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Title: Nirvana
Post by: daphne on March 22, 2007, 05:24:49 PM
Nirvana
by Sri Aurobindo


All is abolished but the mute Alone,

The Mind from thought released, the heart from grief
Grow inexistent now beyond belief;

There is no I, no Nature, known-unknown.
The city, a shadow picture without tone,

Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief
Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes; like a reef

Foundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done.
Only the illimitable Permanent

Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still
Replaces all, what once was I, in It

A silent unnamed emptiness content

Either to fade in the Unknowable
Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite.