The Secret Splendour

(These lines were written in Bombay on 31 March 1956, when nobody yet knew of the Supramental Manifestation in the earth's subtle-physical layer, that had taken place in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on February 29, 1956 in the late evening. The first stanza intuits what took place. The second goes beyond to a final stage still secret in the future: the emergence of the Supermind involved in earth itself.)

Doors in the ultimate Secrecy cleave wide

And out of them dances an immortal dust,

 A shower of scintillacing silences

Falling forever on a city of dream....

Softly the splendour stirs in every stone;

To a single wideness grow the seeds of sleep:

A fathomless flower outbreaking with no sound-

Omnipotence unfolds from earth to sky.

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