Poem Golden Light by Sri Aurobindo is about spiritual experience.

In this poem he describes his

long quest for divine experience and the consequent enlightenment.

In the first stanza he is expressing his gratitude to God for sending the light of wisdom. When
this divine light of God entered his brain, the dark and grey spaces of his mind were filled with
calm illumination. Many endeavor for this mysterious light; but only a few get it.

In the second stanza the poet describes that when this light descended in his throat, his speech
became rhythmic with divine tune; and then the purpose of all his speech became to praise God;
his words became intoxicating with the wine of immortality.

And when this golden light descended to his heart, it ended his mortality with its eternity; his
heart became the temple of God and all his passions were directed towards God’s love and
service.

In the last couplet, the poet says when the light descended to his feet, the mundane earth was
transformed into heavenly playfield and became the abode of God.

The poem Golden Light was written by Sri Aurobindo and through this poem, he shows that the
golden lights keep changing in our brain where the ideas of the format sprout with the amazing
wits and intelligence. The mind is transformed when it changing and transfer from one to another
and it reaches to altogether another level and turns the divine, as it undergoes the changes.
In his sonnet The Golden Light we have a very clear statement of this most remarkable siddhi of
the Mind of Light achieved by Sri Aurobindo

Narad’s Five Songs and the Theme of Evolution in Savitri

by RY Deshpande on Sun 18 Nov 2007 09:01 PM PST Permanent Link

The body’s cells holding the Immortal’s flame is the long-awaited evolutionary attainment which
first should occur in the individual. And after a long and intense Yoga-Tapasya, after carrying
out “a difficult and painful” work Aswapati has the experience: (p. 302)

His brain was wrapped in overwhelming Light,

An all-embracing knowledge seized his heart:
Thoughts rose in him no earthly mind can hold,
Mights played that never coursed through mortal nerves:
He scanned the secrets of the Overmind,
He bore the rapture of the Oversoul.

He has established remarkable perfection in the physical itself, it opening to the flood of brilliant
light. “His brain was wrapped in overwhelming light”—that is the physical’s mind receiving the
supramental, that is the Mind of Light, the Siddhi Sri Aurobindo received on 8 August 1938, as
we might understand from his sonnet The Golden Light. The supramental was entering the
physical but what could not be done until then was to fix it in it, it was coming and going and not
remaining in it. The Golden Light announces that this was now done. It is in that splendid
context that the line from Savitri—“His brain was wrapped in overwhelming light”—assumes
great autobiographical significance. The draft in which it appears for the first time is dated 6
September 1942 and therefore this momentous period, these consequential four years between
1938 and 1942, could be taken as when the Mind of Light got established fully in him. In his
sonnet The Golden Light we have a very clear statement of this most remarkable siddhi of the
Mind of Light achieved by Sri Aurobindo. The sonnet was first written on 8 August 1938 and
later revised on 3 March 1944. The revisions are of a few noteworthy verbal type. Here is the
poem:

Thy golden Light came down into my brain

And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became
A bright reply to Wisdom’s occult plane,
A calm illumination and a flame.

Thy golden Light came down into my throat,

And all my speech is now a tune divine,
A paean song of thee my single note;
My words are drunk with the Immortal’s wine.

Thy golden Light came down into my heart

Smiting my life with Thy eternity;
Now has it grown a temple where Thou art
And all its passions point towards only Thee.
Thy golden Light came down into my feet:
My earth is now thy playfield and thy seat.

“The earth” of 1938 in the last line became “My earth” in 1944, a significant revision that bears
the specificity of achievement in his physical body. This must be considered as the first
beginning of the process of physical transformation which started happening from 8 August
1938. On this day the supramental Light and Consciousness and Force appeared dynamically and
luminously upon the earth’s playfield.