Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 512 The sun and moon are lights upon my path; Air was invented for my lungs to breathe, Conditioned as a wide and wall-less space For my winged chariot’s wheels to cleave a road, The sea was made for me to swim and sail And bear my golden commerce on its back: It laughs cloven by my pleasure’s gliding keel, I laugh at its black stare of fate and death. The earth is my floor, the sky my living’s roof. All was prepared through many a silent age, God made experiments with animal shapes, Then only when all was ready I was born. I was born weak and small and ignorant, A helpless creature in a difficult world Travelling through my brief years with death at my side; I have grown greater than Nature, wiser than God. I have made real what she never dreamed, I have seized her powers and harnessed for my work, I have shaped her metals and new metals made; I will make glass and raiment out of milk, Make iron velvet, water unbreakable stone, Like God in his astuce of artist skill, Mould from one primal plasm protean forms, In single Nature multitudinous lives, All that imagination can conceive In mind intangible, remould anew In Matter’s plastic solid and concrete. No magic can surpass my magic’s skill. There is no miracle I shall not achieve. What God imperfect left, I will complete, Out of a tangled mind and half-made soul His sin and error I will eliminate; What he invented not, I shall invent: He was the first creator, I am the last. I have found the atoms from which he built the worlds: The first tremendous cosmic energy
CANTO IV: The Triple Soul-Forces 513 Missioned shall leap to slay my enemy kin, Expunge a nation or abolish a race, Death’s silence leave where there was laughter and joy. Or the fissured invisible shall spend God’s force To extend my comforts and expand my wealth, To speed my car which now the lightnings drive And turn the engines of my miracles. I will take his means of sorcery from his hands And do with them greater wonders than his best. Yet through it all I have kept my balanced thought; I have studied my being, I have examined the world, I have grown a master of the arts of life. I have tamed the wild beast, trained to be my friend; He guards my house, looks up waiting my will. I have taught my kind to serve and to obey. I have used the mystery of the cosmic waves To see far distance and to hear far words; I have conquered Space and knitted close all earth. Soon I shall know the secrets of the Mind; I play with knowledge and with ignorance And sin and virtue my inventions are I can transcend or sovereignly use. I shall know mystic truths, seize occult powers. I shall slay my enemies with a look or thought, I shall sense the unspoken feelings of all hearts And see and hear the hidden thoughts of men. When earth is mastered, I shall conquer heaven; The gods shall be my aides or menial folk, No wish I harbour unfulfilled shall die: Omnipotence and omniscience shall be mine.” And Savitri heard the voice, the warped echo heard And turning to her being of power she spoke: “Madonna of might, Mother of works and force, Thou art a portion of my soul put forth To help mankind and help the travail of Time. Because thou art in him, man hopes and dares;
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BOOK VII: The Book of <strong>Yoga</strong> 512<br />
The sun and moon are lights upon my path;<br />
Air was invented for my lungs to breathe,<br />
Conditioned as a wide and wall-less space<br />
For my winged chariot’s wheels to cleave a road,<br />
The sea was made for me to swim and sail<br />
And bear my golden commerce on its back:<br />
It laughs cloven by my pleasure’s gliding keel,<br />
I laugh at its black stare of fate and death.<br />
The earth is my floor, the sky my living’s roof.<br />
All was prepared through many a silent age,<br />
God made experiments with animal shapes,<br />
Then only when all was ready I was born.<br />
I was born weak and small and ignorant,<br />
A helpless creature in a difficult world<br />
Travelling through my brief years with death at my side;<br />
I have grown greater than Nature, wiser than God.<br />
I have made real what she never dreamed,<br />
I have seized her powers and harnessed for my work,<br />
I have shaped her metals and new metals made;<br />
I will make glass and raiment out of milk,<br />
Make iron velvet, water unbreakable stone,<br />
Like God in his astuce of artist skill,<br />
Mould from one primal plasm protean forms,<br />
In single Nature multitudinous lives,<br />
All that imagination can conceive<br />
In mind intangible, remould anew<br />
In Matter’s plastic solid and concrete.<br />
No magic can surpass my magic’s skill.<br />
There is no miracle I shall not achieve.<br />
What God imperfect left, I will complete,<br />
Out of a tangled mind and half-made soul<br />
His sin and error I will eliminate;<br />
What he invented not, I shall invent:<br />
He was the first creator, I am the last.<br />
I have found the atoms from which he built the worlds:<br />
The first tremendous cosmic energy