My Savitri work with the Mother

20 December 1967

On the morning of 20th December 1967 the Mother saw me in her music-cum¬interview room. She asked me:

Have you brought anything to show me? I said:

Yes, Mother, this is the file of four hundred and sixty-five passages of Savitri which you recited and which were put below the Savitri paintings when they were exhibited on 10th February 1967 under the title you had given.

Mother, will you please explain these passages to me and allow me to take down your explanation of them on my tape-recorder as I have done with your recitations of these passages? Then surely people will understand the Savitri paintings more easily.

She meditated for a moment or two and said enthusiastically:

If I have to explain these passages, I would rather prefer to start from the very beginning and give a full explanation of the whole of Savitri.

As a matter of fact, it had already been planned in the Mother's Vision long ago before I came to stay near her on 10th February 1955.

Once she revealed to a small group of Sadhaks soon after the first one-volume edition of Savitri had been published in 1954 by the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education:

Savitri is occult knowledge and spiritual experience. Some part of it can be understood mentally—but much of it needs the same knowledge and experience for understanding it. Nobody here except myself can explain Savitri. One day I hope to explain it in its true sense.

As we went on, the Mother uncovered Sri Aurobindo's Visions and Hers of the New World expressing the Supramental Light, Consciousness, Force and Delight. She disclosed their effect on the cells of the body. She took only the theme of Savitri as the starting-point and, when the right time came, spoke about the action of the New Consciousness which had been manifesting since the beginning of the year 1969.