Cosmic Consciousness

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


Cosmic Consciousness

I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self
    And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are.
I am the god and demon, ghost and elf,
    I am the wind's speed and the blazing star.
All Nature is the nursling of my care,
    I am its struggle and the eternal rest;
The world's joy thrilling runs through me, I bear
    The sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.
I have learned a close identity with all,
    Yet am by nothing bound that I become;
Carrying in me the universe's call
    I mount to my imperishable home.
I pass beyond Time and life on measureless wings,
Yet still am one with born and unborn things.

Cosmic Consciousness

I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self
    And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are.
I am the god and demon, ghost and elf,
    I am the wind's speed and the blazing star.

All Nature is the nursling of my care,
    I am the struggle and the eternal rest;
The world's joy thrilling runs through me, I bear
    The sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.

I have learned a close identity with all,
    Yet am by nothing bound that I become;
Carrying in me the universe's call
    I mount to my imperishable home.

I pass beyond Time and life on measureless wings,
Yet still am one with born and unborn things.



Part VII : Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) > Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947)   




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  I am the god and demon, ghost and elf,
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  I am the wind's speed and the blazing star.
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  All Nature is the nursling of my care,
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  The world's joy thrilling runs through me, I bear
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  The sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.
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NOTES FROM EDITOR

26 July 1938, revised apparently on 21 March 1944. Two handwritten manuscripts, the first entitled “The Cosmic Man”.



Manuscript