Canto 33Electron
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
Pondicherry, c. 1927–1947
Now I have borne
Now I have borne Thy presence and Thy light,
Eternity assumes me and I am
5A vastness of tranquillity and flame,
My heart a deep Atlantic of delight.
My life is a moving moment of Thy might
Carrying Thy vision’s sacred oriflamme
Inscribed with the white glory of Thy name
10In the unborn silence of the Infinite.
My body is a jar of radiant peace,
The days a line across my timelessness,
My mind is made a voiceless breadth of Thee,
A lyre of muteness and a luminous sea;
15Yet in each cell I feel Thy fire embrace,
A brazier of the seven ecstasies.
Electron
The electron on which forms and worlds are built,
Leaped into being, a particle of God.
20A spark from the eternal Energy spilt,
It is the Infinite’s blind minute abode.
In that small flaming chariot Shiva rides.
The One devised innumerably to be;
His oneness in invisible forms he hides,
25Time’s tiny temples to eternity.
Atom and molecule in their unseen plan
Buttress an edifice of strange onenesses,
Crystal and plant, insect and beast and man, —
Man on whom the World-Unity shall seize,
30Widening his soul-spark to an epiphany
Of the timeless vastness of Infinity.