The Self's Infinity

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


The Self's Infinity

I have become what before Time I was.
    A secret touch has quieted thought and sense:
All things by the agent Mind created pass
    Into a void and mute magnificence.

My life is a silence grasped by timeless hands;
    The world is drowned in an immortal gaze.
Naked my spirit from its vestures stands;
    I am alone with my own self for space.

My heart is a centre of infinity,
    My body a dot in the soul's vast expanse.
All being's huge abyss wakes under me,
    Once screened in a gigantic Ignorance.

A momentless immensity pure and bare,
I stretch to an eternal everywhere.



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



NOTES FROM EDITOR

18-19 September 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts, the second entitled “Self-Infinity”.



Manuscript