Artwork on Blind Willie Mctell, Samij Datta (25th Dec,2010)

With Inspiration from Bob Dylan's Song Blind Willie Mctell
"...And I know no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie Mctell"- Bob Dylan

Title: Blind Harmonist of the Unforeseen Future
Artwork: Acrylic on board paper/ Year: 2010
Artist: Samij Datta/

Folk Series:Hari-Purusha (The Golden Body of the Lord)/Artist: Samij Datta

"The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda -- Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga -- upon the earth".- Sri Aurobindo





Title: Hari-Purusha (The Golden Body of the Lord)/Artist: Samij Datta
Year: 2010/Medium: Pen & Ink on black paper

Consciousness-Analogue


The Golden Fiddle and the Golden Feet
The Golden Lyre and the Golden Treat
Dancing in the eve-enchanted glory of the moon
With the minstrelsy of heaven’s Avalon
With bards and kings and their lonesome songs
Lovely to the eyes, clear was the sound
Of thousand bells that resembled the Song
Of Love that was coming from the Beyond.

- Joy Roy Choudhury, ArtVantage

The Art of the Dawn

The Art of the Dawn

When the earth-mind awakes its senses
And the dim rustle of the leaves are heard on the forest floor
Time taught itself the eternity of the hours
That is poured from a wonder-cup in the helms of fire
A mystic song of prayer is hymned by the oxlips and the grasses
Down the river banks of a swelling tide
And mountains that stood like rocks carved by the great eye of the splendor of the Lord
Are flashed by rays of the Supreme Dawn.

- Joy Roy Choudhury

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

5. Title: Thy Prayer/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of the Divine Mother, Book III and The House of the Spirit and the New Creation, Canto III: “It sent its voiceless prayer to the Unknown;/It listened for the footsteps of its hopes/Returning through the void immensities,/ It waited for the fiat of the Word/That comes through the still self from the Supreme.”
Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

4. Title: Surrender/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of Love, Book V and Satyavan and Savitri, Canto III: “The Spirit was saved, the body lost and mute/Lived still with Death and ancient Ignorance;/The Inconscient was its base, the Void its fate./But thou hast come and all will surely change:/I shall feel the World-Mother in thy golden limbs/And hear her wisdom in thy sacred voice./The child of the Void shall be reborn in God,/My Matter shall evade the Inconscient’s trance./My body like my spirit shall be free./It shall escape from Death and Ignorance.”
Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

3. Title: Belief/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of Fate, Book VI and The Word of Fate, Canto I: “He sang of the glory and marvel still to be born,/Of Godhead throwing off at last its veil,/Of bodies made divine and life made bliss,/Immortal sweetness clasping immortal might,/Heart sensing heart, thought looking straight at thought,/And the delight when every barrier falls,/And the transfiguration and the ecstasy”.
Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

Title: Patience/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, The Book of Birth and Quest, Book IV, The Book of Birth and Quest, The Quest, Canto IV: “She rested drawing round her like a cloak/Its spirit of patient muse and potent prayer./Or near to a lion river’s tawny mane/And trees that worshipped on a praying shore,/A domed and templed air’s serene repose/Beckoned to her hurrying wheels to stay their speed.

Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/ Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches

Introspection on the Lines of Savitri: An Exhibition of Symbols of Matter’s Trance, Sleep and Waking

On the eve of 5th December, the day when Sri Aurobindo left his physical body, we like to invoke through prayers, the Great Spirit of the Supreme, to live in us and show us the path towards Immortality.

On the occasion, we present a small exhibition of paintings by Samij Datta with lines of inspiration from Savitri.

In the far distant realms of truth, we invoke the power of the Supermind to descend on the earthly stupor of material inconscience and only through this invocation and prayers and aspiration, we strengthen the possibility of this great Descent to raise matter from its depths of primal ignorance and infuse in it the life-fulfilling potentials of a higher consciousness and force that can sweep the earth of its old, grey feet and bring new leaves and the blossoming lotus.- Joy Roy Choudhury.



1. Title: Midnight-Cow/ Artist: Samij Datta
With lines of inspiration from Savitri, Book of Beginnings, Book I, The Symbol Dawn, Canto I: “It was the hour before the Gods awake./Across the path of the divine Event/The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone/In her unlit temple of eternity,/Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge”.

Medium: Pen on Paper
Year: 2010/Size: 10.7 x 7.8 inches