Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1934 – 1947

The Bliss of Brahman

I am swallowed in a¹ foam-white sea of bliss,

I am a curving² wave of God’s delight,

A shapeless flow³ of happy passionate light,

A whirlpool of the streams⁴ of Paradise.

I am a cup of His felicities,

A thunderblast of His golden ecstasy’s might,

A fire of joy upon creation’s height;

I am His rapture’s wonderful abyss.

I am drunken with the glory of the Lord,

I am vanquished by the beauty of the Unborn;

I have looked alive on⁵ the Eternal’s face.

My mind is cloven by His radiant sword,

My heart by His beatific touch is torn,

My life is a meteor-dust of His flaming Grace.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.

¹ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: I have become a

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: curling

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³ flux (the variant is mentioned in 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5)

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⁴ sence (the variant is mentioned in 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5)

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⁵ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: upon

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