{"id":582,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=582"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:01","slug":"24-the-birth-of-the-war-god-canto-2-vol-08-translations-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/08-translations-volume-08\/24-the-birth-of-the-war-god-canto-2-vol-08-translations-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-24_The Birth of the War God, Canto-2.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"24%\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<div class=\"Section6\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%' align=\"left\"><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:14.0pt'>The Birth of the War-God*<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%' align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%' align=\"left\">\n<b><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"2\">c<\/font><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"><font size=\"2\">anto<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"2\">T<\/font><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"><font size=\"2\">wo<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><b>B<\/b>ut<br \/>\nnow in spheres above whose motions fixed <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Confirm<br \/>\nour cyclic steps, a cry arose <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Anarchic.<br \/>\nStrange disorders threatened Space. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>There<br \/>\nwas a tumult in the calm abodes,<i><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A<br \/>\nclash of arms, a thunder of defeat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hearing<br \/>\nthat sound our smaller physical home <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Trembled<br \/>\nin its pale circuits. Fearing soon <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nethereal revolt might touch its stars. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Then<br \/>\nwere these knots of our toy orbits torn <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nlike a falling leaf this world might sink <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>From<br \/>\nthe high tree mysterious where it hangs <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Between<br \/>\nthat voiceful and this silent flood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>For<br \/>\nlong a mute indifference had seized <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nLord of all; no more the Mother of forms <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>By<br \/>\nthe persuasion of her clinging arms <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bound<br \/>\nhim to bear the burden of her works. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Therefore<br \/>\nwith a slow dreadful confidence <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Chaos<br \/>\nhad lifted his gigantic head. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>His<br \/>\nmovement stole, a shadow on the skies, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Out<br \/>\nof the dark inconscience where he hides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0<\/span>Breaking the tread of the eternal dance <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Voices<br \/>\nwere heard life&#8217;s music shudders at, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thoughts<br \/>\nwere abroad no living mind can bear, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Enormous<br \/>\nrhythms had disturbed the gods <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\nwhich they knew not the stupendous law, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\ntaking new amorphous giant shapes <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Desires<br \/>\nthe primal harmonies repel <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fixed<br \/>\ndreadful eyes upon their coveted heavens. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Awhile<br \/>\nthey found no form could clothe their strength, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>No<br \/>\nspirit who could brook their feet of fire <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gave<br \/>\nthem his aspirations for their home. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Only<br \/>\nin the invisible heart of things <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A<br \/>\ndread unease and expectation lived, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Which<br \/>\nfelt immeasurable energies <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\nhuge revolt against the established world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section7\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 125<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But<br \/>\nnow awake to the fierce nether gods<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tarak<br \/>\nthe Titan rose; and the gods fled<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Before<br \/>\nhim driven in a luminous rout. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rumours<br \/>\nof an unalterable defeat <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Astonished<br \/>\nheaven. Like a throng of stars <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Drifting<br \/>\nthrough night before the clouds of doom, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Like<br \/>\ngolden leaves hunted by dark-winged winds <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>They<br \/>\nfled back to their old delightful seats, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nor<br \/>\nthere found refuge. Bent to a Titan yoke <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>They<br \/>\nsuffered, till their scourged defeated thoughts <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Turned<br \/>\nsuppliants to a greater seat above. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>There<br \/>\nthe Self-born who weaves from his deep heart <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Harmonious<br \/>\nspaces, sits concealed and watches <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\ninviolable cycles of his soul. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thither<br \/>\nascending difficult roads of sleep <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Those<br \/>\ncolonists of heaven, the violent strength <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\nthunderous Indra flashing in their front, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Climbed<br \/>\nup with labour to their mighty Source. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But<br \/>\nas they neared, but as their yearning reached, . <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Before<br \/>\nthem from the eternal secrecy <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A<br \/>\nForm grew manifest from all their forms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A<br \/>\ngreat brow seemed to face them everywhere, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Eyes<br \/>\nwhich survey the threads of Space looked forth, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nlips whose words are Nature&#8217;s ordinances <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Were<br \/>\nvisible. Then as at dawn the sun <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Smiles<br \/>\nupon listless pools and at each smile <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A<br \/>\nsleeping lotus wakes, so on them shone <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>That<br \/>\nglory and awoke to bloom and life <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\ndrooping beauty of those tarnished gods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thus<br \/>\nwith high voices echoing his word <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>They<br \/>\nhymned their great Creator where he sits <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\nthe mystic lotus musing out his worlds:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&quot;Pure<br \/>\nSpirit who wast before creation woke, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Calm<br \/>\nviolence, destroyer, gulf of Soul, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>One,<br \/>\nthough divided in thy own conceit, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Brahma<br \/>\nwe see thee here, who from thy deeps <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\nmemory rescuest forgotten Time, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>We<br \/>\nsee thee, Yogin, on the solemn snows,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section8\">\n<p class=\"FR3\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";font-style:normal'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR3\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";font-style:normal'>Page \u2013 126<\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt'><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"FR3\" align=\"center\" style='margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shiva,<br \/>\nwithdrawing into thy hush the Word <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Which<br \/>\nsang the fiat of the speeding stars, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>They<br \/>\npass like moths into thy flaming gaze. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>We<br \/>\nadore thee, Vishnu, whose eternal steps <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>To<br \/>\nthee are casual footprints yet thy small base <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>For<br \/>\nluminous systems measureless to our mind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Whose<br \/>\ndifficult touch<sup>1<\/sup> thy light and happy smile <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sustains,<br \/>\nO wide discoverer of Space! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>To<br \/>\nthee our adoration, triune Form! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Imagining<br \/>\nher triple mood thou gavest <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>To<br \/>\nthy illimitable Nature play. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>When<br \/>\nnothing was except thy lonely soul <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\nthe ocean of thy being, then thou sowedst <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thy<br \/>\nseed infallible, O Spirit unborn, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nfrom that seed a million unlike forms <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nvariously hast made. Thy world that moves <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nbreathes, thy world inconscient and inert, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>What<br \/>\nare they but a corner of thy life ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nhast made them and preservest; if thou slayst <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>It<br \/>\nis thy greatness. Lord. Mysterious source <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\nall, from thee we draw this light of mind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>This<br \/>\nmighty stirring and these failings dark. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\nthee we live, by thee act thy thoughts, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\ngrewest thyself a Woman and divine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\ngrewest twain who wert the formless One, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\none sole body thou wert Lord and Spouse <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>To<br \/>\nfound the bliss which by division joins, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Then<br \/>\nborest thy being, a spirit who is Man. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>All<br \/>\nare thy creatures: in the meeting vast <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\nthy swift Nature with thy brilliant Mind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nmadest thy children, man and beast and god. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thy<br \/>\ndays and nights are numberless aeons; when <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nsleepest, all things sleep, O conscient God;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thy<br \/>\nwaking is a birth of countless souls. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nart the womb from which all life arose. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But<br \/>\nwho begot thee ? thou the ender of things, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But<br \/>\nwho has known thy end ? Beginningless, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\">1<\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Doubtful reading.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 127<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section9\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>All<br \/>\nour beginnings are thy infant powers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\ngovernest their middle and their close,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But<br \/>\nover thee where is thy ruler, Lord ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>None<br \/>\nknoweth this; alone thou knowest thyself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>By<br \/>\nthy ineffable identity<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Knowledge<br \/>\napproaches the unknown. We seek<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Discoveries<br \/>\nof ourselves in distant things<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>When<br \/>\nfirst desire stirred, the seed of mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nto existence from the plenary void<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thy<br \/>\nseers built the golden bridge of thought,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Out<br \/>\nof thy uncreated Ocean&#8217;s rest<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>By<br \/>\nthy own energy thou sprangest forth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nart thy action&#8217;s path and thou its law,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nart thy own vast ending and its sleep,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nsubtle and the dense, the flowing and firm,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nhammered close consistency of things,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nclingings of the atoms, lightness, load,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>What<br \/>\nare all these things but thy shapes ? Things seen<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nsensible and things no thought has scanned,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\ngrewest, and all such pole and contrary<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Art<br \/>\nequally, O self-created God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nhast become all this at thy desire;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nnothing is impossible in thee;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Creation<br \/>\nis the grandeur of thy soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nchanting Veda and the threefold voice,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nsacrifice of works, the heavenly fruit,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nall-initiating OM, from thee,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>From<br \/>\nthee they sprang; out of thy ocean-heart<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nrhythms of our fathomless Words were born,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>They<br \/>\nname thee Nature, she the mystic law<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\nall things done and seen who drives us, mother<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\ngiver of our spirit&#8217;s seeking, won<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\nher enormous strength though won from her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>They<br \/>\nknow thee for Spirit, far above thou dwellest,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pure<br \/>\nof achievement, empty of her noise,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Silent<br \/>\nspectator of thy infinite stage,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Unmoved<br \/>\nin a serene tremendous calm<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nviewest indifferently the grandiose scene,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 128<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section10\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\nO<br \/>\nDeity from whom all deities are,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\nO<br \/>\nFather of the sowers of the world,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\nO<br \/>\nMaster of the godheads of the law,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who<br \/>\nso supreme but shall find thee above?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thou<br \/>\nart the enjoyer and the sweet enjoyed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nhunter and the hunted in the worlds,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nfood, the eater, O sole Knower, sole Known!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sole<br \/>\nDreamer, this bright-imaged dream is thou<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Which<br \/>\nwe pursue in our miraculous minds;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>No<br \/>\nother thinker is or other thought. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\nO<br \/>\nLord, when we bow, who from thy being came, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>To<br \/>\nthee in prayer, is it not thou who prayst, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Spirit<br \/>\ntranscendent and eternal All?&quot; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shedding<br \/>\na smile in whose benignancy <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some<br \/>\nsweet return like pleasant sunlight glowed, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Then<br \/>\nto the wise in heaven the original Seer, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Maker<br \/>\nand poet of the magic spheres, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sent<br \/>\nchanting from his fourfold mouth a voice <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>In<br \/>\nwhich were justified the powers of sound, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&quot;Welcome,<br \/>\nyou excellent mightinesses of heaven, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who<br \/>\nhold your right by self-supported strengths, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\ncenturies for your arms. How have you risen <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Together<br \/>\nin one movement of great Time! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Wherefore<br \/>\nbring you now your divine faces, robbed <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of<br \/>\ntheir old inborn light and beauty, pale <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>As<br \/>\nstars in winter mists dim-rayed and cold <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Swimming<br \/>\nthrough the dumb melancholy of heaven ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Why<br \/>\ndo I see your power dejected, frail <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Which<br \/>\nbounded free and lionlike through heaven ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\nthunder in the Python-slayer&#8217;s hand <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Flames<br \/>\nnot exultant, wan its darings droop, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Quelled<br \/>\nis the iridescence of its dance, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Its<br \/>\ndreadful beauty like a goddess shamed, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Shrinks<br \/>\nback into its violated powers.<sup>1 <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Varuna&#8217;s<br \/>\nunescaped and awful noose <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hangs<br \/>\nslack, impuissant and its ruthless coils <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Are<br \/>\na charmed serpent&#8217;s folds, a child can smite <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8216; pride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 129<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The whirling lasso snare for<br \/>\n\tTitan strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">In <span class=\"SpellE\">Kuver&#8217;s<\/span><br \/>\n\tface there is defeat and pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Low as an opulent tree its<br \/>\n\tbroken branch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">In an insulted sullen majesty<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">His golden arm hangs down the<br \/>\n\tknotted mace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Death&#8217;s lord is wan and his<br \/>\n\ttremendous staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Writes idly on the soil, the<br \/>\n\tinfallible stroke<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Is an extinguished terror, a<br \/>\n\tcharred line<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The awful script no tears could<br \/>\n\tever erase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">O you pale <span class=\"SpellE\"><br \/>\n\tsungods<\/span> chill and shorn of fire,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">How like the vanity of painted<br \/>\n\tsuns<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">You glow, where eyes can set<br \/>\n\ttheir mortal ray<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Daring eternal<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">splendours<\/span> with their sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">O fallen <span class=\"SpellE\"><br \/>\n\trapidities<\/span>, you lords of speed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">With the resisted torrents&#8217;<br \/>\n\tbaffled roar<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Back on themselves recoil your<br \/>\n\tstormy strengths,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Why come you now like sad and<br \/>\n\tstumbling souls,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Who bounded free and<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">lionlike<\/span> through heaven?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">And you, O,Rudras, how the<br \/>\n\tmatted towers<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Upon your heads sink their<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">dishevelled<\/span> pride!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Dim hang your moons along the<br \/>\n\traking twines,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">No longer from your puissant<br \/>\n\tthroats your voice<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Challenges leonine the peaks of<br \/>\n\tNight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Who has put down the immortal<br \/>\n\tgods ? What foe<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Stronger than strength could<br \/>\n\tmake eternal puissance vain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">As if beyond imagination amidst<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The august immutability of law<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Some insolent exception<br \/>\n\tunforeseen<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Had set in doubt the order of<br \/>\n\tthe stars ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Speak, children, wherefore have<br \/>\n\tyou come to me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">What prayer is silent on your<br \/>\n\tlips<b> <\/b>? Did I<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Not make the circling suns and<br \/>\n\tgive to you<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The grandiose thoughts to keep.<br \/>\n\tGuardians of life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Keepers of the inviolable round,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Why come you to me with defeated<br \/>\n\teyes ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Helpers, stand you in need of<br \/>\n\thelp?&quot;<b> <\/b>He ceased,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">And like a rippling lotus lake<br \/>\n\twhose flowers<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Stirred to a gentle wind, the<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">Thunderer<\/span> turned&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 130<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center\">\n\t\t<b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section2\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Upon the Seer his thousand eyes<br \/>\n\tof thought, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The Seer who is His greater eye<br \/>\n\tthan these, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">He is the teacher of the sons of<br \/>\n\tlight, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">His speech inspired<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">outleaps<\/span> the <span class=\"SpellE\">labouring<\/span><br \/>\n\tmind <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">And opens truth&#8217;s mysterious<br \/>\n\tdoors to gods. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">&quot;Veiling by question thy<br \/>\n\tall-knowing sense,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Lord, thou hast spoken,&quot;<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">Brihaspati<\/span> began,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">&quot;The symbol of our sad defeat<br \/>\n\tand fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">What soul can hide himself from<br \/>\n\this own source ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Thy vision looks through every<br \/>\n\teye and sees<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Beyond our <span class=\"SpellE\"><br \/>\n\tseeings<\/span>, thinks in every mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Passing our pale peripheries of<br \/>\n\tlight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><span class=\"SpellE\"><br \/>\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Tarak<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"> the Titan growing in thy smile<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">As Ocean swells beneath the<br \/>\n\tsilent moon &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Discouraged from the godhead of<br \/>\n\this rays<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">In <span class=\"SpellE\">Tarak&#8217;s<\/span><br \/>\n\ttown the Sun dares not to burn<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">More than can serve to unseal<br \/>\n\tthe lotus&#8217; eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">In rippling waters of his garden<br \/>\n\tpools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The mystic moon yields him its<br \/>\n\tnectarous heart;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Only the crescent upon Shiva&#8217;s<br \/>\n\thead <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Is safe from the desire of his<br \/>\n\tsoul. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The violent winds forget their<br \/>\n\tmightier song, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Their breezes through his<br \/>\n\tgardens dare not rush, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Afraid to steal the flowers upon<br \/>\n\tits boughs, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">And only near him sobbingly can<br \/>\n\tpant <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">A flattering coolness, dreadful<br \/>\n\tbrows to fan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The seasons are forbidden their<br \/>\n\tcycling round. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">They are his garden-keepers and<br \/>\n\tmust fill <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The branches with chaotic wealth<br \/>\n\tof flowers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Autumn and Spring and Summer<br \/>\n\tjoining hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">&nbsp;.. .<sup>1<\/sup> him with their<br \/>\n\tmultitudinous sweets, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Their married fragrances<br \/>\n\tsurprise the air. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Ocean his careful servant brings<br \/>\n\tto light <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The reposing jewels for his<br \/>\n\ttoys, his mine <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Of joy is the inexorable abyss.<br \/>\n\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The serpent gods with blazing<br \/>\n\tgems at night <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Hold up their hoods to be his<br \/>\n\tliving lamps, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8216; Blank in MS.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 131<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;color:blue\"><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\"><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">And even great<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"SpellE\">Indra<\/span> sends his messengers;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Flowers from the tree of bounty<br \/>\n\tand of bliss <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">They bear to the one fierce and<br \/>\n\tsovereign mind:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\n\t<span 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