Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Virtue

The Softness and Hardness of the Noble

Being fortunate, how the noble heart grows soft

As lilies! But in calamity’s rude shocks

Rugged and high like a wild mountain’s rocks

It fronts the thunders, granite piled aloft.