The Self's Infinity
I have become what before Time I was.
A secret touch has quieted thought and sense:
All things by the agent Mind created pass
Into a void and mute magnificence.My life is a silence grasped by timeless hands;
The world is drowned in an immortal gaze.
Naked my spirit from its vestures stands;
I am alone with my own self for space.My heart is a center of infinity,
My body a dot in the soul's vast expanse.
All being's huge abyss wakes under me,
Once screened in a gigantic Ignorance.A momentless immensity pure and bare,
I stretch to an eternal everywhere.18/19-9-1939
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 104 in "Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Last Poems" - 20
and "Collected Poems" - 14
all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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