Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK V: The Book of Love 390 The white crane stood, a vivid motionless streak, Peacock and parrot jewelled soil and tree, The dove’s soft moan enriched the enamoured air And fire-winged wild-drakes swam in silvery pools. Earth couched alone with her great lover Heaven, Uncovered to her consort’s azure eye. In a luxurious ecstasy of joy She squandered the love-music of her notes, Wasting the passionate pattern of her blooms And festival riot of her scents and hues. A cry and leap and hurry was around, The stealthy footfalls of her chasing things, The shaggy emerald of her centaur mane, The gold and sapphire of her warmth and blaze. Magician of her rapt felicities, Blithe, sensuous-hearted, careless and divine, Life ran or hid in her delightful rooms; Behind all brooded Nature’s grandiose calm. Primaeval peace was there and in its bosom Held undisturbed the strife of bird and beast. Man the deep-browed artificer had not come To lay his hand on happy inconscient things, Thought was not there nor the measurer, strong-eyed toil, Life had not learned its discord with its aim. The Mighty Mother lay outstretched at ease. All was in line with her first satisfied plan; Moved by a universal will of joy The trees bloomed in their green felicity And the wild children brooded not on pain. At the end reclined a stern and giant tract Of tangled depths and solemn questioning hills, Peaks like a bare austerity of the soul, Armoured, remote and desolately grand Like the thought-screened infinities that lie Behind the rapt smile of the Almighty’s dance. A matted forest-head invaded heaven
CANTO I: The Destined Meeting-Place 391 As if a blue-throated ascetic peered From the stone fastness of his mountain cell Regarding the brief gladness of the days; His vast extended spirit couched behind. A mighty murmur of immense retreat Besieged the ear, a sad and limitless call As of a soul retiring from the world. This was the scene which the ambiguous Mother Had chosen for her brief felicitous hour; Here in this solitude far from the world Her part she began in the world’s joy and strife. Here were disclosed to her the mystic courts, The lurking doors of beauty and surprise, The wings that murmur in the golden house, The temple of sweetness and the fiery aisle. A stranger on the sorrowful roads of Time, Immortal under the yoke of death and fate, A sacrificant of the bliss and pain of the spheres, Love in the wilderness met Savitri. END OF CANTO ONE
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CANTO I: The Destined Meeting-Place 391<br />
As if a blue-throated ascetic peered<br />
From the stone fastness of his mountain cell<br />
Regarding the brief gladness of the days;<br />
His vast extended spirit couched behind.<br />
A mighty murmur of immense retreat<br />
Besieged the ear, a sad and limitless call<br />
As of a soul retiring from the world.<br />
This was the scene which the ambiguous Mother<br />
Had chosen for her brief felicitous hour;<br />
Here in this solitude far from the world<br />
Her part she began in the world’s joy and strife.<br />
Here were disclosed to her the mystic courts,<br />
The lurking doors of beauty and surprise,<br />
The wings that murmur in the golden house,<br />
The temple of sweetness and the fiery aisle.<br />
A stranger on the sorrowful roads of Time,<br />
Immortal under the yoke of death and fate,<br />
A sacrificant of the bliss and pain of the spheres,<br />
Love in the wilderness met Savitri.<br />
END OF CANTO ONE