Krishna by Sri Aurobindo

At last I find a meaning of soul’s birth
        Into this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of earth
        Aspiring beyond heaven to Krishna’s feet.

I have seen the beauty of immortal eyes,
        And heard the passion of the Lover’s flute,
And known a deathless ecstasy’s surprise
        And sorrow in my heart for ever mute.

Nearer and nearer now the music draws,
        Life shudders with a strange felicity;
All Nature is a wide enamoured pause
        Hoping her lord to touch, to clasp, to be.

For this one moment lived the ages past;
The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last.

15-9-1939

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo Poetry

Reference: # 101 in “Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo” (bilingual edition)
also in “Last Poems” – 17
all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Pondicherry


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