A poem by Sri Aurobindo
O desolations vast, O seas of space Unpeopled, realms of an unfertile light, Grow multitudinous with living forms, Enamoured of desire! I send My breath Into the heart of being, and the storm Of sweet attraction shall break up its calm With quivering passionate intensity And silence change to a melodious cry, And all the world be rose. Out of My heart Suns shall flame up into the listless void, And the stars wheel in magic dances round Weaving the web of mortal life. For I Am love, am passion; I create the world. I am the only Brahma. My desire Takes many forms; I change and wheel and race, And with Me runs creation. I preserve, For I am Love. I weary of Myself, And the world circles back into the Vast. Delight and laughter walking hand in hand Go with Me, and I play with grief and pain. I am the dance of Krishna, I the dance Of Kalí. Might and majesty are Mine, And yet I make the heart a child at play, The soul of things a woman full of bliss. Hunger and Thirst, arise and make the world!
Delight, go down and give it strength to live! O Ether, change! O Breath of things, grow full Of the perpetual whirl! Break out, O Fire, In seas of magic colour, infinite waves Of rainbow light! Thou, liquid element, Be sap, be taste in all created things To please the senses. Thou, O solid earth, Enter into all life, support the worlds. I send forth Joy to lure the hearts of men, I send forth Law to harmonise and rule. And when these things are done, when men have learned My beauty, My desirability, My bliss, I will conceal Myself from their desire And make this rule of the eternal chase, "They who abandon Me, shall to all time Clasp and possess; they who pursue, shall lose."
Part IV : Calcutta and Chandernagore (1907-1910) > Poems Written in 1910 and Published in 1920-1921
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