The Secret Splendour

Sri Aurobindo: 15.8.1872-5.12.1950

Einstein of the super-science of he soul,

He found the Immutable's space of trance a field

Grooved with almighty thought- transcending arcs—

Figures of a single Truth bent everywhere

On linking the ultimate Suns to our mortal sod....

A rapt geometer in the deepmost heart

Saw the long line of human hungering

Towards infinite freedom from the drag of clay

As no straight movement on and ever on,

Leaving the body a vanishing cry of woe,

But a huge curve that reaches farthest light

And comes back kindled to the darkling dust....

O mystic energy of re-entrant love,

Springing immense into the Immortal's bliss

Yet keeping earth's small poignancy your goal!

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