object:20.04 - Act II: The Play on Earth
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
Act I:The Descent Act III: The Return
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta The Golden JourneyAct II: The Play on Earth
Act II: The Play on Earth
Scene 1: The Mother And The Child
THE MOTHERYou touch now the dome of your parents.
You have reached your peak.
Your tender body, my child,
fills up the triumphal arc of its destiny.
I must once again
cut the cord that bound you to me.
You are free.
THE CHILDMother, you wound me.
To be your child,
is it not for ever?
THE MOTHERI am with you through eternity.
But in another way.
It is in you and everywhere
that I must be.
It is time to go
where you must.
THE CHILDA strong and gentle wind swells my sails
light and heavy with all their future.
All the ships of the world
fulfil in me their glorious voyage.
I started already
and am back already.
And whosoever I meet has an ancient face,
I know them all.
THE MOTHERThese streams of delight, and of sun, and of kisses,
your tresses, my child,
do not let them fall in floods upon your shoulders;
they would be caught in the brambles and roses.
Scene 2: The Travellers
First Tableau: The Tree
HEA bed of the petals of shadow for my rest.
A column for my thought.
A nave for my dream.
A robe of happiness envelops me, with the evening!
Tree, your sap
beats gently against mine.
TREEwaited for you
to clasp you with my arms of dream
before nightfall.
Have you a wish to express?
HEO tree,
mighty sacred Androgyne,
initiate me into your mystery.
TREELook! my roots plunge
into the very source of life.
He who can drink of it becomes immortal.
Look! my branches plunge into the infinite;
I am the whole space
which the sun fills up.
In me stones, flowers, animals,
children, lovers, stars
sing for ever.
I am the Paradise believed to be lost.
I am the cavern of the witch
and the abode of the fairy.
HEO tree,
mighty sacred Androgyne,
child of the Earth, lover of the sun,
flow into my veins, O Paradise, O Immortality!
Second Tableau: The Companions
HEWho is the craftsman that conceived
the vibrant column of our body
wherein the wind enters with its musical fingers
and that the forest prolongs. . .
THE SHEPHERD In us, each flower
sees itself in a dazzled swoon.
Each star finds itself again
in the depths of the golden lake of our eyes.
HEWhen we sing,
even in daylight,
the Moon and Venus hear us
and the Great Bear and Arcturus and Capella.
The Adventure is our secret Bride.
She awaits us, masked,
at the turn of the road,
THE SHEPHERD She is the far Princess,
from her we come,
from her castle between heaven and earth,
and to her,
hand in hand,
warriors, builders, companions,
eternal travellers, wanderers eternal
we walk on.
HEShepherd, my friend,
who is the craftsman that tuned
the luminous lyre of my soul,
so that we vibrate together,
to the same breath?. . .
Scene 3: The Lovers
HEHardly an hour ago
I was still wandering
at hazard.
But every one of my steps was sure of itself.
You made a sign to me,
You called me, O my star.
One hour only
or long ages. . .
We have lived,
sung, danced together,
on her paths of sand, of water, of snow,
her carpets of rock and moss and fern,
all the unforgettable festivals of Earth.
Happiness invited us
into her grottoes, her palaces,
her fields of wheat, her fields of war.
Happiness, faithful,
the wave or the flower in its arms,
the tool, the torch, the weapon in its grip
joy on its lips,
awaited us everywhere.
That smile,
it is You,
my Beloved.
SHEWe play together,
joined in one single flame,
the immense symphony of the Universe.
Thousands of festivals still calf us:
those of yesterday,
those of to-morrow,
those of our eternal Meeting.
Here,
now,
for ever.
Scene 4: The Initiates,
HEO my sweet Master,
I thirst for Eternity!
THE MASTERI shall lead you to thy eternal Truth.
HEThe ocean of life
spreads below me its tranquil lagoons
where corals build up the living house
of hours and minutes.
But each sparkle of the waters
breaks the shell of my dream.
The call of the Infinite tears me.
The ecstasy of the Infinite possesses my soul.
The Earth and the Universe capsize.
Who awaits me there?
Who calls me?
THE MASTERThyself.
INITIATE (Left)He the Supreme Beloved.
INITIATE (Right)The Absolute.
INITIATE (L)Be pure of all taint!
Be pure of all thy rainbows.
Enter into thy original Whiteness!
INITIATE (R) )Enter into thy original Whiteness!
INITIATE (L))Be pure of thy present,
Be pure of thy past and of thy future!
Enter into thy original Candour!
INITIATE (R))Enter into thy original Candour!
INITIATE (L) Die to thyself!
INITIATE (R) Die to thyself!
THE MASTERBecome Thyself!
The Song of Triumph
THE MASTERSolitary,
eternal,
enter into thy original Splendour!,
Scene 5: The Adversary
SHEMy spouse, my brother,
we have sworn to be eternal enemies.
It is our secret.
And now we are ready to melt
into our Unity.
The earth in alarm reels under our steps.
My brother, my spouse,
to honour our vows
you are in duty bound to kill me.
HEMy sister, my spouse,
you have chosen to live by my side
like an impalpable shadow
that I may rule alone.
But it is you who rule.
The strength of my arms,
the power of my eyes,
the love of my heart,
it is you in me.
If one of us has to pass,
if the great sacrifice of separation
has to be performed once again,
it is I, my sister,
who will go.
Fulfil the act
of our most secret nuptials.
SHEOh! my brother,
my great sacred enemy,
my hand does not tremble,
but my reason fails.
In me let us live then,
in you let us die,
since it is decided.
HETo die by you, for you
to be annihilated into the ether
of the new beginnings of the world,
O supreme delight
of going by a new path, virgin and unknown
to meet you.
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Act I:The Descent Act III: The Return
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