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10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real
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1:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
2:All time is one body, Space a single look. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
3:Immortal bliss lives not in human air. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
4:The soul is a figure of the Unmanifest, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
5:Eternal truth lives not with mortal men. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
6:The mind labours to think the Unthinkable. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
7:Without reason life is a tangle of dreams, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
8:My mind is a torch lit from the eternal sun. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
9:The world is not cut off from Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
10:In finite things the conscious Infinite dwells: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
11:In a flaming moment of apocalypseThe Incarnation thrust aside its veil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
12:Reason is poised above a dim abyssAnd stands at last upon a plank of doubt. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
13:The Many are the innumerable One,The One carries the multitude in his breast. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
14:But I have loved too the body of my God.I have pursued him in his earthly form. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
15:It glided into the lotus of her heartAnd woke in it the Force that alters Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
16:But standing on Eternity’s luminous brinkI have discovered that the world was He; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
17:O Death, thou too art God and yet not He,But only his own black shadow on his path ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
18:Hasteners to action, violators of GodAre these great spirits who have too much love. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
19:Thou must die to thyself to reach God’s height:I, Death, am the gate of immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
20:A still deep sea, he laughs in rolling waves;Universal, he is all,—transcendent, none. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
21:All things hang here between God’s yes and no,Two Powers real but to each other untrue. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
22:The Power that from her being’s summit reigned,The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
23:Philosophies that strip all problems bareBut nothing ever have solved since earth began, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
24:Heaven's sun forces its way through death and night; Its light is seen upon our being's verge... ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
25:The wise are tranquil; silent the great hillsRise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
26:It stirred in the lotus of her throat of song,And in her speech throbbed the immortal Word, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
27:By Power, not Light, the great Gods rule the world;Power is the arm of God, the seal of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
28:Even now hints of a luminous Truth like starsArise in the mind-mooned splendour of Ignorance; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
29:Mind is a tissue woven of light and shadeWhere right and wrong have sewn their mingled parts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
30:These wide divine extremes, these inverse powersAre the right and left side of the body of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
31:Man’s soul crosses through thee to Paradise,Heaven’s sun forces its way through death and night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
32:O Death, if thou couldst touch the Truth supremeThou wouldst grow suddenly wise and cease to be. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
33:The deities have screened their dreadful power:God hides his thought and, even, he seems to err. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
34:Two contraries needed for his great World-task,Two poles whose currents wake the immense World-Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
35:Silent the great hillsRise ceaselessly towards their unreached sky,Seated on their unchanging base ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
36:In bodies motionless like statues, fixedIn tranced cessations of their sleepless thoughtSat sleeping souls. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
37:God's DesireLo, how all shakes when the gods tread too near!All moves, is in peril, anguished, torn, upheaved. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
38:What is Truth and who can find her formAmid the specious images of sense,Amid the crowding guesses of the mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
39:Even God himself obeys the Laws he made:The Law abides and never can it change,The Person is a bubble on Time’s sea. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
40:These revolutions, demon or drunken god,Convulsing the wounded body of mankindOnly to paint in new colours an old face; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
41:Thou art his spur to greatness in his works,The whip to his yearning for eternal bliss,His poignant need of immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
42:Vain the soul’s hope if changeless Law is all:Ever to the new and the unknown press onThe speeding aeons justifying God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
43:All here gathers beneath one golden sky:The Powers that build the cosmos station takeIn its house of infinite possibility; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
44:Hunger that gnawest at the universeConsuming the cold remnants of the sunsAnd eatst the whole world with thy jaws of fire. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
45:Then stretches the boundless finite’s last expanse,The cosmic empire of the Overmind,Time’s buffer state bordering Eternity, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
46:In the exact Inconscient’s stark conceit,In the casual error of the world’s ignoranceA plan, a hidden Intelligence is glimpsed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
47:If the chamber’s door is even a little ajar,What then can hinder God from stealing inOr who forbid his kiss on the sleeping soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
48:Easy the heavens were to build for God.Earth was his difficult matter, earth the gloryGave of the problem and the race and strife. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
49:There is a purpose in each stumble and fall;Nature’s most careless lolling is a posePreparing some forward step, some deep result. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
50:A Truth supreme has forced the world to be;It has wrapped itself in Matter as in a shroud,A shroud of Death, a shroud of Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
51:Already God is near, the Truth is close:Because the dark atheist body knows him not,Must the sage deny the Light, the seer his soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
52:Mind is Nature’s marriage of convenanceBetween truth and falsehood, between joy and pain:This struggling pair no court can separate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
53:Well is the unconscious rule for the animal breedsContent to live beneath the immutable yoke;Man turns to a nobler walk, a master path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
54:If he could leave his limits he would be safe:He sees but cannot mount to his greater heavens;Even winged, he sinks back to his native soil. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
55:Thinking-mindThere throned on concentration’s native seatHe opens that third mysterious eye in man,The Unseen’s eye that looks at the unseen, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
56:The saviour creeds that cannot save themselves,But perish in the strangling hands of the years,Discarded from man’s thought, proved false by Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
57:Broke into the cave where coiled World-Energy sleepsAnd smote the thousand-hooded serpent ForceThat blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
58:How shall the mighty Mother her calm delightKeep fragrant in this narrow fragile vase,Or lodge her sweet unbroken ecstasyIn hearts which earthly sorrow can assail ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
59:If Mind is all, renounce the hope of bliss;If Mind is all, renounce the hope of Truth.For Mind can never touch the body of TruthAnd Mind can never see the soul of God; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
60:A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes;Its smallest parts are here philosophiesChallenging with their detailed immensity,Each figuring an omniscient scheme of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
61:Ascetic voices called of lonely seersOn mountain summits or by river banksOr from the desolate heart of forest gladesSeeking heaven’s rest or the spirit’s worldless peace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
62:Each thought is a gold coin with bright alloyAnd error and truth are its obverse and reverse:This is the imperial mintage of the brainAnd of this kind is all its currency. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
63:To man’s righteousness this is his cosmic crime,Almighty beyond good and evil to dwellLeaving the good to their fate in a wicked worldAnd evil to reign in this enormous scene. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
64:Where is Truth and when was her footfall heardAmid the endless clamour of Time’s martAnd which is her voice amid the thousand criesThat cross the listening brain and cheat the soul? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
65:The thousand-hooded serpent ForceThat blazing towered and clasped the World-Self above,Joined Matter’s dumbness to the Spirit’s hushAnd filled earth’s acts with the Spirit’s silent power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
66:These wars, carnage triumphant, ruin gone mad,The work of centuries vanishing in an hour,The blood of the vanquished and the victor’s crownWhich men to be born must pay for with their pain, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
67:But the soul grows concealed within its house;It gives to the body its strength and magnificence;It follows aims in an ignorant aimless world,It lends significance to earth’s meaningless life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
68:the centre in her browWhere the mind’s Lord in his control-room sits;There throned on concentration’s native seatHe opens that third mysterious eye in man,The Unseen’s eye that looks at the unseen. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
69:Nabhi-Padma (Navel-lotus)It poured into her navel’s lotus depth,Lodged in the little life-nature’s narrow home,On the body’s longings grew heaven-rapture’s flowerAnd made desire a pure celestial flame. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
70:Sciences omnipotent in vainBy which men learn of what the suns are made,Transform all forms to serve their outward needs,Ride through the sky and sail beneath the sea,But learn not what they are or why they came; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
71:In a wide opening of its native skyIntuition’s lightnings range in a bright packHunting all hidden truths out of their lairs,Its fiery edge of seeing absoluteCleaves into locked unknown retreats of self,Rummages the sky-recesses of the brai ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
72:In the realms of the immortal SupermindTruth who hides here her head in mystery,Her riddle deemed by reason impossibleIn the stark structure of material form,Unenigmaed lives, unmasked her face and thereIs Nature and the common law of thing ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
73:There are vasts of vision and eternal suns,Oceans of an immortal luminousness,Flame-hills assaulting heaven with their peaks,There dwelling all becomes a blaze of sight;A burning head of vision leads the mind,Thought trails behind it its lo ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
74:O Death, if thou couldst touch the Truth supremeThou wouldst grow suddenly wise and cease to be.If our souls could see and love and clasp God's Truth,Its infinite radiance would seize our hearts,Our being in God's image be remadeAnd earthly life become the life divine. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
75:Heaven's GatesHeaven mocks us with the brilliance of its gifts,For Death is a cupbearer of the wineOf too brief joy held up to mortal lipsFor a passionate moment by the careless gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
76:"I hail thee, almighty and victorious Death,Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite.O Void that makest room for all to be ...Thou art my shadow and my instrument.I have given thee thy awful shape of dreadAnd thy sharp sword of terror and grief and painTo force the soul of man to struggle for light" ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #KEYS
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