Thread by @Auro_Mere

"I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you..."

#A_Gods_Labour
#SriAurobindo
#MahaSamadhi

(Art: Unknown)

"Storm is the dance of the locks of the God assenting to greatness..

Veiled in events he lives and working disguised in the mortal
Builds our strength by pain, and an empire is born out of ruins..”

#Illion
#SriAurobindo
#VijayDiwas
#Bangladesh

(Art: Leslie Abraham)

"Yet all we dream and hope are memories treasured,
Are forecasts we misspell,
But of what life or scene he who has measured
The boundless heavens can tell.."

#Rebirth
#SriAurobindo
#WinterSolstice

(Art: KaalChakra, Konark Sun temple)

"Virtuous? yes..many, but who's..innocent? Toiling
Therefore we seek, but find not that Eden. Planting & spoiling
“This is the garden” we say,“lo,the trees & this the river”
Vainly redeemers came, not one has availed to deliver"

#Ahana
#SriAurobindo
#Christmas

(Art: N. Sombart)

"..When Heaven grows a clot
Of darkness, then God’s dagger rips the sky.
Small is the blade & narrow to the eye
The rift; but through it seas of light shall pour
And through it the world-shaking thunders roar.."

#To_the_Boers
#SriAurobindo
#The_Return_to_India

(Art: N. Roerich)

"But now I listen to a greater Word
Born from the mute unseen omniscient Ray:
The Voice that only Silence’ ear has heard
Leaps missioned from an eternal glory of Day.."

#The_Word_Of_The_Silence
#SriAurobindo
#MotherLanguageDay
#DarshanDay

(Art: Rassouli)

"FIRE KING
What flame wearst thou that wraps thee with its power..

MESSENGER
It's the fire of an awakened soul
Aspiring from death to reach Eternity,
The wings of sacrifice flaming to their goal,
The burning godhead of humanity"

#TheFire
#SriAurobindo
#Auroville

(Art: R.Anger)

"..Moved to circling by her heart-beats’ will,
The rhythmic worlds describe that passion-dance.

Life springs in her and Mind is born; her face
She lifts to Him who is Herself, until
The Spirit leaps into the Spirit’s embrace."

#Shiva
#SriAurobindo
#MahaShivRatri

(Art: USGS)

"..Mortal, I am he;
I am that Madan who inform the stars
With lustre and on life’s wide canvas fill
Pictures of light and shade, of joy and tears,
Make ordinary moments wonderful
And common speech a charm.."

#Love_and_Death
#SriAurobindo
#Holi
#Spring

(Art: @keshav61)

"Twas the meeting of our hands thru the empty Night that enkindled the fateful blaze…
When mind pinnacled is lost in thy Light-Vasts…
I'll know that the game was well worth the toil whose end is thy divine embrace"

#Ishwar_To_Ishwari
#SriAurobindo
#WhenTheyMet

(Art: Rassouli)

"To the hill-tops of silence from over the infinite sea,
Golden he came,
Armed with the flame,
Looked on the world that his greatness and passion must free."

#To_the_hill_tops_of_silence
#SriAurobindo
#Arrival_In_Pondicherry
#DarshanDay

(Art: Priti Ghosh)

"..Fixed I stand in my resolve
Who follow ancient virtue & the paths
Of the old perfect dead; ever my face
Turns steadfast to that radiant goal, self-vowed
Its sunflower. To the drear wilderness I go.."

#SriAurobindo
#RamaNavami

(Art: Sanjay Patel's 'Ramayana: Divine Loophole')

"In this rude combat with the fate of man
Thy smile within my heart makes all my strength;
Thy Force in me labours at its grandiose plan,
Indifferent to the Time-snake’s crawling length.."

#The_Divine_Worker
#SriAurobindo
#HanumanJayanti

(Art: Sachin Nagar, Artstation)

"Outspread a Wave burst, a Force leaped from the unseen,
Vague, wide, some veiled Maker, masked Lighter of the Fire:
With dire blows the Smith of the World
Forged strength from hearts of the weak.."

#SriAurobindo
#Parashurama_Jayanti

(Art: Parashurama, Rani ki Vav, @veejaysai)

"In that proud sacrifice & fatal, she
The undivided mother infinite
Indignant for his severing thought of God.
Now in a trance profound of joy by her
Conceived, she sprang again to livelier birth
To heal the sorrow & the dumb divorce"

#Kumar_Sambhav
#SriAurobindo

(Art: N. Bose)

"Man to his earth drawn always prefers his nethermost promptings,
Man, devouring, devoured who is slayer & slain through the ages
Since by the beast he soars held & exceeds not that pedestal’s measure.."

#Illion_BookVII
#SriAurobindo
#WorldPopulationDay

(Art: John Pitre)

"Since thou hast called me, see that I
Go not from thee,—surrounding me stand.
In thy own love’s diviner way
Make me too love thee without end.."

#Since_thou_hast_called_me
#SriAurobindo
#GuruPurnima

(Art: Niranjan Guha)

"Have I not sought thee on a million streams..
In wondrous lights & sealing shadows caught,
& every night & every day have sought?
Pilot eternal, friend unknown embraced,
O, take me to thy shoreless self at last.."

#Songs_Of_The_Sea
#SriAurobindo
#FriendshipDay

(Art: @keshav61)

"The poet from his vast & labouring mind
Brings brilliant out
A living world; forth into space they wind,
The shining rout,
& hate & love, & laugh & weep, enjoy,
Fight & shout.."

#The_Rishi
#SriAurobindo
#TulsidasJayanti
#Tagore

(Art: Nityam Singha Roy, artzolo.com/painting/egypt…)

"O me that I could force this barrier, turn
My heart to syllables, make all desire
One burning word, then would my letters yearn
With some reflection of that hidden fire.."

#O_letter_dull_and_cold
#SriAurobindo
#GaneshChaturthi

(Art: Pallavi Jain, cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-x49po/images…)

"About thy feet the mighty net is wound
Wherein my soul they bound;
Myself resigned
To servitude my mind;
My heart than thine no sweeter slavery found.."

#Radha's_Appeal
#SriAurobindo
#Thiruvonam

(Art: The Mother's sketch for Champaklal)

"Since Thou hadst all eternity to amuse,
O sculptor of the living shapes of earth,
O dramatist of death & life & birth,
World-artist revelling in forms & hues
Hast Thou shaped the marvel of the whirling spheres.."

#SriAurobindo
#Vishwakarma

(Art: Bindu, 2.bp.blogspot.com/-hv9Xs-mUXYE/V…)