object:04.37 - To the Heights-XXXVII
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
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Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta To the HeightsTo the Heights-XXXVII
To the Heights-XXXVII
The fire shines there, but burns not......
It burns when it descends here below
And lies imprisoned in the crust of earth:
Then its tongues leap out in red-hot wrath
And consume the narrowing barriers
And the entrenched darkness.
The work done, it regains its own natural and superior self,
The keen and serene substance of Bliss that it is,
The solar light with the soul of the Moon's concentrated ecstasy.
The Fire burns-
It burns the dross, but illumines the core of gold;
It tears and tortures the obdurate and the unwilling,
It tones and braces the docile and the willing.
I t is the pure energy of the Gods,
The clear knowledge that fashions bodies of delight.
But the unregenerate flesh
And the self-will of Ignorance
Feel it as the dread devouring Flame.
September 25, 1936
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To the Heights-XXXVI To the Heights-XXXVIII
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