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The Mother on Savitri

What is Savitri
Savitri is really a condensation, a concentration of the universal Mother—the eternal
universal Mother, Mother of all universes from all eternity — in an earthly personality for the
Earth’s salvation. And Satyavan is the soul of the Earth, the Earth’s jiva. So when the Lord
says, ‘he whom you love and whom you have chosen,’ it means the earth. All the details
are there! When she comes back down, when Death has yielded at last, when all has been
settled and the Supreme tells her, ‘Go, go with him, the one you have chosen,’ how does
Sri Aurobindo describe it? He says that she very carefully takes the soul of Satyavan into
her arms, like a little child, to pass through all the realms and come back down to earth.
Everything is there! He hasn’t forgotten a single detail to make it easy to understand — for
someone who knows how to understand. And it is when Savitri reaches the earth that
Satyavan regains his full human stature.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, January 22, 1961

You know, Savitri is an exact description — not literature, not poetry (although the form
is very poetical) — an exact description, step by step, paragraph by paragraph, page by
page; as I read, I relived it all. Besides, many of my own experiences that I recounted to Sri
Aurobindo seem to have been incorporated into Savitri. He has included many of them —
Nolini says so; he was familiar with the first version Sri Aurobindo wrote long ago, and he
said that an enormous number of experiences were added when it was taken up again. This
explained to me why … suddenly, as I read it, I live the experience — line by line, page by
page. The realism of it is astounding.
The Mother: Conversation with a Disciple, July 4, 1961

The importance of Savitri
One reads Savitri to develop one’s intelligence and to understand deeper things. One
concentrates at the Samadhi to grow in devotion and to put oneself in contact with Sri
Aurobindo in order to receive his help. If these things have any value for you, you must do
them regularly, because it is the laziness of unconsciousness that keeps you from doing
them. You are born for a spiritual and conscious life — but perhaps you are still too young
to have the will to realise it. Blessings.
CWM 16: 397

Read Savitri Always
It does not matter if you do not understand it — Savitri, read it always. You will see that
every time you read it, there will be something new experience; things which were not here,
things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vi-
sion comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you

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