Silence is round me, wideness ineffable;
White birds on the ocean diving and wandering;
A soundless sea on a voiceless heaven,
Azure on azure, is mutely gazing.
Identified with silence and boundlessness
My spirit widens clasping the universe
Till all that seemed becomes the Real,
One in a mighty and single vastness.
Someone broods there nameless and bodiless,
Conscious and lonely, deathless and infinite,
And, sole in a still eternal rapture,
Gathers all things to his heart for ever.
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then beca…
View profile & all 24 Poems / StoriesArisen to voiceless unattainable peaksI meet no end, for all is boundless He,
I dwell in the spirit's calm nothing can moveAnd watch the actions of Thy vast world-force,
There is a brighter ether than this bluePretence of an enveloping heavenly vault,
I have discovered my deep deathless being:Masked by my front of mind, immense, serene
Our godhead calls us in unrealised things.Asleep in the wide fields of destiny,
