Daya Gopalan

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[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Happy Deepavali 😄

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Her life was a dawn's victorious opening,
The past and unborn days had joined their dreams,
Old vanished eves and far arriving noons
Hinted to her a vision of prescient hours.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

That asks a perfect life on earth for men
And prays for certainty in the uncertain mind
And shadowless bliss for suffering human hearts
And Truth embodied in an ignorant world
And godhead divinising mortal forms.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

A silence of felicity wrapped the heavens,
A careless radiance smiled upon the heights;
A murmur of inarticulate ravishment
Trembled in the winds and touched the enchanted soil;
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

A distant greatness left it huge and dim,
A mystic closeness shut it sweetly in:
It seemed sometimes a figment or a robe
And seemed sometimes his own colossal shade.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

O human mind, vainly thou torturest
An hour's delight to stretch through infinity's
Long void and fill its formless, passionless gulfs,
Persuading the insensible Abyss
To lend eternity to perishing things,
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

With mystery, nor in its green miracles
Wandered, but this small clearing was my world.
Now has a strong desire seized all my heart
To go with Satyavan holding his hand
Into the life that he has loved and touch
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

The messages of the evangelist gods,
Voices of prophets, scripts of vanishing creeds.
Each in its hour eternal claimed went by:
Ideals, systems, sciences, poems, crafts
Tireless there perished and again recurred,
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

The lowest of these earths was still a heaven
Translating into the splendour of things divine
The beauty and brightness of terrestrial scenes.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

He calls the Godhead incommunicable
To be the lover of his lonely soul
Or casts his spirit into its void embrace.
Or he finds his copy in the impartial All;
He imparts to the Immobile his own will,
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Driven from within she followed her long road,
Mute in the luminous cavern of her heart,
Like a bright cloud through the resplendent day.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

A vacant consciousness watched from within,
Empty of all but bare Reality.
There was no will behind the word and act,
No thought formed in her brain to guide the speech:
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Always he was with her, a living soul
That met her eyes with close enamoured eyes,
A living body near to her body's joy.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Then the doomed husband and the woman who knew
Went with linked hands into that solemn world
Where beauty and grandeur and unspoken dream,
Where Nature's mystic silence could be felt
Communing with the secrecy of God.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Tireless there perished and again recurred,
Sought restlessly by some creative Power;
But all were dreams crossing an empty vast.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Two strive, constant associates without joy,
Two egos straining in a single leash,
Two minds divided by their jarring thoughts,
Two spirits disjoined, for ever separate.
Thus is the ideal falsified in man's world;
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Her eyes looked out on earth's unchanging face,
Around her soul's muteness all moved as of old;
A vacant consciousness watched from within,
Empty of all but bare Reality.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Repeated fruitlessly age after age.
Unwearied all returned insisting still
Because of joy in the anguish of pursuit
And joy to labour and to win and lose
And joy to create and keep and joy to kill.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

Her dusky mindlessness began to dream;
The Inconscient conscious grew, Night felt and thought.
Assailed in the sovereign emptiness of its reign
The intolerant Darkness paled and drew apart
Till only a few black remnants stained that Ray.
#Savitri #SriAurobindo

[Daya Gopalan @dayamira12]

His abysms of bliss became insensible deeps,
Eternity a blank spiritual Vast.
Annulling an original nullity
#Savitri #SriAurobindo