Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK III: The Book of the Divine Mother 308 All from his puissance born was now undone; Nothing remained the cosmic Mind conceives. Eternity prepared to fade and seemed A hue and imposition on the Void, Space was the fluttering of a dream that sank Before its ending into Nothing’s deeps. The spirit that dies not and the Godhead’s self Seemed myths projected from the Unknowable; From It all sprang, in It is called to cease. But what That was, no thought nor sight could tell. Only a formless Form of self was left, A tenuous ghost of something that had been, The last experience of a lapsing wave Before it sinks into a bourneless sea, — As if it kept even on the brink of Nought Its bare feeling of the ocean whence it came. A Vastness brooded free from sense of Space, An Everlastingness cut off from Time; A strange sublime inalterable Peace Silent rejected from it world and soul. A stark companionless Reality Answered at last to his soul’s passionate search: Passionless, wordless, absorbed in its fathomless hush, Keeping the mystery none would ever pierce, It brooded inscrutable and intangible Facing him with its dumb tremendous calm. It had no kinship with the universe: There was no act, no movement in its Vast: Life’s question met by its silence died on her lips, The world’s effort ceased convicted of ignorance Finding no sanction of supernal Light: There was no mind there with its need to know, There was no heart there with its need to love. All person perished in its namelessness. There was no second, it had no partner or peer; Only itself was real to itself.
CANTO I: The Pursuit of the Unknowable 309 A pure existence safe from thought and mood, A consciousness of unshared immortal bliss, It dwelt aloof in its bare infinite, One and unique, unutterably sole. A Being formless, featureless and mute That knew itself by its own timeless self, Aware for ever in its motionless depths, Uncreating, uncreated and unborn, The One by whom all live, who lives by none, An immeasurable luminous secrecy Guarded by the veils of the Unmanifest, Above the changing cosmic interlude Abode supreme, immutably the same, A silent Cause occult, impenetrable, — Infinite, eternal, unthinkable, alone. END OF CANTO ONE
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BOOK III: The Book of the Divine Mother 308<br />
All from his puissance born was now undone;<br />
Nothing remained the cosmic Mind conceives.<br />
Eternity prepared to fade and seemed<br />
A hue and imposition on the Void,<br />
Space was the fluttering of a dream that sank<br />
Before its ending into Nothing’s deeps.<br />
The spirit that dies not and the Godhead’s self<br />
Seemed myths projected from the Unknowable;<br />
From It all sprang, in It is called to cease.<br />
But what That was, no thought nor sight could tell.<br />
Only a formless Form of self was left,<br />
A tenuous ghost of something that had been,<br />
The last experience of a lapsing wave<br />
Before it sinks into a bourneless sea, —<br />
As if it kept even on the brink of Nought<br />
Its bare feeling of the ocean whence it came.<br />
A Vastness brooded free from sense of Space,<br />
An Everlastingness cut off from Time;<br />
A strange sublime inalterable Peace<br />
Silent rejected from it world and soul.<br />
A stark companionless Reality<br />
Answered at last to his soul’s passionate search:<br />
Passionless, wordless, absorbed in its fathomless hush,<br />
Keeping the mystery none would ever pierce,<br />
It brooded inscrutable and intangible<br />
Facing him with its dumb tremendous calm.<br />
It had no kinship with the universe:<br />
There was no act, no movement in its Vast:<br />
Life’s question met by its silence died on her lips,<br />
The world’s effort ceased convicted of ignorance<br />
Finding no sanction of supernal Light:<br />
There was no mind there with its need to know,<br />
There was no heart there with its need to love.<br />
All person perished in its namelessness.<br />
There was no second, it had no partner or peer;<br />
Only itself was real to itself.