Huta expressed some of Sri Aurobindo's poems through paintings, under the Mother's inspiration & guidance. See 50+ paintings with relevant lines from the poems.
The Mother : Contact Painting
In March 1967 Huta began the work of expressing some of Sri Aurobindo's poems through paintings. Under the Mother's inspiration and guidance she selected certain verses from the poems and completed fifty-four paintings, which were all shown to the Mother in September of that year. This new book presents these paintings along with the lines which inspired them from some of Sri Aurobindo's most well-known poems
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I have gathered my dreams in a silver air Between the gold and the blue And wrapped them softly and left them there, My jewelled dreams of you.
31.7.1935, 1.1.1936
The Mother, More Answers from the Mother: 26 July 1969
Forsaking my godhead I have come down Here on the sordid earth, Ignorant, labouring, human grown Twixt the veils of death and birth.
I have been digging deep and long In a horror of mud and mire A bed for the golden river's song, A home for the deathless fire.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: A God's Labour
He who would bring the heavens here Must descend himself into clay And the burden of earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge Marrying the soil to the sky And sow in this dancing planet midge The moods of infinity.
According to Sri Aurobindo the rainbow is:
Sign of Peace and Deliverance
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sky, Weather, Night and Dawn
It is quite true that falsehood reigns in this world, that is the reason why these difficulties manifest. But you have not to allow yourself to be shaken. You must remain calm and strong and go straight, using the power of Truth and the Divine Force supporting you to overcome the difficulties and set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehood.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: The Difficulties of Yoga
Falsehood is the very symbol of that which wants to oppose the divine work of Truth.
The Mother, Some Answers from the Mother: Letters to a Young Sadhak - IX
Anyone who lives in falsehood is an enemy of humanity...
The Mother, Words of Long Ago: Sincerity
It is the unconsciousness of creation that constitutes the Falsehood of the Creation. As soon as the creation will become conscious again of being the Lord, the Falsehood will cease.
The Mother, On Thoughts and Aphorisms: Aphorism - 109
Sri Aurobindo describes about the Sphinx in Savitri Book 3, Canto 4:
On his long way through Time and Circumstance The grey-hued riddling nether shadow-Sphinx Her dreadful paws upon the swallowing sands, Awaits him armed with soul-slaying word: ||89.29||
According to Sri Aurobindo:
The Sphinx is a symbol of the eternal quest that can only be answered by the secret knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Constructions
I saw that a falsehood was planted deep At the very root of things Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep On the Dragon's outspread wings.
The Mother discloses:
Sri Aurobindo is here, as living and as present as ever, and it is left to us to realise his work with all the sincerity, eagerness and concentration necessary.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Mahasamadhi
Sri Aurobindo is always with us, enlightening, guiding, protecting. We must answer to his Grace by a perfect faithfulness.
The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Eternal Presence
He who I am was with me still; All veils are breaking now. I have heard His voice and borne His will On my vast untroubled brow.
Water: Symbol of a state of consciousness or a plane.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Water and Bodies of Water
When the water is so symbolic it is a big expanse of water; a river or a pond are not enough to symbolise a plane.
Gold: Knowledge of the divine Truth; indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive truth deriving ultimately from the supramental Truth-Consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Colours
Supramental is simply the direct self-existent Truth-Consciousness and the direct self-effective Truth-Power.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Supermind or Supramental
The supramental is the Truth-Consciousness and what it brings in its descent is the full truth of life, the full truth of consciousness in Matter.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism
It is Truth that conquers and not falsehood; by Truth was stretched out the path of the journey of the gods, by which the sages winning their desire ascend there where Truth has its Supreme abode.
Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Mundaka Upanishad
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged And the golden waters pour Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged And glimmer from shore to shore.
The earth is the place of evolution in which all these forces meet and try to manifest and out of their working something has to develop. On the other planes (the mental, vital etc;) there is not the evolution — there each acts separately according to its own law.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: Descent and Transformation
The psychic is the soul or spark of the Divine Fire supporting the individual evolution on the earth and the psychic being is the soul-consciousness developing itself or rather its manifestation from life to life with the mind, vital and body as its instruments until all is ready for the union with the Divine.
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being
Let the earth, the entire world and the heavens be enlightened by the brilliant supreme light of Lord Sun and inspire our intellect.
Rigveda
Sri Aurobindo
Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth And the undying suns here burn; Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth The incarnate spirits yearn.
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss: Down a gold-red stair-way wend The radiant children of paradise Clarioning darkness's end.
इमे चेतारो अनृतस्य भूरेः मित्रो अर्यमा वरुणो हि सन्ति | इम ऋतस्य वावृधुर्दुरोणे शग्मासः पुत्रा अदितेरदब्धाः ||
ऋग्वेद, VII. 60. 5 मैत्रावरुणिर्वसिष्टः मित्रावरुणौ, त्रिष्टुप्
These are they who are conscious of the much falsehood in the world; they grow in the house of Truth, they are the strong and invincible sons of Infinity.
Rigveda VII, 60. 5.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air, For in a raiment of gold and blue There shall move on the earth embodied and fair The living truth of you.
When the Mother was asked: Will you explain these lines? She replied: "Explain? There is no explanation. They speak for themselves very clearly. Poetry is not to be explained. It is to be felt and not reasoned about. The poetic inspiration is above reason. It must not be made to sink into the domain of the reason, because it will get spoiled.... It is to be understood by an internal contact much more than by words."
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1954): 31 December 1954
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