The Mother - Alfassa Mirra
Watercolor · 1983 788 views
The Mother is the Divine Consciousness-Force that makes Him manifested. It is She who forms all worlds and beings and things and souls for the Divine Inhabitant. She is the Divine Will that is one with Divine Truth. "The Mother's consciousness and mine are the same, the one Divine Consciousness in two, because that is necessary for the play. Nothing can be done without her knowledge and force, without her consciousness - if anybody really feel her consciousness, he should know that I am there behind it and if he feels me it is the same with hers." (Sri Aurobindo). Also She accepts human statue to do Her work in human form, "to make dumb Matter conscious of its God": One had returned from the transcendent planes And bore anew the load of mortal breath, Who had striven of old with our darkness and our pain; She took again her divine unfinished task: Survivor of death and the aeonic years, Once more with her fathomless heart she fronted Time. ("Savitri." Sri Aurobindo) "The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass through the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of the Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother." "The Mother's Force is not only above on the summit of the being. It is there with you and near you, ready to act whenever your nature will allow it. It is so with everybody here."
Shiva Vangara - an Artist SOUL from India. Born in 1963 in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh - known as Andhra Paris in India. He is a born artist with no formal training - being born in artist’s family. His father V.L.S. Gopala Rao was a Drawing teacher and portrait artist, 2nd generation student of renowned Bengali painter Pramod Kumar Chatterji ( who lived in Sri Aurobindo Ashram) and Shiva's great grandfather was a temple architect. Shiva's basic foundation was realism and portraits. Then in 1983 when he started his quest for Truth at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India - his perception of art changed entirely and entered into spiritual dimension. As a child in school and college he had always a winner in painting competitions, even at State level. His inspiration was “The highest art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the doors of the spirit." - The Mother. He did his first professional portrait at the age of 14. He had his first solo exhibition in Bombay at Gateway of India in 1993. Then, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville in 1995. Several portraits and paintings are with Bollywood film personalities and a major work and two portraits are in London and USA. About 100 small water color paintings of spiritual themes are in collection with Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He likes to work with ALKYDS, most advanced colors from Winsor and Newton,London. At present he is mostly busy with his ambitious Hollywood project entitled Fourth Dimension


