Savitri

There is a meaning in each curve and line

Lines that were not written about opium,
and that hold it exactly.

Three passages. Each one is given a page of its own, so that it can be read slowly and returned to. Nothing here asks you to believe anything.

Evenly spaced paces along a road, while the marker ahead stands further and further off. the pace does not change the goal keeps moving One · On what it takes

Nobody is going to thank you.

For the man who comes back for somebody else, and finds out what is waiting. The goal recedes, and he does not hurry his pace.

Read this entry →Savitri · Book Six, Canto Two A line that falls and rises repeatedly, each low point higher than the last. the first time down and this one, higher Two · On relapse

You started again.

For the night it happened again. Going down is not the same as going back, and the line knows the difference.

Read this entry →Savitri · Book One Arcs opening outward from one narrow point, each wider than the last. the field it was won on Three · On what comes after

Earth grew too narrow

For the man who stopped, and then found that nothing arrived. The ground you won on is too narrow to spend a life standing in.

Read this entry →Savitri · Book I, The Book of Beginnings · Canto III, The Yoga of the Soul's Release

The subject throughout is Savitri. The verse is left exactly as it is.

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Please read this. Going back to a substance after a period without it is physically dangerous, because tolerance falls and the old amount is no longer the old amount. This is when overdoses happen. If you have started again: be careful, tell somebody, and speak to a doctor. Yoga is powerful and it is not a substitute for medical care. Do not stop a substance abruptly on your own. Call 14446.