The Spirit of Auroville

I received a letter from Richard Eggenberger dated 23.3.72:

Dear Huta

I read your note again and again.

Could you tell me how Mother's voice sounded when she said: "He can't afford to be sick"? The words she spoke gave me the strength the other night. The Force was so strong.

Huta, the other night Kireet missed mentioning that it was to be a Meditation and I personally felt that people were too noisy, chattering until the last moment.

I have written something which I cannot put into words or into elegant phrases, it goes in a simple silence to them.

I often have had secret things about Savitri and as we have been brought by the Mother into intimate collaboration, I shall share one or two of them with you.

Always I have watched the Western disciples around me and have seen them receive new names from the Mother. I have never asked for a name because I have always felt if some day all in me might be purified I could then perhaps ask the Mother for the one name that always occurs to me:

He who sings Savitri.

Another secret is that I have often sung the part where Narad comes down to earth and during the last six months of 1969 I memorized completely the first two Cantos and was beginning the third when the Mother called me here. My hope still is to memorize the whole of Savitri one day.

I know you must have experienced something of the Force of the first programme last night. As Neel said, Mother's own music seemed to be com-posed especially for the passages she read. The paintings, expressing the inner truth she has poured through you, leaped from the screen, all sat in meditative silence and Mother's Voice resounded through the theatre with an indescribable power.

I too am so grateful for our collaboration.

In their Light

Richard

Shraddhavan gave me a booklet, Invocation published by Savitri Bhavan Auroville, in it I read the wonderful words of the Mother:

Savitri is a Mantra for the Transformation of the World.