Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 536 Only her soul remained, its emptied stage, Awaiting the unknown eternal Will. Then from the heights a greater Voice came down, The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul, The voice of Light after the voice of Night: The cry of the Abyss drew Heaven’s reply, A might of storm chased by the might of the Sun. “O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe; Consent to hide thy royalty of bliss Lest Time and Fate find out its avenues And beat with thunderous knock upon thy gates. Hide whilst thou canst thy treasure of separate self Behind the luminous rampart of thy depths Till of a vaster empire it grows part. But not for self alone the Self is won: Content abide not with one conquered realm; Adventure all to make the whole world thine, To break into greater kingdoms turn thy force. Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all; Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme That all in thee may reach its absolute. Accept to be small and human on the earth, Interrupting thy new-born divinity, That man may find his utter self in God. If for thy own sake only thou hast come, An immortal spirit into the mortal’s world, To found thy luminous kingdom in God’s dark, In the Inconscient’s realm one shining star, One door in the Ignorance opened upon light, Why hadst thou any need to come at all? Thou hast come down into a struggling world To aid a blind and suffering mortal race, To open to Light the eyes that could not see, To bring down bliss into the heart of grief, To make thy life a bridge twixt earth and heaven; If thou wouldst save the toiling universe,
CANTO VI: Nirvana and the All-Negating Absolute 537 The vast universal suffering feel as thine: Thou must bear the sorrow that thou claimst to heal; The day-bringer must walk in darkest night. He who would save the world must share its pain. If he knows not grief, how shall he find grief’s cure? If far he walks above mortality’s head, How shall the mortal reach that too high path? If one of theirs they see scale heaven’s peaks, Men then can hope to learn that titan climb. God must be born on earth and be as man That man being human may grow even as God. He who would save the world must be one with the world, All suffering things contain in his heart’s space And bear the grief and joy of all that lives. His soul must be wider than the universe And feel eternity as its very stuff, Rejecting the moment’s personality Know itself older than the birth of Time, Creation an incident in its consciousness, Arcturus and Belphegor grains of fire Circling in a corner of its boundless self, The world’s destruction a small transient storm In the calm infinity it has become. If thou wouldst a little loosen the vast chain, Draw back from the world that the Idea has made, Thy mind’s selection from the Infinite, Thy senses’ gloss on the Infinitesimal’s dance, Then shalt thou know how the great bondage came. Banish all thought from thee and be God’s void. Then shalt thou uncover the Unknowable And the Superconscient conscious grow on thy tops; Infinity’s vision through thy gaze shall pierce; Thou shalt look into the eyes of the Unknown, Find the hid Truth in things seen null and false, Behind things known discover Mystery’s rear. Thou shalt be one with God’s bare reality
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BOOK VII: The Book of <strong>Yoga</strong> 536<br />
Only her soul remained, its emptied stage,<br />
Awaiting the unknown eternal Will.<br />
Then from the heights a greater Voice came down,<br />
The Word that touches the heart and finds the soul,<br />
The voice of Light after the voice of Night:<br />
The cry of the Abyss drew Heaven’s reply,<br />
A might of storm chased by the might of the Sun.<br />
“O soul, bare not thy kingdom to the foe;<br />
Consent to hide thy royalty of bliss<br />
Lest Time and Fate find out its avenues<br />
And beat with thunderous knock upon thy gates.<br />
Hide whilst thou canst thy treasure of separate self<br />
Behind the luminous rampart of thy depths<br />
Till of a vaster empire it grows part.<br />
But not for self alone the Self is won:<br />
Content abide not with one conquered realm;<br />
Adventure all to make the whole world thine,<br />
To break into greater kingdoms turn thy force.<br />
Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all;<br />
Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme<br />
That all in thee may reach its absolute.<br />
Accept to be small and human on the earth,<br />
Interrupting thy new-born divinity,<br />
That man may find his utter self in God.<br />
If for thy own sake only thou hast come,<br />
An immortal spirit into the mortal’s world,<br />
To found thy luminous kingdom in God’s dark,<br />
In the Inconscient’s realm one shining star,<br />
One door in the Ignorance opened upon light,<br />
Why hadst thou any need to come at all?<br />
Thou hast come down into a struggling world<br />
To aid a blind and suffering mortal race,<br />
To open to Light the eyes that could not see,<br />
To bring down bliss into the heart of grief,<br />
To make thy life a bridge twixt earth and heaven;<br />
If thou wouldst save the toiling universe,