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
Urvasie
Pururavas
In one sense therefore the whole previous life of Pururavas has been a preparation for his meeting with Urvasie. He has filled earth and heaven, even as he has filled his own imagination with the splendour of his life as with an epic poem. He has become indeed Pururavas, he who is noised afar, but he has never yet felt his own soul. But now he sees Urvasie and all the force of his nature pours itself into his love for her like a river which has at last found its natural sea.
Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings: Vikramorvasie: The Characters
Urvasie
I come to you, O mountains, with a heart
Desolate like you, like you snow-swept, and stretch
Towards your solemn summits kindred hands.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Urvasie
Urvasie
Such then is Urvasie, Narain born, the brightness of sunlight, the blush of the dawn, the multitudinous laughter of the sea, the glory of the skies and the leap of the lightning, all in brief that is bright, far-off, unseizable and compellingly attractive in this world, all too that is wonderful, sweet to the taste and intoxicating in human beauty, human life, the joy of human passion and emotion: all finally that seizes, masters and carries away in art, poetry, thought and knowledge, is involved in this one name.
Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings: Vikramorvasie: The Characters
Urvasie
She sat, the Mother of the Aryans, white
With a sublime pallor beneath her hair.
Musing, with wide creative brows, she sat
In a slight lovely dress fastened with flowers,
All heaped with her large tresses. Golden swans
Preened in the waters by her dipping feet.
One hand propped her fair marble cheek, the other
The mystic lotus hardly held.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Urvasie
The Mother of the Aryans
Sri Aurobindo discloses about Arya and the Aryan:
Intrinsically, in its most fundamental sense, Arya means an effort or an uprising and overcoming. The Aryan is he who strives and overcomes all outside him and within him that stands opposed to the human advance.
Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: "Arya" - Its Significance
Urvasie
Then with a sweet immortal smile the Mother
Gave to him in the hollow of her hand
Wonderful water of the lake.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Urvasie
