Canto 44Surrender
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
Sonnets
Lila
In us is the thousandfold Spirit who is one,
An eternal thinker calm and great and wise,
5A seer whose eye is an all-regarding sun,
A poet of the cosmic mysteries.
A critic Witness pieces everything
And binds the fragments in his brilliant sheaf;
A World-adventurer borne on Destiny’s wing
10Gambles with death and triumph, joy and grief.
A king of greatness and a slave of love,
Host of the stars and guest in Nature’s inn,
A high spectator spirit throned above,
A pawn of passion in the game divine,
15One who has made in sport the suns and seas
Mirrors in our being his immense caprice.
Surrender
O Thou of whom I am the instrument,
O secret Spirit and Nature housed in me,
20Let all my mortal being now be blent
In Thy still glory of divinity.
I have given my mind to be dug Thy channel mind,
I have offered up my will to be Thy will:
Let nothing of myself be left behind
25In our union mystic and unutterable.
My heart shall throb with the world-beats of Thy love,
My body become Thy engine for earth-use;
In my nerves and veins Thy rapture’s streams shall move;
My thoughts shall be hounds of Light for Thy power to loose.
30Keep only my soul to adore eternally
And meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee.