All is abolished but the mute Alone.

The mind from thought released, the heart from grief,

Grow inexistent now beyond belief;

There is no I, no Nature, known-unknown.

The city, a shadow picture without tone,

Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief

Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes; like a reef

Foundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done.

Only the illimitable Permanent

Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still.

Replaces all, - what once was I, in It

A silent unnamed emptiness content

Either to fade in the Unknowable

Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite.

1933-1934

~ Sri Aurobindo

At last I find a meaning of soul's birth

Into this universe terrible and sweet,

I who have felt the hungry heart of earth

Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna's feet.

I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,

And heard the passion of the Lover's flute,

And known a deathless ecstasy's surprise

And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.

Nearer and nearer now the music draws,

Life shudders with a strange felicity;

All Nature is a wide enamored pause

Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.

For this one moment lived the ages past;

The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last.

15-9-1939

~ Sri Aurobindo

Now sleeping, now awake, my heart is in constant fervor.

It is a covered saucepan, placed on fire.

O you! who have offered us from a cup a silencing wine;

Each moment a new tale is shouting to be told in silence.

In his wrath there are a hundred kindnesess, in his meanness a hundred generosities;

In his ignorance immeasurable gnosis, silently speaking like the mind.

The words of those whom you have silenced, cannot hear

but those whom you have made unconscious;

I am both silent and fermenting for you like the sea of Aden!

Divan, 1808:6-9

~ Sri Aurobindo

"The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up,

brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God

and then taking the next step."

~Sri Aurobindo

"Arise, transcend Thyself,

Thou art man and the whole nature of man

is to become more than himself."

~ Sri Aurobindo