My Savitri work with the Mother

12 December 1961

On 12th the Mother called me in the Meditation Hall upstairs in order to explain the first painting of Canto 2 of Book One of Savitri.

An absolute supernatural darkness falls
On man sometimes when he draws near to God:
An hour comes when fail all Nature's means;
Forced out from the protecting Ignorance
And flung back on his naked primal need,
He at length must cast from him his surface soul
And be the ungarbed entity within:
That hour had fallen now on Savitri. ||3.6||

The painting was done in the morning and shown to the Mother in the afternoon. The following morning the Mother interpreted the second picture of Canto 2.

Around her were the austere sky-pointing hills,
And the green murmurous broad deep-thoughted woods
Muttered incessantly their muffled spell. ||3.20||
A dense magnificent coloured self-wrapped life
Draped in the leaves 'vivid emerald monotone
And set with chequered sunbeams and blithe flowers
Immured her destiny's secluded scene. ||3.21||
There had she grown to the stature of her spirit. ||3.22||

The Mother sketched Savitri's face and said:

You must show her face as if she is looking intently towards the peaks of mountains.

I did according to her instruction. She liked the result.