To Dayabhai

Vision-Change

Jan 1, 2000

I have undergone a vision-change
And things once known are new again,
All within my mortal range
Transforms to view from a higher plane.

Acts I abhorred as coarse and mean
Were gross impurities in me
But now by Her grace is dimly seen
In all the masked divinity.

All my human attitudes
Opinions and desirings
Before the stellar plenitudes
Of light Sri Aurobindo brings

Dissolve as salt in monsoon rain.
As His peace descends into our being
A greater wideness we attain
And through Him reach that deeper seeing.

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Amal's comment: I think it is a fine poem, feelingly conveying to us the new way your eyes look at the world and at yourself."

First published in Mother India – February 2001