The Mother of God

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


The Mother of God

A conscious and eternal Power is here
Behind unhappiness and mortal birth
And the error of Thought and blundering trudge of Time.
The Mother of God, his sister and his spouse,
Daughter of his wisdom, of his might the mate,
She has leapt from the Transcendent's secret breast
To build her rainbow worlds of mind and life.
Between the superconscient absolute Light
And the Inconscient's vast unthinking toil
In the rolling and routine of Matter's sleep
And the somnambulist motion of the stars
She forces on the cold unwilling Void
Her adventure of life, the passionate dreams of her lust.
Amid the work of darker Powers she is here
To heal the evils and mistakes of Space
And change the tragedy of the ignorant world
Into a Divine Comedy of joy
And the laughter and the rapture of God's bliss.
The Mother of God is master of our souls;
We are the partners of his birth in Time,
Inheritors we share his eternity.

The Mother of God

1940s

A conscious and eternal Power is here
Behind unhappiness and mortal birth
And the error of Thought and blundering trudge of Time.
The mother of God, his sister and his spouse,
Daughter of his wisdom, of his strength the mate,
She has leapt from the Transcendent's secret breast
To build her rainbow worlds of mind and life.
Between the superconscient absolute Light
And the Inconscient's vast unthinking toil,
In the rolling and routine of Matter's sleep
And the somnambulist motion of the stars
She forces on the cold unwilling Void
Her adventure of life, the passionate dreams of her heart.
Amid the work of darker Powers she is here
To heal the evils and mistakes of Space
And change the tragedy of the ignorant world
Into a Divine Comedy of joy


And the laughter and the rapture of God's bliss.
The Mother of God is mother of our souls;
We are the partners of his birth in Time,
Inheritors we share his eternity.



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




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  And the error of Thought and blundering trudge of Time.
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  She has leapt from the Transcendent's secret breast
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  To build her rainbow worlds of mind and life.
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  Between the superconscient absolute Light
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  In the rolling and routine of Matter's sleep
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  And the somnambulist motion of the stars
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  She forces on the cold unwilling Void
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- Her adventure of life, the passionate dreams of her lust.
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  Amid the work of darker Powers she is here
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  To heal the evils and mistakes of Space
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  And change the tragedy of the ignorant world
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  Into a Divine Comedy of joy
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  And the laughter and the rapture of God's bliss.
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- The Mother of God is master of our souls;
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  We are the partners of his birth in Time,
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  Inheritors we share his eternity.

NOTES FROM EDITOR

One handwritten manuscript, undated, but in the handwriting of the mid 1940s.