I have become a foam-white sea of bliss,
I am a curling wave
of God's delight,
A shapeless flow of
happy passionate light,
A whirlpool of the streams of Paradise.
I am a cup of His felicities,
A thunderblast of
His golden ecstasy's might,
A fire of joy upon
creation's height,
I am His rapture's wonderful abyss.
I am drunken with the glory of the Lord,
I am vanquished by
the beauty of the Unborn;
I have looked, alive,
upon the Eternal's face.
My mind is cloven by His radiant sword,
My heart by His beatific
touch is torn;
My life is a meteor-dust
of His flaming Grace.
29-9-1939 & 21-10-1939
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 117 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "More Poems" - 69
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA