Sri Aurobindo28

Thy vast of bliss enfolds our mortal sheaths,
Thy smile from Eternity unlids our eyes.
O Thou! the Flame that hymns of creation new,
Thy Blaze transmutes our poison-paradise.

Who dares to love Thy diamond Heart of love?
Lover of the self-same stupendous Soul —
Within, without a world of nectar's flood
Sporting with Thy ever-unhorizoned whole.

Out of a marvel process of time-toil
Thy gnostic Sun flowers in the gloom of earth.
The clay is not a dream, a chimera's mist —
In Thee she shall awake to golden birth.


SAI 28. (1955)

SAI 28,1. Published version is as above. In handwritten notebook, the author wrote “Thy vast vacuum of bliss”

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