VI

HIDDEN WORLDS AND EVOLUTIONARY FORCES

Our earth is a fragment and a residue;

Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds

And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;

An atavism of higher births is hers,

Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories

Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.

Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;

They are partners of her greater growing fate

And her return to immortality;

SRI AUROBINDO

Savitri, Book Two, Canto One

A difficult evolution from below

Called a masked intervention from above;

Else this great, blind inconscient universe

Could never have disclosed its hidden mind,

Or even in blinkers worked in beast and man

The Intelligence that devised the cosmic scheme.

SRI AUROBINDO

Savitri, Book Two, Canto Four

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