Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 53The Animal World · Dog

Book 5. Part Two: The Opening of the Inner Senses · Section Three: Symbols

The dog is the symbol of devoted affection and obedience.

* The dog generally signifies devoted obedience — so it2 may indicate the action of a devoted obedience spiritualised in the 2 In a vision the correspondent saw a dog’s face bathed in blue light, with its eyes full of white light. — Ed.

higher consciousness.

* The dog usually indicates fidelity and as it is yellow, it would be fidelity in the mind to the Divine — but the other black and white one is difficult to interpret — it is something in the vital, but the meaning of the black spots is not clear.