The Winds of Wonder

There is now the urge

There is now the urge

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RY Deshpande

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There is now the urge

There is no reason for myself to be what I am,

Bound to littleness, governed by small nature;

My mortality must open to glad wonders,

Songs melodic coming from the far other shore;

My soul and spirit are now free like the wind

With the purple aroma of excellence;

And there is urge in body’s substance to blaze

In sudden utterness of a conscient flame.

28 October 2024

अधुना इच्छा अस्ति

न हि कारणं मम यत् अहं अस्मि,

अल्पत्वे बद्धः, लघुप्रकृत्या शासितः;

मम मर्त्यं प्रसन्नचमत्कारेभ्यः उद्घाटितं भवितुमर्हति,

दूरतः अन्यतटतः आगच्छन्ति गीताः सुरीलाः;

मम जीवः आत्मा च इदानीं वायुवत् मुक्तौ स्तः

उत्कृष्टतायाः बैंगनीगन्धेन सह;

शरीरद्रव्ये च प्रज्वलितुम् इच्छा अस्ति

अन्तःकरणज्वालायाः सहसा उच्चारणे।

२८ अक्टोबर २०२४

2 responses to “There is now the urge”

  1. claudechamberland Avatar
    claudechamberland

    Cher Grand Frère,

    Il y a quelques jours, j’ai lu ce poème une première fois et l’ai laissé s’imprégner en moi, attendant que vienne le commentaire approprié. Dans mon Pranayama de ce matin, quelque chose poussait, qui ressemblait à Durga et à l’aspect de Force de notre Tendre Mère, mais ce n’était pas encore ce que je cherchais…

    Puis, dans ma lecture de Savitri, entre quelques gorgées de café, ce que j’attendais est arrivé.

    “There is now the urge” porte la grande aspiration de la Terre, l’aspiration de la matière à elle aussi recevoir la Paix, la Lumière et la Force de la transformation. Voici ce que j’ai lu dans Savitri, Livre X, Le Livre du Double Demi-jour, Chant II, l’Évangile de la Mort et la Vanité de l’Idéal. Cela se passe au moment où Savitri réplique à la longue diatribe de la mort qui tente de ridiculiser cyniquement les idéaux humains:

    “One day I shall behold my great sweet world

    Put off the dire disguises of the gods,

    Unveil from terror and disrobe from sin.

    Appeased we shall draw near our mother’s face,

    We shall cast our candid souls upon her lap;

    Then shall we clasp the ecstasy we chase,

    Then shall we shudder with the long-sought god,

    Then shall we find Heaven’s unexpected strain.”

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    1. RY Deshpande Avatar
      RY Deshpande

      The passage you quote from Savitri, Oh the beauty of sipping coffee! It works better wonders than Prāṇāyama. That is what the Mother would love and encourage, I suppose. She says, “One day I shall behold my great sweet world”. That is for what Auroville is. Time’s images have blotches and these need to be cleaned with Agni the Purifier, the Vedic Agni Pāvaka. Agni has to work on Kāḷa. That is the “sudden utterness of the flame”.

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