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Book Two Canto IX: The Paradise of The
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Around
Aswapati shines a bright felicity. There is a perpetual joy untouched by
grief or fear, free and wide. He traverses scenes of beauty and bliss, calm
and luminous, hears notes of celestial music chanting the glory of Love. The
glowing heights of this realm climb towards a greatness beyond life. In these
shining Edens of the vital gods, harmony, beauty, perfection are the rule. Peace,
Love, Strength reach their acme. Pain is transmuted by the divine alchemic
touch into potent joy. The
gulf between heaven and hell stands healed. All
the high visionings of life are embodied here — her hopes, her thoughts, her
willings. The course of life is smooth and certain. Divinising music and
profound creative thoughts sail towards Aswapati. The
senses acquire a new range. His very body glows with light and power and
shrinks no more from the demand of the Spirit to lose itself in identity with
it. Earth
stands reborn, companion of heaven. Aswapati
rises to the stature of the gods and divine felicities pour into him
transporting him into unknown ecstasies. A touch of the supreme comes over
his eager heart. Eternity draws near in the form of Love and claims the body
of Time. A
giant drop of Bliss overwhelms him and all around spreads a fiery ocean of
felicity. He is drowned in its honeyed waves. He is able to bear this sheer
delight without his body breaking down. This rapture purifies him and turns
his mortal strength to undying power. Immortality
captures Time and claims Life. |