The Cosmic Spirit

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


The Cosmic Spirit

I am a single Self all Nature fills.
    Immeasurable, unmoved the Witness sits:
He is the silence brooding on her hills,
    The circling motion of her cosmic mights.

I have broken the limits of embodied mind
    And am no more the figure of a soul.
The burning galaxies are in me outlined;
    The universe is my stupendous whole.

My life is the life of village and continent,
    I am earth's agony and her throbs of bliss;
I share all creatures' sorrow and content
    And feel the passage of every stab and kiss.

Impassive, I bear each act and thought and mood:
Time traverses my hushed infinitude.



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




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NOTES FROM EDITOR

15 October 1939, revised 5 November. Two hand-written manuscripts, the first entitled “Cosmic Consciousness”, revised to “Cosmic Self”.