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A synthesis of Savitri and Theosophy - Painting No 14

 "Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs

On the dumb bosom of the ambiguous earth,

Here where one knows not even the step in front

And Truth has her throne on the shadowy back of doubt,

On this anguished and precarious field of toil

Outspread beneath some large indifferent gaze,

Impartial witness of our joy and bale,

Our prostrate soil bore the awakening ray."


- Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol, Book 1, Canto 1, Page 5.


A theosophical meditative perspective:


In these lines, Sri Aurobindo describes the current stage of evolution of the human race, on breasts of mother earth spinning in those dark gulfs, as ignorant or half-illumined. Theosophically, we are taught that in our Earth Scheme of Evolution, we are at present just past the middle point (that being the Fourth Chain, Fourth Round, Fourth Globe, Fourth Root-Race) into the Fifth Root-Race of the Fourth Globe. Thus human race as a whole is very little more than half way through its evolution. At this stage, we are not even sure of our next step. Through shadows of doubts everywhere we are required to discern the Truth. On this miserable and agony-filled and insecure uncertain path we are required to toil. Being secretly and impartially observed by that Silent Watcher (or Divine Mother) in midst of our joys and calamities, the recumbent soil is enduring the awakening ray of new Dawn. Huta paints the Divine Mother as dawn-goddess: an indifferent impartial witness to prostrate soil in dark gulfs.

  

Image: Meditations on Savitri painting no. 14 depicting above lines from Book 1, Canto 1.


"Savitri, this prophetic vision of the world's history, including the announcement of the earth's future." - The Mother.




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