Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems

Soul or Psychic

ॐ शुक्रोऽसि भ्राजोऽसि स्वरसि ज्योतिरसि ।
आप्नुहि श्रोयांसमति समं क्राम ।।

अथर्वः २. ११५

O man, thou art a pure and luminous soul, blissful and resplendent. To transcend the common human level and realise an ever higher and higher good.

While explaining to me this painting after I had read the passage, the Mother said:

"Give the effect of pitch dark and in the middle a shining flame."

I said: "Yes, Mother, it is a very good idea. But we have already done a similar picture in Savitri. It will be a repetition. What if we paint a luminous figure in the midst of the darkness?"

She laughed and remarked:

"Child, that is it!"

But I was quite mistaken. The painting I had suggested to her did not come out very well. So eventually I had to do as the Mother had previously asked me — but with a little difference from the painting I had done in Savitri. I was convinced that finally the Supreme's Will prevails.

अहं वृक्षस्य रेरिवा ।
कीर्तिः पृष्ठं गिरेरिव ।
ऊर्ध्वपवित्रो वाजिनीव स्वमृतमस्मि ।
द्रविणं सवर्चसम् ।
सुमेधा अमृतोक्षितः ।

I am He that moves the Tree of the Universe and my glory is like the shoulders of a high mountain. I am lofty and pure like sweet nectar in the strong, I am the shining riches of the world, I am the deep thinker, the deathless One who decays not from the beginning.

Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Taittiriya Upanishad