White Roses (Part 1)

1 January 1960

I received the New Year Card from the Mother when I was still in London

To know is good,
To live is better,
To be, that is perfect.

The Mother

On the 5th a folder arrived from the Mother. There was a picture of Mahasaraswati on the right side — beneath it, the Mother had written:

To my dear child Huta

With blessings.

On the left I read a message from Sri Aurobindo in Sanskrit reproduced in his own handwriting:

तत् सवितुर् वरं रूपं ज्योतिः परस्य धीमहि।
यन्नः सत्येन दीपयेत्॥

(Tat savitur varam rūpam jyotih parasya dhīmahi, yannah satyena dīpayet)

Let us meditate on the most auspicious (best) form of Savitri, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth.

This is Sri Aurobindo’s own “Gayatri” modifying the traditional Gayatri of the Rigveda to express the new realisation of his Integral Yoga of Supermind or Divine Truth-Consciousness.

His comment on the Gayatri is:

The power of Gayatri is the Light of the Divine Truth. It is a mantra of Knowledge.

The Mother distributed on 2nd February 1960 — the day of Mahasaraswati Puja — the message she had sent me in advance, when I was in London.