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Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

II. Sonnets
1930–1950

The Bliss of Brahman

I have become a1 foam-white sea of bliss,

I am a curling2 wave of God’s delight,

A shapeless flow3 of happy passionate light,

A whirlpool of the streams4 of Paradise.

I am a cup of His felicities,

A thunderblast of His golden ecstasy’s might,

A fire of joy upon creation’s height,

I am His rapture’s wonderful abyss.

I am drunken with the glory of the Lord,

I am vanquished by the beauty of the Unborn;

I have looked, alive, upon5 the Eternal’s face.

My mind is cloven by His radiant sword,

My heart by His beatific touch is torn;

My life is a meteor-dust of His flaming Grace.

 

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.

1 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: I am swallowed in a

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2 curving

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3 flux

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4 sence

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5 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: on

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