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The pieces collected in this part were written by Sri Aurobindo
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\n\t\t\t Institutions, empires, civilisations are the marbles of Time. Time, sitting in his banqueting hall of the Ages, where prophets and
\nkings are the spice of his banquet, drinking the red wine of life and death, while on the marble floor at his feet are strewn
\nlike flowers the images of the same stars that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the splendours of
\nYayati, that saw Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib and the Egyptian Pharaohs, Pompey’s head hewn off on the sands of Egypt and
\nCaesar bleeding at Pompey’s sculptured feet, Napoleon’s mighty legions thundering victorious at the bidding of that god of war
\non the field of Austerlitz and Napoleon’s panic legions fleeing disordered with pursuit and butchery behind them from that
\nlast field of Waterloo,\u2014Time, the Kala Purusha, drunk with the fumes of death and the tears and laughter of mortals, sits
\nand plays there with his marbles. There are marbles there of all kinds, marbles of all colours, and some are dull and grey,
\nsome glorious with hearts of many colours, some white and pure as a dove’s wings,\u2014but he plays with them all equally
\nand equally he thrusts them all away when he has done with them. Sometimes even, in his drunkenness, he hurls them out
\nof his window or lifts his mace and deals blows here and there smashing into fragments the bright and brittle globes, and he
\nlaughs as they smash and crumble. So Time, the god, sits and plays for ever with his marbles.
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