NIRVANA

 

All is abolished but the mute Alone.

The mind from thought released; the heart from grief

Grow inexistent now beyond belief;

There is no I, no Nature, known-unknown.

The city, a shadow picture without tone,

Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief

Flow, a, cinema’s vacant shapes; like a reef

Foundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done.

 

Only the illimitable Permanent.

Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still

Replaces all,–what once was I, in It

A silent unnamed emptiness content

Either to fade in the Unknowable

Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite.

–SRI AUROBINDO

 

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