Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK VII: The Book of Yoga 546 Her consciousness looked on and took no part; All it upheld, in nothing had a share. There was no strong initiator will; An incoherence crossing a firm void Slipped into an order of related chance. A pure perception was the only power That stood behind her action and her sight. If that retired, all objects would be extinct, Her private universe would cease to be, The house she had built with bricks of thought and sense In the beginning after the birth of Space. This seeing was identical with the seen; It knew without knowledge all that could be known, It saw impartially the world go by, But in the same supine unmoving glance Saw too its abysmal unreality. It watched the figure of the cosmic game, But the thought and inner life in forms seemed dead, Abolished by her own collapse of thought: A hollow physical shell persisted still. All seemed a brilliant shadow of itself, A cosmic film of scenes and images: The enduring mass and outline of the hills Was a design sketched on a silent mind And held to a tremulous false solidity By constant beats of visionary sight. The forest with its emerald multitudes Clothed with its show of hues vague empty Space, A painting’s colours hiding a surface void That flickered upon dissolution’s edge; The blue heavens, an illusion of the eyes, Roofed in the mind’s illusion of a world. The men who walked beneath an unreal sky Seemed mobile puppets out of cardboard cut And pushed by unseen hands across the soil Or moving pictures upon Fancy’s film:
CANTO VI: Nirvana and the All-Negating Absolute 547 There was no soul within, no power of life. The brain’s vibrations that appear like thought, The nerve’s brief answer to each contact’s knock, The heart’s quiverings felt as joy and grief and love Were twitchings of the body, their seeming self, That body forged from atoms and from gas A manufactured lie of Maya’s make, Its life a dream seen by the sleeping Void. The animals lone or trooping through the glades Fled like a passing vision of beauty and grace Imagined by some all-creating Eye. Yet something was there behind the fading scene; Wherever she turned, at whatsoever she looked, It was perceived, yet hid from mind and sight. The One only real shut itself from Space And stood aloof from the idea of Time. Its truth escaped from shape and line and hue. All else grew unsubstantial, self-annulled, This only everlasting seemed and true, Yet nowhere dwelt, it was outside the hours. This only could justify the labour of sight, But sight could not define for it a form; This only could appease the unsatisfied ear But hearing listened in vain for a missing sound; This answered not the sense, called not to Mind. It met her as the uncaught inaudible Voice That speaks for ever from the Unknowable. It met her like an omnipresent point Pure of dimensions, unfixed, invisible, The single oneness of its multiplied beat Accentuating its sole eternity. It faced her as some vast Nought’s immensity, An endless No to all that seems to be, An endless Yes to things ever unconceived And all that is unimagined and unthought, An eternal zero or untotalled Aught,
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CANTO VI: Nirvana and the All-Negating Absolute 547<br />
There was no soul within, no power of life.<br />
The brain’s vibrations that appear like thought,<br />
The nerve’s brief answer to each contact’s knock,<br />
The heart’s quiverings felt as joy and grief and love<br />
Were twitchings of the body, their seeming self,<br />
That body forged from atoms and from gas<br />
A manufactured lie of Maya’s make,<br />
Its life a dream seen by the sleeping Void.<br />
The animals lone or trooping through the glades<br />
Fled like a passing vision of beauty and grace<br />
Imagined by some all-creating Eye.<br />
Yet something was there behind the fading scene;<br />
Wherever she turned, at whatsoever she looked,<br />
It was perceived, yet hid from mind and sight.<br />
The One only real shut itself from Space<br />
And stood aloof from the idea of Time.<br />
Its truth escaped from shape and line and hue.<br />
All else grew unsubstantial, self-annulled,<br />
This only everlasting seemed and true,<br />
Yet nowhere dwelt, it was outside the hours.<br />
This only could justify the labour of sight,<br />
But sight could not define for it a form;<br />
This only could appease the unsatisfied ear<br />
But hearing listened in vain for a missing sound;<br />
This answered not the sense, called not to Mind.<br />
It met her as the uncaught inaudible Voice<br />
That speaks for ever from the Unknowable.<br />
It met her like an omnipresent point<br />
Pure of dimensions, unfixed, invisible,<br />
The single oneness of its multiplied beat<br />
Accentuating its sole eternity.<br />
It faced her as some vast Nought’s immensity,<br />
An endless No to all that seems to be,<br />
An endless Yes to things ever unconceived<br />
And all that is unimagined and unthought,<br />
An eternal zero or untotalled Aught,