Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
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BOOK VI: The Book of Fate 456 Called it from its too safe eternity. A huge descent began, a giant fall: For what the spirit sees, creates a truth And what the soul imagines is made a world. A Thought that leaped from the Timeless can become, Indicator of cosmic consequence And the itinerary of the gods, A cyclic movement in eternal Time. Thus came, born from a blind tremendous choice, This great perplexed and discontented world, This haunt of Ignorance, this home of Pain: There are pitched desire’s tents, grief’s headquarters. A vast disguise conceals the Eternal’s bliss.” Then Aswapati answered to the seer: “Is then the spirit ruled by an outward world? O seer, is there no remedy within? But what is Fate if not the spirit’s will After long time fulfilled by cosmic Force? I deemed a mighty Power had come with her; Is not that Power the high compeer of Fate?” But Narad answered covering truth with truth: “O Aswapati, random seem the ways Along whose banks your footsteps stray or run In casual hours or moments of the gods, Yet your least stumblings are foreseen above. Infallibly the curves of life are drawn Following the stream of Time through the unknown; They are led by a clue the calm immortals keep. This blazoned hieroglyph of prophet morns A meaning more sublime in symbols writes Than sealed Thought wakes to, but of this high script How shall my voice convince the mind of earth? Heaven’s wiser love rejects the mortal’s prayer; Unblinded by the breath of his desire, Unclouded by the mists of fear and hope,
CANTO II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain 457 It bends above the strife of love with death; It keeps for her her privilege of pain. A greatness in thy daughter’s soul resides That can transform herself and all around But must cross on stones of suffering to its goal. Although designed like a nectar cup of heaven, Of heavenly ether made she sought this air, She too must share the human need of grief And all her cause of joy transmute to pain. The mind of mortal man is led by words, His sight retires behind the walls of Thought And looks out only through half-opened doors. He cuts the boundless Truth into sky-strips And every strip he takes for all the heavens. He stares at infinite possibility And gives to the plastic Vast the name of Chance; He sees the long results of an all-wise Force Planning a sequence of steps in endless Time But in its links imagines a senseless chain Or the dead hand of cold Necessity; He answers not to the mystic Mother’s heart, Misses the ardent heavings of her breast And feels cold rigid limbs of lifeless Law. The will of the Timeless working out in Time In the free absolute steps of cosmic Truth He thinks a dead machine or unconscious Fate. A Magician’s formulas have made Matter’s laws And while they last, all things by them are bound; But the spirit’s consent is needed for each act And Freedom walks in the same pace with Law. All here can change if the Magician choose. If human will could be made one with God’s, If human thought could echo the thoughts of God, Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent; But now he walks in Nature’s doubtful ray. Yet can the mind of man receive God’s light,
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CANTO II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain 457<br />
It bends above the strife of love with death;<br />
It keeps for her her privilege of pain.<br />
A greatness in thy daughter’s soul resides<br />
That can transform herself and all around<br />
But must cross on stones of suffering to its goal.<br />
Although designed like a nectar cup of heaven,<br />
Of heavenly ether made she sought this air,<br />
She too must share the human need of grief<br />
And all her cause of joy transmute to pain.<br />
The mind of mortal man is led by words,<br />
His sight retires behind the walls of Thought<br />
And looks out only through half-opened doors.<br />
He cuts the boundless Truth into sky-strips<br />
And every strip he takes for all the heavens.<br />
He stares at infinite possibility<br />
And gives to the plastic Vast the name of Chance;<br />
He sees the long results of an all-wise Force<br />
Planning a sequence of steps in endless Time<br />
But in its links imagines a senseless chain<br />
Or the dead hand of cold Necessity;<br />
He answers not to the mystic Mother’s heart,<br />
Misses the ardent heavings of her breast<br />
And feels cold rigid limbs of lifeless Law.<br />
The will of the Timeless working out in Time<br />
In the free absolute steps of cosmic Truth<br />
He thinks a dead machine or unconscious Fate.<br />
A Magician’s formulas have made Matter’s laws<br />
And while they last, all things by them are bound;<br />
But the spirit’s consent is needed for each act<br />
And Freedom walks in the same pace with Law.<br />
All here can change if the Magician choose.<br />
If human will could be made one with God’s,<br />
If human thought could echo the thoughts of God,<br />
Man might be all-knowing and omnipotent;<br />
But now he walks in Nature’s doubtful ray.<br />
Yet can the mind of man receive God’s light,