Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Karma

Protection from behind the Veil

Safe is the man good deeds forgotten claim,

In pathless deserts or in dangerous war

Or by armed foes enringed; sea and fierce flame

May threaten, death’s door waiting swing ajar;

Slumbering or careless though his foemen find,

Yea, though they seize him, though they smite or bind,

On ocean wild or on the cliff’s edge sheer

His deeds walk by his side and guard from fear;

Through death and birth they bore him and are here.