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Active,
inspired by her he speaks and moves;
His deeds obey her heart's unspoken demands; O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light A mightier race shall inhabit the mortal's world. |
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Inspirations
- The Galleria
Poems by R Y Deshpande
Unto our world the word irrevocable,
A
seer, a singer he is Brahma’s
blessed child:
A forehead shining with benediction-boon,
A soul embracing divinity by
love,
Body a violet veil of gnostic
subtle sky!
Chanting and singing Narayana,
the Name,
A voice that floats like a
liquid cadence-grace,
Aspiration’s silver crest transcending
heaven’s blue,
A flame-will plunging in the
dark nether depths,
A winged splendour crossing
the sevenfold sea, --
His the bliss breaking the
leaden walls of night,
His the knowledge piercing
the golden womb;
A honey-cup of blaze one with
holocaust supreme,
A single-pointed seer-flame
that drinks by the brow
The mystic waters of the Truth-Conscious
Sun!
And the articulate voice flowed
in the streams,
And the seeing sound pierced
the hill of substance,
And Agni took Speech for his
glowing bride.
Therefore the tongues of fire
eat the honey-food.
Then in a vast of silence where
no thought moves
Was felt the first stress,
the primal urge to be,
And the Ineffable burst in
a song of creation,
As if in dense spaces of spiritual
light
Exploded the supernova, a golden
mass of joy.
The Word was spoken and the
Vedas were born,
And the seeds sprang up in
richnesses of the earth,
And dissolved in waters it
became the fish,
And borne by the breath it
filled the mid-region.
The upward trajectory of the
loud hymn took wings
And again the Word reached
the unseen sky of delight.
Then mounted the flames of
sacrifice to Heaven
And All-Grace leaned down in
body of the Word.
