All is abolished but the mute Alone. <br />The mind from thought released, the heart from grief, <br />Grow inexistent now beyond belief; <br />There is no I, no Nature, known-unknown. <br />The city, a shadow picture without tone, <br />Floats, quivers unreal; forms without relief <br />Flow, a cinema's vacant shapes; like a reef <br />Foundering in shoreless gulfs the world is done. <br /> <br />Only the illimitable Permanent <br />Is here. A Peace stupendous, featureless, still. <br />Replaces all, - what once was I, in It <br />A silent unnamed emptiness content <br />Either to fade in the Unknowable <br />Or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite.<br /><br />Sri Aurobindo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nirvana-32/
