SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Karma
Dive if thou wilt into the huge deep sea,
The inaccessible far mountains climb,
Vanquish thy foes in battle fierily,
All arts and every science, prose and rhyme,
Tillage and trade in one mind bring to dwell,–
Yea, rise to highest effort, ways invent
And like a bird the skies immeasurable
Voyage; all this thou mayst, but not compel
What was not to be, nor what was prevent.