Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK I: The Book of Beginnings 36 Made whole the fragment-being we are here. At last was won a firm spiritual poise, A constant lodging in the Eternal’s realm, A safety in the Silence and the Ray, A settlement in the Immutable. His heights of being lived in the still Self; His mind could rest on a supernal ground And look down on the magic and the play Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn And the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise. To the still heights and to the troubled depths His equal spirit gave its vast assent: A poised serenity of tranquil strength, A wide unshaken look on Time’s unrest Faced all experience with unaltered peace. Indifferent to the sorrow and delight, Untempted by the marvel and the call, Immobile it beheld the flux of things, Calm and apart supported all that is: His spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world. Inspired by silence and the closed eyes’ sight His force could work with a new luminous art On the crude material from which all is made And the refusal of Inertia’s mass And the grey front of the world’s Ignorance And nescient Matter and the huge error of life. As a sculptor chisels a deity out of stone He slowly chipped off the dark envelope, Line of defence of Nature’s ignorance, The illusion and mystery of the Inconscient In whose black pall the Eternal wraps his head That he may act unknown in cosmic Time. A splendour of self-creation from the peaks, A transfiguration in the mystic depths, A happier cosmic working could begin And fashion the world-shape in him anew,
CANTO III: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release 37 God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God. Already in him was seen that task of Power: Life made its home on the high tops of self; His soul, mind, heart became a single sun; Only life’s lower reaches remained dim. But there too, in the uncertain shadow of life, There was a labour and a fiery breath; The ambiguous cowled celestial puissance worked Watched by the inner Witness’s moveless peace. Even on the struggling Nature left below Strong periods of illumination came: Lightnings of glory after glory burned, Experience was a tale of blaze and fire, Air rippled round the argosies of the Gods, Strange riches sailed to him from the Unseen; Splendours of insight filled the blank of thought, Knowledge spoke to the inconscient stillnesses, Rivers poured down of bliss and luminous force, Visits of beauty, storm-sweeps of delight Rained from the all-powerful Mystery above. Thence stooped the eagles of Omniscience. A dense veil was rent, a mighty whisper heard; Repeated in the privacy of his soul, A wisdom-cry from rapt transcendences Sang on the mountains of an unseen world; The voices that an inner listening hears Conveyed to him their prophet utterances, And flame-wrapped outbursts of the immortal Word And flashes of an occult revealing Light Approached him from the unreachable Secrecy. An inspired Knowledge sat enthroned within Whose seconds illumined more than reason’s years: An ictus of revealing lustre fell As if a pointing accent upon Truth, And like a sky-flare showing all the ground A swift intuitive discernment shone.
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BOOK I: The Book of Beginnings 36<br />
Made whole the fragment-being we are here.<br />
At last was won a firm spiritual poise,<br />
A constant lodging in the Eternal’s realm,<br />
A safety in the Silence and the Ray,<br />
A settlement in the Immutable.<br />
His heights of being lived in the still Self;<br />
His mind could rest on a supernal ground<br />
And look down on the magic and the play<br />
Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn<br />
And the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise.<br />
To the still heights and to the troubled depths<br />
His equal spirit gave its vast assent:<br />
A poised serenity of tranquil strength,<br />
A wide unshaken look on Time’s unrest<br />
Faced all experience with unaltered peace.<br />
Indifferent to the sorrow and delight,<br />
Untempted by the marvel and the call,<br />
Immobile it beheld the flux of things,<br />
Calm and apart supported all that is:<br />
His spirit’s stillness helped the toiling world.<br />
Inspired by silence and the closed eyes’ sight<br />
His force could work with a new luminous art<br />
On the crude material from which all is made<br />
And the refusal of Inertia’s mass<br />
And the grey front of the world’s Ignorance<br />
And nescient Matter and the huge error of life.<br />
As a sculptor chisels a deity out of stone<br />
He slowly chipped off the dark envelope,<br />
Line of defence of Nature’s ignorance,<br />
The illusion and mystery of the Inconscient<br />
In whose black pall the Eternal wraps his head<br />
That he may act unknown in cosmic Time.<br />
A splendour of self-creation from the peaks,<br />
A transfiguration in the mystic depths,<br />
A happier cosmic working could begin<br />
And fashion the world-shape in him anew,