Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 666 Or the low calm utterance of infinity When it speaks to the silence in the heart of sleep. “I hail thee, almighty and victorious Death, Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite. O Void that makest room for all to be, Hunger that gnawest at the universe Consuming the cold remnants of the suns And eatst the whole world with thy jaws of fire, Waster of the energy that has made the stars, Inconscience, carrier of the seeds of thought, Nescience in which All-Knowledge sleeps entombed And slowly emerges in its hollow breast Wearing the mind’s mask of bright Ignorance. Thou art my shadow and my instrument. I have given thee thy awful shape of dread And thy sharp sword of terror and grief and pain To force the soul of man to struggle for light On the brevity of his half-conscious days. Thou art his spur to greatness in his works, The whip to his yearning for eternal bliss, His poignant need of immortality. Live, Death, awhile, be still my instrument. One day man too shall know thy fathomless heart Of silence and the brooding peace of Night And grave obedience to eternal Law And the calm inflexible pity in thy gaze. But now, O timeless Mightiness, stand aside And leave the path of my incarnate Force. Relieve the radiant God from thy black mask: Release the soul of the world called Satyavan Freed from thy clutch of pain and ignorance That he may stand master of life and fate, Man’s representative in the house of God, The mate of Wisdom and the spouse of Light, The eternal bridegroom of the eternal bride.” She spoke; Death unconvinced resisted still,
CANTO IV: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real 667 Although he knew refusing still to know, Although he saw refusing still to see. Unshakable he stood claiming his right. His spirit bowed; his will obeyed the law Of its own nature binding even on Gods. The Two opposed each other face to face. His being like a huge fort of darkness towered; Around it her light grew, an ocean’s siege. Awhile the Shade survived defying heaven: Assailing in front, oppressing from above, A concrete mass of conscious power, he bore The tyranny of her divine desire. A pressure of intolerable force Weighed on his unbowed head and stubborn breast; Light like a burning tongue licked up his thoughts, Light was a luminous torture in his heart, Light coursed, a splendid agony, through his nerves; His darkness muttered perishing in her blaze. Her mastering Word commanded every limb And left no room for his enormous will That seemed pushed out into some helpless space And could no more re-enter but left him void. He called to Night but she fell shuddering back, He called to Hell but sullenly it retired: He turned to the Inconscient for support, From which he was born, his vast sustaining self; It drew him back towards boundless vacancy As if by himself to swallow up himself: He called to his strength, but it refused his call. His body was eaten by light, his spirit devoured. At last he knew defeat inevitable And left crumbling the shape that he had worn, Abandoning hope to make man’s soul his prey And force to be mortal the immortal spirit. Afar he fled shunning her dreaded touch And refuge took in the retreating Night.
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BOOK X: The Book of the Double Twilight 666<br />
Or the low calm utterance of infinity<br />
When it speaks to the silence in the heart of sleep.<br />
“I hail thee, almighty and victorious Death,<br />
Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite.<br />
O Void that makest room for all to be,<br />
Hunger that gnawest at the universe<br />
Consuming the cold remnants of the suns<br />
And eatst the whole world with thy jaws of fire,<br />
Waster of the energy that has made the stars,<br />
Inconscience, carrier of the seeds of thought,<br />
Nescience in which All-Knowledge sleeps entombed<br />
And slowly emerges in its hollow breast<br />
Wearing the mind’s mask of bright Ignorance.<br />
Thou art my shadow and my instrument.<br />
I have given thee thy awful shape of dread<br />
And thy sharp sword of terror and grief and pain<br />
To force the soul of man to struggle for light<br />
On the brevity of his half-conscious days.<br />
Thou art his spur to greatness in his works,<br />
The whip to his yearning for eternal bliss,<br />
His poignant need of immortality.<br />
Live, Death, awhile, be still my instrument.<br />
One day man too shall know thy fathomless heart<br />
Of silence and the brooding peace of Night<br />
And grave obedience to eternal Law<br />
And the calm inflexible pity in thy gaze.<br />
But now, O timeless Mightiness, stand aside<br />
And leave the path of my incarnate Force.<br />
Relieve the radiant God from thy black mask:<br />
Release the soul of the world called Satyavan<br />
Freed from thy clutch of pain and ignorance<br />
That he may stand master of life and fate,<br />
Man’s representative in the house of God,<br />
The mate of Wisdom and the spouse of Light,<br />
The eternal bridegroom of the eternal bride.”<br />
She spoke; Death unconvinced resisted still,