By: Bijay Kant Dubey
Rose
of God is one of those poems of Sri Aurobindo which remind us of the mystic
vision of delving as it is visible in the poem. The poem is Blakian as well as
Miltonic. It also tells about Savitri, Urvasie, Rambha, Menaka and so on
indirectly. Here one can mark the George Bernard Shawian version of Robert
Burns’ My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose. It is actually a poem of love but explained in an
anti-romantic, classical stance. It is inclusive of the love of all, a saint’s
love, how does a saint God, a mystic’s love, how does a mystic, a
metaphysician’s, how does a metaphysician. How does George Herbert see a red
rose? How do the Valentine altar visitors view the roses offered to the Lord?
What has a yogi to do with a rose? Is it a vision of God and His Beauty? A
mystic, how does he take to the rose?
The
rose as the flower of yoga or of St.Valentine or of Kabira or of Osho, whose is
it? What the matter is? How the purview of dabbling? Rather than the lotus of
meditation, why has Aurobindo taken to the rose of God? Is it about the colour
impact? But George Herbertian Virtue matches it. It is definitely Western
vision behind his seeing of the rose and the marking of the thin trickle of
mysticism coming down to. Whatever be the things relating to the making of the
poem, in Rose of God the yogi tries to see, feel and mark how the mysticism in
the rose! How rose-coloured is the sky! How does it look the sky as Hopkins
sees it in God’s Grandeur and Pied Beauty. How the dawn appears to be when seen
from the Vedic hermitage! How the twilight! Even though there lie in the
elements Keatsian and Marvellian inherent in the poem, as none can Cupid’s
arrow is the truth, instead of it, it is a poem written in the admiration of
the mystic loveiness of the rose as seen over the horizons.
Plainly
speaking, whose rose is this? God’s, is the answer. Who the Maker of the rose?
The Lord-god, whose intrinsic mythic art and beauty embedded in all one can
mark in it.
The
vermilion stain on the sapphires of heaven appears to be as Rose of God as for
the aura and glow ligthing the sphere.
The skies alit, aglow with the fire, the Heavenly Fire or draped in that colour
definitely catch our fancy and imagination in the same way as it has that of
the poet. Again, the ;poet sys that it is rhe same see in the hues of he rain
ow containing the seven wonder containing wonder colours.
The
poet asks to strike wth the same inensity of miracle and wonder, the same
element of mystery and awe as it has the potential of raking up something and
moulding in its way. The mystical flame, flicker is but the flame of Creation, the flame of
Lord-god which mankind has been looking up in wonder and astonishment and which
has also been elemental to his creative urge. The Miracle Divine, the Flame
Divine is but the Passion-flower of the Nameless, the Bud of the Mystical Name.
In
Rose of God, lie in Rose of Bliss, Rose of Light, Rose of Power and Rose of
Life. Rose of God is one of those poems of Sri Aurobindo which tell about the
Divine Rose rather than the Divine Lotus, its beauty and brilliance, mystery
and glory which he tries to see with his mystic vision of delving and
transcendental glance. The same miracle,
the same flame of fire and blaze can be seen in the vermilion stain of the
sapphires over heaven. Such a scene one can mark during the dawn break and the
dusk time. The red glowing disc of the sun catches our fancy and imagination,
but here the poet is mystical about that. Whose mystic glow is herein? Who is
behind the paints given to? Rose of God as Rose of Bliss can be felt through
the rainbow colours and the ecstasies connected with. What it is needed most is
the mystic eyes, the mystic vision with which one can see the marks of Divinity!
Rose of God is the rose of yoga. How does a yogi take to a rose? What does it
symbolize to him? How is the life force? What is it the metaphysics of life?
What is it the metaphysics of the world? How the ascension of the Supreme Mind?
How the Super Consciousness? How to feel it the rose, the rose of the heart,
the rose of the mind, the rose of the soul? To go through the yogic poetry of
Aurobindo is to traverse the course of George Bernard Shaw’s superman and his
super mind.
Rose
of God, great wisdom abloom on the summits of being as Rose of Light is the
ultimate power of seeing the things, grappling with, is the sun on the head of
the Timeless. Rose of God, damask force of Infinity, red icon of might is Rose
of Power with its diamond halo piercing the night. Mortality, how does he make
the image of the Immortality when endowed with light and thinking? Rose of God
when smitten purple with the incarnate Divine Desire takes the form of Rose of
Life, crowded with petals, colour’s lyre. Rose of Life has the power to
transform our lives and mould bridging earthhood and heavenhood.
Rose
of God, a blush of rapture on Eternity’s face is but Rose of Love, the ruby
depth of all being, fire-passion of Grace which is but earthly and
Nature-centric. Love’s world so full of affection, sympathy and attachment,
nature’s world so full of vegetation and greenery, homely shelter and refuge
tendering and catering to give a look of their own and the poet in abstract
words wants to allude to allegorically.
Rose
of God with the red strain on the sapphires of the skies takes to Rose of Bliss
to Rose of Light to Rose of Power to Rose of Life to Rose of Love. Aurobindo’s
poetry is the Superman’s poetry germinating in the Supermind.
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