SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Karma
Bow ye to Karma who with puissant hand
Like a vast potter all the universe planned,
Shut the Creator in and bade him work
In the dim-glinting womb and luminous murk;
By whom impelled high Vishnu hurled to earth
Travels his tenfold depths and whorls of birth;
Who leading mighty Rudra by the hand
Compels to wander strange from land to land,–
A vagrant begging with a skull for bowl
And suppliant palms, who is yet the world’s high Soul.
Lo, through the skies for ever this great Sun
Wheels circling round and round by Karma spun.