object:04.38 - To the Heights-XXXVIII
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
To the Heights-XXXVII To the Heights-XXXIX
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta To the HeightsTo the Heights-XXXVIII
To the Heights-XXXVIII
You think this thing you love and that,
You hunger for this other with all the yearning of your entrails,
And without that other again your heart seems to cease beating!
In vain you seek to bind your soul to earthly moments:
It pursues another orbit encompassing Infinity,
And the myriad shadows on this side of life
Veil not its glorious face for ever turned to the Eternal Sun.
It heeds not the little joys the flesh offers it,
Nor do tearing anguishes leave a scar upon its diamond clarity:
It passes through, undeviated, gathering lights
From out of the darknesses of its many lives,
Presses onward to the one goal,
The fullness of Illumination in the Supreme Light!
It is lone in its own orbit-
Or, the One Companion is enough for it,
The one inner Presence.
Orbits may touch or cross each other,
As they traverse the terrestrial zone-
But the souls themselves rest apart-
None waits, none looks for another, but all move on,
Each absorbed in its one and single passion for That within,
The Soul of souls.
September 27, 1936
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To the Heights-XXXVII To the Heights-XXXIX
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