PART THREE Books IX-XII BOOK NINE The Book of Eternal Night CANTO ONE   TOWARDS THE BLACK VOID   SO was she left alone in the huge wood, Surrounded by a dim unthinking world, Her husband's corpse on her forsaken breast. She measured not her loss with helpless thoughts, Nor rent with tears the marble seals of pain: She rose not yet to face the dreadful god. Over the body she loved her soul leaned out In a great stillness without stir or voice, As if her mind had died with Satyavan. But still the human heart in her beat on. Aware still of his being near to hers, Closel

  CANTO NINE   THE PARADISE OF THE LIFE-GODS   A ROUND him shone a great felicitous Day. A lustre of some rapturous Infinite, It held in the splendour of its golden laugh Regions of the heart's happiness set free, Intoxicated with the wine of God, Immersed in light, perpetually divine. A favourite and intimate of the Gods Obeying the divine command to joy, It was the sovereign of its own delight And master of the kingdoms of its force. Assured of the bliss for which all forms were made, Unmoved by fear and grief and the shocks of Fate And unalarmed by the breath of fleeting Time

  PART ONE Books I - III BOOK ONE The Book of Beginnings CANTO ONE   THE SYMBOL DAWN   IT was the hour before the Gods awake, Across the path of the divine Event The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone In her unlit temple of eternity, Lay stretched immobile upon Silence' marge. Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable, In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse The abysm of the unbodied Infinite, A fathomless zero occupied the world. A power of fallen boundless self awake Between the first and the last Noth

         Page-1 Page-2 Page-3 Page-4 Page-5 Page-6 Page-7 Page-8 Page-9 Page-10 A Letter of Sri Aurobindo to His Brother Pondicherry Date unfixable [April 1920] Dear Barin,       I have received your three letters (and another one today), but up till now I have not managed to write a reply. That now I sit to write is itself a miracle, because I write letters once in a blue moon, especially letters in Bengali. This is something I have not done even once in the last five or six years. If I c

went to Mr. Tilak on the night of 27th and the morning of 28th to ascertain the views of his party, and to each of them Mr. Tilak gave the following assurance in writing :-         Surat, 28th December. 1907         "Dear Sir, — With reference to our conversation, and principally in the best interests of the Congress, I and my party are prepared to waive our opposition to the election of Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh as President of 23rd Indian National Congress, and are prepared to act in the spirit of forget and forgive, provided, firstly, the last year's resolutions on Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott and National Education are adhered to and each expressly reaffirmed; and secondly, such passa

The Mother Awakes   It is midnight; the world is asleep in silence, The Earth is asleep in the lap of darkness; Asleep are the heavens, breathless the wrathful winds; The stars twinkle not in the dense blackness of the clouds. The birds wrap their eyes with their wings And rest self-absorbed in their nests; Animals wander not, nor are footsteps heard. Then the Mother awakes; The Mother awakes with a terrible cry. The Mother awakes; opens Her frightful eyes, As though a pair of suns.       The Mother awakes, not a leaf moves; The still flame of the lamp is dying in the room: In the lonely paths of the city, in the fi

The Life Divine       Chapter V THE SOUL, CAUSALITY AND LAW OF NATURE         What then of this causality that we see everywhere? What then of this law and fixed process in all Nature which is at least the indispensable condition of all human activities? How can the supposed freedom of the soul be reconciled with the actual despotism in fact of an ordered Cosmic Energy?       Vedanta does not deny either Law of Causality or Law of Nature nor their fixity nor their imperative control over individual activities; it rather affirms them categorically and, as we shall see, with an inexorable thoroughness far more unsparing than the affirmations of modern Rationalism.

251. Gaité        ...       ...       ...        ... Gaillardia Picta Cheerfulness   Gaillardie   Gaillardia (Blanket flower)   (rouge jaune) 252. Gaieté mentale           ...       ...  Gaillardia Picta Mental cheerfulness   Gaillardie   Gaillardia (Blanket flower) 253. Générosité dans le physique Impatiens Balsamina Generosity in the vital   Balsamine   Balsam   (double, rouge)   Page-34 254. Généro