Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Canto One The Symbol Dawn IT WASthe hour before the Gods awake. Across the path of the divine Event The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone In her unlit temple of eternity, Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge. Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable, In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse The abysm of the unbodied Infinite; A fathomless zero occupied the world. A power of fallen boundless self awake Between the first and the last Nothingness, Recalling the tenebrous womb from which it came, Turned from the insoluble mystery of birth And the tardy process of mortality And longed to reach its end in vacant Nought. As in a dark beginning of all things, A mute featureless semblance of the Unknown Repeating for ever the unconscious act, Prolonging for ever the unseeing will, Cradled the cosmic drowse of ignorant Force Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl. Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space, Its formless stupor without mind or life, A shadow spinning through a soulless Void, Thrown back once more into unthinking dreams, Earth wheeled abandoned in the hollow gulfs Forgetful of her spirit and her fate. The impassive skies were neutral, empty, still. Then something in the inscrutable darkness stirred; A nameless movement, an unthought Idea
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Canto One<br />
The Symbol Dawn<br />
IT WASthe hour before the Gods awake.<br />
Across the path of the divine Event<br />
The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone<br />
In her unlit temple of eternity,<br />
Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge.<br />
Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable,<br />
In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse<br />
The abysm of the unbodied Infinite;<br />
A fathomless zero occupied the world.<br />
A power of fallen boundless self awake<br />
Between the first and the last Nothingness,<br />
Recalling the tenebrous womb from which it came,<br />
Turned from the insoluble mystery of birth<br />
And the tardy process of mortality<br />
And longed to reach its end in vacant Nought.<br />
As in a dark beginning of all things,<br />
A mute featureless semblance of the Unknown<br />
Repeating for ever the unconscious act,<br />
Prolonging for ever the unseeing will,<br />
Cradled the cosmic drowse of ignorant Force<br />
Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns<br />
And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl.<br />
Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space,<br />
Its formless stupor without mind or life,<br />
A shadow spinning through a soulless Void,<br />
Thrown back once more into unthinking dreams,<br />
Earth wheeled abandoned in the hollow gulfs<br />
Forgetful of her spirit and her fate.<br />
The impassive skies were neutral, empty, still.<br />
Then something in the inscrutable darkness stirred;<br />
A nameless movement, an unthought Idea