Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Karma

Fixed Fate

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.