[I’m posting here the text of Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet Adwaita as we have in his Collected Poems, p. 153. The accompanying painting, illustrating the first stanza, is by Huta. It is taken from her Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's Poems which appears in the latest electronic newsletter SABDA eNews, dated 20 December 2007.
The review of Huta's book can be accessed at sabda e-news
The painting is the copyright of Huta Hindocha—RYD]
I walked on the high-wayed Seat of Solomon
Where Shankaracharya's tiny temple stands
Facing Infinity from Time's edge, alone
On the bare ridge ending earth's vain romance.
Around me was a formless solitude:
All had become one strange Unnamable,
An unborn sole Reality world-nude,
Topless and fathomless, for ever still.
A Silence that was Being's only word,
The unknown beginning and the voiceless end
Abolishing all things moment-seen or heard,
On an incommunicable summit reigned,
A lonely Calm and void unchanging Peace
On the dumb crest of Nature's mysteries.
19 October 1939
Shankaracharya's tiny temple
Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's Poems
© Huta D. Hindocha