My Savitri work with the Mother

23 January 1967

On 23rd January 1967 I saw the Mother. She gave me a huge bouquet with a sweet smile and said:

It looks like a birthday bouquet! Whenever I see white flowers I add them to the bouquet.

Many a time after giving me bouquets, the Mother used to wipe her hands with my sari—although she had her own handkerchief! In doing so, she smiled sweetly.

The Mother saw the paintings of Books Ten and Eleven which I had retouched and repainted. While seeing the paintings of Book Eleven—The Everlasting Day, she seemed to be mostly in trance: her half-closed eyes and the expression of her face showed as if she was in some magnificent reverie.

Then she said:

Child, you have crossed the river. Now you are on the other side of it.

The paintings are excellent—a few are really moving. They have exactly pictured what Sri Aurobindo meant and wrote in the Epic.

Since the Mother had asked me not to go to the Exhibition Hall when the exhibition of the Meditations on Savitri paintings was to be opened, I wrote this declaration and sent it to the Mother for her approval.

'All can be done if the God-touch is there'. ||1.17||

This is what Sri Aurobindo has written in Savitri. I feel that the painting of the pictures exhibited here is explained only by this line. For the task which the Mother had given me was so immense, so beyond the capacity of the little instrument she had summoned that only her Grace working in Sri Aurobindo's Light could have seen me through.

I am deeply grateful to the Mother for her constant personal guidance—outward as well as inward. And what shall I say of the Presence of Sri Aurobindo, helping all along?

I thank the Mother also for making possible a study of the Epic with Amal Kiran.