My Savitri work with the Mother

14 December 1961

On 14th December 1961 her explanation of picture three was very interesting. The Mother asked me:

Child, show a squirrel trying to climb on Savitri's lap and attempting to eat flower petals. That will look very nice.

The verses run:

And the mighty wideness of the primitive earth
And the brooding multitude of patient trees
And the musing sapphire leisure of the sky
And the solemn weight of the slowly passing months
Had left in her deep room for thought and God. ||3.24||
There was her drama's radiant prologue lived. ||3.25||

The next day I received from the Mother a card depicting a girl fondling a rabbit—that was the model. Since the detail was to be shown, it took a few days to paint the scene. The Mother liked the painting very much.

Pictures four and five followed:

Here with the suddenness divine advents have,
Repeating the marvel of the first descent,
Changing to rapture the dull earthly round,
Love came to her hiding the shadow, Death. ||3.27||
Well might he find in her his perfect shrine. ||3.28||

All in her pointed to a nobler kind. ||3.30||
Near to earth's wideness, intimate with heaven,
Exalted and swill her young large-visioned spirit
Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm
Overflew the ways of Thought to unborn things. ||3.31||
Ardent was her self-poised unstumbling will;
Her mind, a sea of white sincerity,
Passionate inflow, had not one turbid wave. ||3.32||

As always the Mother instructed me by means of her drawings, which I copied on canvas boards and sent to her for her approval. Afterwards I did paintings according to the colour-scheme she indicated. Sometimes she used to alter a painting with pencil and ask me to fill in the colours.

After explaining to me the two pictures she went into a trance. Then she said:

It starts with Love and it ends with Love, but in between there is a terrible mess. After all this, one thing lasts and that is Love...