My Savitri work with the Mother

01 September 1961

On 1st September 1961, my physical birthday, the Mother called me to the Meditation Hall upstairs and gave me a folder. When I opened it, I found my own paintings on either side. One was "Soul of Beauty", and the other was a vision the Mother had seen in my heart and asked me to paint in 1957. Underneath the picture these lines from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri were inscribed:

This golden figure...
Hid in its breast the key of all his aims,
A spell to bring the Immortal's bliss on earth. ||102.42||

The Mother looked at me for a few seconds. Then her eyes closed gradually. She slid into a profound trance which lasted more than ten minutes. On opening her eyes she said:

I achieved in my tender age the highest occult truths. I have realised and seen all the visions set forth in Savitri.

Actually I experienced the poem's supreme revelations before I arrived in Pondicherry and before Sri Aurobindo read out Savitri to me early in the morning day after day at a certain period of the Ashram. I never told Sri Aurobindo all that I had seen in my visions beforehand...

She laughed softly, sweetly and resumed:

I have seen the beauties and wonders of the higher worlds. Now I think of expressing them in painting by various colours—blues, golds, pinks and whites—with certain vibrations of Light—all in harmony forming the New World.

I wish to bring down upon earth this New World Since I have no time physically, I will paint through you.

The world of Supreme Beauty exists. I shall take you there, you will see the things, remember them and then express them in paintings.

Yes, yes, my will shall be done—the Supreme Beauties exist. I will certainly take you there.

I see the butterfly ready in the cocoon. I do not wish it to come out soon, but gradually. Then after emerging from the chrysalis you will have enough knowledge to reach your goal.

Once again the Mother closed her eyes—a slight smile hovering on her lips. When she awoke, she said:

I realised the Divine in my early twenties, your age!

You see, the Inner Divinity is Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence.

This Divinity is constantly with me—guiding and inspiring me.

The Mother gave her blessings in musical words—so significant—so true. They simply swept on my life a gentle refreshing breeze that had come out of the dawn of a summer day. We meditated for a few minutes. Then she gave me flowers and kissed on my forehead. I held her hands and said eagerly: "Oh, haven't yet realised the Divine." She smiled and assured me:

You will.

Further she added:

You see, there are two ways; the Occult Knowledge is rather easier than Spiritual Knowledge.

I have learnt real spiritual things when I came here. But, of course, everything was within myself: though not physically.

The Yoga of Transformation is very difficult. It takes 30 years or more.

For occultism one needs a Guru. But spirituality can be transferred (she made a gesture moving her index finger from the middle of her chest on towards my heart) like this.