{"id":1498,"date":"2013-07-13T01:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:14","slug":"33-parabrahman-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/05-collected-poems-volume-05\/33-parabrahman-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-33_Parabrahman.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n
\nParabrahman<\/font> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n
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            These
\nwanderings of the suns, these stars at play<\/p>\n

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\nIn
\nthe due measure that they chose of old,<\/p>\n

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Nor
\nonly these, but all the immense array<\/p>\n

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\nOf
\nobjects that long Time, far Space can hold,<\/p>\n

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Are divine moments.  They are thoughts that
\nform,<\/p>\n

       They
\nare vision in the Self of things august<\/p>\n

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And
\ntherefore grandly real.  Rule and norm<\/p>\n

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\nAre
\nprocesses that they themselves adjust.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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The
\nSelf of things is not their outward view,<\/p>\n

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\nA
\nForce within decides. That Force is He;<\/p>\n

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His
\nmovement is the shape of things we knew,<\/p>\n

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\nMovement
\nof Thought is Space and Time. A free<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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And
\nsovereign master of His world within,  <\/p>\n

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\nHe
\nis not bound by what He does or makes,<\/p>\n

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He
\nis not bound by virtue or by sin,<\/span><\/p>\n

        
\nAwake
\nwho sleeps and when He sleeps awakes.<\/p>\n

He is not bound by waking or by sleep;<\/p>\n

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\nHe
\nis not bound by anything at all.<\/p>\n

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Laws
\nare that He may conquer them. To creep<\/p>\n

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\nOr
\nsoar is at His will, to rise or fall.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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One
\nfrom of old possessed Himself above<\/p>\n

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\nWho
\nwas not anyone nor had a form,<\/p>\n

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Nor
\nyet was formless. Neither hate nor love<\/p>\n

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\nCould
\nlimit His perfection, peace nor storm.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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He
\nis, we cannot say; for Nothing too <\/p>\n

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\nIs
\nHis conception of Himself unguessed.<\/p>\n

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He
\ndawns upon us and we would pursue,<\/p>\n

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\nBut
\nwho has found Him or what arms possessed?<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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He
\nis not anything, yet all is He;<\/p>\n

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\nHe
\nis not all but far exceeds that scope.<\/p>\n

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Both
\nTime and Timelessness sink in that sea: <\/p>\n

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\nTime
\nis a wave and Space a wandering drop.<\/p>\n

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\n Page-62 
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\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nWithin
\nHimself He shadowed Being forth,<\/p>\n

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\n        
\nWhich
\nis a younger birth, a veil He chose<\/p>\n

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To
\nhalf-conceal Him, Knowledge, nothing worth<\/p>\n

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\nSave
\nto have glimpses of its mighty cause,<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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And
\nhigh Delight, a spirit infinite,<\/p>\n

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\nThat
\nis the fountain of this glorious world,<\/p>\n

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Delight
\nthat labours in its opposite,<\/p>\n

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\nFaints
\nin the rose and on the rack is curled.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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This
\nwas the triune playground that He made<\/p>\n

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\nAnd
\nOne there sports awhile. He plucks His flowers<\/p>\n

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And
\nby His bees is stung; He is dismayed,<\/p>\n

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\nFlees
\nfrom Himself or has His sullen hours.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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The
\nAlmighty One knew labour, failure, strife;<\/p>\n

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\nKnowledge
\nforgot divined itself again:<\/p>\n

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He
\nmade an eager death and called it life,<\/p>\n

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\nHe
\nstung Himself with bliss and called it pain.
\n 
\n  <\/p>\n

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\n<\/p>\n

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\n    
\n
\nGod<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Thou
\nwho pervadest all the worlds below,<\/p>\n

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\nYet
\nsitst above,<\/p>\n

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Master
\nof all who work and rule and know,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

         
\nServant
\nof Love!<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

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Thou
\nwho disdainest not the worm to be<\/p>\n

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\nNor
\neven the clod,<\/p>\n

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Therefore
\nwe know by that humility<\/p>\n

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\nThat
\nthou art God.
\n <\/p>\n

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