Mantras from Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
All can be done
if the God-touch is there
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Only a little
The God-light can stay.
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A traveller between summit and abyss.
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The human in him
Paced with the Divine.
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God shall grow up
While the wise men
Talk and sleep.
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We are sons of God
And must be even as he.
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Beyond earth’s longitudes and latitudes.
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Our life
Is a holocaust
Of the Supreme.
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Oh, surely one day
He shall come to our cry.
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None can reach heaven
Who has not
Passed through hell.
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Our human state
Cradles the future god.
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The One by whom all live,
Who lives by none.
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Escape brings not the victory and the crown.
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In absolute silence
Sleeps an absolute Power.
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A God comes down greater by the fall.
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A giant dance of Shiva tore the past.
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Whoever is too great
Must lonely live.
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The soul in man
Is greater
Than his fate.
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The life you lead
Conceals the light you are.
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The great are strongest
When they stand alone.
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The day-bringer
Must walk
In darkest night.
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Our life is a march
To a victory
Never won.
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Man can accept his fate,
He can refuse.
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His failure is not failure
Whom God leads.
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I wear the face of Kali
When I kill.
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One man’s perfection
Still can save the world.
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He who would save the world
Must share its pain.
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All is too little that the world can give.
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I shall save earth,
If earth consents
To be saved.
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He Who Chooses The Infinite Has Been Chosen by the Infinite
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Truth born too soon
Might break
The imperfect earth.
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A cave of darkness guards the eternal Light.
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A death-bound littleness is not all we are.
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A Light there is that leads,
A Power that aids.
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A moment sees,
The ages toil to express.
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All our earth starts from mud and ends in sky.
All rose from the silence;
All goes back to its hush.
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All things are real
That here are only dreams.
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An idiot hour destroys what centuries made.
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Love is a yearning
Of the One
For the One.
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Mortality bears ill
The eternal’s touch.
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The spirit rises mightier
By defeat.
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The soul that can
Live alone with itself
Meets God.
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There is a purpose
In each stumble and fall.
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A future knowledge is an added pain.
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To know is best,
However hard to bear.
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But few are they who tread the sunlit path.
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Death helps us not,
Vain is the hope to cease.
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Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls.
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Eternity speaks, none understands its word.
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Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.
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For joy
And not for sorrow
Earth was made.
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Heaven’s call is rare,
Rarer the heart that heeds.
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My God is Love
And sweetly suffers all.
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Only the pure in soul
Can walk in light.
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The gods are still too few
In mortal forms.
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We are greater
Than our thoughts.
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Even the body shall remember God.
Extracts from Savitri by Sri Aurobindo