Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga Sri Aurobindo - Karuna Yoga
Canto Five The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness THIS knowledge first he had of time-born men. Admitted through a curtain of bright mind That hangs between our thoughts and absolute sight, He found the occult cave, the mystic door Near to the well of vision in the soul, And entered where the Wings of Glory brood In the silent space where all is for ever known. Indifferent to doubt and to belief, Avid of the naked real’s single shock He shore the cord of mind that ties the earth-heart And cast away the yoke of Matter’s law. The body’s rules bound not the spirit’s powers: When life had stopped its beats, death broke not in; He dared to live when breath and thought were still. Thus could he step into that magic place Which few can even glimpse with hurried glance Lifted for a moment from mind’s laboured works And the poverty of Nature’s earthly sight. All that the Gods have learned is there self-known. There in a hidden chamber closed and mute Are kept the record graphs of the cosmic scribe, And there the tables of the sacred Law, There is the Book of Being’s index page; The text and glossary of the Vedic truth Are there; the rhythms and metres of the stars Significant of the movements of our fate: The symbol powers of number and of form, And the secret code of the history of the world And Nature’s correspondence with the soul Are written in the mystic heart of Life.
CANTO V: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness 75 In the glow of the spirit’s room of memories He could recover the luminous marginal notes Dotting with light the crabbed ambiguous scroll, Rescue the preamble and the saving clause Of the dark Agreement by which all is ruled That rises from material Nature’s sleep To clothe the Everlasting in new shapes. He could re-read now and interpret new Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs, Resolve its oracle and its paradox, Its riddling phrases and its blindfold terms, The deep oxymoron of its truth’s repliques, And recognise as a just necessity Its hard conditions for the mighty work, — Nature’s impossible Herculean toil Only her warlock-wisecraft could enforce, Its law of the opposition of the gods, Its list of inseparable contraries. The dumb great Mother in her cosmic trance Exploiting for creation’s joy and pain Infinity’s sanction to the birth of form, Accepts indomitably to execute The will to know in an inconscient world, The will to live under a reign of death, The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh, And works out through the appearance of a soul By a miraculous birth in plasm and gas The mystery of God’s covenant with the Night. Once more was heard in the still cosmic Mind The Eternal’s promise to his labouring Force Inducing the world-passion to begin, The cry of birth into mortality And the opening verse of the tragedy of Time. Out of the depths the world’s buried secret rose; He read the original ukase kept back In the locked archives of the spirit’s crypt,
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CANTO V: The <strong>Yoga</strong> of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness 75<br />
In the glow of the spirit’s room of memories<br />
He could recover the luminous marginal notes<br />
Dotting with light the crabbed ambiguous scroll,<br />
Rescue the preamble and the saving clause<br />
Of the dark Agreement by which all is ruled<br />
That rises from material Nature’s sleep<br />
To clothe the Everlasting in new shapes.<br />
He could re-read now and interpret new<br />
Its strange symbol letters, scattered abstruse signs,<br />
Resolve its oracle and its paradox,<br />
Its riddling phrases and its blindfold terms,<br />
The deep oxymoron of its truth’s repliques,<br />
And recognise as a just necessity<br />
Its hard conditions for the mighty work, —<br />
Nature’s impossible Herculean toil<br />
Only her warlock-wisecraft could enforce,<br />
Its law of the opposition of the gods,<br />
Its list of inseparable contraries.<br />
The dumb great Mother in her cosmic trance<br />
Exploiting for creation’s joy and pain<br />
Infinity’s sanction to the birth of form,<br />
Accepts indomitably to execute<br />
The will to know in an inconscient world,<br />
The will to live under a reign of death,<br />
The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh,<br />
And works out through the appearance of a soul<br />
By a miraculous birth in plasm and gas<br />
The mystery of God’s covenant with the Night.<br />
Once more was heard in the still cosmic Mind<br />
The Eternal’s promise to his labouring Force<br />
Inducing the world-passion to begin,<br />
The cry of birth into mortality<br />
And the opening verse of the tragedy of Time.<br />
Out of the depths the world’s buried secret rose;<br />
He read the original ukase kept back<br />
In the locked archives of the spirit’s crypt,