Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

II. Sonnets
1930–1950

Electron

The electron on which forms and worlds are built,

Leaped into being, a particle of God.

A spark from the eternal Energy spilt,

It is the Infinite’s blind minute abode.

In that small flaming chariot Shiva rides.

The One devised innumerably to be;

His oneness in invisible forms he hides,

Time’s tiny temples of¹ eternity.

Atom and molecule in their unseen plan

Buttress an edifice of strange onenesses,

Crystal and plant, insect and beast and man,–

Man on whom the World-Unity shall seize,

Widening his soul-spark to an epiphany

Of the timeless vastness of Infinity.

Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p.

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