Canto 19Kama

Book 4. Part Four - Calcutta and Chandernagore 1907 – 1910

Calcutta and Chandernagore, 1907–1910

Kama

(According to one idea Desire is the creator and sustainer of

things, — Desire and Ignorance. By losing desire one passes

5beyond the Ignorance, as by passing beyond Ignorance one

loses desire; then the created world is surpassed and the soul

enters into the Divine Reality. Kama here speaks as Desire

the Creator, an outgoing power from the Bliss of the Divine

Reality to which, abandoning desire, one returns, ¯ananda ˙m

10brahman.o vidv¯an, possessing the bliss of the Brahman.)

O desolations vast, O seas of space

Unpeopled, realms of an unfertile light,

Grow multitudinous with living forms,

Enamoured of desire! I send My breath

15Into the heart of being, and the storm

Of sweet attraction shall break up its calm

With quivering passionate intensity

And silence change to a melodious cry,

And all the world be rose. Out of My heart

20Suns shall flame up into the listless void,

And the stars wheel in magic dances round

Weaving the web of mortal life. For I

Am love, am passion; I create the world.

I am the only Brahma. My desire

25Takes many forms; I change and wheel and race,

And with Me runs creation. I preserve,

For I am Love. I weary of Myself,

And the world circles back into the Vast.

Delight and laughter walking hand in hand

30Go with Me, and I play with grief and pain.

I am the dance of Krishna, I the dance

Of K´al´ı. Might and majesty are Mine,

And yet I make the heart a child at play,

The soul of things a woman full of bliss.

35Hunger and Thirst, arise and make the world!