The Winds of Wonder

Sri Aurobindo’s Samadhi

The Assurance received by the Mother

7 December 1950

Breast a diamond-cup of infinity’s bliss

About Sri Aurobindo’s Samadhi here is a poem by Amal Kiran (KD Sethna):

At the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo

Majestic master of the immutable Light,

Love like a universe thronged within your heart:

Brooding in silence across lonely years

On secret heavens a-dream in infinite hell,

You found the hammer to break the Dragon’s sleep

And free from burying black the fallen stars.

But from each throb of God kindled in earth

You flung a human heart-beat out of Time:

You shortened your sovereign life to greaten the dust.

Your body, dropped from your spirit’s hold on high,

Lays the foundation of a clay-built sky!

Always the Light came down from the limitless blue,

Gold gushing through the head to a heart God-drunk.

Now from the soul’s sleep rose one dazzling wave,

Uttering a secret of eternity locked

In caves dumbfounded with a vast black bliss.

It say how sheer divinity grew dust,

The miracled love which left the heart of the sun

And crouched with folded fire below Time’s feet

To give huge wings to the atom’s reverie.

The surge of light lifted our bodies up

As though in laughing answer to heaven’s leap down

Into the poisoning space of bone and flesh,

Earth now was ready to enter infinitude.

A blind snake that had swallowed all the stars

Unrolled a boundless mystery flecked with flame

And undulated shining centuries.

But none riding the rapture of the glow

Saw the still King of the new life’s luminous realm

Tamer and charmer of mortality’s night—

One Heart whose deep on gold-dense deep of love

Measured the abyss whose cry is the whole world’s death!

23 March 1952

And this one is by RY Deshpande

God of Light

God of light sleeping in a mystery-flame,

Gold of love drawn into an inward rapture,

All heaven folded in a sapphire repose,

Trance ineffable of a splendoured silence…

His the eagle-poise of superconscient peace,

His the calm of a wide englobing halo…

Lord of the creative, the conquering force,

Smile of the Supreme and the winning strength,

Blaze noon-intense of the godhead’s brilliant triumph…

His the penance claiming divinity for man,

His the Destiny’s labour with earth’s heavy load,

His the will bringing to soul the Oversoul…

A brow of gleaming vision’s mystic expanse,

Breast a diamond-cup of infinity’s bliss,

Sun-feet strolling on eternity’s luminous ways,

Only a blue-gold Elysian hue of the High…

A Truth-resplendence in tranquil lotus-name,

King and Poet of the original Word!

1961