 {"id":1855,"date":"2021-07-13T21:21:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrazaps.com\/terryblogg\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2021-07-13T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:21:06","slug":"insp-03-poem-by-sri-aurobindo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/2021\/07\/13\/insp-03-poem-by-sri-aurobindo\/","title":{"rendered":"INSP 03 Poem by Sri Aurobindo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan.fly, sohiniM,<\/p>\n<p>Here is something for you all.<\/p>\n<p>This is one poem I can read again and again and enjoy every time I read it.<\/p>\n<p>It is a bit long but it is inspirational and profound and spiritual.. and so sensitively written&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And the imagery is breathtaking. Read it slowly and quietly&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-1856\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrazaps.com\/terryblogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cidimage001-png01cd1ae0-4f90f970.png\" alt=\"cid:image001.png@01CD1AE0.4F90F970\" \/><\/p>\n<p>photo : ruchi palan<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Aurobindo<\/p>\n<p>In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest,<br \/>\nWhose is the hand that has painted the glow?<br \/>\nWhen the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether,<br \/>\nWho was it roused them and bade them to blow?<\/p>\n<p>He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature,<br \/>\nHe is found in the brain where He builds up the thought:<br \/>\nIn the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven,<br \/>\nIn the luminous net of the stars He is caught.<\/p>\n<p>In the strength of a man, in the beauty of woman,<br \/>\nIn the laugh of a boy, in the blush of a girl;<br \/>\nThe hand that sent Jupiter spinning through heaven,<br \/>\nSpends all its cunning to fashion a curl.<\/p>\n<p>There are His works and His veils and His shadows;<br \/>\nBut where is He then? by what name is He known?<br \/>\nIs He Brahma or Vishnu? a man or a woman?<br \/>\nBodies or bodiless? twin or alone?<\/p>\n<p>We have love for a boy who is dark and resplendent,<br \/>\nA woman is lord of us, naked and fierce.<br \/>\nWe have seen Him a-muse on the snow of the mountains,<br \/>\nWe have watched Him at work in the heart of the spheres.<\/p>\n<p>We will tell the whole world of His ways and His cunning;<br \/>\nHe has rapture of torture and passion and pain;<br \/>\nHe delights in our sorrow and drives us to weeping,<br \/>\nThen lures with His joy and His beauty again.<\/p>\n<p>All music is only the sound of His laughter,<br \/>\nAll beauty the smile of His passionate bliss;<br \/>\nOur lives are His heart-beats, our rapture the bridal<br \/>\nOf Radha and Krishna, our love is their kiss.<\/p>\n<p>He is strength that is loud in the blare of the trumpets,<br \/>\nAnd He rides in the car and He strikes in the spears;<br \/>\nHe slays without stint and is full of compassion;<br \/>\nHe wars for the world and its ultimate years.<\/p>\n<p>In the sweep of the worlds, in the surge of the ages,<br \/>\nIneffable, mighty, majestic and pure,<br \/>\nBeyond the last pinnacle seized by the thinker<br \/>\nHe is throned in His seats that forever endure.<\/p>\n<p>The Master of man and his infinite Lover,<br \/>\nHe is close to our hearts, had we vision to see;<br \/>\nWe are blind with our pride and the pomp of our passions,<br \/>\nWe are bound in our thoughts where we hold ourselves free.<\/p>\n<p>It is He in the sun who is ageless and deathless,<br \/>\nAnd into the midnight His shadow is thrown;<br \/>\nWhen darkness was blind and engulfed within darkness,<br \/>\nHe was seated within it immense and alone.<\/p>\n<p>And because we ourselves have been carved in the palm of His hand and created in\u00a0 His own image and likeness, we are all so beautiful too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a lifetime of being and growing even more so that way ..<\/p>\n<p>Blessings on all of you as you continue busily\/blissfully with your own things.<\/p>\n<p>Love, Terry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:querry2@gmail.com\">querry2@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:terryq@xaviers.edu\">terryq@xaviers.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan.fly, sohiniM, Here is something for you all. This is one poem I can read again and again and enjoy every time I read it. It is a bit long but it is inspirational and profound and spiritual.. and so sensitively written&#8230; And the imagery is breathtaking. Read it slowly and quietly&#8230;&#8230; photo : ruchi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/2021\/07\/13\/insp-03-poem-by-sri-aurobindo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;INSP 03 Poem by Sri Aurobindo!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terry-times.com\/book\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}