Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section 4. Disciples and Others

Atulprasad Sen

The Pilot

In the dark without end

Who art Thou, O Friend?

I am led as if by a hand:

But cannot see,

Nor reach to Thee,

Nothing can understand.

To my eyes is given no light,

All seems everlasting night

Thou only my comrade there,

Helping my plight:

To rout the gloom

Thy star-lamp relume –

Thy splendid vision reveal.

Pierced by the thorns of pain,

I ask again and again:

“To what far alien realm

This hard path?” but in vain!

Once let me hear,

Love’s lips grown near,

Whisper to my appeal.

If Thou art here by my side,

In this heart-lost darkness wide

Stretch out Thy hand

My weary soul to guide.

Though infirm my clasp,

Loosen not Thy grasp:

Hold me fast through woe and weal.