Aurobindo versus Sri Aurobindo61

```

Aurobindo saw.

Sri Aurobindo became.

Aurobindo — the boldest revolution.

Sri Aurobindo — the quickest evolution.

Aurobindo — “British, out!”

Sri Aurobindo — “World-ignorance, out, out, out!”

Aurobindo — a Cambridge-education-zenith-mind.

Sri Aurobindo — a world-illumination-Soul

And the earth-transformation-Harbinger.

Aurobindo — “Cambridge, you gave me

The vastness-knowledge-light.”

Sri Aurobindo — “Cambridge, I give you

And the whole world

Oneness-nectar-delight.”

Aurobindo was

A world-mind-traveller-hunger

Par excellence.

Sri Aurobindo is

A cosmos-heart-lover-feast

Infinite.

Aurobindo came down.

Sri Aurobindo went up

Only to be all-where.

In England, a waking lion.

In Baroda, a watching lion.

In Bengal, a roaring lion.

In Pondicherry, an all-conquering lion.

Within, Aurobindo heard.

Without, Sri Aurobindo sounds.

Aurobindo’s heart

Was a God-dreamer.

Sri Aurobindo’s life

Is a God-giver.

Aurobindo — the perfect definition

Of a God-oneness-seeker.

Sri Aurobindo — the absolute definition

Of God the Supreme.

In Bengal, he was

An India-lover,

India-awakener

And India-server.

In Pondicherry, he became

A God-seer,

God-possessor

And God-distributor.

Aurobindo saw the world.

Sri Aurobindo fought for the world

And so does he still.

His The Life Divine

Is God the man’s

Aspiration-victory-song.

His Savitri

Is man the God’s

Transformation-manifestation-gong.

Aurobindo accepted humanity’s imperfections

As his own.

God accepted Sri Aurobindo

To claim His Perfection

As his own, very own.

Aurobindo was humanity’s

Life-temple-beauty.

Sri Aurobindo is Divinity’s

Heart-Shrine-Fragrance.

Sri Aurobindo is caught

By both man and God alike —

Man for his transformation;

God for His manifestation.

```

[The Reverend George Pattison, Dean of King’s College Chapel, invited Sri Chinmoy to offer this talk about Sri Aurobindo and a Peace Concert to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Mahasamadhi’ (passing).]

OEH 61. University of Cambridge; Cambridge, England, Keynes Hall, King's College, 1 November 2000.↩

From:Sri Chinmoy,The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1, Agni Press, 2003
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/oeh_1