The Spirit of Auroville

By now, the slide-shows of the Savitri paintings were ready: Meditations on Savitri along with the Mother's recitations of selected passages from Savitri corresponding with the paintings, accompanied by her own organ music. The Mother wished to know the exact date and time of the first show in the Ashram theatre, so that she would put her special Force and Light during the programme.

On Friday, 25.2.72 Kireet Joshi, who is now the Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and was then the Registrar of the Ashram school, came to my house in the morning and asked me to pray to the Mother to give eight blessing packets for all those participating in showing the slides at 8.30 p.m. in the evening. He was in charge of the shows. Since it was my day of working with the Mother, I did as I was asked. She gave the blessing-packets after a few minutes' concentration. I showed her a big tin of sweets which would be distributed by Kireet to the collaborators. The Mother touched the tin with a smile I prayed to the Mother for her Victory, because everything was arranged by her in the occasion of the forthcoming Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo. Richard Eggenburger and his colleagues were performing the shows with the Mother's special blessings.

Everyone enjoyed the slide-shows of the Savitri paintings. The Mother did not want me to attend the shows. I obeyed her.