object:20.05 - Act III: The Return
book class:Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
author class:Nolini Kanta Gupta
subject class:Integral Yoga
class:chapter
Act II: The Play on Earth Translations in French
Other Authors Nolini Kanta Gupta The Golden JourneyAct III: The Return
Act III: The Return
Scene 1: Transcendence
SHEFire and fire and fire and fire!
Unnameable incandescence,
towards which the universe bends
even as a giant banyan tree
with its million branches
churning the interstellar milk
with their golden scourges,
its radiant suns
and its black suns, fruits of darkness.
It bends,
all its rays veering towards their source
and its fruits fall into the Light.
But over there, still are burning
thousands of suns for the Festival.
Given back to me,
one with me!
The banyan tree vanished, burnt down,
swallowed up into this I
that suffers nothing but itself.
I am the Delight of my Delight,
the Truth of my Being,
the Absolute of my immutable Wholeness.
I am the One,
I am the Unadored.
But the Delight of my Delight
is here with its very self.
It breaks the virtue of its self-identity.
It stands face to face with itself.
For the Delight of My Delight
is He my Beloved.
Dance of the Mirror
So does all begin at each instant.
Scene 2: The Serpent of The Infinite
HEHere I am back again,
Absolute, Solitary,
rich with the innumerable unrollings of the Being.
Here is the end
and the beginning of the world,
here I clasp myself in an eternal ecstasy.
One and Two!
O infinite abyss!
My Source, my Target,
my Delight awaiting me.
SHEMy Delight come back to me.
HEThe Other unites with Other.
SHEThe Same with Same.
What a perfume surrounds you!
Ocean, forest, gardens of the Earth
sing in your flowing hair.
HEThey dance in the hollow of your shoulders;
and all the multitude of creatures
and the glorified man.
SHEO the one all, the one Self
peopled with my first and eternal wholeness,
as with undying stars, .
I am mirrored everywhere in myself,
in the very cells, the atoms.
The Dance of Fulfiment
HENothing ever goes out
of my integral Identity.
In it, somewhere
flake of light, mimosa of dream
the Universe vibrates,
there I dance
multiplied
for the Delight of the Delight,
for the Love of the Love.
The Dance of the Eternal Manifestation
VOICEWho are these two?
Who are these two?
Sun-eyed children!
Sun-eyed children
Scene 3: The Becoming
First Tabieau: The Offering
Dance of the Golden Journey
HEStars! Stars!
SHEStars!
HEThe whole universe is our body.
Our cycles renew it, pass through it
and each one deposits there in secret
its offering.
SHELook, how beautiful is the Earth:
a golden fleece at our feet.
HE She is the obstinate, the rebel;
our body of rock and honey and perfume,
our body of bird,
our body of night, of wrath.
SHEShe is our challenge to the impossible
HEIf she did not resist us
how could we celebrate the triumphs
of our physical meeting?
SHEEach time we tread upon it,
She, the obstinate, the rebel
keeps the impress of our steps.
HEShe opens the peerless bosom of her body.
We ride back upon the course of the ages,
down to the inconscient seas
where the fragile ring of life floats;
we cure all shipwrecks,
all suffering, all defeats.
We dive into the abyss of Matter,
we awaken the cell and the atom;
then does the earth vibrate and blaze up
and the universe too around her
who has offered herself to the Delight always and for ever.
SHEChild of our mysteries.
Unexampled offering of the eternal Becoming.
Second Tableau: The Festival
HE-SHEMariner on the unknown gulf-streams
of time and space;
drunk with the silvered air
even as the condor,
above the peaks of snow;
mad with light even as the nova;
stamped with a strange massiveness
as the dwarf star;
red as the nebula;
reddened as the spring
and the cherry;
alone with man
in his canoe
on the ocean immensity;
alone,
and two,
and all;
emerged out of the song of separation and of inconscience;
Man and Nature,
Man and Man,
God and God
for the first time,
from the inmost depth of an embodied gaze
contemplate each other.
From man to man,
from rock to rock,
from infinity to infinity
radiant mirror of suns,
incandescent honey of love,
sacred substance of the eternal org
the eternal Eye looks at itself.
The holy Symbol
has opened the mystic vein of its heart
and in the tempest of fairyland,
the snow-drift of love and joy and light
came sweetly
by countless ways
to cover with its tranquil robe
the hills and the valleys of the earth.
Out of the depths of the abyss of ages
rises, with its peoples and flocks and forests,
the great migration of the Ecstasy
He alone, She alone, the One alone
of the eternal Becoming.
CURTAIN
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Act II: The Play on Earth Translations in French
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