Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK III: The Book of the Divine Mother 312 And in the ray reveal the parent sun: It can make the world a vessel of Spirit’s force, It can fashion in the clay God’s perfect shape. To free the self is but one radiant pace; Here to fulfil himself was God’s desire. Even while he stood on being’s naked edge And all the passion and seeking of his soul Faced their extinction in some featureless Vast, The Presence he yearned for suddenly drew close. Across the silence of the ultimate Calm, Out of a marvellous Transcendence’ core, A body of wonder and translucency As if a sweet mystic summary of her self Escaping into the original Bliss Had come enlarged out of eternity, Someone came infinite and absolute. A being of wisdom, power and delight, Even as a mother draws her child to her arms, Took to her breast Nature and world and soul. Abolishing the signless emptiness, Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush, Piercing the limitless Unknowable, Into the liberty of the motionless depths A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole. The Power, the Light, the Bliss no word can speak Imaged itself in a surprising beam And built a golden passage to his heart Touching through him all longing sentient things. A moment’s sweetness of the All-Beautiful Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl. A Nature throbbing with a Heart divine Was felt in the unconscious universe; It made the breath a happy mystery. A love that bore the cross of pain with joy Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,
CANTO II: The Adoration of the Divine Mother 313 Made happy the weight of long unending Time, The secret caught of God’s felicity. Affirming in life a hidden ecstasy It held the spirit to its miraculous course; Carrying immortal values to the hours It justified the labour of the suns. For one was there supreme behind the God. A Mother Might brooded upon the world; A Consciousness revealed its marvellous front Transcending all that is, denying none: Imperishable above our fallen heads He felt a rapturous and unstumbling Force. The undying Truth appeared, the enduring Power Of all that here is made and then destroyed, The Mother of all godheads and all strengths Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme. The Enigma ceased that rules our nature’s night, The covering Nescience was unmasked and slain; Its mind of error was stripped off from things And the dull moods of its perverting will. Illumined by her all-seeing identity Knowledge and Ignorance could strive no more; No longer could the titan Opposites, Antagonist poles of the world’s artifice, Impose the illusion of their twofold screen Throwing their figures between us and her. The Wisdom was near, disguised by its own works, Of which the darkened universe is the robe. No more existence seemed an aimless fall, Extinction was no more the sole release. The hidden Word was found, the long-sought clue, Revealed was the meaning of our spirit’s birth, Condemned to an imperfect body and mind, In the inconscience of material things And the indignity of mortal life. A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare,
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BOOK III: The Book of the Divine Mother 312<br />
And in the ray reveal the parent sun:<br />
It can make the world a vessel of Spirit’s force,<br />
It can fashion in the clay God’s perfect shape.<br />
To free the self is but one radiant pace;<br />
Here to fulfil himself was God’s desire.<br />
Even while he stood on being’s naked edge<br />
And all the passion and seeking of his soul<br />
Faced their extinction in some featureless Vast,<br />
The Presence he yearned for suddenly drew close.<br />
Across the silence of the ultimate Calm,<br />
Out of a marvellous Transcendence’ core,<br />
A body of wonder and translucency<br />
As if a sweet mystic summary of her self<br />
Escaping into the original Bliss<br />
Had come enlarged out of eternity,<br />
Someone came infinite and absolute.<br />
A being of wisdom, power and delight,<br />
Even as a mother draws her child to her arms,<br />
Took to her breast Nature and world and soul.<br />
Abolishing the signless emptiness,<br />
Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush,<br />
Piercing the limitless Unknowable,<br />
Into the liberty of the motionless depths<br />
A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole.<br />
The Power, the Light, the Bliss no word can speak<br />
Imaged itself in a surprising beam<br />
And built a golden passage to his heart<br />
Touching through him all longing sentient things.<br />
A moment’s sweetness of the All-Beautiful<br />
Cancelled the vanity of the cosmic whirl.<br />
A Nature throbbing with a Heart divine<br />
Was felt in the unconscious universe;<br />
It made the breath a happy mystery.<br />
A love that bore the cross of pain with joy<br />
Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,