To the mind

(At Chandernagore — February 1910)

O mind!
think not,
The more you think, the more you see
   The sombre knot.

   Above the chain
Of ignorant virtue and blinded sin
   In Truth remain.

   Arouse your Will
From the depths of gloom and faster turn
   Your evolving wheel.

   In you the flood
Of God's gold Vision to create
   Deathless life-blood!


SAI 20. (1956)

Chinmoy, Sri Aurobindo: The Infinite, Agni Press, New York, 1997