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Golden BridgeThe silent Soul of all the world was thereSavitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 1The silent Soul of all the world was there:A Being lived, a Presence and a Power,A single Person who was himself and allAnd cherished Nature’s sweet and dangerous throbsTransfigured into beats divine and pure.One who could love without return for love,Meeting and turning to the best the worst,It healed the bitter cruelties of earth,Transforming all experience to delight;Intervening in the sorrowful paths of...2025-05-1804 min
Golden GleaningsRevelationRevelationSomeone leaping from the rocksPast me ran with wind-blown locksLike a startled bright surmiseVisible to mortal eyes,—Just a cheek of frightened roseThat with sudden beauty glows,Just a footstep like the windAnd a hurried glance behind,And then nothing,—as a thoughtEscapes the mind ere it is caught.Someone of the heavenly routFrom behind the veil ran out.Read...2025-05-1100 minGolden BridgeI am the Mystery beyond reach of mindSavitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1O Son of Strength who climbst creation’s peaks,No soul is thy companion in the light;Alone thou standest at the eternal doors.What thou hast won is thine, but ask no more.O Spirit aspiring in an ignorant frame,O Voice arisen from the Inconscient’s world,How shalt thou speak for men whose hearts are dumb,Make purblind earth the soul’s seer-vision’s homeOr lighten the burden of the senseles...2025-05-0404 minGolden BridgeFate shall be changed by an unchanging will.Savitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 3 (very beginning)“O strong forerunner, I have heard thy cry.One shall descend and break the iron Law,Change Nature’s doom by the lone spirit’s power.A limitless Mind that can contain the world,A sweet and violent heart of ardent calmsMoved by the passions of the gods shall come.All mights and greatnesses shall join in her;Beauty shall walk celestial on the earth,Delight shall sleep in the cloud-net of her...2025-04-2503 minGolden GleaningsTo the SeaTo the SeaO grey wild sea,Thou hast a message, thunderer, for me.Their huge wide backsThy monstrous billows raise, abysmal cracksDug deep between.One pale boat flutters over them, hardly seen.I hear thy roarCall me, “Why dost thou linger on the shoreWith fearful eyesWatching my tops visit their foam-washed skies?This trivial boatDares my vast battering billows and can float.Death if...2025-04-1803 minGolden GleaningsImmortal LoveImmortal LoveIf I had wooed thee for thy colour rare,Cherished the rose in theeOr wealth of Nature’s brilliants in thy hair,O woman fair,My love might cease to be.Or, had I sought thee for thy virtuous youthAnd tender yearning speech,Thy swift compassion and deliberate truth,O heart of ruth,Time might pursue, might reach.But I have loved thee for th...2025-04-0301 minGolden GleaningsRadha's AppealO love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak,Since mortal words are weak?In life, in death,In being and in breathNo other lord but thee can Radha seek.About thy feet the mighty net is woundWherein my soul they bound;Myself resignedTo servitude my mind;My heart than thine no sweeter slavery found.I, Radha, thought; through the three worlds my gazeI sent in wild...2025-03-2903 minGolden BridgeA greater destiny waits you in your frontSavitri: Book 4 Canto 3 Section 1“O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race,O petty adventurers in an infinite worldAnd prisoners of a dwarf humanity,How long will you tread the circling tracks of mindAround your little self and petty things?But not for a changeless littleness were you meant,Not for vain repetition were you built;Out of the Immortal’s substance you were made;Your actions can be swift revealing steps,Your life a changeful mould for...2025-03-1604 minGolden BridgeLove in her was wider than the universeBook 1, Canto II, p. 14-15-16All in her pointed to a nobler kind.Near to earth’s wideness, intimate with heaven, Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm Overflew the ways of Thought to unborn things. Ardent was her self-poised unstumbling will;Her mind, a sea of white sincerity,Passionate in flow, had not one turbid wa...2025-03-0107 minGolden GleaningsWhat is this TalkWhat is this talk of slayer and of slain?Swords are not sharp to slay nor floods assuageThis flaming soul. Mortality and painAre mere conventions of a mightier stage.As when a hero by his doom pursuedFalls like a pillar of the huge world uptornShaking the hearts of men and awe-imbued,Silent the audience sits or weeps forlorn,Meanwhile behind the stage the actor sighsDeep-lunged relief, puts off what he has beenAnd talks...2025-02-2101 minGolden GleaningsTo Weep because a Glorious SunTo Weep because a Glorious Sun
To weep because a glorious sun has set
Which the next morn shall gild the east again,
To mourn that mighty strengths must yield to fate
Which by that fall a double force attain,
To shrink from pain without whose friendly strife
Joy could not be, to make a terror of death
Who smiling beckons us to farther life
And is a bridge for the persistent breath;
Despair and anguish and the...2025-01-2901 minGolden BridgeThat hour had fallen now on Savitri.Savitri: Book 1, Canto 2 Section 1
An absolute supernatural darkness falls
On man sometimes when he draws near to God:
An hour arrives when fail all Nature’s means;
Forced out from the protecting Ignorance
And flung back on his naked primal need,
He at length must cast from him his surface soul
And be the ungarbed entity within:
That hour had fallen now on Savitri.
A point sh...2025-01-2204 minGolden GleaningsThe Just ManThe Just Man
Where is the man whom hope nor fear can move?
Him the wise Gods approve.
The man divine of motive pure and steadfast will
Unbent to ill,
Whose way is plain nor swerves for power or gold
The high, straight path to hold:—
Him only wise the wise Gods deem, him pure of lust;
Him only just.
Tho’ men give rubies, tho’ they bring a prize
Sweeter than Helen’s eyes—
Yea, costlier things than these thin...2025-01-1503 minGolden BridgeI am thy portion here charged with thy workSavitri: Book VII, Canto II The parable of the search for the Soul (p.475-76-77)
The Voice replied: “Is this enough, O spirit?
And what shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows
The work was left undone for which it came?
Or is this all for thy being born on earth
Charged with a mandate from eternity,
A listener to the voices of the years,
A follower of the footprints of the gods,
To pa...2025-01-0808 minGolden GleaningsA DoubtA Doubt
Many boons the new years make us
But the old world’s gifts were three,
Dove of Cypris, wine of Bacchus,
Pan’s sweet pipe in Sicily.
Love, wine, song, the core of living
Sweetest, oldest, musicalest.
If at end of forward striving
These, Life’s first, proved also best?
Read Online: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/a-doubt2025-01-0500 minGolden BridgeAround her body’s stillness all grew stillSavitri: Book VII, Canto II The parable of the search for the Soul (p.474-75)
As the Voice touched, her body became a stark
And rigid golden statue of motionless trance,
A stone of God lit by an amethyst soul.
Around her body’s stillness all grew still:
Her heart listened to its slow measured beats,
Her mind renouncing thought heard and was mute:
“Why camest thou to this dumb deathbound earth,
Th...2024-12-2205 minGolden GleaningsI have a Hundred LivesI have a Hundred Lives
I have a hundred lives before me yet
To grasp thee in, O spirit ethereal,
Be sure I will with heart insatiate
Pursue thee like a hunter through them all.
Thou yet shalt turn back on the eternal way
And with awakened vision watch me come
Smiling a little at errors past, and lay
Thy eager hand in mine, its proper home.
Meanwhile made happy by thy happiness
I shall approach...2024-12-0501 minGolden BridgeFate is Truth working out in Ignorance.Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 6
Fate is Truth working out in Ignorance.
O King, thy fate is a transaction done
At every hour between Nature and thy soul
With God for its foreseeing arbiter.
Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny’s book.
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse.
Even if the One maintains the unseen decree
He writes thy refusal in thy credit page:
For doom is not a close, a mystic seal.
Arisen fr...2024-11-2907 minGolden GleaningsA God's LabourI have gathered my dreams in a silver air
Between the gold and the blue
And wrapped them softly and left them there,
My jewelled dreams of you.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge
Marrying the soil to the sky
And sow in this dancing planet midge
The moods of infinity.
But too bright were our heavens, too far away,
Too frail their ethereal stuff;
Too splendid and sudden our light could not stay;
The roots wer...2024-11-1412 minGolden BridgeA Greatness working towards a hidden endSavitri: Book 5 Canto 3 Section 1 31:03 to 36:32
Once were my days like days of other men:
To think and act was all, to enjoy and breathe;
This was the width and height of mortal hope:
Yet there came glimpses of a deeper self
That lives behind Life and makes her act its scene.
A truth was felt that screened its shape from mind,
A Greatness working towards a hidden end,
And vaguely through the forms of earth there looked
Something...2024-11-0706 minGolden GleaningsA TreeA Tree
A tree beside the sandy river-beach
Holds up its topmost boughs
Like fingers towards the skies they cannot reach,
Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.
This is the soul of man. Body and brain
Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.
Read Online: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/a-tree2024-10-3101 minGolden BridgeShe held their hands, she chose for them their pathsSavitri: Book 4 Canto 2 Section 1 Part 1
So men worship a god too great to know,
Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape;
They feel a Presence and obey a might,
Adore a love whose rapture invades their breasts;
To a divine ardour quickening the heart-beats,
A law they follow greatening heart and life.
Opened to the breath is a new diviner air,
Opened to man is a freer, happier world:
He sees high steps climbing to Self...2024-10-2006 minGolden GleaningsBecause Thou ArtBecause Thou Art
Because Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss,
My soul blind and enamoured yearns for Thee;
It bears Thy mystic touch in all that is
And thrills with the burden of that ecstasy.
Behind all eyes I meet Thy secret gaze
And in each voice I hear Thy magic tune:
Thy sweetness hunts my heart through Nature’s ways;
Nowhere it beats now from Thy snare immune.
It loves Thy body in all living things;
T...2024-10-1302 minGolden BridgeShe walked in their front towards a greater lightSavitri: Book 4, Canto 2, Section 1, Part 1
A mind daring heavenly experiment,
Growing towards some largeness they felt near,
Testing the unknown’s bound with eager touch
They still were prisoned by their human grain:
They could not keep up with her tireless step;
Too small and eager for her large-paced will,
Too narrow to look with the unborn Infinite’s gaze
Their nature weary grew of things too great.
For even the close partners of her thoughts
Who...2024-10-0304 minGolden GleaningsThe End - Poem By Sri AurobindoThe End - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
Is this the end of all that we have been,
And all we did or dreamed,—
A name unremembered and a form undone,—
Is this the end?
A body rotting under a slab of stone
Or turned to ash in fire,
A mind dissolved, lost its forgotten thoughts,—
Is this the end?
Our little hours that were and are no more,
Our passions once so high
Dying mocked by the still...2024-10-0303 minGolden BridgeHis spirit was made a vessel of her forceSavitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 3 Part 2
His spirit was made a vessel of her force;
Mute in the fathomless passion of his will
He outstretched to her his folded hands of prayer.
Then in a sovereign answer to his heart
A gesture came as of worlds thrown away,
And from her raiment’s lustrous mystery raised
One arm half-parted the eternal veil.
A light appeared still and imperishable.
Attracted to the large and luminous depths
Of the ra...2024-09-2602 minGolden GleaningsThe Blue BirdThe Blue Bird
I am the bird of God in His blue;
Divinely high and clear
I sing the notes of the sweet and the true
For the god’s and the seraph’s ear.
I rise like a fire from the mortal’s earth
Into a griefless sky
And drop in the suffering soil of his birth
Fire-seeds of ecstasy.
My pinions soar beyond Time and Space
Into unfading Light;
I bring the bliss of the Eternal...2024-09-1902 minGolden BridgeThe spirit is doomed to pain till man is free.Savitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 2 part 2
The spirit is doomed to pain till man is free.
There is a clamour of battle, a tramp, a march:
A cry arises like a moaning sea,
A desperate laughter under the blows of death,
A doom of blood and sweat and toil and tears.
Men die that man may live and God be born.
An awful Silence watches tragic Time.
Pain is the hand of Nature sculpturing men
To greatness: an inspired...2024-09-1205 minGolden BridgeAll creation is her endless actSavitri: Book 2 Canto 14 Section 3 Part 1
In a slumber of the voices of the world
He of the eternal moment grew aware;
His knowledge stripped bare of the garbs of sense
Knew by identity without thought or word;
His being saw itself without its veils,
Life’s line fell from the spirit’s infinity.
Along a road of pure interior light,
Alone between tremendous Presences,
Under the watching eyes of nameless Gods,
His soul passed on, a sing...2024-09-0805 minGolden GleaningsThe SilenceThe Silence
Into the Silence, into the Silence,
Arise, O Spirit immortal,
Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle.
Ascend, single and deathless:
Care no more for the whispers and the shoutings in the darkness,
Pass from the sphere of the grey and the little,
Leaving the cry and the struggle,
Into the Silence for ever.
Vast and immobile, formless and marvellous,
Higher than Heaven, wider than the universe,
...2024-09-0807 minGolden GleaningsThe Yogi on the WhirlpoolThe Yogi on the Whirlpool
On a dire whirlpool in the hurrying river,
A life-stilled statue naked, bronze, severe,
He kept the posture of a deathless seer
Unshaken by the mad water’s leap and shiver.
Thought could not think in him, flesh could not quiver;
The feet of Time could not adventure here;
Only some unknown Power nude and austere,
Only a Silence mighty to deliver.
His spirit world-wide and companionless,
Seated above the torrent of the days
...2024-08-2601 minGolden BridgePain is the hammer of the Gods to breakSavitri: Book 6 Canto 2 Section 2 part 1
Where Ignorance is, there suffering too must come;
Thy grief is a cry of darkness to the Light;
Pain was the first-born of the Inconscience
Which was thy body’s dumb original base;
Already slept there pain’s subconscient shape:
A shadow in a shadowy tenebrous womb,
Till life shall move, it waits to wake and be.
In one caul with joy came forth the dreadful Power.
In life’s breast it was born hid...2024-08-2605 minGolden GleaningsWho - Poem By Sri AurobindoWho - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest,
Whose is the hand that has painted the glow?
When the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether,
Who was it roused them and bade them to blow?
He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature,
He is found in the brain where He builds up the thought:
In the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven,
...2024-08-0605 minGolden BridgeA vast surrender was his only strengthSavitri: Book 3 Canto 2 Section 3
This was a seed cast into endless Time.
A Word is spoken or a Light is shown,
A moment sees, the ages toil to express.
So flashing out of the Timeless leaped the worlds;
An eternal instant is the cause of the years.
All he had done was to prepare a field;
His small beginnings asked for a mighty end:
For all that he had been must now new-shape
In him her joy to...2024-08-0605 minGolden GleaningsO Face that I have Loved - Poem By Sri AurobindoO Face that I have Loved - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
O face that I have loved until no face
Beneath the quiet heavens such glory wear,
They say you are not beautiful,—no snare
Of twilight in the changing mysticness
Or deep enhaloed secrecy of hair,
Soft largeness in the eyes I dare not kiss!
Unreal all your bosom’s dreadful bliss.
Too narrow are your brows they say to bear
The temple of vast beauty in its...2024-07-2101 minGolden BridgeShe is the golden bridge, the wonderful fireSavitri: Book 3 Canto 2 Section 2
At the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow round the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change Time’s dragon base.
Hers is the mystery the Night conceals;
The spirit’s alchemist energy is hers;
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
She is the Force, the inev...2024-07-2105 minGolden GleaningsSaraswati with the Lotus - Poem By Sri AurobindoSaraswati with the Lotus - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
Thy tears fall fast, O mother, on its bloom,
O white-armed mother, like honey fall thy tears;
Yet even their sweetness can no more relume
The golden light, the fragrance heaven rears,
The fragrance and the light for ever shed
Upon his lips immortal who is dead.
Read The Poem Online: Click here to read2024-07-0500 minGolden BridgeI live in the glory of the InfiniteSavitri: Book 10 Canto 4 Section 2 end
Already the torch becomes the undying ray,
Already the life is the Immortal’s force,
The house grows of the householder part and one.
How sayst thou Truth can never light the human mind
And Bliss can never invade the mortal’s heart
Or God descend into the world he made?
If in the meaningless Void creation rose,
If from a bodiless Force Matter was born,
If Life could climb in the unconscious tree...2024-07-0505 minGolden GleaningsThe Just Man - Poem By Sri AurobindoThe Just Man - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
Where is the man whom hope nor fear can move?
Him the wise Gods approve.
The man divine of motive pure and steadfast will
Unbent to ill,
Whose way is plain nor swerves for power or gold
The high, straight path to hold:—
Him only wise the wise Gods deem, him pure of lust;
Him only just.
Tho’ men give rubies, tho’ they bring a prize
Sweeter than Helen’s eyes—
Y...2024-06-1602 minGolden BridgeThe Spirit shall be the master of his worldSavitri: BOOK 11 Canto 1 Section 8
The Book of Everlasting Day
The Spirit shall be the master of his world
Lurking no more in form’s obscurity
And Nature shall reverse her action’s rule,
The outward world disclose the Truth it veils;
All things shall manifest the covert God,
All shall reveal the Spirit’s light and might
And move to its destiny of felicity.
Even should a hostile force cling to its reign
And claim its right’...2024-06-1605 minGolden GleaningsTo the Cuckoo - Poem By Sri AurobindoTo the Cuckoo - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
Sounds of the wakening world, the year’s increase,
Passage of wind and all his dewy powers
With breath and laughter of new-bathed flowers
And that deep light of heaven above the trees
Awake mid leaves that muse in golden peace
Sweet noise of birds, but most in heavenly showers
The cuckoo’s voice pervades the lucid hours,
Is priest and summoner of these melodies.
The spent and weary streams refr...2024-06-0901 minGolden BridgeMahalakshmi [2]Mahalakshmi
Book -3, Canto- 2, The book of the Divine Mother, Pg-314
A burning Love from white spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths;
Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.
A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death;
To err no more was natural to mind;
Wrong could not come where all was light and love.
The Formless and the Formed were joined in her:
Immensity was exceeded by a look,
A Face...2024-06-0901 minGolden GleaningsTo a Hero-WorshipperTo a Hero-Worshipper - I
My life is then a wasted ereme,
My song but idle wind
Because you merely find
In all this woven wealth of rhyme
Harsh figures with harsh music wound,
The uncouth voice of gorgeous birds,
A ruby carcanet of sound,
A cloud of lovely words?
I am, you say, no magic rod,
No cry oracular,
No swart and ominous star,
No Sinai thunder voicing God.
I have no burden to my song...2024-06-0203 minGolden BridgeAll things shall change in God’s transfiguring hourSavitri: BOOK 3 Canto 4 Section 1
The Book of the Divine Mother 340
The high gods look on man and watch and choose
Today’s impossibles for the future’s base.
His transience trembles with the Eternal’s touch,
His barriers cede beneath the Infinite’s tread;
The Immortals have their entries in his life:
The Ambassadors of the Unseen draw near.
A splendour sullied by the mortal air,
Love passes through his heart, a wandering guest.
Beauty surrounds him for...2024-06-0206 minGolden BridgeMy mortal body is the Eternal’s houseSavitri - Book 10 Canto 4 Section 2
The world is a spiritual paradox
Invented by a need in the Unseen,
A poor translation to the creature’s sense
Of That which for ever exceeds idea and speech,
A symbol of what can never be symbolised,
A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true.
Its powers have come from the eternal heights
And plunged into the inconscient dim Abyss
And risen from it to do their marvellous work.
The soul is a...2024-05-2603 minGolden GleaningsPhaethon - Poem By Sri AurobindoPhaethon - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
Ye weeping poplars by the shelvy slope
From murmurous lawns downdropping to the stream
On whom the dusk air like a sombre dream
Broods and a twilight ignorant of hope,
Say what compulsion drear has bid you seam
Your mossy sides with drop on eloquent drop
That in warm rillets from your eyes elope?
Is it for the too patient, sure decay
Pale-gilded Autumn, aesthete of the years,
2024-05-2601 minGolden GleaningsO Letter Dull and Cold - Poem By Sri AurobindoO Letter Dull and Cold - Poem By Sri Aurobindo
O letter dull and cold, how can she read
Gladly these lifeless lines, no fire that prove,
When others even their passionate hearts exceed
Caressing her sweet name with words of love?
O me that I could force this barrier, turn
My heart to syllables, make all desire
One burning word, then would my letters yearn
With some reflection of that hidden fire.
Ah if I could, what...2024-05-1101 minGolden BridgeHe Lifts Himself To Be a Conscious GodSavitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1
Illumining breath to think and plasm to feel,
He labours with his slow and sceptic brain
Helped by the reason’s vacillating fires,
To make his thought and will a magic door
For knowledge to enter the darkness of the world
And love to rule a realm of strife and hate.
A mind impotent to reconcile heaven and earth
And tied to Matter with a thousand bonds,
He lifts himself to be a conscious go...2024-05-1104 minGolden GleaningsThe Silver Call - Sonnet by Sri AurobindoThe Silver Call
There is a godhead of unrealised things
To which Time’s splendid gains are hoarded dross;
A cry seems near, a rustle of silver wings
Calling to heavenly joy by earthly loss.
All eye has seen and all the ear has heard
Is a pale illusion by some greater voice
And mightier vision; no sweet sound or word,
No passion of hues that make the heart rejoice
Can equal those diviner ecstasies.
...2024-05-0201 minGolden BridgePainfully He Guards The Heavy TrustSavitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1
His day is a moment in perpetual Time;
He is the prey of the minutes and the hours.
Assailed on earth and unassured of heaven,
Descended here unhappy and sublime,
A link between the demigod and the beast,
He knows not his own greatness nor his aim;
He has forgotten why he has come and whence.
His spirit and his members are at war;
His heights break off too low to reach the skies,2024-05-0206 minGolden GleaningsThe Nightingale - Poem by Sri AurobindoThe Nightingale
Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale
Has slain the silence with a jubilant cry;
How clear in the hushed night, yet voluble
And various as sweet water wavering by,
That murmurs in a channel small
Beneath a low grey wall,
Then sings amid the fitful rye.
O sweet grave Siren of the night,
Astarte’s eremite,
Thou feedest every leaf with solemn glee.
Lo, the night-winds sigh happier, being chid by thee.
Read The Poem Online: 2024-04-2501 minGolden BridgeA Sound Came Quivering Like a Loved FootfallSavitri: Book 3 Canto 4 Section 1
THEN suddenly there rose a sacred stir.
Amid the lifeless silence of the Void
In a solitude and an immensity
A sound came quivering like a loved footfall
Heard in the listening spaces of the soul;
A touch perturbed his fibres with delight.
An Influence had approached the mortal range,
A boundless Heart was near his longing heart,
A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape.
All at her contact broke from silence’ se...2024-04-2504 minGolden GleaningsSong - Poem by Sri AurobindoSong
O lady Venus, shine on me,
O rose-crowned goddess from thy seas
Radiant among the Cyclades!
Rose-crowned, puissant like the sea.
And bring thy Graces three,
The swift companions of thy mirthful mind.
Bring thy sweet rogue with thee,
Thy careless archer, beautiful and blind.
A woman’s royal heart
Bid him to wound and bind her who is free;
Bind her for me!
Nor fo...2024-04-1801 minGolden BridgeShe Is The Golden BridgeSavitri : Book 3 Canto 2
A Heart was felt in the spaces wide and bare,
A burning Love from white spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant depths;
Suffering was lost in her immortal smile.
A Life from beyond grew conqueror here of death;
To err no more was natural to mind;
Wrong could not come where all was light and love.
The Formless and the Formed were joined in her:
Immensity was exceeded by a look,
...2024-04-1806 minGolden GleaningsEpitaph - Poem by Sri AurobindoEpitaph
Moulded of twilight and the vesper star
Midnight in her with noon made quiet war;—
Moulded twixt life and death, Love came between;
Then the night fell; twilight faded, the star had been.
Read The Poem Online: Click here to read2024-04-1100 minGolden BridgeSpirit’s Sacred ThirstSavitri: Book 3 Canto 1 Section 1
ALL IS too little that the world can give:
Its power and knowledge are the gifts of Time
And cannot fill the spirit’s sacred thirst.
Although of One these forms of greatness are
And by its breath of grace our lives abide,
Although more near to us than nearness’ self,
It is some utter truth of what we are;
Hidden by its own works, it seemed far-off,
Impenetrable, occult, voiceless, obscure.
The...2024-04-1104 minGolden GleaningsEpigram - Sonnet - Poem by Sri AurobindoEpigram
If thou wouldst traverse Time with vagrant feet
Nor make the poles thy limit fill not then
Thy wallet with the fancy’s cloying sweet
Which is no stay to heaven-aspiring men,
But follow wisdom since alone the wise
Can walk through fire with unblinking eyes.
Read The Sonnet Online: Click here to read2024-03-2800 minGolden BridgeSearch Our Nature With Spiritual FireSavitri: Book 2 Canto 10 Section 1
This was the first means of our slow ascent
From the half-conscience of the animal soul
Living in a crowded press of shape-events
In a realm it cannot understand nor change;
Only it sees and acts in a given scene
And feels and joys and sorrows for a while.
The ideas that drive the obscure embodied spirit
Along the roads of suffering and desire
In a world that struggles to discover Truth,
...2024-03-2805 min
Golden WordsPerseverance in SadhanaPerseverance - the decision to go to the very end
Perseverance is patience in action.
The road of Yoga is long, every inch of ground has to be won against much resistance and no quality is more needed by the sadhak than patience and single-minded perseverance with a faith that remains firm through all difficulties, delays and apparent failures.
Generally, all progress made on one side is set off by an attack of the adverse forces on the other. So, the more you advance...2024-03-2111 minGolden GleaningsA Thing Seen - Sonnet - Poem by Sri AurobindoA Thing Seen
She in her garden, near the high grey wall,
Sleeping; a silver-bodied birch-tree tall
That held its garments o’er her wide and green,
Building a parapet of shade between,
Forbade the amorous sun to look on her.
No fold of gracious raiment was astir.
The wind walked softly; silent moved a cloud
Listening; of all the tree no leaf was loud
But guarded a divine expectant hush
Thrilled by the silence of a...2024-03-2101 minGolden BridgeThe Word Deeply HeardSavitri: Book 4 Canto 3 Section 1
As when the mantra sinks in Yoga’s ear,
Its message enters stirring the blind brain
And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound;
The hearer understands a form of words
And, musing on the index thought it holds,
He strives to read it with the labouring mind,
But finds bright hints, not the embodied truth:
Then, falling silent in himself to know
He meets the deeper listening of his soul:
Th...2024-03-2103 minGolden WordsDistinguishing the voice of the DivineDistinguishing the voice of the Divine.
We have said that there is only one safety, never to act except in harmony with the divine Will. There is one question: how to know that it is the divine Will which makes you act?
I replied to the person who put to me this question (although this person did not agree with me) that it is not difficult to distinguish the voice of the Divine: one cannot make a mistake.
You need not be very far...2024-03-1409 minGolden GleaningsThou didst Mistake - Sonnet - Poem by Sri AurobindoThou didst Mistake
Thou didst mistake, thy spirit’s infant flight
Opening its lovely wings upon the sun
Paused o’er the first strong bloom that met thy sight
Thinking perhaps it was the only one.
But all this fragrant garden was beyond.
Winds came to thee with hints of honey; day
Disclosed a brighter hope than this unsunned
Thought-sheltered heart and called thee far away.
Thou didst mistake. Must I then rage, grow ill,
With tort...2024-03-1401 minGolden BridgeThe mind falling silentSavitri: Book 7 Canto 6 Section 2
This mind is a dynamic small machine
Producing ceaselessly, till it wears out,
With raw material drawn from the outside world,
The patterns sketched out by an artist God.
Often our thoughts are finished cosmic wares
Admitted by a silent office gate
And passed through the subconscient’s galleries,
Then issued in Time’s mart as private make.
For now they bear the living person’s stamp;
A trick, a special hue claims...2024-03-1408 minGolden WordsKrishna - The Divine TeacherKrishna - The Divine Teacher
Krishna the divine Teacher of the Gita, the eternal Avatar, the Divine who has descended into the human consciousness, the Lord seated within the heart of all beings.
He who guides from behind the veil all our thought and action and heart’s seeking even as He directs from behind the veil of visible and sensible forms and forces and tendencies the great universal action of the world which He has manifested in His own being.
All the strife of...2024-03-0814 minGolden BridgeHe and She at playSavitri: Book 1 Canto 4 Section 4
All here where each thing seems its lonely self
Are figures of the sole transcendent One:
Only by him they are, his breath is their life;
An unseen Presence moulds the oblivious clay.
A playmate in the mighty Mother’s game,
One came upon the dubious whirling globe
To hide from her pursuit in force and form.
A secret spirit in the Inconscient’s sleep,
A shapeless Energy, a voiceless Word,
He was...2024-03-0706 minGolden GleaningsRose, I have Loved - Sonnet - Poem by Sri AurobindoRose, I have Loved
Rose, I have loved thy beauty, as I love
The dress that thou hast worn, the transient grass,
O’er which thy happy careless footsteps move,
The yet-thrilled waysides that have watched thee pass.
Soul, I have loved thy sweetness as men love
The necessary air they crave to breathe,
The sunlight lavished from the skies above,
And firmness of the earth their steps beneath.
But were that beauty all, my love might cease...2024-03-0701 minGolden BridgeGod's hide and seekSavitri: Book 1 Canto 4 Section 6
The master of existence lurks in us
And plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force;
In Nature’s instrument loiters secret God.
The Immanent lives in man as in his house;
He has made the universe his pastime’s field,
A vast gymnasium of his works of might.
All-knowing he accepts our darkened state,
Divine, wears shapes of animal or man;
Eternal, he assents to Fate and Time,
Immortal, dallies with mortality.
2024-02-2906 minGolden GleaningsBecause thy Flame is Spent - Sonnet - Poem by Sri AurobindoBecause thy Flame is Spent
Because thy flame is spent, shall mine grow less,
O bud, O wonder of the opening rose?
Why both my soul and Love it would disgrace
If I could trade in love, begin and close
My long account of passion, like a book
Of merchant’s credit given to be repaid,
Or not returned, struck off with lowering look
Like a bad debt uncritically made.
What thou couldst give, thou gav’st me, one...2024-02-2901 minGolden WordsCertitudes - Essays Divine and HumanCertitudes - Essays Divine and Human
In the deep there is a greater deep, in the heights a greater height. Sooner shall man arrive at the borders of infinity than at the fullness of his own being. For that being is infinity, is God—
I aspire to infinite force, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss. Can I attain it? Yes, but the nature of infinity is that it has no end. Say not therefore that I attain it. I become it. Only so can man attain God by becoming God.
...2024-02-2903 minGolden BridgeThe Dawn Of Spiritual BeginningsSavitri: Book 1, Canto 3, Section 2
As so he grew into his larger self,
Humanity framed his movements less and less;
A greater being saw a greater world.
A fearless will for knowledge dared to erase
The lines of safety Reason draws that bar
Mind’s soar, soul’s dive into the Infinite.
Even his first steps broke our small earth-bounds
And loitered in a vaster freer air.
In hands sustained by a transfiguring Might
He caught up ligh...2024-02-2106 minGolden Gleanings'Euphrosyne' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo'Euphrosyne' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
Child of the infant years, Euphrosyne,
Bird of my boyhood, youth’s blithe deity!
If I have hymned thee not with lyric phrase,
Preferring Eros or Aglaia’s praise,
Frown not, thou lovely spirit, leave me not.
Man worships the ungrasped. His vagrant thought
Still busy with the illimitable void
Lives all the time by little things upbuoyed
Which he contemns; the wife unsung remains
Sharing his pleasures, taking half his pain...2024-02-2101 minGolden WordsBirthdaysThe Mother on the Significance of Birthdays
It is truly a special day in one‘s life. lt is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us – or when we are face to face with the Eternal – one of those days when our soul comes in contact with the Eternal and, if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us.
If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning flash...2024-02-2110 minGolden WordsNationalismNationalism
A nation is a living entity, full of consciousness; it is not something made up or fabricated. A living nation is always growing; it must grow, it must attain ever loftier heights.
Our personality, our constitution is made up of three parts. We have three types of body, gross, subtle and causal. In the same way the nation has three bodies. According to our philosophy it is not only the outward appearance, the gross body, that makes a complete man. All three bodies have to be taken into account; only then can we get s...2024-02-1511 minGolden Gleanings'The Three Cries of Deiphobus' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo'The Three Cries of Deiphobus' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy,
That sleep and know not in the grasp of Hell
I perish in the treacherous lonely night
To foes betrayed, environed and undone.
O Trojans, will ye sleep until the doom
Have slipped its leash and bark upon your doors?
Not long will ye, unless in Pluto’s realm,
Have slumber, since forsaken among foes
I drink the bitter cup of lonely death
...2024-02-1501 minGolden BridgeA Mightier SanctionSavitri: Book Three, Canto Three, Section 1
A MIGHTIER task remained than all he had done.
To That he turned from which all being comes,
A sign attending from the Secrecy
Which knows the Truth ungrasped behind our thoughts
And guards the world with its all-seeing gaze.
In the unapproachable stillness of his soul,
Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone,
Patient he sat like an incarnate hope
Motionless on a pedestal of prayer.
A strength he sought that was...2024-02-1502 minGolden BridgeThe Voice Reminded SavitriSavitri: Book 7 Canto 2 Section 1
A Power within her answered the still Voice:
“I am thy portion here charged with thy work,
As thou myself seated for ever above,
Speak to my depths, O great and deathless Voice,
Command, for I am here to do thy will.”
The Voice replied: “Remember why thou cam’st:
Find out thy soul, recover thy hid self,
In silence seek God’s meaning in thy depths,
Then mortal nature change to the divine.
Open...2024-02-0803 minGolden Gleanings'I Cannot Equal' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo'I Cannot Equal' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
I cannot equal those most absolute eyes,
Although they rule my being, with the stars,
Nor floral rich comparisons devise
To detail sweetness that your body wears.
Nor in the heavens hints of you I find,
Nor dim suggestions in this thoughtful eve;
The moonlight of your darker grace is blind.
Who can with such pale delicacies deceive
A naked burning heart? Only one place
Satisfies me of you...2024-02-0801 minGolden BridgeHe who is in usBook 1, Canto 3, Section 1 :
This bodily appearance is not all;
The form deceives, the person is a mask;
Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell.
His fragile ship conveys through the sea of years
An incognito of the Imperishable.
A spirit that is a flame of God abides,
A fiery portion of the Wonderful,
Artist of his own beauty and delight,
Immortal in our mortal poverty.
This sculptor of the forms of the Infinite,
...2024-02-0102 minGolden WordsMahasaraswatiMahasaraswati
MAHASARASWATI is the Mother’s Power of Work and her spirit of perfection and order. The youngest of the Four, she is the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker.
She is Mahasaraswati, the goddess of divine skill and of the works of the Spirit, and hers is th...2024-02-0106 minGolden Gleanings'I have a Hundred Lives' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo'I have a Hundred Lives' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri Aurobindo
I have a hundred lives before me yet
To grasp thee in, O spirit ethereal,
Be sure I will with heart insatiate
Pursue thee like a hunter through them all.
Thou yet shalt turn back on the eternal way
And with awakened vision watch me come
Smiling a little at errors past, and lay
Thy eager hand in mine, its proper home.
Meanwhile made happy by thy happiness
2024-02-0101 minGolden WordsSignificance of the SamadhiSignificance of the Samadhi
On 5 December 1950 at 1.26 a.m., Sri Aurobindo left his physical sheath, "the Colonist from Immortality" departed from the earthly habitation, in the presence of the Mother who stood near his feet with an intense penetrating gaze, an incarnation of divine strength, poise and calm.
On the evening of the sixth, the following message was issued by the Mother:
"The funeral of Sri Aurobindo has not taken place today. His body is charged with such a concentration of supramental light that there is no sign of decomposition and the body wi...2024-01-2617 minGolden Gleanings`My Life is Wasted' - Sonnet - Poem by Sri AurobindoMy Life is Wasted - Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo
My life is wasted like a lamp ablazeWithin a solitary house unused,My life is wasted and by Love men praiseFor sweet and kind. How often have I musedWhat lovely thing were love and much repinedAt my cold bosom moved not by that flame.‘Tis kindled; lo, my dreadful being twinedRound one whom to myself I dare not name.I cannot quench the fire I did not lightAnd he that lit it will no...2024-01-2601 minGolden BridgeThe Finding Of The SoulFrom Savitri Book 7 CANTO V Section 2: The Finding of the Soul Section
All things she saw as a masquerade of Truth
Disguised in the costumes of Ignorance,
Crossing the years to immortality;
All she could front with the strong spirit’s peace.
But since she knows the toil of mind and life
As a mother feels and shares her children’s lives,
She puts forth a small portion of herself,
A being no bigger than the thumb of man
In...2024-01-2605 minGolden BridgeA mighty transformation came on herBook 10 Canto 4 Section 5
Her eyes were two stars that watched the universe.
The Power that from her being’s summit reigned,
The Presence chambered in lotus secrecy,
Came down and held the centre in her brow
Where the mind’s Lord in his control-room sits;
There throned on concentration’s native seat
He opens that third mysterious eye in man,
The Unseen’s eye that looks at the unseen,
When Light with a golden ecstasy fills his brain
And the Eternal’s wisdom drives his choice
And eternal Will seizes the mortal’s will.
It stirred in the lotus of her throa...2024-01-1804 minGolden Bridge'Who' - poem by Sri AurobindoIn the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest, Whose is the hand that has painted the glow?When the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether, Who was it roused them and bade them to blow?
He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature, He is found in the brain where He builds up the thought:In the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven, In the luminous net of the stars He is caught.
In the strength of a man, in the beauty of woman, In the laugh of a boy, in the blush of a girl;The han...2023-11-1505 minGolden Bridge'The Silver Call' - poem by Sri AurobindoThere is a godhead of unrealised things To which Time’s splendid gains are hoarded dross;A cry seems near, a rustle of silver wings Calling to heavenly joy by earthly loss.
All eye has seen and all the ear has heard Is a pale illusion by some greater voiceAnd mightier vision; no sweet sound or word, No passion of hues that make the heart rejoice
Can equal those diviner ecstasies. A Mind beyond our mind has sole the kenOf those yet unimagined harmonies, The fate and privilege of unborn men.
As rain-thrashed mire the marvel of the rose,Earth waits that distant marvel to disclose.
Read Here: 2023-11-0101 minGolden Bridge'The Silence' - poem by Sri AurobindoInto the Silence, into the Silence,Arise, O Spirit immortal,Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle.Ascend, single and deathless:Care no more for the whispers and the shoutings in the darkness,Pass from the sphere of the grey and the little,Leaving the cry and the struggle,Into the Silence for ever.
Vast and immobile, formless and marvellous,Higher than Heaven, wider than the universe,In a pure glory of being,In a bright stillness of self-seeing,Communing with a boundlessness voiceless and intimate,Make thy knowledge too high for thought, thy joy too deep for...2023-10-1907 minGolden Bridge'A Tree' - poem by Sri Aurobindo'A Tree' - poem by Sri Aurobindo
A tree beside the sandy river-beach Holds up its topmost boughsLike fingers towards the skies they cannot reach, Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.
This is the soul of man. Body and brainHungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.
Read Here: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/a-tree2023-10-0601 minGolden Bridge'A God's Labour' - poem by Sri Aurobindo'A God's Labour' - poem by Sri Aurobindo
Read the poem here: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/a-gods-labour2023-09-2012 minGolden Bridge'The Yogi on the Whirlpool' - poem by Sri AurobindoOn a dire whirlpool in the hurrying river, A life-stilled statue naked, bronze, severe, He kept the posture of a deathless seerUnshaken by the mad water’s leap and shiver.Thought could not think in him, flesh could not quiver; The feet of Time could not adventure here; Only some unknown Power nude and austere,Only a Silence mighty to deliver.
His spirit world-wide and companionless, Seated above the torrent of the days On the deep eddy that our being forms,Silent sustained the huge creation’s stress, Unchanged supporting Nature’s rounds and norms, Immobile background of the cosmic race.
Read here: https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2/the-yogi-on-the-whirlpool2023-09-0501 minGolden Bridge'The Blue Bird' - poem by Sri AurobindoI am the bird of God in His blue; Divinely high and clearI sing the notes of the sweet and the true For the god’s and the seraph’s ear.
I rise like a fire from the mortal’s earth Into a griefless skyAnd drop in the suffering soil of his birth Fire-seeds of ecstasy.
My pinions soar beyond Time and Space Into unfading Light;I bring the bliss of the Eternal’s face And the boon of the Spirit’s sight.
I measure the worlds with my ruby eyes; I have pe...2023-08-2402 minGolden Bridge'Because Thou Art' - poem by Sri AurobindoBecause Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss, My soul blind and enamoured yearns for Thee;It bears Thy mystic touch in all that is And thrills with the burden of that ecstasy.
Behind all eyes I meet Thy secret gaze And in each voice I hear Thy magic tune:Thy sweetness hunts my heart through Nature’s ways; Nowhere it beats now from Thy snare immune.
It loves Thy body in all living things; Thy joy is there in every leaf and stone:The moments bring Thee on their fiery wings; Sight’s endless artistry is Thou alone.
Time voyages with Thee upon its prow,—And all the future’s passionate...2023-08-1502 minGolden BridgeMahasaraswatiFrom: Savitri : Book-4, Canto-1
A Mother-wisdom works in Nature’s breast
A Mother wisdom works in Nature’s breast
To pour delight on the heart of toil and want
And press perfection on life’s stumbling powers,
Impose heaven-sentience on the obscure abyss
And make dumb Matter conscious of its God. ||94.8||
Although our fallen minds forget to climb,
Although our human stuff resists or breaks,
She keeps her will that hopes to divini...2023-07-3003 minGolden BridgeMaheshwariFrom : Savitri - Book III - Canto II - The Adoration of the Divine Mother
Across the silence of the ultimate Calm,
Out of a marvellous Transcendence' core,
A body of wonder and translucency
As if a sweet mystic summary of her self
Escaping into the original Bliss
Had come enlarged out of eternity,
Someone came infinite and absolute.
A being of...2023-07-2305 minGolden BridgeMahalaxmiHer look, her smile awoke celestial sense
Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight
Poured a supernal beauty on men’s lives.||3.34||
A wide self-giving was her native act;
A magnanimity as of sea or sky
Enveloped with its greatness all that came
And gave a sense as of a greatened world:
Her kindly care was a sweet temperate sun,
Her high passion a blue heaven’s equipoise.||3.35||
2023-07-1603 minGolden BridgeMahakaliFrom: Savitri - Book Seven, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces
Part of : VII:iv Section 2 (123)
I stand upon earth’s paths of danger and grief
And help the unfortunate and save the doomed. ||123.11||
To the strong I bring the guerdon of their strength,
To the weak I bring the armour of my force;
To men who long I carry their coveted joy:
I am fortune justifying the great and wise
By...2023-07-1004 minGolden BridgeAditiAt the head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow round the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change Time's dragon base.
Hers is the mystery the Night conceals;
The spirit's alchemist energy is hers;
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire.
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult ascent,
The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
The joy that...2023-07-0503 min
Masterclass With Fearless EducatorINVISIBLE | Session 30 | Nepal | Ramchandra Das, Sri Aurobindo Yoga Mandir.SWAMI RAM CHANDRA: He was born in Purkot, Gulmi District Lumbini zone in 3/11/1963. When he was just 12 years he left for India. Being many months in the streets he joined Indian army but did not like the service and left the Army to start learning Sanskrit. Later he became Vaishnava. He was inspired by the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother after reading a book by Sri Aurobindo. And feeling the nectar of his life in Pondicherry he went to Pondicherry in 1983 and settled there for 12 years. After almost 2 decades came back to Nepal and got the inspiration...2020-11-3053 min
Masterclass With Fearless EducatorSoulful स्कूल | Session 4 | Dr. Ramesh Bijlani, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi BranchDr. Ramesh Bijlani is a medical doctor, writer, teacher, scientist, and above all a person committed to using his unique blend of talents for touching the hearts and lives of his fellow beings. Educated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, where he did his MBBS and MD; and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA, where he did a master’s course in nutrition, Dr Bijlani spent nearly 30 years on the faculty of AIIMS, teaching and conducting research on nutrition in relation to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. In 1992 he started going in...2020-09-041h 04