The electron on which forms and worlds are built,
Leaped into being, a particle of God.
A spark from the eternal Energy spilt,
It is the Infinite's blind minute abode.
In that small flaming chariot Shiva rides.
The One devised innumerably to be;
His oneness in invisible forms he hides,
Time's tiny temples of [or: to] eternity.
Atom and molecule in their unseen plan
Buttress an edifice of strange oneness,
Crystal and plant, insect and beast and man, -
Man on whom the World-Unity shall seize,
Widening his soul-spark to an epiphany
Of the timeless vastness of Infinity.
15-7-1938
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 80 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Last Poems" - 3
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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