Light

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


Light

Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more,
    Life's ignorant gulfs give up their secrecy:
The huge inconscient depths unplumbed before
    Lie glimmering in vast expectancy.

Light, timeless Light immutable and apart!
    The holy sealed mysterious doors unclose.
Light, burning Light from the Infinite's diamond heart
    Quivers in my heart where blooms the deathless rose.

Light in its rapture leaping through the nerves!
    Light, brooding Light! each smitten passionate cell
In a mute blaze of ecstasy preserves
    A living sense of the Imperishable.

I move in an ocean of stupendous Light
Joining my depths to His eternal height.



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



NOTES FROM EDITOR

3-4 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts.



Manuscript