Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1927 – 1947

Soul, my soul [1]

Soul, my soul, reascend over the edge of life,–

Far, far out of¹ the din burn into tranquil skies.

Cross bright ranges of mind murmurless², visioned, white;

Thoughts sail down as if ships carrying bales of light,

Truth’s form-robes by the Seers woven from spirit threads,

From wide havens above³ luminous argosies,

Gold-robed Wisdom’s divine traffic and merchandise.

But then⁴ pause not but go far beyond Space and Time⁵

Where thy natural home motionless vast and mute

Waits thy tread; on a throne facing infinity

Thought-nude, void of the world, one with the silence be.

Sole, self-poised and unmoved thou shalt behold below

Hierarchies and domains, godheads and potencies,

Titans, demons and men each in his cosmic role:

Midst all these in the live⁶ centre of forces spun,

Fate there under thy feet turning the wheels of Time,

The World Law thou shalt view⁷ mapped in its codes sublime,

Yet thyself shalt remain ruleless⁸, eternal, free.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.

¹ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: from

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: measureless

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³ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: where

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⁴ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: there

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⁵ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: beyond

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⁶ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: lone

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⁷ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: know

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⁸ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: viewless

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