only for good the secret Will can work.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
21:Impose not on the mortal's tremulous breast
The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
22:Here dreadfully entangled love and hate
Meet us blind wanderers mid the perils of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
23:For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others' souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
24:Our mind perhaps deceives us with its words
And gives the name of doom to our own choice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
25:What help is in prevision to the driven?
Safe doors cry opening near, the doomed pass on. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
26:Nor sought the strength extreme adversity brings
To lives that stand erect and front the World-Power ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
27:Those who shall part who have grown one being within?
Death's grip can break our bodies, not our souls; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
28:Gods who know not grief
And look impassive on a suffering world,
Calm they gaze down on the little human scene ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
29:Our days are links of a disastrous chain,
Necessity avenges casual steps;
Old cruelties come back unrecognised, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
30:Then is our life a tranquil pilgrimage,
Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way,
Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
31:For man, below the god, above the brute,
Is given the calm reason as his guide;
He is not driven by an unthinking will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
32:Thy acts are thy helpers, all events are signs,
Waking and sleep are opportunities
Given to thee by an immortal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
33:The lotus-heart of love
With all its thousand luminous buds of truth,
Which quivering sleeps veiled by apparent things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
34:A future knowledge is an added pain,
A torturing burden and a fruitless light
On the enormous scene that Fate has built. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
35:None is for any on this transient globe.
He whom thou lovest now, a stranger came
And into a far strangeness shall depart: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
36:Through Nature's contraries we draw near God;
Out of the darkness we still grow to light.
Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
37:Our own minds are the justicers of doom.
For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others' souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
38:Time's works
The giant's and the Titan's furious march
Climbs to usurp the kingdom of the gods
Or skirts the demon magnitudes of Hell; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
39:Too hard the gods are with man's fragile race;
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate
And they forget the wounded feet of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
40:Our souls, upon the wheel of God
For ever turning, they arrive and go,
Married and sundered in the magic round
Of the great Dancer of the boundless dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
41:Only when thou hast climbed above thy mind
And liv'st in the calm vastness of the One
Can love be eternal in the eternal Bliss
And love divine replace the human tie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
42:The middle path is made for thinking man.
To choose his steps by reason's vigilant light,
To choose his path among the many paths
Is given him, for each his difficult goal ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
43:He sang the Inconscient and its secret self,
Its power omnipotent knowing not what it does,
All-shaping without will or thought or sense,
Its blind unerring occult mystery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
44:An ancient tale of woe can move us still,
We keep the ache of breasts that breathe no more,
We are shaken by the sight of human pain,
And share the miseries that others feel. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
45:The great Gods use the pain of human hearts
As a sharp axe to hew their cosmic road:
They squander lavishly men's blood and tears
For a moment's purpose in their fateful work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
46:The harp of God falls mute, its call to bliss
Discouraged fails mid earth's unhappy sounds;
The strings of the siren Ecstasy cry not here
Or soon are silenced in the human heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
47:And as he sang the demons wept with joy
Foreseeing the end of their long dreadful task
And the defeat for which they hoped in vain,
And glad release from their self-chosen doom
And return into the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
48:The many-toned melody
Tirelessly throbbing through the rapturous air
Caught in the song that sways the Apsara's limbs
When she floats gleaming like a cloud of light,
A wave of joy on heaven's moonstone floor. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
49:Heaven's Gates
Heaven mocks us with the brilliance of its gifts,
For Death is a cupbearer of the wine
Of too brief joy held up to mortal lips
For a passionate moment by the careless gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate
Heaven's Gifts
A highest flight climbs to a deepest view: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
2:Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
3:Our sympathies become our torturers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
4:To know is best, however hard to bear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
5:Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
6:Must fire always test the great of soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
7:The gods make use of our forgotten deeds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
8:Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
9:Out of the darkness we still grow to light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate, #NFDB
10:I am stronger than death and greater than my fate
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
11:Joy that throbs behind
The marvel and the mystery of pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
12:For each his difficult goal
Hewn out of infinite possibility. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
13:In him soul and Nature, equal Presences,
Balance and fuse in a wide harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
14:Too heavy falls a Shadow on man’s heart;
It dares not be too happy upon earth. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
15:A single word lets loose vast agencies;
A casual act determines the world’s fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
16:Love dies before the lover in our breast:
Our joys are perfumes in a brittle vase. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
17:Too often here the careless Mother leaves
Her chosen in the envious hands of Fate: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
18:A mighty shuddering coil of ecstasy
Crept through the deep heart of the universe.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
19:This cosmic Nature’s balance is not ours
Nor the mystic measure of her need and use. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
20:Whether it seem good or evil to men's eyes,
Only for good the secret Will can work.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
21:Impose not on the mortal’s tremulous breast
The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
22:Here dreadfully entangled love and hate
Meet us blind wanderers mid the perils of Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
23:For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others’ souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
24:Our mind perhaps deceives us with its words
And gives the name of doom to our own choice; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
25:What help is in prevision to the driven?
Safe doors cry opening near, the doomed pass on. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
26:Nor sought the strength extreme adversity brings
To lives that stand erect and front the World-Power ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
27:Those who shall part who have grown one being within?
Death’s grip can break our bodies, not our souls; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
28:Gods who know not grief
And look impassive on a suffering world,
Calm they gaze down on the little human scene ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
29:Our days are links of a disastrous chain,
Necessity avenges casual steps;
Old cruelties come back unrecognised, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
30:Then is our life a tranquil pilgrimage,
Each year a mile upon the heavenly Way,
Each dawn opens into a larger Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
31:For man, below the god, above the brute,
Is given the calm reason as his guide;
He is not driven by an unthinking will ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
32:Thy acts are thy helpers, all events are signs,
Waking and sleep are opportunities
Given to thee by an immortal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
33:The lotus-heart of love
With all its thousand luminous buds of truth,
Which quivering sleeps veiled by apparent things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
34:A future knowledge is an added pain,
A torturing burden and a fruitless light
On the enormous scene that Fate has built. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
35:None is for any on this transient globe.
He whom thou lovest now, a stranger came
And into a far strangeness shall depart: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
36:Through Nature’s contraries we draw near God;
Out of the darkness we still grow to light.
Death is our road to immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
37:Our own minds are the justicers of doom.
For nothing have we learned, but still repeat
Our stark misuse of self and others’ souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
38:Time's works
The giant’s and the Titan’s furious march
Climbs to usurp the kingdom of the gods
Or skirts the demon magnitudes of Hell; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
39:Too hard the gods are with man’s fragile race;
In their large heavens they dwell exempt from Fate
And they forget the wounded feet of man. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
40:Our souls, upon the wheel of God
For ever turning, they arrive and go,
Married and sundered in the magic round
Of the great Dancer of the boundless dance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
41:Only when thou hast climbed above thy mind
And liv’st in the calm vastness of the One
Can love be eternal in the eternal Bliss
And love divine replace the human tie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
42:The middle path is made for thinking man.
To choose his steps by reason’s vigilant light,
To choose his path among the many paths
Is given him, for each his difficult goal ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
43:He sang the Inconscient and its secret self,
Its power omnipotent knowing not what it does,
All-shaping without will or thought or sense,
Its blind unerring occult mystery. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
44:An ancient tale of woe can move us still,
We keep the ache of breasts that breathe no more,
We are shaken by the sight of human pain,
And share the miseries that others feel. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
45:The great Gods use the pain of human hearts
As a sharp axe to hew their cosmic road:
They squander lavishly men’s blood and tears
For a moment’s purpose in their fateful work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
46:The harp of God falls mute, its call to bliss
Discouraged fails mid earth’s unhappy sounds;
The strings of the siren Ecstasy cry not here
Or soon are silenced in the human heart. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
47:And as he sang the demons wept with joy
Foreseeing the end of their long dreadful task
And the defeat for which they hoped in vain,
And glad release from their self-chosen doom
And return into the One. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
48:The many-toned melody
Tirelessly throbbing through the rapturous air
Caught in the song that sways the Apsara’s limbs
When she floats gleaming like a cloud of light,
A wave of joy on heaven’s moonstone floor. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
49:Heaven's Gates
Heaven mocks us with the brilliance of its gifts,
For Death is a cupbearer of the wine
Of too brief joy held up to mortal lips
For a passionate moment by the careless gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate
Heaven's Gifts
A highest flight climbs to a deepest view: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 Savitri
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hearing The Word of Fate from Silence' heart
In the endless moment of Eternity,
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
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The Word of Fate
IN SILENT bounds bordering the mortal's plane
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Word of Fate that fell from heavenly lips
Fixing a doom no power could ever reverse