My Savitri work with the Mother

13 May 1965

In answer to my letter the Mother wrote:

13.5.63

Dear little child of mine,

Sri Aurobindo has written—most wonderfully—all that can be said on Savitri. I have nothing to add to it. But surely I shall help you to do all the paintings with the proper inspiration.

LOVE

Nevertheless, the Mother has written many letters to me on Savitri. Once we had a talk and the Mother said:

After we have completed the paintings of the whole Savitri, we might exhibit them. Meanwhile, the process of taking slides will be improved. So, slides may be taken in the future of these paintings and then they may go all over the world.

Then I asked:

With your recitation of course?

She smiled and said:

Don't let us say anything at the moment... everything will be all right...

Our Savitri work progressed peacefully, steadily. I found Book Seven—The Book of Yoga—fascinating and promising.

I went more and more deeply into the spiritual and occult domain and explored one thing after another to find all that the Mother had revealed to me. This is not an imagination or fantasy or impression but a living reality.

Books Eight and Nine are full of tragedy and anxiety. I painted them with a gloomy heart.

I read new passages to the Mother. I took her the sketches which I had done at home. She saw them with pleasure and corrected them here and there. Now I was trying to do the sketches all by myself according to the Mother's inspiration.

When it was the question of Savitri's transformation, the Mother drew a sketch in front of me to throw more light on the subject, and said:

Child, it is not the physical transformation but the spiritual transformation.

Indeed, Inspiration simply gripped me and drove me once it was invoked.

I read four passages of Book Ten—The Book of the Double Twilight. The Mother made me understand the new paintings. After the work, she held my hands with all her love and compassion and said with a charming smile:

Here is a little message for you—you shall have true vision, true understanding. There is an opening...

And she kissed my forehead. Then she looked at me for quite a long time and said:

Your soul came out—just now I saw it on your face.

You know your soul did not go through all the evolution of the earth. It has come purely from the Supreme and it will go back purely to the Supreme.

She said all this with a gesture of her hand. What am Ito say? My eyes brimmed with tears and my heart was soothed immensely.