The Sun and The Rainbow

MIND OF LIGHT

("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 to 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 heaven-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.

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When the Mother read this poem, she was extremely struck with the two opening lines. She remarked that they were sheer revelation, expressing exactly what had happened when the Mind of Light had been realised. The rest of the lines she regarded as having been produced by imaginative reconstruction.

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