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A synthesis of Savitri and Theosophy - Painting No 10

 "An instant’s visitor the godhead shone.

On life’s thin border awhile the Vision stood

And bent over earth’s pondering forehead curve.

Interpreting a recondite beauty and bliss

In colour’s hieroglyphs of mystic sense,

It wrote the lines of a significant myth

Telling of a greatness of spiritual dawns,

A brilliant code penned with the sky for page.

Almost that day the epiphany was disclosed

Of which our thoughts and hopes are signal flares;

A lonely splendour from the invisible goal

Almost was flung on the opaque Inane."



A meditative, theosophical, synthetic perspective:


In these verses, Sri Aurodindo portrays the Godhead (our Planetary Logos in theosophy) as a momentary visitor presenting a Divine Vision for the life evolving on the pondering earth's forehead curve. The blissful Vision is filled with an esoteric magical mystique. Through a beautiful coloured calligraphy, it is penning mythical verses in the skies, describing the advent of a grand spiritual dawn. The Vision bring forth a flash of intuitive insight, revealing the splendour and hope of a distant evolutionary goal. Is some form, the flickering goal has always been signaled to us through our thoughts which seem futile and unfathomable to our intellectual minds. Huta paints the Godhead, ensouling the dark Earth below. It is none other that our Planetary Logos (or Purushotam of Gita) imparting that Divine Purpose (First ray Energy) a part of which is incrementally fulfilled by an Avatar (Savitri) coming forth in every age.


Image: Meditations on Savitri painting no. 10 depicting above lines from the Book 1, Canto 1.  



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