My Savitri work with the Mother

07 February 1961

I received from the Mother a letter dated 7th February 1961 in answer to mine:

Huta, My dear little child,

You ask me what you must do. It would be better to ask what you must be, because the circumstances and activities in life have not much importance. What is important is our way of reacting towards them.

Human nature is such that when you concentrate on your body you fall ill, when you concentrate on your heart and feelings you become unhappy, when you concentrate on the mind you get bewildered.

There are two ways of getting out of this precarious condition.

One is very arduous; it is a severe and continuous tapasya. It is the way of the strong who are predestined for it.

The other is to find something worth concentrating upon that diverts your attention from your small personal self. The most effective is a big ideal, but there are innumerable things that enter into this category. Most commonly people choose marriage because it is the most easily available. To love somebody and to love children makes you busy and compels you to forget a little your own self But it is rarely successful, because love is not a common thing.

Others turn to art, others to science, some choose a social or a political life, etc., etc.

But here also all depends on the sincerity and endurance with which is followed the chosen path. Because here also there are difficulties and obstacles to surmount.

So in life, nothing comes without an effort and a struggle, then it is better to accept the fact that life will be dull and unsatisfactory and submit quietly to this fact.

This, my dear child, is the first point I must make clear to you before proceeding any further.

With my love and blessings

The Mother read out this letter to Satprem who recorded it on 7th February 1961. She, taking up the theme of my letter, made various comments about her body and the trials it had gone through.

Readers may note that many of the things the Mother told Satprem about spirituality and occultism—especially in connection with the cells of her body and their transformation—she told me also, a shade differently but essentially covering the same truths. In addition, she gave me concrete experiences of both the higher and the nether worlds—particularly when she started guiding me as regards Savitri-paintings in October 1961. My account of the matter will be packed with things splendid as well as things that must cause a shudder. Each painting has its own history. The Mother commented on many pictures. She has also written letters on them.