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Canto 3

The Entry into the Inner Countries

The Mission of the Avatar

Only if God assumes the human mind

And puts on mortal ignorance for his cloak

And makes himself the Dwarf with triple stride,

Can he help man to grow into the God.

As man disguised the cosmic Greatness works

And finds the mystic inaccessible gate

And opens the Immortal’s golden door.

Man, human, follows in God’s human steps.

VII.3.20-27

Savitri Enters the Inner Worlds

At the dim portal of the inner life

That bars out from our depths the body’s mind

And all that lives but by the body’s breath,

She knocked and pressed against the ebony gate.

The living portal groaned with sullen hinge:

Heavily reluctant it complained inert

Against the tyranny of the spirit’s touch.

A formidable voice cried from within:

“Back, creature of earth, lest tortured and torn thou die.”

A dreadful murmur rose like a dim sea;

The Serpent of the threshold hissing rose,

A fatal guardian hood with monstrous coils,

The hounds of darkness growled with jaws agape,

And trolls and gnomes and goblins scowled and stared

And wild beast roarings thrilled the blood with fear

And menace muttered in a dangerous tongue.

Unshaken her will pressed on the rigid bars:

The gate swung wide with a protesting jar,

The opponent Powers withdrew their dreadful guard;

Her being entered into the inner worlds.

VII.3.36-55

Life’s Nether Realms

Here in Life’s nether realms all contraries meet;

Truth stares and does her works with bandaged eyes

And Ignorance is Wisdom’s patron here:

Those galloping hooves in their enthusiast speed

Could bear to a dangerous intermediate zone

Where Death walks wearing a robe of deathless Life.

Or they enter the valley of the wandering Gleam

Whence, captives or victims of the specious Ray,

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