My Savitri work with the Mother

02 November 1961

I did the painting, but, since the Mother was going to the Prosperity Room in the afternoon, she saw the painting on the 2nd November in the morning and was very pleased with it. Then she went into a trance for about ten minutes. When she awoke the Mother related her experience to me:

Many, many years ago I discussed the Integral Yoga with Pavitra—[Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire] while walking in Pondicherry Botanical Gardens. I was talking to him about the refinement in material life—its sensations and movements. When we were walking in a certain lane, there did not seem any sign of flowers. But while coming back to the same spot after a long walk, we saw a bush full of white flowers. The flowers were those that signify refinement—artistic, material. The shape of the white flowers was like that of the blue flowers—Radhas Consciousness [Clitoria ternatea].

The flower the Mother had mentioned was Gliricidia Sepium. She gave this meaning to the flower:

Refinement of Habits.
Ordered, neat and regular in their organised action.

Pavitra—P.B.St.Hilaire—was given the name by Sri Aurobindo. Often he was with the Mother—driving her car, accompanying her wherever she went. He was also the Director of the Sri Aurobindo Centre of Education. Moreover he handled foreign correspondence for the Mother. He designed the Central Park in front of the Governor's House. He also supervised its laying out.

There is the Botanical Garden in Pondicherry set up by French botanists in 1825-26. The Garden is situated to the South-West of the town. During 1829 hundreds of plants, mostly medicinal ones, were grown in an area of several thousand square metres. More than 800 species were collected from various French Colonies. There were petrified tree-trunks. Also there was held a show of flowers, vegetables and fruits every year in February. The garden is packed with flowers, shrubs, creepers, tall trees, a nursery and varieties of plants. It has been made into a Public Park.

The Mother explained to me the sixth picture.

All can be done if the God-touch is there. ||1.17||
A hope stole in that hardly dared to be
Amid the Night's forlorn indifference.... ||1.18||
Into a far-off nook of heaven there came
A slow miraculous gesture's dim appeal.... ||1.19||
A wandering hand of pale enchanted light
That glowed along a fading moment's brink,
Fixed with gold panel and opalescent hinge
A gate of dreams ajar on mystery verge. ||1.21||

She instructed me:

You must show in your painting rays of White Light streaming out from all the fingers of the "wandering hand".

I did so according to the Mother's wish.

In reality, from the occult point of view, the White Light flowed from the Mother's own fingers. About the White Light the Mother disclosed:

From my very childhood I felt it, this flame—a white flame.

It was always like that: a flame—white, white, so white that nothing could prevent it from being white.

Sri Aurobindo has thrown more light on the subject:

The white light is the Mother's Light. Wherever it descends or enters, it brings peace, purity, silence and openness to the higher forces.

Sri Aurobindo says:

The White Light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth planes leading to the Supramental.

Sri Aurorindo on the Mother

The Mother's consciousness is the divine consciousness and the Light that comes from it is the light of the Divine Truth. One who receives and accepts and lives in the Mother's light, will begin to see the truth on all planes, the mental, the vital, the physical. He will reject all that is undivine,—the undivine is the falsehood, the ignorance, the error of the dark forces; the undivine is all that is obscure and unwilling to accept the Divine Truth and its light and force. The undivine, therefore, is all that is unwilling to accept the light and force of the Mother That is why I am always telling you to keep in contact with the Mother and her Light and Force, because it is only so that you can come out of this confusion and obscurity and receive the Truth that comes from above.

When we speak of the Mother's Light or my Light in a special sense, we are speaking of a special occult action—we are speaking of certain lights that come from the Supermind. In this action the Mother's is the White Light that purifies, illumines, brings down the whole essence and power of the Truth and makes the transformation possible. But in fact all light that comes from above from the highest divine Truth is the Mother's.

There is no difference between the Mother's path and mine; we have and always had the same path that leads to the supramental change and the divine realisation; not only at the end, but from the beginning they have been the same.