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<font size="4">Hymn to Darkness</font></B></p>
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is a modern poem in Bengali. It is characteristically modern, though
perhaps not quite modernist. It is an invocation to Darkness:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>That darkness is no more,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The darkness in which my heart plunged when you came, It
is no more there.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Many are the lights now around the heart</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Arrayed as in a festive illumination.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Ceaseless now</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>There is the earth's merry-go-round all the time.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But beyond still,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Outside Time, the mind, even this mind stands</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And sends its call to Thee alone.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Yes, the Darkness is there no longer;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And yet stretching out both the arms</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>My mind yearns to reach the Darkness</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And itself becomes the Darkness.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Invocation to Darkness has, it appears, become quite
fashionable among a certain group of modern poets. It is a favourite
theme on which many a poet, many a good poet has played each in his
way, a characteristic variation. Curiously enough, I came across
about the same time the work of another poet, a French poet, also
modern and almost modernist and, curio user still, in the same
manner, a worshipper of Darkness. He is Yves Bonnefoy, originally
belonging to the school of Jouve, an earlier modern. He speaks of two
kinds of Night, one darker than the other - the less dark one is our
common day with its grey light. The other is on the other shore:</FONT><BR>
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 <FONT SIZE=3><I>Vers l' autre rive encore plus nocturne<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹</FONT></I></FONT></P>
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darker night on the other shore is not illuminated by any light, but
there is fire there, fire and its flame and the transparency of that
flame: here is his description of how they stand to each other, that
Night and our familiar day:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Une torche est port<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">é</FONT>e
dans le jour gris,</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Le feu d<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">é</FONT>chire
le jour.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Il y a que la transparence de la flamme</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Am<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">è</FONT>rement nie
le jour.<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT></I></FONT></P>
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why bitterly? Perhaps the day (the common day) tasted bitter in the
mouth of the poet.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The poet has not perhaps the spiritual sense as we in
India understand it. He speaks in effect of a dark goddess, he calls
her</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Douve profonde et noire<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">³</FONT></I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>He names her Douve, perhaps in memory of his first
master Jouve, and addresses her as <I>Sombre Lumi<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">è</FONT>re
</I>(Dark Light). He evidently means his poetic inspiration; his
vision of the other shore is that of the world of his poetic
experiences and realisations. But the nature of the contents of that
world is very characteristic. They are apparently qualities and
objects fundamentally spiritual - transparent fire and even
motionless silence. Yes, that world is of wind and fire (compare our
world of Tapas) and yet calm and tranquil. So the poet sings:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Douve sera ton nom au l oin parmi les pierres,</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Douve profonde et noire,</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><I>Eau basse irr<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">é</FONT>ductible
o<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">ù</FONT> l'effort se perdra.<FONT SIZE=2>4</FONT></I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">¹	</FONT>&quot;Towards the
other bank in a still darker night.&quot;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">²</FONT> 	A torch is held
up in the day's grey,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>	The fire tears rifts in the day.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>	There's this: the flame's transparence</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>	Bitterly denies the day.&quot;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">³</FONT> 	&quot;Douve dark
and black.&quot;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">4</FONT>	&quot;Douve
shall be your name far off among the stones,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>	Douve dark and black,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>	Irreducible low water where effort shall spend itself.&quot;</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page -  217</FONT><BR>
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according to the poet, is not the high swell of garrulousness and
anxious effort. It is the solid bedrock underground when all the
surface effusions have ebbed away - a  shadowy dark strong tranquil
repose.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A modern English poet -Robert Graves -worships a White
Goddess. But from the description he gives of the lady, she would
appear to be more black than white; for she seems to be intimately
connected with the affairs -that is to say -the mysteries -of Hades
and Hecate, underground worlds and midnight rites. She incarnates as
the sow, although a white sow, she flows as the sap within plants and
rises as passion and lust in man.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>We in India have a dark god and a dark goddess - Krishna
and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is
dark, hers is the blackness ofthe earthly night. The Vaishnava poet
and saint sang:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Oh, I love black,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Oh, how I love black.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark
Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that is to say, the meaning is
dark, and the style, the phrasing is darker still. A literal
translation is out of question. A very free rendering is only
possible:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I have brooded over it and I am utterly confused;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>She in whose name one defies dark time,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>She at whose feet lies low the Supreme in his pure
whiteness.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Why should she herself be black?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Many are the forms of blackness,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But here is a very marvel of blackness.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>If you hold it in your heart,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>the lotus there shall bloom and burn bright - </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Oh, she is dark and her name is Mother Darkness:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>She is blacker than blackness.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But one who has seen that beauty is lost for good,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>He will have no eye for any other beauty.</FONT></P>
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the moderns on the same track as these older mystics?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But why this panegyric in worship of darkness? Whence
this fascination for blackness?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Our ancient Rishis speak of the supreme Light of lights,
the Source of all the lights that burn here, the Light that is beyond
darkness, on the other shore. Darkness is this world, the world of
ignorance, our earthly consciousness; this is a</FONT></P>
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easily understandable. But in the mystic consciousness of a kind,
darkness and light seem to be interchangeable. Darkness seems to be a
form of light, nay even of a greater light.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>It is said, the occultists say, that between the light
of the day, that is to say, the light of the ordinary consciousness
and the higher spiritual light, there is an interim world, an
intermediate zone of consciousness. When one leaves the earthly day,
the normal consciousness and goes within and to the heights, towards
the other Light, one enters at first into a dark region (the <I>selva
oscura </I>of Dante). Physically also, the scien­tists say today
that when you leave the earth's atmosphere, from a certain height you
no longer see the earthly light but you dive into a darkness where
the sun does not shine in its glory as on earth. You see and feel the
sunlight again when you approach the sun and are about to be consumed
in its fires. In the same way, we are told that on the spiritual path
too, the path of inner consciousness, when you leave the ordinary
consciousness, when you lose that normal light and yet have not
arrived at the other higher light you grope in an intermediary region
of darkness. You have lost the lower knowledge and have not yet
gained the higher knowledge, then you are in that uncertain world of
greyness or darkness. Or it happens also that while in the
comparatively faint light of the ordinary consciousness, you are
suddenly confronted with the Superior Light -through some grace
perhaps -you cannot stand the light and get blinded and see sheer
darkness. Again, the infinite sky in its fathomless depth appears to
the naked eye blue, deep blue, blue-black. Light concentrated,
solidified, materialised becomes a speck of darkness to the human
eye. Do we not say today that a particle of matter (consolidated
darkness) is only a quantum of concentrated light-energy?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Something of these supraphysical experiences must have
entered into the consciousness of the modern poets who have</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>also fallen in love with darkness and blackness -have
become adorers, although they do not know, of <I>Shy<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>ma
</I>and <I>Shy<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>m<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Here, for example, is a hymn from the Rig Veda, a whole
hymn addressed by Rishi Kushika to Night. Listen how the Rishi
invokes his black goddess: Night and Light are unified - almost one
-in his consciousness. The Vedic Rishis considered Night as only
another form or function of <I>Day - naktoasa saman<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>s<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">a</FONT>
 vir<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">u</FONT>Pe-Night </I>and Dawn have
the same mind although the forms are different.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>ODE
TO DARKNESS</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>(Rigveda-X.
127.)</FONT></P>
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spreads wide, she comes everywhere, a Goddess with shining eyes-she
looms over these glories as their overlord. (1)</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
Immortal Goddess fills up the Vast, above and below. She compels the
darkness with her light (2)</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
Goddess comes and veils her sister, the Dawn and glows through the
blackness.(3)</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>She
is now that to us wherein we shall rest even as birds do on a tree.
(4)</FONT></P>
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</B>her repose all habitations, all the footed and winged crea­tures,
even the fast racing eagle. (5)</FONT></P>
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Ocean-born Goddess! Smite the wolf, he or she, smite the robber!
Carry us safely through. (6)</FONT></P>
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darkness clings to me all around; it stands here firm. Dawn! clear it
even as you do my debts. (7)</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Daughter
of Heaven! A Herd of light is this hymn of victory that moves towards
you. I have made it for your sake. Do thou accept it, 0 Night. <FONT FACE="Arial Narrow, sans-serif">(8)</FONT></FONT></P>
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