Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 486 The occult seeker into the open came: He heard the far and touched the intangible, He gazed into the future and the unseen; He used the powers earth-instruments cannot use, A pastime made of the impossible; He caught up fragments of the Omniscient’s thought, He scattered formulas of omnipotence. Thus man in his little house made of earth’s dust Grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream Looking into the vast vistas of his mind On a small globe dotting infinity. At last climbing a long and narrow stair He stood alone on the high roof of things And saw the light of a spiritual sun. Aspiring he transcends his earthly self; He stands in the largeness of his soul new-born, Redeemed from encirclement by mortal things And moves in a pure free spiritual realm As in the rare breath of a stratosphere; A last end of far lines of divinity, He mounts by a frail thread to his high source; He reaches his fount of immortality, He calls the Godhead into his mortal life. All this the spirit concealed had done in her: A portion of the mighty Mother came Into her as into its own human part: Amid the cosmic workings of the Gods It marked her the centre of a wide-drawn scheme, Dreamed in the passion of her far-seeing spirit To mould humanity into God’s own shape And lead this great blind struggling world to light Or a new world discover or create. Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven Or Heaven descend into earth’s mortal state. But for such vast spiritual change to be, Out of the mystic cavern in man’s heart
CANTO II: The Parable of the Search for the Soul 487 The heavenly Psyche must put off her veil And step into common nature’s crowded rooms And stand uncovered in that nature’s front And rule its thoughts and fill the body and life. Obedient to a high command she sat: Time, life and death were passing incidents Obstructing with their transient view her sight, Her sight that must break through and liberate the god Imprisoned in the visionless mortal man. The inferior nature born into ignorance Still took too large a place, it veiled her self And must be pushed aside to find her soul. END OF CANTO TWO
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BOOK VII: The Book of <strong>Yoga</strong> 486<br />
The occult seeker into the open came:<br />
He heard the far and touched the intangible,<br />
He gazed into the future and the unseen;<br />
He used the powers earth-instruments cannot use,<br />
A pastime made of the impossible;<br />
He caught up fragments of the Omniscient’s thought,<br />
He scattered formulas of omnipotence.<br />
Thus man in his little house made of earth’s dust<br />
Grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream<br />
Looking into the vast vistas of his mind<br />
On a small globe dotting infinity.<br />
At last climbing a long and narrow stair<br />
He stood alone on the high roof of things<br />
And saw the light of a spiritual sun.<br />
Aspiring he transcends his earthly self;<br />
He stands in the largeness of his soul new-born,<br />
Redeemed from encirclement by mortal things<br />
And moves in a pure free spiritual realm<br />
As in the rare breath of a stratosphere;<br />
A last end of far lines of divinity,<br />
He mounts by a frail thread to his high source;<br />
He reaches his fount of immortality,<br />
He calls the Godhead into his mortal life.<br />
All this the spirit concealed had done in her:<br />
A portion of the mighty Mother came<br />
Into her as into its own human part:<br />
Amid the cosmic workings of the Gods<br />
It marked her the centre of a wide-drawn scheme,<br />
Dreamed in the passion of her far-seeing spirit<br />
To mould humanity into God’s own shape<br />
And lead this great blind struggling world to light<br />
Or a new world discover or create.<br />
Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven<br />
Or Heaven descend into earth’s mortal state.<br />
But for such vast spiritual change to be,<br />
Out of the mystic cavern in man’s heart