SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
II. From Bengali
Aruna
You rose in India, O glorious in contemplation, O Sun,
Illuminator of the vast ocean of life.
Clarioning the new Path of an unstumbling progression.
You have dug up the immense, sombre bedrock of the earth’s ignorance,
And sought to unite in eternal marriage the devotion of the heart
and the Force of life.
We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, O Sun of the New Age,
Bringer of the New Light!
May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!
To the country which, by losing its soul-mission, had lost the rhythm
of its life’s advance,
And was darkened and blinded by the gloom of the ages,
To point the inward way and reduce all obstacles to subservient aids,
You have brought the message of the night’s end,
O divine Ambidexter, wisdom-bright!
We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, O Sun of the New Age,
Bringer of the New Light!
May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!
The dust of your feet turned the prison into a temple,
Your lofty ideal has lifted the nation’s life to a sublime aim,
Your accomplishment has brought to our door
the supreme treasure of Supermanhood,
Your feet faltered not even when the heart of the world trembled.
We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, O Sun of the New Age,
Bringer of the New Light!
May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!
You have made humanity hear the message, the great Truth
which none has ever uttered:
That man’s birth-right is not only to freedom from slavery
but to eternal divinity.
You have proclaimed: The whole earth shall march forward
with India in the van;
India will set the example and the earth will follow her ideal.
We bow to you, Sri Aurobindo, O Sun of the New Age,
Bringer of the New Light!
May India, irradiated by your rays, become the Light-house of the world!