Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

II. Sonnets
1930–1950

Form

O worshipper of the formless Infinite,

Reject not form, what lives in form is He.¹

Each finite is that deep Infinity

Enshrining His veiled soul of pure delight.

Form in its heart of silence recondite

Hides the significance of His mystery,

Form is the wonder-house of eternity,

A cavern of the deathless Eremite.

There is a beauty in the depths of God,

There is a miracle of the Marvellous

That builds the universe for its abode.

The One, in His glory multitudinous²,

Bursting into shape and colour like a rose,

Compels the great world-petals to unclose.

Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p.

¹ what dwells in it is He.

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² In 2009 ed. this line is placed after the next one

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