Liberation [1]

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


Liberation - I

I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind
    And stand now in the spirit's silence free;
Timeless and deathless beyond creature kind,
    The centre of my own eternity.

I have escaped and the small self is dead;
    I am immortal, alone, ineffable;
I have gone out from the universe I made,
    And have grown nameless and immeasurable.

My mind is hushed in wide and endless light,
    My heart a solitude of delight and peace,
My sense unsnared by touch and sound and sight,
    My body a point in white infinities.

I am the one Being's sole immobile Bliss:
No one I am, I who am all that is.



Part VII : Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) > Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947)   




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  And stand now in the spirit's silence free;
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  The centre of my own eternity.
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  I am immortal, alone, ineffable;
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  I have gone out from the universe I made,
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  And have grown nameless and immeasurable.
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  My heart a solitude of delight and peace,
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  My sense unsnared by touch and sound and sight,
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  My body a point in white infinities.

NOTES FROM EDITOR

27 July 1938, revised 22 March 1944. Two handwritten manuscripts.