From SAVITRI

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LOVE is a yearning of the One for the One,

And beauty is a sweet difference of the Same

And oneness is the soul of multitude.

There all the truths unite in a single Truth,

And all ideas rejoin Reality.

There knowing herself by her own termless self,

Wisdom supernal, wordless, absolute

Sat uncompanioned in the eternal Calm,

All-seeing, motionless, sovereign and alone.

There knowledge needs not words to embody Idea;

Idea, seeking a house in boundlessness,

Weary of its homeless immortality,

Asks not in thought's carved brilliant cell to rest

Whose single window's clipped outlook on things

Sees only a little arc of God's vast sky.

The boundless with the boundless there consorts;

While there, one can be wider than the world;

While there, one is one's own infinity.

His centre was no more in earthly mind;

A power of seeing silence filled his limbs:

Caught by a voiceless white epiphany

Into a vision that surpasses forms,

Into a living that surpasses life,

He neared the still consciousness sustaining all.

The voice that only by speech can move the mind

Became a silent knowledge in the soul;

The strength that only in action feels its truth

Was lodged now in a mute omnipotent peace.

A leisure in the labour of the worlds,

A pause in the joy and anguish of the search

Restored the stress of Nature to God's calm.

A vast unanimity ended life's debate.

The war of thoughts that fathers the universe,

The clash of forces struggling to prevail

In the tremendous shock that lights a star

As in the building of a grain of dust,

>From Book 1 Canto 3

 

The Yoga of the Soul's Release

 

Sri Aurobindo