Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 600 The primal and unpardoned revolt that broke The peace and silence of the Nothingness Which was before a seeming universe Appeared in a vanity of imagined Space And life arose engendering grief and pain: A great Negation was the Real’s face Prohibiting the vain process of Time: And when there is no world, no creature more, When Time’s intrusion has been blotted out, It shall last, unbodied, saved from thought, at peace. Accursed in what had been her godhead source, Condemned to live for ever empty of bliss, Her immortality her chastisement, Her spirit, guilty of being, wandered doomed, Moving for ever through eternal Night. But Maya is a veil of the Absolute; A Truth occult has made this mighty world: The Eternal’s wisdom and self-knowledge act In ignorant Mind and in the body’s steps. The Inconscient is the Superconscient’s sleep. An unintelligible Intelligence Invents creation’s paradox profound; Spiritual thought is crammed in Matter’s forms, Unseen it throws out a dumb energy And works a miracle by a machine. All here is a mystery of contraries: Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light, Suffering some secret rapture’s tragic mask And death an instrument of perpetual life. Although Death walks beside us on Life’s road, A dim bystander at the body’s start And a last judgment on man’s futile works, Other is the riddle of its ambiguous face: Death is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride The soul must take to cross from birth to birth, A grey defeat pregnant with victory,
CANTO I: The Dream Twilight of the Ideal 601 A whip to lash us towards our deathless state. The inconscient world is the spirit’s self-made room, Eternal Night shadow of eternal Day. Night is not our beginning nor our end; She is the dark Mother in whose womb we have hid Safe from too swift a waking to world-pain. We came to her from a supernal Light, By Light we live and to the Light we go. Here in this seat of Darkness mute and lone, In the heart of everlasting Nothingness Light conquered now even by that feeble beam: Its faint infiltration drilled the blind deaf mass; Almost it changed into a glimmering sight That housed the phantom of an aureate Sun Whose orb pupilled the eye of Nothingness. A golden fire came in and burned Night’s heart; Her dusky mindlessness began to dream; The Inconscient conscious grew, Night felt and thought. Assailed in the sovereign emptiness of its reign The intolerant Darkness paled and drew apart Till only a few black remnants stained that Ray. But on a failing edge of dumb lost space Still a great dragon body sullenly loomed; Adversary of the slow struggling Dawn Defending its ground of tortured mystery, It trailed its coils through the dead martyred air And curving fled down a grey slope of Time. There is a morning twilight of the gods; Miraculous from sleep their forms arise And God’s long nights are justified by dawn. There breaks a passion and splendour of new birth And hue-winged visions stray across the lids, Heaven’s chanting heralds waken dim-eyed Space. The dreaming deities look beyond the seen And fashion in their thoughts the ideal worlds
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BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 600<br />
The primal and unpardoned revolt that broke<br />
The peace and silence of the Nothingness<br />
Which was before a seeming universe<br />
Appeared in a vanity of imagined Space<br />
And life arose engendering grief and pain:<br />
A great Negation was the Real’s face<br />
Prohibiting the vain process of Time:<br />
And when there is no world, no creature more,<br />
When Time’s intrusion has been blotted out,<br />
It shall last, unbodied, saved from thought, at peace.<br />
Accursed in what had been her godhead source,<br />
Condemned to live for ever empty of bliss,<br />
Her immortality her chastisement,<br />
Her spirit, guilty of being, wandered doomed,<br />
Moving for ever through eternal Night.<br />
But Maya is a veil of the Absolute;<br />
A Truth occult has made this mighty world:<br />
The Eternal’s wisdom and self-knowledge act<br />
In ignorant Mind and in the body’s steps.<br />
The Inconscient is the Superconscient’s sleep.<br />
An unintelligible Intelligence<br />
Invents creation’s paradox profound;<br />
Spiritual thought is crammed in Matter’s forms,<br />
Unseen it throws out a dumb energy<br />
And works a miracle by a machine.<br />
All here is a mystery of contraries:<br />
Darkness a magic of self-hidden Light,<br />
Suffering some secret rapture’s tragic mask<br />
And death an instrument of perpetual life.<br />
Although Death walks beside us on Life’s road,<br />
A dim bystander at the body’s start<br />
And a last judgment on man’s futile works,<br />
Other is the riddle of its ambiguous face:<br />
Death is a stair, a door, a stumbling stride<br />
The soul must take to cross from birth to birth,<br />
A grey defeat pregnant with victory,