SHRI
AUROBINDO’S FOOTPRINTS
DR J. BAPU REDDY
Shri Aurobindo’s
Life Divine
in its dialogue with death
vindicates the mighty right of man
to transcend the frontiers of mind.
His Savitrian spirit inspires me
into a levitate adventure
of my liberated intelligence,
drowns my suffocating senses
in the infinite eternal cosmic sense,
a power beyond myself.
I love his love for man
Revolving, evolving Heavenwards
Thinking, seeing, searching inwards
Transforming, transcending ......
I kiss his pen
that moves on into the mystic realms
undaunted
by the earthly weight and weariness
of the hand that held it.
I follow the lighted line
of Emersoian intuition
along which words of truth flowed
from his probing pen
on to the darkened sheet of Reality.
Interpreting the heiroglyphic script
of the twinkling stars.
Future unfolded
before his dreaming, voyaging eyes
as a red carpet roll
spread out for welcoming a VVIP.
God smiled on his humane face
discerning the destiny
that left man’s homeland
in myopic mist.
Ends of swaying hair
on his soaring head
peep through the microscopic holes
opening into infinite unknown
universes.
As I gaze at the sky
with my jet rocketing looks
I find the ascending footprints
of Shri Aurobindo’s intuitive thoughts
on the shoreless sands of silence
reminding man
of his identity with infinity
of his unity with divinity.
Dr. Bapu Reddy is a reputed poet with about twenty books to his credit. He writes with equal facility both in English and Telugu. He is a senior officer of the I.A.S. cadre.