Sweet Mother, with what attitude should I read Sri Aurobindo’s books when they are difficult and when I do not understand? Savitri, The Life Divine, for example.

Read a little at a time, read again and again until you have understood.

[CWM, Vol. 16, p. 241, 23 May 1960]

Savitri the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision

[CWM, Vol. 13, p. 24]

(About Savitri)

1) The daily record of the spiritual experiences of the individual who has written.

2) A complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana.

3) The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine.

4) The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated.

[CWM, Vol. 13, p. 24]

(Message for Meditations on Savitri, an exhibition of paintings by an Ashram artist, drawn in collaboration with the Mother)

The importance of Savitri is immense.

Its subject is universal. Its revelation is prophetic.

The time spent in its atmosphere is not wasted.

Take all the time necessary to see this exhibition.

It will be a happy compensation for the feverish haste men put now in all they do.

[Paintings by Huta]

[CWM, Vol. 13, p. 26, 10 February 1967]

Last night, we (you and I and a few others) were together for quite a long time in Sri Aurobindo’s permanent dwelling-place in the subtle physical (what Sri Aurobindo called the true physical).

Everything that took place there (far too long and complicated to relate)was organised, so to say, to express concretely the rapidity of the present movement of transformation. And with a smile, Sri Aurobindo told you something like this: “Do you believe now?” It was as if he were evoking the three lines from Savitri:

God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep,

For man shall not know the coming till its hour

And belief shall be not till the work is done.

I think that this is a sufficient explanation of the meditation you refer to.

My blessings.

[CWM, Vol. 15, p. 11, 21 February 1963]