Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 528 There was no wall severing the soul and mind, No mystic fence guarding from the claims of life. In its deep lotus home her being sat As if on concentration’s marble seat, Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds To make this earthly tenement her house. As in a flash from a supernal light, A living image of the original Power, A face, a form came down into her heart And made of it its temple and pure abode. But when its feet had touched the quivering bloom, A mighty movement rocked the inner space As if a world were shaken and found its soul: Out of the Inconscient’s soulless mindless night A flaming Serpent rose released from sleep. It rose billowing its coils and stood erect And climbing mightily, stormily on its way It touched her centres with its flaming mouth; As if a fiery kiss had broken their sleep, They bloomed and laughed surcharged with light and bliss. Then at the crown it joined the Eternal’s space. In the flower of the head, in the flower of Matter’s base, In each divine stronghold and Nature-knot It held together the mystic stream which joins The viewless summits with the unseen depths, The string of forts that make the frail defence Safeguarding us against the enormous world, Our lines of self-expression in its Vast. An image sat of the original Power Wearing the mighty Mother’s form and face. Armed, bearer of the weapon and the sign Whose occult might no magic can imitate, Manifold yet one she sat, a guardian force: A saviour gesture stretched her lifted arm, And symbol of some native cosmic strength, A sacred beast lay prone below her feet,
CANTO V: The Finding of the Soul 529 A silent flame-eyed mass of living force. All underwent a high celestial change: Breaking the black Inconscient’s blind mute wall, Effacing the circles of the Ignorance, Powers and divinities burst flaming forth; Each part of the being trembling with delight Lay overwhelmed with tides of happiness And saw her hand in every circumstance And felt her touch in every limb and cell. In the country of the lotus of the head Which thinking mind has made its busy space, In the castle of the lotus twixt the brows Whence it shoots the arrows of its sight and will, In the passage of the lotus of the throat Where speech must rise and the expressing mind And the heart’s impulse run towards word and act, A glad uplift and a new working came. The immortal’s thoughts displaced our bounded view, The immortal’s thoughts earth’s drab idea and sense; All things now bore a deeper heavenlier sense. A glad clear harmony marked their truth’s outline, Reset the balance and measures of the world. Each shape showed its occult design, unveiled God’s meaning in it for which it was made And the vivid splendour of his artist thought. A channel of the mighty Mother’s choice, The immortal’s will took into its calm control Our blind or erring government of life; A loose republic once of wants and needs, Then bowed to the uncertain sovereign mind, Life now obeyed to a diviner rule And every act became an act of God. In the kingdom of the lotus of the heart Love chanting its pure hymeneal hymn Made life and body mirrors of sacred joy And all the emotions gave themselves to God.
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CANTO V: The Finding of the Soul 529<br />
A silent flame-eyed mass of living force.<br />
All underwent a high celestial change:<br />
Breaking the black Inconscient’s blind mute wall,<br />
Effacing the circles of the Ignorance,<br />
Powers and divinities burst flaming forth;<br />
Each part of the being trembling with delight<br />
Lay overwhelmed with tides of happiness<br />
And saw her hand in every circumstance<br />
And felt her touch in every limb and cell.<br />
In the country of the lotus of the head<br />
Which thinking mind has made its busy space,<br />
In the castle of the lotus twixt the brows<br />
Whence it shoots the arrows of its sight and will,<br />
In the passage of the lotus of the throat<br />
Where speech must rise and the expressing mind<br />
And the heart’s impulse run towards word and act,<br />
A glad uplift and a new working came.<br />
The immortal’s thoughts displaced our bounded view,<br />
The immortal’s thoughts earth’s drab idea and sense;<br />
All things now bore a deeper heavenlier sense.<br />
A glad clear harmony marked their truth’s outline,<br />
Reset the balance and measures of the world.<br />
Each shape showed its occult design, unveiled<br />
God’s meaning in it for which it was made<br />
And the vivid splendour of his artist thought.<br />
A channel of the mighty Mother’s choice,<br />
The immortal’s will took into its calm control<br />
Our blind or erring government of life;<br />
A loose republic once of wants and needs,<br />
Then bowed to the uncertain sovereign mind,<br />
Life now obeyed to a diviner rule<br />
And every act became an act of God.<br />
In the kingdom of the lotus of the heart<br />
Love chanting its pure hymeneal hymn<br />
Made life and body mirrors of sacred joy<br />
And all the emotions gave themselves to God.