There is a kingdom of the spirit's ease.
It is not in this
helpless swirl of thought,
Foam from the world-sea
or spray-whisper caught,
With which we build mind's shifting symmetries,
Nor in life's stuff of passionate unease,
Nor the heart's unsure
emotions frailty wrought
Nor trivial clipped
sense-joys soon brought to nought
Nor in this body's solid transiences.
Wider behind than the vast universe
Our spirit scans the
drama and the stir,
A peace, a light, an ecstasy, a power
Waiting at the end of blindness and the curse
That veils it from
its ignorant minister,
The grandeur of its free eternal hour.
14-3-1936
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 60 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
(unpublished)
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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