Friendship Life with the Unkown

Drawings by CKG

 

 

1. Solid Manifestation

 

 

2. Immortality’s Light

 

 

3. Silent Repose of the Inner Bird

 

 

4. Confusion versus Destruction

 

 

5. Measured Aspiration

 

 

6. The Struggle of the Life-Tree

 

 

7. Blossoming Aspiration and Climbing Vision

 

 

8. The Victory of the Cosmic Deity over Satan’s Life-Pervading Inconscience

 

 

9. Total Surrender and Transformation-Flower of Evil Force

 

 

10. Earth-Bound Satisfaction from Perfection-Height

 

 

11. Father-God and Mother-God in the Dance of Transcendental Silence

 

 

12. Reality flowing through the Life-River

 

 

13. Protection House victimised by the Destruction-Flood

 

 

14. Ignorance-King threatening Immensity’s Depth and the Confident Permanence of Reality’s Climbing Love for the Unknowable

 

 

15. Divinity’s Victory

 

 

16. Tender Life’s New Blossoming

 

 

17. Hampered yet Irresistible Power of the Flow of Consciousness-Fish

 

 

18. The Blossoming Divine Life in the Animal Kingdom

 

 

19. Destruction-Life reaches the Illumination-Sun

 

 

20. Life-Energy-House heading towards the Destination and from there will be descending for Perfection-Manifestation

 

 

21. The Heightening of the Aspiration-Tree

 

 

22. Manifestation-Leaf of Consciousness-Plant

 

 

23. The Dance-Sea and the Energising Dance of the Life-Marshalling Forces

 

 

24. Liberated Life-Bird from the Ignorance-Cage

 

 

25. The Surrender of Earth-Life to the Snake-Life of the Satanic World

 

 

26. Life-Tree and Life-Fruit in the Evolving Wheel of Life-Delight

 

 

27. The Trumpet-Victory of  Tiger-Atrocity

 

 

28. The Ultimate blossoming of the Life-Plant under the Protection-Light

 

 

29. Heaven and Earth in Unprecedented Challenge

 

 

30. The Unconditional Surrender of Life’s Service-Tree to the Queen of Creation

 

 

31. The Supreme Realisation glancing from the Height of Aspiration

 

 

32. Life-Energy’s Flight from the Top of Barren Ignorance-Tree to Eternity’s Pinnacle so that it can drink deep Immortality’s Delight of the Supreme’s Transcendental Light

 

 

Note:

Sri Chinmoy creates a book of drawings, entitled Friendship Life with the Unknown in Jamaica, New York. These drawings precede his Jharna-Kala era, which begins later the same year on November 19th.

Sri Chinmoy’s humour is evidenced by a quote from the January/February 1974 issue of Chinmoy Family magazine:

The Unknown — On Thursday, the 28th, we saw a film of the drawings from Guru’s book of drawings, Friendship-Life with the Unknown. Guru joked about how he had declined artistically since he was in his teens... Guru said that we may find something in the pictures with the help of the title*, but without it, we will be in “the unbearable un­known.”

*The titles are not printed in the original book. They have been taken from a separate type-written sheet preserved for many years by Sanatan Curchack.

 

Painting no. 8,213