In Auroville Alone though we live and in Her hands secure We of the way must walk alone together, To hear the music on the shores of time, Rebuild the earth a flowering paradigm. She smiles upon the countenance of life And from Her bosom love's dynamic strain Draws in the corners of divergent years To harmony mid all the whirling spheres. His golden drops of silence fill our days, We breathe the magic of Her cleansing fire, Swim in oceans boundless of Her bliss And feel the lyre singing with Her kiss. The eyes delight of all this sudden change.

Immanent Descent    May 24, 1970 The incomprehensible sacrifice Of God's descent into the night, His body interred with golden light Shall make this earth his paradise.

Hostile Attacks And when I fell in fitful sleep I dreamed I heard the angels weep To see the fiery demon horde Attack a servant of the Lord. On this bed of sorrow lies A spirit broken, with blinded eyes While all the saints of mercy weep And on his soul a vigil keep. The Mother drawing close his head Prepares again to stay the dread And fearful presence that descends To steal the soul for evil ends. The fledgling aspirant to light Is rescued from the throes of night, Morning breaks and day begins

Aspiration for Light Within the ego also waits The moment when its force abates And purifying fires flash And burn the hardened crust to ash Our whitened souls redress all wrong And offer Thee, O Mother, song. Yet darkness shall be till light is found In souls of strength on matter's ground. A sudden music descend and seize New force-created harmonies. This day, O puissance, hasten here Instil thy joy, expunge all fear.

Stifled Song To heights empyrean I would climb But a dragging past dulls feet through slime And melodies of a distant flute No voice can find, my song is mute. Sounds that would open worlds of light Are muffled in struggle with the night And all the solace music brings Is stifled, wrapped in darker things.

Lament and Prayer And when my soul in secret sleep Its vigil with the Lord doth keep Will then I know the awesome truth Of the wasted years of wanton youth? Still now the ray within me burns And all my inner being yearns In a single leap Her truth to know What then denies this spark to grow? The sea winds call and cloud-covered sky Damp earth, the forest's floor and by A winding stream I've left a part Of a poignant, longing, searching heart. Deep dream or wakened falseness feel? Was ever then the search this real? Have

Agni 1960's In a tranquil dawn Thy voice I once did hear, Though now in me the waves of chaos roll And ears turn deaf to finer chords so near, As weeping again I read the sacred scroll. To stony silence turn the sibling hordes, The demon kings upon the steeds of might, Fears that pierce the pulsing heart like swords, And voice the incandescent word of light. Ride, O Fire, sweeping paths so bright Through homes and towns and galaxies in flight, Through hearts and nerves and veins and sinews tight, Burn, O Flame and raze inconscient night.

To Mother and Sri Aurobindo I looked upon the outer sheath I wore And saw as if in shadow vaguely dreaming Inconscient parts that now could live no more For in the night the sacred sun was beaming. Though hard within a seething spectre waits And works at weaving light-engulfing snares I see beyond, His Feet, the future's gates, Her golden form upon the golden stairs. Child of day who would the dawn behold Of night thy need is ended, light embrace, Impassion, fill with truth this mortal mould And greet the Mother in each form and face.

To Sing Savitri Then Savitri let me sing to men And earth awake to the mantric call, Of a blue-white light, and her diadem In our hearts the sacred flame install.

Mantra of the Name On the path that leads my soul to Thee Let me not often rest or stray, But plunge into thy sea of love And never the hand of Grace betray. I know that Thou hast watched me through The ages of my childhood's flame And resting on me eyes Divine Instilled the mantra of Thy name. If by Thy Force this frame might yield To melodies of light and bliss Receive the blessings from above With gratitude and openness.