My Savitri work with the Mother

15 February 1957

On 15th February 1957 when the Mother saw my painting of the Chinese vase, she exclaimed:

It is excellent, you are getting on quite well with painting. By August, we shall have a good collection. Then there will be an exhibition of your paintings.

I cried: "Oh, but I have just started painting. Is it possible to exhibit my paintings which are hardly satisfactory?"

She consoled me:

I have already planned how to arrange the paintings in the exhibition. It is a happy progress—whatever people may say or think. It is a miraculous progress.

I received from the Mother a card with these words:

Here is a Japanese picture painted on a very thin sheet of bamboo. I am sending you also the pink dahlia for painting.

My love and blessings and the Presence of the Divine Grace are constantly with you.

Since she did not mention the background I painted the flower against a white background. When she saw the painting in the evening her eyes lit up with admiration. She said:

You are progressing steadily. It is good. The Consciousness and Force are there. They need the proper instrument through which they can act.

If the instrument is not receptive and good, then they cannot possibly express themselves.

For example, a great musician has a piano but owing to the bad tuning he cannot play on it in spite of his wonderful talent.

Similarly the Divine Force, the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Grace cannot work if the instruments are not proper