Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK III: The Book of the Divine Mother 320 Ephemeral voices from his hearing fell And Thought potent no more sank large and pale Like a tired god into mysterious seas. The robes of mortal thinking were cast down Leaving his knowledge bare to absolute sight; Fate’s driving ceased and Nature’s sleepless spur: The athlete heavings of the will were stilled In the Omnipotent’s unmoving peace. Life in his members lay down vast and mute; Naked, unwalled, unterrified it bore The immense regard of Immortality. The last movement died and all at once grew still. A weight that was the unseen Transcendent’s hand Laid on his limbs the Spirit’s measureless seal, Infinity swallowed him into shoreless trance. As one who sets his sail towards mysteried shores Driven through huge oceans by the breath of God, The fathomless below, the unknown around, His soul abandoned the blind star-field, Space. Afar from all that makes the measured world, Plunging to hidden eternities it withdrew Back from mind’s foaming surface to the Vasts Voiceless within us in omniscient sleep. Above the imperfect reach of word and thought, Beyond the sight that seeks support of form, Lost in deep tracts of superconscient Light, Or voyaging in blank featureless Nothingness, Sole in the trackless Incommensurable, Or past not-self and self and selflessness, Transgressing the dream-shores of conscious mind He reached at last his sempiternal base. On sorrowless heights no winging cry disturbs, Pure and untouched above this mortal play Is spread the spirit’s hushed immobile air. There no beginning is and there no end;
CANTO III: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation 321 There is the stable force of all that moves; There the aeonic labourer is at rest. There turns no keyed creation in the void, No giant mechanism watched by a soul; There creaks no fate-turned huge machinery; The marriage of evil with good within one breast, The clash of strife in the very clasp of love, The dangerous pain of life’s experiment In the values of Inconsequence and Chance, The peril of mind’s gamble, throwing our lives As stake in a wager of indifferent gods And the shifting lights and shadows of the idea Falling upon the surface consciousness, And in the dream of a mute witness soul Creating the error of a half-seen world Where knowledge is a seeking ignorance, Life’s steps a stumbling series without suit, Its aspect of fortuitous design, Its equal measure of the true and false In that immobile and immutable realm Find no access, no cause, no right to live: There only reigns the spirit’s motionless power Poised in itself through still eternity And its omniscient and omnipotent peace. Thought clashes not with thought and truth with truth, There is no war of right with rival right; There are no stumbling and half-seeing lives Passing from chance to unexpected chance, No suffering of hearts compelled to beat In bodies of the inert Inconscient’s make. Armed with the immune occult unsinking Fire The guardians of Eternity keep its law For ever fixed upon Truth’s giant base In her magnificent and termless home. There Nature on her dumb spiritual couch Immutably transcendent knows her source
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CANTO III: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation 321<br />
There is the stable force of all that moves;<br />
There the aeonic labourer is at rest.<br />
There turns no keyed creation in the void,<br />
No giant mechanism watched by a soul;<br />
There creaks no fate-turned huge machinery;<br />
The marriage of evil with good within one breast,<br />
The clash of strife in the very clasp of love,<br />
The dangerous pain of life’s experiment<br />
In the values of Inconsequence and Chance,<br />
The peril of mind’s gamble, throwing our lives<br />
As stake in a wager of indifferent gods<br />
And the shifting lights and shadows of the idea<br />
Falling upon the surface consciousness,<br />
And in the dream of a mute witness soul<br />
Creating the error of a half-seen world<br />
Where knowledge is a seeking ignorance,<br />
Life’s steps a stumbling series without suit,<br />
Its aspect of fortuitous design,<br />
Its equal measure of the true and false<br />
In that immobile and immutable realm<br />
Find no access, no cause, no right to live:<br />
There only reigns the spirit’s motionless power<br />
Poised in itself through still eternity<br />
And its omniscient and omnipotent peace.<br />
Thought clashes not with thought and truth with truth,<br />
There is no war of right with rival right;<br />
There are no stumbling and half-seeing lives<br />
Passing from chance to unexpected chance,<br />
No suffering of hearts compelled to beat<br />
In bodies of the inert Inconscient’s make.<br />
Armed with the immune occult unsinking Fire<br />
The guardians of Eternity keep its law<br />
For ever fixed upon Truth’s giant base<br />
In her magnificent and termless home.<br />
There Nature on her dumb spiritual couch<br />
Immutably transcendent knows her source