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A sordid part; no corner void is left.
One way lies free, our heart and soul to give
Our body and mind to Thee and every cell,
And steeped in Thy world-infinity to live.
Then lost in light, shall fade the ignoble spell.
- This puppet ego the World-Mother made,
- This little profiteer of Nature’s works,
- Her trust in his life-tenancy betrayed,
- Makes claim on claim, all debt to her he shirks.
- Each movement of our life our ego fills;
- Inwoven in each thread of being’s weft,
- When most we vaunt our selflessness, it steals
Nature, of her rebellion quit, shall be
A breath of the spirit’s vast serenity.
Sri Aurobindo
http://Birth Centenary Library, Volume 5. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust; 1971, p. 146.