Page 23 - All India Magazine Sep-2024

Till all is done for which the stars were made,
Till the heart discovers God
And soul knows itself. And even then
There is no end.
CWSA 2: 643-44 Sri Aurobindo

A Long Dim Preparation is Man's Life

A long dim preparation is man’s life,
A circle of toil and hope and war and peace
Tracked out by Life on Matter’s obscure ground.

In his climb to a peak no feet have ever trod,
He seeks through a penumbra shot with flame
A veiled reality half-known, ever missed,
A search for something or someone never found,
Cult of an ideal never made real here,
An endless spiral of ascent and fall
Until at last is reached the giant point
Through which his Glory shines for whom we were made
And we break into the infinity of God.

Across our nature’s border line we escape
Into Supernature’s arc of living light.

Savitri: 24 Sri Aurobindo

All India Magazine, September 2024 23