Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems
50+ paintings by Huta, inspired by Sri Aurobindo's poems
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
- Introduction
- Songs to Myrtilla
- Urvasie
- Invocation
- Invitation
- Soul or Psychic
- Who
- A Vision of Science
- To the Sea
- Revelation
- Evening
- God
- The Rishi
- The Dawn of God
- Hymn to the Mother
- The Bird of Fire
- Trance
- The Life Heavens
- Jivanmukta
- The Eternal in the Hours
- Words of Sri Aurobindo
- The Other Earths
- Thought the Paraclete
- Flame-Wind
- Agni
- The Dream Boat
- Beyond the Silence
- In The Battle
- Musa Spiritus
- Bride of the Fire
- The Blue Bird
- A God’s Labour
- Life
- One Day — the Little More
- The Indwelling Universal
- The Pilgrim of the Night
- Life-Unity
- The Golden Light
- The Godhead
- The Stone Goddess
- The Divine Worker
- The Guest
- The Inner Sovereign
- Light
- Adwaita
- The Hill-Top Temple
- Because Thou Art
- Divine Sight
- Divine Sense
The Godhead
Above my head a mighty head was seen,
A face with the calm of immortality
And an omnipotent gaze that held the scene
In the vast circle of its sovereignty.
13.9.1939
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Godhead
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The delight is to live in the Truth, to live in communion with eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. It is to be free in true Liberty, the Liberty of the constant and invariable union with the divine Will.
The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness
Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship — if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image. He got a direct proof of the truth that can be behind image-worship.
With my European mind I had at that time no faith in the Gods. I had gone to Karnali (near Chandod) and there are several temples there. There is one Kali temple and when I looked at the image I saw the living presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God.
5.12.1939
Sri Aurobindo
The idol of Mahakali, Karnali situated on the northern bank of river Narmada, near Chandod in Gujarat.
When Sri Aurobindo visited this shrine in 1906. He realised the living Presence of Kali in the image. The poem which he wrote later. The Stone Goddess, is reproduced here.
"You stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? — a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother..."
Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: The Intellect and Yoga
