object:04.39 - To the Heights-XXXIX
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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To the Heights-XXXIX
I have now learnt to love the sun, even the sun of the burningdesert. . . .
Once I drew back from it and liked the shade and the glade,
Cool pleasant walks and humid grottoes,
All that is darksome, dank and moist,
The rippling curtain of ceaseless rains,
The chillness and haze of a grey winter sky,-
All that narrowed down the being to its smallest stature,
Hid from it far visions and wide extensions,
All that shrank from the touch of the warm empty distances,-
For I chose to close the blinds and lie screened,
In the cosiness of ignorant moments, level with the sap and ooze of earth.
But now as I open my eyes with the rise of the sun,
Scales fall off and I feel a glowing clarity coursing in my veins,
I yearn to scan and traverse, eagle-like,
The vastnesses that lie bare under the glare of the noon.
The torrid heat and the scalding sands and the steaming air
Throb with a naked and palpitating life, clean and ardent and vigorous......
Even so the burning Truth brings me a male delight,
It has drained and dried the marshes of small desires,
Scattered the fog and mist of doubting fearsome mind,
A glorious veilless heaven it has branded upon my earth!
October 1, 1936
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To the Heights-XXXVIII To the Heights-XL
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