Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 530 In the navel lotus’ broad imperial range Its proud ambitions and its master lusts Were tamed into instruments of a great calm sway To do a work of God on earthly soil. In the narrow nether centre’s petty parts Its childish game of daily dwarf desires Was changed into a sweet and boisterous play, A romp of little gods with life in Time. In the deep place where once the Serpent slept, There came a grip on Matter’s giant powers For large utilities in life’s little space; A firm ground was made for Heaven’s descending might. Behind all reigned her sovereign deathless soul: Casting aside its veil of Ignorance, Allied to gods and cosmic beings and powers It built the harmony of its human state; Surrendered into the great World-Mother’s hands Only she obeyed her sole supreme behest In the enigma of the Inconscient’s world. A secret soul behind supporting all Is master and witness of our ignorant life, Admits the Person’s look and Nature’s role. But once the hidden doors are flung apart Then the veiled king steps out in Nature’s front; A Light comes down into the Ignorance, Its heavy painful knot loosens its grasp: The mind becomes a mastered instrument And life a hue and figure of the soul. All happily grows towards knowledge and towards bliss. A divine Puissance then takes Nature’s place And pushes the movements of our body and mind; Possessor of our passionate hopes and dreams, The beloved despot of our thoughts and acts, She streams into us with her unbound force, Into mortal limbs the Immortal’s rapture and power. An inner law of beauty shapes our lives;
CANTO V: The Finding of the Soul 531 Our words become the natural speech of Truth, Each thought is a ripple on a sea of Light. Then sin and virtue leave the cosmic lists; They struggle no more in our delivered hearts: Our acts chime with God’s simple natural good Or serve the rule of a supernal Right. All moods unlovely, evil and untrue Forsake their stations in fierce disarray And hide their shame in the subconscient’s dusk. Then lifts the mind a cry of victory: “O soul, my soul, we have created Heaven, Within we have found the kingdom here of God, His fortress built in a loud ignorant world. Our life is entrenched between two rivers of Light, We have turned space into a gulf of peace And made the body a Capitol of bliss. What more, what more, if more must still be done?” In the slow process of the evolving spirit, In the brief stade between a death and birth A first perfection’s stage is reached at last; Out of the wood and stone of our nature’s stuff A temple is shaped where the high gods could live. Even if the struggling world is left outside One man’s perfection still can save the world. There is won a new proximity to the skies, A first betrothal of the Earth to Heaven, A deep concordat between Truth and Life: A camp of God is pitched in human time. END OF CANTO FIVE
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CANTO V: The Finding of the Soul 531<br />
Our words become the natural speech of Truth,<br />
Each thought is a ripple on a sea of Light.<br />
Then sin and virtue leave the cosmic lists;<br />
They struggle no more in our delivered hearts:<br />
Our acts chime with God’s simple natural good<br />
Or serve the rule of a supernal Right.<br />
All moods unlovely, evil and untrue<br />
Forsake their stations in fierce disarray<br />
And hide their shame in the subconscient’s dusk.<br />
Then lifts the mind a cry of victory:<br />
“O soul, my soul, we have created Heaven,<br />
Within we have found the kingdom here of God,<br />
His fortress built in a loud ignorant world.<br />
Our life is entrenched between two rivers of Light,<br />
We have turned space into a gulf of peace<br />
And made the body a Capitol of bliss.<br />
What more, what more, if more must still be done?”<br />
In the slow process of the evolving spirit,<br />
In the brief stade between a death and birth<br />
A first perfection’s stage is reached at last;<br />
Out of the wood and stone of our nature’s stuff<br />
A temple is shaped where the high gods could live.<br />
Even if the struggling world is left outside<br />
One man’s perfection still can save the world.<br />
There is won a new proximity to the skies,<br />
A first betrothal of the Earth to Heaven,<br />
A deep concordat between Truth and Life:<br />
A camp of God is pitched in human time.<br />
END OF CANTO FIVE