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| But now his being was too wide for self; His heart’s demand had grown immeasurable: His single freedom could not satisfy, Her light, her bliss he asked for earth and men. But vain are human power and human love To break earth’s seal of ignorance and death; His nature’s might seemed now an infant’s grasp; Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize. This Light comes not by struggle or by thought; In the mind’s silence the Transcendent acts And the hushed heart hears the unuttered Word. A vast surrender was his only strength. Sri Aurobindo Savitri, Book III, Canto II, Page 315 |
I am in you: for I am you“I am always with you. I shall never fail you in prosperity or in adversity. Even when you sink I am with you – I sink with you . I do not stand on the shore and merely look at you from a distance. I sink with you, I am in you: for I am you.” The Mother |
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