Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

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

Immortality

I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty

From which an occult sovereignty derives:

Hidden in an earthly garment that survives,

I am the worldless being vast and free.

A moment stamped with that supremacy

Has rescued me from cosmic hooks and gyves;

Abolishing death and time my nature lives

In the deep heart of immortality.

God’s contract signed with Ignorance is torn;

Time has become the Eternal’s endless year,

My soul’s wide self of living infinite Space¹

Outlines its body luminous and unborn

Behind the earth-robe; under the earth-mask² grows clear

The mould of an imperishable face.

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 My soul, the living self of infinite Space, (variant mentioned in 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5)

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: mask or as variant earth

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