Nolini Kanta Gupta's Silence (Click for RY Deshpande's & Sri Aurobindo's comments.)

In silence move the stars,
In silence mounts the sap within the plant,
The secret energies of Nature work and create in the deeps of silence.

Out of the utmost stillness the whirling universe was born—
All the turmoil and the tumult, the roar and fry that meet the eye
Flourish upon an unfathomed quiet below.

In the tranquillity of death a new birth prepares itself,
The guarded calm of Night’s ending ushers in the rejuvenated Sun…
And were my wild senses to turn back, they would face the abysmal silence of the soul.

The cry of the heart shoots up like a column of silence—
That voice alone reaches straight to the High throne and moves it to grace.
The gods descend along the path of luminous silence spread in the farthest spaces of our inmost being.