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Book 1<\/a>   Book II<\/a>   Book III<\/a>  Book IV<\/a>  Book V<\/a> Book VI<\/a>    Book VII<\/a>  Book VIII<\/a>    Book IX<\/a>    Book X<\/a>    Book XI<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Six. The Book of Fate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music<\/th>Book Six. Canto One:The Word of Fate<\/th><\/tr>
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001   In silent bounds bordering the mortal’s plane
002   Crossing a wide expanse of brilliant peace
003   Narad the heavenly sage from Paradise
004   Came chanting through the large and lustrous air.<\/td><\/tr>
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077   As darts a lightning streak, a glory fell
078   Nearing until the rapt eyes of the sage
079   Looked out from luminous cloud and, strangely limned,
080   His face, a beautiful mask of antique joy,
081   Appearing in light descended where arose
082   King Aswapati’s palace to the winds
083   In Madra, flowering up in delicate stone.<\/td><\/tr>
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096   He sang to them of the lotus-heart of love
097   With all its thousand luminous buds of truth,
098   Which quivering sleeps veiled by apparent things.<\/td><\/tr>
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107   Even as he sang and rapture stole through earth-time
108   And caught the heavens, came with a call of hooves,
109   As of her swift heart hastening, Savitri;
110   Her radiant tread glimmered across the floor.
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118   She stood before her mighty father’s throne
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123   He flung on her his vast immortal look;
124   His inner gaze surrounded her with its light<\/td><\/tr>
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160   What feet of gods, what ravishing flutes of heaven
161   Have thrilled high melodies round, from near and far
162   Approaching through the soft and revelling air,
163   Which still surprised thou hearest? They have fed
164   Thy silence on some red strange-ecstasied fruit
165   And thou hast trod the dim moon-peaks of bliss.
166   Reveal, O winged with light, whence thou hast flown
167   Hastening bright-hued through the green tangled earth,
168   Thy body rhythmical with the spring-bird’s call.<\/td><\/tr>
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214   But Aswapati answered to the seer; –
280   As grows the great and golden bounteous tree
281   Flowering by Alacananda’s murmuring waves,
282   Where with enamoured speed the waters run
283   Lisping and babbling to the splendour of morn
284   And cling with lyric laughter round the knees
285   Of heaven’s daughters dripping magic rain
286   Pearl-bright from moon-gold limbs and cloudy hair,
287   So are her dawns like jewelled leaves of light,
288   So casts she her felicity on men.<\/td><\/tr>
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325   Virgin who comest perfected by joy,
326   Reveal the name thy sudden heart-beats learned.
327   Whom hast thou chosen, kingliest among men?”
328   And Savitri answered with her still calm voice
329   As one who speaks beneath the eyes of Fate:
330   “Father and king, I have carried out thy will.
331   One whom I sought I found in distant lands;
332   I have obeyed my heart, I have heard its call.
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339   My father, I have chosen. This is done.”<\/td><\/tr>
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340   Astonished, all sat silent for a space.
341   Then Aswapati looked within and saw
342   A heavy shadow float above the name
343   Chased by a sudden and stupendous light;<\/td><\/tr>
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391   But now the queen alarmed lifted her voice:
392   “O seer, thy bright arrival has been timed
393   To this high moment of a happy life;
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512   Hide not from us our doom, if doom is ours.
513   This is the worst, an unknown face of Fate,
514   A terror ominous, mute, felt more than seen
515   Behind our seat by day, our couch by night,
516   A Fate lurking in the shadow of our hearts,
517   The anguish of the unseen that waits to strike.
518   To know is best, however hard to bear.”<\/td><\/tr>
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519   Then cried the sage piercing the mother’s heart,
520   Forcing to steel the will of Savitri,
521   His words set free the spring of cosmic Fate.
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531   “The truth thou hast claimed; I give to thee the truth.
586   Heaven’s greatness came, but was too great to stay.
587   Twelve swift-winged months are given to him and her;
588   This day returning Satyavan must die.”<\/td><\/tr>
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590   But the queen cried: “Vain then can be heaven’s grace!
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596   Mounting thy car go forth, O Savitri,
597   And travel once more through the peopled lands.
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605   Plead not thy choice, for death has made it vain.
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609   But Savitri answered from her violent heart,-
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611   “Once my heart chose and chooses not again.
612   The word I have spoken can never be erased,
613   It is written in the record book of God.<\/td><\/tr>
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638   “O child, in the magnificence of thy soul
639   Dwelling on the border of a greater world
640   And dazzled by thy superhuman thoughts,
641   Thou lendst eternity to a mortal hope.
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680   Thou who art human, think not like a god.
681   For man, below the god, above the brute,
682   Is given the calm reason as his guide;
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698   Leave not thy goal to follow a beautiful face.<\/td><\/tr>
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718   But Savitri replied with steadfast eyes:
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748   If for a year, that year is all my life.
749   And yet I know this is not all my fate
750   Only to live and love awhile and die.
751   For I know now why my spirit came on earth
752   And who I am and who he is I love.
753   I have looked at him from my immortal Self,
754   I have seen God smile at me in Satyavan;
755   I have seen the Eternal in a human face.”<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Six. Canto Two:The Way of Fate and the
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190   Then after a silence Narad made reply:
191   Tuning his lips to earthly sound he spoke,
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273   Implacable in the passion of their will,
274   Lifting the hammers of titanic toil
275   The demiurges of the universe work;
276   They shape with giant strokes their own; their sons
277   Are marked with their enormous stamp of fire.<\/td><\/tr>
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298   The Eternal suffers in a human form,
299   He has signed salvation’s testament with his blood:
300   He has opened the doors of his undying peace.
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329   How shall he cure the ills he never felt?
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335   He carries the suffering world in his own breast;<\/td><\/tr>
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400   “Hard is the world-redeemer’s heavy task;
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489   He must enter the eternity of Night
490   And know God’s darkness as he knows his Sun.
491   For this he must go down into the pit,
492   For this he must invade the dolorous Vasts.
493   Imperishable and wise and infinite,
494   He still must travel Hell the world to save.<\/td><\/tr>
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527   Haste not towards Godhead on a dangerous road,
528   Open not thy doorways to a nameless Power,
529   Climb not to Godhead by the Titan’s road.
530   Against the Law he pits his single will,
531   Across its way he throws his pride of might.
532   Heavenward he clambers on a stair of storms
533   Aspiring to live near the deathless sun.<\/td><\/tr>
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603   Bear; thou shalt find at last thy road to bliss.
604   Bliss is the secret stuff of all that lives,
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613   Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
614   Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways,
615   Withhold from thee the body of God’s bliss.<\/td><\/tr>
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620   “O mortal who complainst of death
and fate,
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623   Thou art thyself the author of thy pain.
624   Once in the immortal boundlessness of Self,
625   In a vast of Truth and Consciousness and Light
626   The soul looked out from its felicity.
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630   Then, curious of a shadow thrown by Truth,
631   It strained towards some otherness of self,
632   It was drawn to an unknown Face peering through night.
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653   As one drawn by the grandeur of the Void
654   The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:<\/td><\/tr>
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677   A huge descent began, a giant fall:
678   For what the spirit sees, creates a truth
679   And what the soul imagines is made a world.<\/td><\/tr>
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689   Then Aswapati answered to the seer:
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694   I deemed a mighty Power had come with her;
695   Is not that Power the high compeer of Fate?”
696   But Narad answered covering truth with truth:
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856   A day may come when she must stand unhelped
857   On a dangerous brink of the world’s doom and hers,
858   Carrying the world’s future on her lonely breast,
859   Carrying the human hope in a heart left sole
860   To conquer or fail on a last desperate verge,<\/td><\/tr>
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898   He spoke and ceased and left the earthly scene.
899   Away from the strife and suffering on our globe,
900   He turned towards his far-off blissful home.
901   A brilliant arrow pointing straight to heaven,
902   The luminous body of the ethereal seer
903   Assailed the purple glory of the noon
904   And disappeared like a receding star
905   Vanishing into the light of the Unseen.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n