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A synthesis of Savitri and Theosophy - Painting No 11

 "Once more a tread perturbed the vacant Vasts;

Infinity’s centre, a Face of rapturous calm

Parted the eternal lids that open heaven;

A Form from far beatitudes seemed to near.

Ambassadress twixt eternity and change,

The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths

That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars

And saw the spaces ready for her feet.

Once she half looked behind for her veiled sun,

Then, thoughtful, went to her immortal work."



Note that Sri Aurobindo has always portrays the Godhead or Logos as feminine a Goddess or Shakti (being on Rays 2,4,6 which are soft mystic theosophy rays). Once again a march of the Goddess begins to disturbs the boundless spaces of inconscient as her divine form approaches for her immortal mission. She sits at the centre (representation of the Central Spiritual Sun) of an measureless heavenly abode, with an ecstatic calm. An all-seeing emissary amid change and eternity, She leans across the Vast spaces enfolding the destiny of the celestial bodies which have become ready to welcome her trod. A look in the opposite direction of enveloped (central) sun, She boldy goes on her mission of raising the inconscient matter into a radiant immortal Supermind consciousness (systematically through rounds and races on globes in the occult philosophy of theosophy). Huta sketches a calm rapturous face of the Goddess.


Image: Meditations on Savitri painting no. 11 depicting above lines from Book 1, Canto 1.




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