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I have thrown from me the whirling dance of mind
And stand now in the spirit’s silence free,
Timeless and deathless beyond creature-kind,
The centre of my own eternity.
I have escaped and the small self is dead;
I am immortal, alone, ineffable;
I have gone out from the universe I made,
And have grown nameless and immeasurable.
My mind is hushed in a wide and endless light,
My heart a solitude of delight and peace,
My sense unsnared by touch and sound and sight,
My body a point in white infinities.
I am the one Being’s sole immobile Bliss:
No one I am, I who am all that is.
27-7-1938
(revised 22-3-1944)
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 87 in “Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo” (bilingual edition)
also in “Last Poems” – 6
all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA