Tuned with all heaven in one inextricable note.
Born from abysmal depths on highest heights to float,
It carried all sorrow that the souls of creatures share,
Yet hinted every rapture that the gods can bear.
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The one inevitable supreme result
No will can take away and no doom change,
The crown of conscious immortality,
The godhead promised to our struggling souls
When first man's heart dared death and suffered life.
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Thy golden Light came down into my brain
And the grey rooms of mind sun–touched became
A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane…
Thy golden Light came down into my throat,
And all my speech is now a tune divine…
My words are drunk with the Immortal's wine.
Thy golden Light came down into my heart
Smiting my life with thy eternity…
Thy golden Light came down into my feet:
My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat.
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Rig Veda, V. 1.2, 1.9.
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Sri Aurobindo,
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A.B. Purani.
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Rig Veda, III. 4. 2.
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Rig Veda, I. 71. 2.
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Katha Upanishad, I. I. 7.
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I left the surface gods of mind
And life's unsatisfied seas
And plunged through the body's alleys blind
To the nether mysteries.
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I made an assignation with the Night; …
And traveled through a vastness dim and blind
To the grey shore where her ignorant waters roll.
I walk by the chill wave through the dull slime
And still that weary journeying knows no end;
Lost is the lustrois godhead beyond Time,
There comes no voice of the celestial Friend,
And yet I know my footprints' track shall be
A pathway towards Immortality.
Sri Aurobindo,