Silence is All by Sri Auribindo

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MA English (Previous) Palamuru & Osmania University

Sem 2 paper IV- Indian Writing in English

Silence is All
by Sri Aurobindo
Silence is all, say the sages.
Silence watches the work of the ages;

In the book of Silence the cosmic Scribe has written his cosmic pages;

Silence is all, say the sages.
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What then of the word, O speaker?
What then of the thought, O thinker?
Thought is the wine of the soul and the word is the beaker;

Life is the banquet-table – the soul of the sage is the drinker.
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What of the wine, O mortal?
I am drunk with the wine as I sit at Wisdom’s portal,

Waiting for the Light beyond thought and the Word immortal.
Long I sit in vain at Wisdom’s portal.
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How shalt thou know the Word when it comes, O seeker?
How shalt thou know the Light when it breaks, O witness?
I shall hear the voice of the God within me and grow wiser and meeker;

I shall be the tree that takes in the light as its food, I shall drink its nectar of sweetness

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