Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Lyrical Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1934 – 1947

One

The mind of a man

And the mind in a stone.

But the Mind of minds

Sits bright and alone.

The life of a tree,

The life in a clod,

To the Life of all life

That men call God.

The heart of a beast

And a seraph’s heart,–

But the Heart of all hearts

Throbs ever apart.

A body beloved

And a body slain.

Yet both were the bodies

Of One in their pain.

Earlier edition of this work: Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 3, No1 (1979, April).- p.13