THE RETURN TO EARTH

 

Sri Aurobindo

 

‘We have each other found, O Satyavan,

In the great light of the discovered soul.

Let us go back, for eve is in the skies.

Now grief is dead and serene bliss remains

The heart of all our days for ever more.

Lo, all these beings in this wonderful world!

Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.

For not for ourselves alone our spirits came

Out of the veil of the Unmanifest,

Out of the deep immense Unknowable

Upon the ignorant breast of dubious earth

Into the ways of labouring seeking men,

Two fires that burn towards that parent Sun,

Two rays that travel to the original Light.’

Savitri, Part 3: Book 12: Epilogue

The Return to Earth, 1970, p. 720. 

 

 

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