I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty
From which an occult sovereignty derives:
Hidden in an earthly garment that survives,
I am the worldless being vast and free.
A moment stamped with that supremacy
Has rescued me from cosmic hooks and gyves;
Abolishing death and time my nature lives
In the deep heart of immortality.
God’s contract signed with Ignorance is torn;
Time has become the Eternal’s endless year,
My soul’s wide self of living infinite Space1,
Outlines its body luminous and unborn
Behind the earth-robe; under the mask2 grows clear
The mould of an imperishable face.
– Sri Aurobindo
Footnotes:
1. My soul, the living self of infinite Space
2. under the earth
