The Secret Splendour

("The Supermind had descended long ago—very long ago-— into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question now was about the, direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible only if the physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light."—Note received from the Mother.)

The core of a deathless sun is now the brain

And each grey cell bursts of omniscient gold.

Thought leaps—and an inmost light speaks out from things;

Will, a new miracled Matter's dense white flame.

Swerves with one touch the sweep of the brute world.

Eyes focus now the Perfect everywhere.

In a body changing to chiselled translucency.

Through nerve on fire-cleansed nerve a wine of the Vast

Thrills from hcaven-piercing head to earth-blessing feet.

The whole sky weighs down with love of the abyss.

Deeper than death the all-penetrant rays take root

To make the Eternal's sun a rose of the dust.*

4.4.54

* The Mother, after reading this poem, said that the first two lines were sheer revelation. That is, they catch exactly what happened when, on December 5. 1950. the Mind of Light was realised by her at the moment Sri Aurobindo left his body. The rest of the lines were, she said. an imaginative reconstruction of what the realisation had involved.

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