World and self are one reality

A fragrance wandered in a coloured haze
As if the scent and hue of all sweet flowers
Had mingled to copy heaven’s atmosphere.

Appealing to the soul and not the eye
Beauty lived there at home in her own house,
There all was beautiful by its own right
And needed not the splendour of a robe.

All objects were like bodies of the Gods,
A spirit symbol environing a soul,
For world and self were one reality.

[Savitri: Book Two Canto 14]