I am the lord of tempest and mountain,
I am the Spirit of freedom and pride.
Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger
Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side.
Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Invitation
1908-9 (Ali pore Jail)
When I suggested to the Mother that we could paint a luminous figure of the Lord for the passage from Who she agreed. But when she saw the painting on the 6th April 1967, she said with a touch of irony:
“Child, don’t you think it is more like a man than the Lord? This figure should be rather like Him.”
Then the Mother gave the meaning to this picture:
“What man must become.”