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A synthesis of Savitri and Theosophy - Painting No 16

Affranchised from the respite of fatigue
Once more the rumour of the speed of Life
Pursued the cycles of her blinded quest.
All sprang to their unvarying daily acts;
The thousand peoples of the soil and tree
Obeyed the unforeseeing instant’s urge,
And, leader here with his uncertain mind,
Alone who stares at the future’s covered face,
Man lifted up the burden of his fate.

Sri Aurobindo says: "Released from the breathing space momentarily offered by tiredness, again the gossip or whispering sound of the rush of Life chased the rounds of blindfold pursuit." Exhausted we rest or sleep at night and get a breather from daily activities of life. However after waking up we are once again released from that respite and the noisy rush of Life starts again.   

The thousand peoples of soil and tree can be compared to the elemental kingdoms of Nature in theosophy (mineral, vegetable or plant and animal kingdom). Obeying their natural instinctive impulse they jump on with their invariant daily job. In these kingdoms the mind remains undeveloped. However in the next hierarchical kingdom of Man, nature has evolved a mind. In advanced man the mind is fully evolved and starts coming under the influence of soul (atma-buddhi-manas triad). An unevolved man feels alone and uncertain about his future since he cannot get the inner guidance of his own soul. Additionally man being an unruly child of nature mostly rejecting the outer guidance of true teachers (the evolved messengers or teachers periodically incarnating) and therefore has to lift the heavy load of his destiny by himself all alone.

Huta paints a load-lifting man on the earth's curve. The Mother guides Huta with sketches where she depicts the load and aspirational effort of man. 

The original oil canvas paintings are archived and displayed in Savitri Bhavan, Auroville (more details in the next post). These are published as a collection of five books and could also be purchased online on Amazon, SABDA as well locally sold here in spiritual bookshops everywhere. Images are from first book of the set. I took the liberty of freely posting first few paintings as a sample on my facebook page as they are the Ray 4 expression of the ageless wisdom and will lead to a synthesis with occult philosophy of theosophy.




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